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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 now he Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 3: This is a district Donald Trump won by twenty two

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Speaker 3: points last year. The fact that the special election has

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Speaker 3: become the center of the political universe, it's really a

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Speaker 3: testament to the excitement Democrats feel after sweeping key races

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Speaker 3: in New Jersey and Virginia last month and Republicans growing

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Speaker 3: concerns about the president's unpopularity and facing backlash in the

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Speaker 3: midterms next year.

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Speaker 1: They are describing a special congressional runoff race in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: specifically the Nashville area, in which the Republican ought to

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Speaker 1: win it going away. But there's great excitement around this chick.

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Speaker 1: She's been and called the AOC of Tennessee for her

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Speaker 1: left wing views in antics. Her name is aften How

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Speaker 1: perfect is that aften Ben? And she ought to be

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Speaker 1: the ideal Democrat for Republicans in a red face, red

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Speaker 1: state to face that used to be the thinking. But

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Speaker 1: again she's gotten a lot of support in the dude

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Speaker 1: who looks like a great candidate, who's the Republican whose

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Speaker 1: name is Van Apps. Matt Van Epps is the West

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Speaker 1: Pointer flew helicopters for the Army Tennessee National Guard. Nice

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Speaker 1: America First Republican, lower regulation, more freedom, that sort of

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Speaker 1: thing seems ideal. And he's running against this aften Ben woman. Now, Katie,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to be the judge because I

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Speaker 1: generally stay away from people's appearances unless they deserve it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, she is.

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Speaker 1: Attractive ish, this aften Ben. But if I were at

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Speaker 1: say a Nashville bar, and we are having a drink

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Speaker 1: might think that's a dude, pretty man ish.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to argue with that is a strong jaw, one.

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Speaker 1: That does not enter into her ability to govern successfully

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Speaker 1: or legislate Wisely, she's a freaking nutjob.

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Speaker 2: But so yeah, you're not wrong. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, So she's thirty six years old, a former community

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Speaker 1: activist the hell does that mean? And healthcare organizer? Hell

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Speaker 1: does that mean? She's now serving in the Tennessee House

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Speaker 1: again dub the AOC of Tennessee. So this woman is

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Speaker 1: is also very dodgy with a press. She won't answer

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Speaker 1: questions straight, and what they keep asking her is does

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Speaker 1: she stand by her last her past public statements.

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Speaker 2: Here's just a little sampler for.

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Speaker 1: You a few years ago on the city she represents, Nashville.

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Speaker 2: I hate the city.

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Speaker 1: I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I

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Speaker 1: hate country music. I hate all of the things that

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Speaker 1: make Nashville barely in its city to the rest.

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Speaker 2: Of the country. But I hate it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, now she says she was just talking about

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Speaker 1: all the tourists that make it tough for her to

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Speaker 1: get to her house. Okay, how about on her state.

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Speaker 1: Let's go a little bigger. Let's pull back to ten

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Speaker 1: thousand feet on the state of Tennessee. This is an

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Speaker 1: interview with the Tennesseean newspaper. And again, this woman is

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Speaker 1: not twenty three, so we're not talking about when she

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Speaker 1: was nineteen years old.

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Speaker 2: She's thirty six. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Let me be clear, Tennessee is a racist state. Racism

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Speaker 1: is in the air we breathe, permeating the state capitol,

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Speaker 1: codified in the legislation being passed. To the detriment of women,

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Speaker 1: she means, to the detriment communities of color and the

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Speaker 1: working poor are problem with racism in the state is

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Speaker 1: wild and untamed. Okay, how about the whole defund the

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Speaker 1: police thing. What's the proposal lettl dissolve the matt Nashville PD,

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Speaker 1: she asked online. Or if that's not enough for you,

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Speaker 1: how about this? She's nizzle. She tweeted this in June

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Good morning, especially to the fifty four

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Speaker 1: is justified.

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Speaker 2: Holy crap, good grief. Yeah. So.

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Speaker 1: On CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, which I wouldn't condemn prisoners

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Speaker 1: to watching, host Manu Raju asked Miss Ben if she

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Speaker 1: regretted making these remarks instead of disavowing them. She answered

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Speaker 1: that she wouldn't post such remarks today because she has matured.

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Speaker 1: She added that those remarks were made when she was

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Speaker 1: a private citizen and not an elected lawmaker. But she

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Speaker 1: the Democratic wakudoodle of the day. Aft in Ben is

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Speaker 1: this delicious note reported by The Free Beacon that she

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Speaker 1: in the past called for white candidates, if they find

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Speaker 1: preemptively because there are too many white voices already.

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Speaker 2: And I quote, I'm probably.

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Speaker 1: Going to be trolled for this, but if you're a

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Speaker 1: white man running in a primary with a progressive PoCA,

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Speaker 1: that's a progressive people of color, I challenge you to

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Speaker 1: ask yourself in this moment, is my voice more important?

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Speaker 1: And if you think it is, your campaign is more

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Speaker 1: about you than your policy agenda.

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Speaker 5: Oh the white guilt.

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Speaker 1: Well, then on the other hand, she found herself in

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Speaker 1: a primary against a black dude.

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Speaker 2: Haha, that's perfect.

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Speaker 1: The only black candidate in the primary race who came

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Speaker 1: in last place in a four way struggle.

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Speaker 2: Ben beat him. Bla blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: During the primary, Dixie press his name was Vincent Dixie,

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Speaker 1: run a restaurant or a car dealer. Vince Dixie from

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Speaker 1: Vince Dixie for anyway. During the primary campaign, Dixie pressed

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Speaker 1: black constituents had a voice in Congress. Ben replied that

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Speaker 1: she has always followed the lead of black women and

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Speaker 1: said she was grateful for their organizing. But Dixie then

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Speaker 1: called out Ben for only mentioning black women. I just

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Speaker 1: want to make sure you understand it's more than black

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Speaker 1: women in this world that you'll be representing. There are

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Speaker 1: also black men that need to be in this conversation,

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Speaker 1: he added.

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Speaker 2: But having already said that white.

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Speaker 1: People should drop out if a black is in the race,

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Speaker 1: she had to kind of narrow it down.

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Speaker 2: I didn't mean black men. I just meant black women.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, she posted, liberals listen to black women. Black

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Speaker 1: women abolish the police, liberals listen. An other deleted posts,

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Speaker 1: she wrote that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved,

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Speaker 1: supported a teachers union call that defunding the police should

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Speaker 1: be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID nineteen pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, look, she supported the teachers' unions, And

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Speaker 1: if you've ever doubted that teachers unions are a force

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Speaker 1: But anyway, if they only did that, that would be

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Speaker 2: But they are evil.

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Speaker 1: During COVID they said we won't open schools unless you

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Speaker 1: defund the police. That's effing evil.

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Speaker 2: That has what to do with COVID, right right, It's

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Speaker 1: So anyway, this crazy nut job Tennessee AOC is just

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Speaker 1: two points behind in the polls. I will tell you

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Speaker 1: that state poles tend to be inaccurate because the sample

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Speaker 1: But so we'll have to see if this l O

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Speaker 1: la lola looking chick gets elected.

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Speaker 2: Well that what another Kukola in Congress?

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Speaker 1: Great Scott, Great Scott, the progressive wave.

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Speaker 4: It's just I try to well, I don't try to

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Speaker 4: understand it because I'll go insane, but the mindset of

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Speaker 4: listening to her make any of those points and going, yes,

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Speaker 4: I like her, I'm with her.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: These people have no capacity for rational thought. How dumb

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Speaker 1: are you to want to defund the police?

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you.

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Speaker 1: Ask anybody in a tough neighborhood, a black neighborhood, a

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Speaker 1: Hispanic neighborhood. You morons, Do you want more police in

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's like the woman that was just interviewed, I think

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Speaker 4: it was on News Nation actually who They asked her

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Speaker 4: how she felt about the National Guard being sent into Memphis,

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Speaker 4: and she thanked them and said, I haven't been able

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Speaker 4: to leave my house and feel safe in years.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and now I can.

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Speaker 1: It's been the story for well over a month now

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Speaker 1: that Memphis is thrilled because Memphis has had a serious

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Speaker 1: crime problem. Yeah, the folks in Memphis are mostly thrilled

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Speaker 1: by the presidence of the National Guard. It's funny you

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Speaker 1: haven't heard that reported in the nations media.

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Speaker 2: That's odd.

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Speaker 1: It must just be in oversight, all right, more to

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Speaker 1: come stay with us. This might be my favorite headline.

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Speaker 1: Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI.

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Speaker 1: Controversies are upted after twenty one percent of manuscript reviews

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Speaker 1: But you should shut up, you know what. That was harsh,

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Speaker 1: my dear. So closer to home, though, and of more

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Speaker 1: Absolutely shocking news.

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Speaker 1: Marcus X Spinoza doing some pretty damn good reporting on it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's been accidents that have really got the attention

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Speaker 6: here and the government finding that nearly half, up to

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Speaker 6: closure because of that particular issue. Out of the roughly

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Speaker 6: Department says close to three thousand could lose accreditation unless

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Speaker 6: they fix serious training and record keeping failures within thirty days.

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Speaker 1: So nearly half of truck driving schools don't meet the standards.

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Speaker 1: And I don't get the idea that this is one

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Speaker 6: And another forty five hundred have been warned they may

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Speaker 6: face similar scrutiny. Now that means hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 6: aspiring drivers could see their training and validated, slowing their

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Speaker 6: path to a commercial driver's license. Officials say many of

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Speaker 6: the schools were operating like quote CDL mills, offering quick

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Speaker 1: Now I know that California in particular, was wildly giving

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Speaker 1: I suppose you could argue that the cartels participated in

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Speaker 1: murder and mayhem for profit, whereas most quote unquote terrorist

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Speaker 1: organizations do it for political power or religious zelotry.

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Speaker 5: Well, I feel like the media, including us in the country,

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Speaker 5: just as a whole is being pretty relaxed about the

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Speaker 5: fact that we've got this big, giant cocked mill terry

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Speaker 5: fist done in Venezuela. Right that it looks like we're

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Speaker 5: gonna throw the punch at some point, and we're not

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Speaker 5: having that much of a discussion about do we want

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Speaker 5: to do this? Do we want to do a regime change?

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Speaker 5: Do we want marine storm on the beach there in Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm approving or disapproving. That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Do we want to do?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 2: Tell me what I'm disapproving?

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Speaker 5: Well, I guess then I would start a number of Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I guess I would start with we should demand more,

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Speaker 5: what's the plan here? And then a conversation whether whether

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Speaker 5: we're on board with this or not. Right, it certainly

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Speaker 5: looks like we're about to do a regime change. It

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Speaker 5: looks like what it looked like in Iraq a couple

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Speaker 5: of different times, or Afghanistan or wherever. That's what it

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Speaker 5: looks like.

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Speaker 1: Well, and back when we had a congress worth a

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Speaker 1: pair of James Madison's underpants, they would have probably weighed

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Speaker 1: in in some way. But now they're just social media influencers.

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Speaker 5: James Madison's underpants would have been very dainty, very tight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, a little lacey. If you hear what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, well, I dout know about that. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say lay neither. Is there's something wrong with my mic?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, these are odd times. I don't even

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Speaker 2: know what I'm being asked to approve.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to get people's attention for anything other than

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Speaker 5: I'm mad at Trump. I'm happy with Trump about some

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Speaker 5: specific thing that's not even that important.

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Speaker 2: Me did it, it's great. If Trump did it, it's horrible.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's similar to my AI. I won't start

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Speaker 5: that again. But he got you know, people saying there's

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Speaker 5: a fifty percent likely whod mankind gets wiped out?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, what you know? What did Trump say about what?

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Speaker 5: And the same thing with We're about to go to

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Speaker 5: war with Venezuela and you can't get any conversation going

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Speaker 5: about that, and maybe we are, maybe we aren't. I

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Speaker 5: don't know what about the midterms?

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Speaker 1: You know, Judy's out tonight. Maybe I'll watch Don't Look

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Speaker 1: Up again. It's very entertaining movie. I enjoyed it. Fat

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Speaker 1: Leo DiCaprio he went ahead and got Dowey and suburban.

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Speaker 2: For the all I admire is played an uncool guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate a really good looking guy who takes

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Speaker 5: a role that makes him look kind of weak and dopey.

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Speaker 2: That is, I think that's cool.

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Speaker 1: No, he's a scientist. You know what percentage of scientists

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Speaker 1: are buff?

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Speaker 5: Like? I know for a fact that like Steve McQueen,

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Speaker 5: only took roles that made him look like a really

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Speaker 5: cool badass worked for him, and it worked for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, this is neither here nor there, no nor anywhere.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's just tough.

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Speaker 1: These are the moral questions that I enjoyed wrestling with

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Speaker 1: because they're no easy answers. You cannot if somebody is

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Speaker 1: because a lot of these people are just guys in Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: They're fishermen. They got a little family business. They're a

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Speaker 1: laborer or whatever, but they're pretty good with a boat,

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Speaker 1: and they're hired often as a navigator or what's one

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Speaker 1: of the other jobs I was reading about the different

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Speaker 1: jobs on the boat. These guys don't make a lot

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Speaker 1: of money by our standards, but they make a lot

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Speaker 1: of money by their standards. Just for like being the

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Speaker 1: guy to hold onto the cocaine. And oh, one of

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Speaker 1: the main roles is you got to keep the engines

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Speaker 1: fueled because they go through a lot of fuel because

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Speaker 1: they're running hot like crazy.

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Speaker 2: You'd be terrified fast on the ocean.

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Speaker 1: So these guys all they do, because they're good with

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Speaker 1: an engine, is they make sure the fuel keeps flowing.

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Speaker 1: And they get paid a certain amount of money for that. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you blow up a drug boat and that poor

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Speaker 1: son of a bitch is clinging to the wreckage, snuffing

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Speaker 1: him from above, is that okay as the United States

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Speaker 1: of America?

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Speaker 5: Or is it not not running your boats fast enough?

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Speaker 2: Apparently? Honey, you can't go faster than a missile. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Do they hear anything? Would you hear anything? Would you

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Speaker 5: see a plane? Would he be even aware there's a

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Speaker 5: plane in the sky?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially given the fact that you're zooming along at

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Speaker 1: high speed on the ocean. You're slapping up and down

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Speaker 1: on the waves, the engines are roaring.

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Speaker 5: No, you have no idea you would just all of

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Speaker 5: a sudden you just cease to exist, correct, And then

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Speaker 5: maybe unless again, you're the poor sob clinging to the RCD.

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Speaker 5: Maybe there's just everything goes black and loud and the

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Speaker 5: next thing you know, you're bobbing.

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Speaker 2: In the ocean. What the hell was that?

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Speaker 5: Until the second one that hexeth the orders comes right

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Speaker 5: then you're done. Yeah, well huh, I'd say, don't be

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Speaker 5: a you know, the guy who checks the oil on

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Speaker 5: the motor for a drug boat. Do something else.

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Speaker 1: What if there had been cameras at the Battle of

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Speaker 1: the Bulge or you know, one of the great military victories,

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Speaker 1: would we be picking apart who got shot when and

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Speaker 1: whether that German guy was trying to surrender or not.

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Speaker 1: Cameras and lawyers unleashed on you know, the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Speaker 2: Right? Is this just untenable?

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of our discussion many times about the

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Speaker 1: situation in Gaza with Israel. This is the first iPhone

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Speaker 1: modern social media information war within a war.

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Speaker 5: If Trump gets if the Democrats win the House, they

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Speaker 5: are going to impeach Trump. Everybody seems to be an

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Speaker 5: agreement on that. This is a possible possibly.

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Speaker 2: One of the issues. Right. War in Venezuela, Mm hmm, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think so. Or whatever in Venezuela, maybe.

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Speaker 1: Trump's just gonna go get some nice spicy chicken tacos

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Speaker 1: for the Marines and then go home.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: He can text us or email us anytime. We will

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Speaker 5: finish strong. Next TV News, the long awaited fifties and

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Speaker 5: It's Stranger Things is officially here.

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Speaker 2: Great. Yeah, over the week it actually crashed Netflix. Oh,

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Speaker 2: everyone's like this season is so scary, especially.

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Speaker 5: The part where I was with my family for five

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Speaker 5: days and Netflix wouldn't load. That was It's interesting. I

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Speaker 5: saw quite a few people were watching Stranger Things the

567
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Speaker 5: new season on the plane when I was flying home

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Speaker 5: from the Midwest. And the kids are also old now,

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Speaker 5: you know, they had more than a season's worth of

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Speaker 5: time in between several seasons, so they've grown here so much,

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Speaker 5: and they're like still trying to portray him his little kids,

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Speaker 5: and I don't know, I just don't know, Like the

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Speaker 5: Sopranos used to do sometimes, you know, it'd be like

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Speaker 5: three years between seasons and all of a sudden, AJ's

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Speaker 5: a foot taller and got a beard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dad, I don't have to listen to you any

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Speaker 2: anybody on the crew. A Stranger Things.

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Speaker 4: Fan, I watched the first season and somewhat enjoyed it,

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Speaker 4: but it lost me after that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 5: I should get into it because when my kids were

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Speaker 5: too young for when we first started watching it, and

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Speaker 5: it was a little too much for them, and I

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Speaker 5: should delve back into it now that they're older and

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Speaker 5: could handle it. I thought it was pretty cool. It

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Speaker 5: roped me in, but I never get further than the

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Speaker 5: first season. Actually, there's a list out of best TV

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Speaker 5: shows or something like that we're gonna get into tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Best episodes of all time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, which I'm looking forward to. I wonder if some

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Speaker 5: of them will be the episodes of the television show Friends,

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Speaker 5: which I saw where they store all the old Friends videotape.

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Speaker 5: Maybe some of you are aware of this, if you're

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Speaker 5: into movies or whatnot. There is a salt mine in

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Speaker 5: the middle of Kansas, which is where I was for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 5: I'd never toured this. I was aware of this tour

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Speaker 5: spot for many years. Like a lot of high school

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Speaker 5: field trips go there or whatever. I'd never gone.

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Speaker 2: I took the boys.

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Speaker 5: So it's a salt mine way way underground that has

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Speaker 5: for whatever reasons with it's something to do with the

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Speaker 5: temperature staying the same and the lack of humidity. They

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Speaker 5: store old documents and film and stuff there because it

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Speaker 5: will not deteriorate at all. Like all the old episodes

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Speaker 5: of Johnny Carson, the original film of the Wizard of

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Speaker 5: Oz is down there, All the episodes of Friends that

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Speaker 5: are on film are down there because they can't deteriorate

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Speaker 5: with the perfect just the right amount of humidity and

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Speaker 5: temperature being exactly the same down there. It's kind of

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Speaker 5: interesting and it's enormous. The salt mine. I've got to

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Speaker 5: go down on the salt mines. It's two hundred miles

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Speaker 5: long and one hundred and twenty miles wide.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how big it hits.

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, when nothing deteriorates down there, So they

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Speaker 5: have all the they started going down there in the

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Speaker 5: nineteen twenties, and all the garbage going back to the

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Speaker 5: nineteen twenties is still down there, and they have it

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Speaker 5: in a pile. And you can see all these old

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Speaker 5: fast food wrappers and coke bottles and cigarette boxes and

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Speaker 5: stuff like that. All the garbage is still there. It

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Speaker 5: looks exactly like if it was thrown out yesterday. Kind

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Speaker 5: of a surprise aspect of the tour.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it really is.

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Speaker 7: And now final faults with Armstrong and getting engage.

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Speaker 5: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.

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Speaker 1: To wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelow pressing

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Speaker 1: the buttons in the control room. Michael final thought.

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Speaker 2: You know you mentioned the Wizard of Oz in that list. Jack,

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Speaker 2: I still have not seen that movie. What I know,

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Speaker 2: I just haven't gotten around to seeing it.

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Speaker 5: I don't like it because it insists upon itself.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, and I vomited. Katie Greener esteemed and use

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Speaker 1: woman as a final thought.

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Speaker 2: Katie, we were talking.

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Speaker 4: About supplements earlier and kind of the damage they can do.

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Speaker 4: Just keep an eye out if you're one of those

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Speaker 4: people that chases supplements on like Amazon.

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Speaker 2: Be careful. Oh oh yeah, yeah, it's so funny. Jack.

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Speaker 2: A final thought for us.

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Speaker 5: I got more stories about being down in that salt mine.

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Speaker 5: I might have to put them into the One More

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Speaker 5: Thing podcast. A couple of really interesting things, including dead Burrows.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned dead Burrows. Yes, good lord. My final thoughts.

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Speaker 1: He is a little self grandizing. I think that discussion

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Speaker 1: we had about inflation an hour three of the show

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Speaker 1: is absolutely absolutely worth going back and grabbing via podcast

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on demand. The fact that inflation is

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Speaker 1: not a rise in prices. That's what inflation causes it.

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Speaker 1: Inflation is increasing the currency supply. It seems like a

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Speaker 1: distinction without a difference, but it's important.

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Speaker 2: Check out segment.

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Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

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Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getdy dot com pick up some ang swag.

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Speaker 1: Another thought on that in a moment or two, tramp

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Speaker 1: is a note something we ought to be talking about.

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Speaker 1: You want to weigh in on topic? Mail bag at

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Speaker 1: Armstrong in Getty dot com. Check out the hotlinks a.

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Speaker 5: Couple of developing stories, including this whole striking on the

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Speaker 5: Venezuelan boat. We'll have the latest tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: God bless America.

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Speaker 4: Armstrong in Getti Christless shopping.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's so tough, but the Ang superstar.

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Speaker 1: Has all the right stuff.

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Speaker 2: Start shopping. Can get your Christmas right.

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Speaker 5: I mean that friend of Ang will love you all

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Speaker 5: on Christmas night. Shut now, I'm Strong and Geddy dot

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Speaker 5: com shot now and I'm Strong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: Dot com. Armstrong and Getty