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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the

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Speaker 1: Consolation President President trend c Hey, hey nailed there. It

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Speaker 1: is it ak We realized too late. That's all we

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Speaker 1: should have done for our for our Wednesday episode. That

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy, hey man, but you nailed it, ponious pilot,

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Speaker 2: Wait to go.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack. That over there is mister Miles

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Speaker 1: Gray is Thursday, November seventh. Yeah, the l takes are

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Speaker 1: coming in fast and furious. Yeah, we got The National

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Speaker 1: Review is saying that Biden should pardon Trump for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Uh wait, what's the point of that, like spare yourself

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Speaker 2: from his like his wrath once he's in office?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, maybe is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: Like he save your own ass? Just just pardon him now.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just the general trend that we're seeing

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Speaker 1: with the mainstream media where they're like Trump won, he

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Speaker 1: was right about everything, right, Like that must mean every

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Speaker 1: impulse we had about you know, social justice, any like

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Speaker 1: progressive economic policy, we should be ashamed of that and

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Speaker 1: like pretend like we actually like don't we were. We're

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Speaker 1: sorry for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was I think more on Morning Joe. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I think it was Joe Scarborough was trying to Yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah it was. It was like Joe Scarborough saying it

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Speaker 2: was trans yeah, and like helping and supporting trans people

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Speaker 2: got Donald Trump elected. So as if to be like

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Speaker 2: that was a misstep, get the fuck out of here.

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Speaker 2: The problem is that people don't aren't looking in an

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Speaker 2: intersectional way enough, which is how people get lost in

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Speaker 2: the cracks because people only look out for themselves anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a so there's other ones. So many takes are

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Speaker 2: like America needs to come together now to what about

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Speaker 2: Like that's kind of how this ship would work, is

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Speaker 2: like with this kind of presidency looming is to be

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Speaker 2: like let's just lay down, just lay.

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Speaker 1: Down, now, show him your belly. You swear to god,

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Speaker 1: he'll just tickle it. I saw a somebody be like

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Speaker 1: Biden should do the right thing. There's so many people

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Speaker 1: with advice for Biden right now, like that he's gonna

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Speaker 1: suddenly start taking good at place.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, would you have to say, dude.

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Speaker 1: So one of them is there's there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: takes being like Biden needs to like do make tons

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Speaker 1: of changes to protect the American presidency, to protect democracy,

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Speaker 1: like just force through all these changes. It's like he

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Speaker 1: didn't do that when he was a like I newly

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Speaker 1: elected president. Why would he be able to do that?

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Speaker 1: Now they're also saying, I've seen a take that he

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Speaker 1: should step down and allow Kamala to be the first

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Speaker 1: woman president by default.

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Speaker 2: That's so fucking Patron's so for real. Yeah, and like

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Speaker 2: I and I get that the as in terms of

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Speaker 2: like a campaign, being able to run that campaign from

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Speaker 2: the time Biden stepped down to election day was no

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Speaker 2: normal feat. That was actually pretty extraordinary, given like just

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Speaker 2: purely the coordination of it all. Obviously there were a

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Speaker 2: lot of problems with messaging and policy and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: But then to just be like, and you know what, here,

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Speaker 2: have a lick of my ice cream cone. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: that's actually psych I like ice cream too much, Jack, Sorry, Jack,

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Speaker 2: this is my ice cream.

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Speaker 1: A nice tramac schera. It falls down the front of

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Speaker 1: his shirt. A uh then he starts crying. Anyways. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't know, very very discouraging that the mainstream

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Speaker 1: take away from this is going to be it's the

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Speaker 1: left fault. But we kind of knew that even heading

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not fully come out yet because there's also

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Speaker 2: a lot of people like when you look at third

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Speaker 2: if you added the votes that were people voted third

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Speaker 2: party or something, that wouldn't have been enough to beat Trump. Also, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I think I think, like the mainstream media is

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Speaker 2: probably they're just they need a little more data before

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Speaker 2: they really they really do a full throated finger pointing

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Speaker 2: match as to what happened, rather than saying, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: just not delivering for working people isn't going to help.

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Speaker 2: And trust me, I think and the people who voted

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Speaker 2: for Trump, it's going to be a rude awakening when

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Speaker 2: he also does not deliver for working people. But Jesus,

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Speaker 2: Yeah anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we still had like normal elections,

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Speaker 1: it would continue to go back and forth like this forever.

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Speaker 1: Just whoever was not running theopotito, Yeah exactly. Anyways, Hey,

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Speaker 1: at least somebody had a good election night. And I'm

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Speaker 1: talking of course about meditation apps. So Calm, the meditation

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Speaker 1: app that is, like the one that's not Headspace. I

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Speaker 1: feel like those are the two meditation apps decided to

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Speaker 1: advertise during the election, like it was the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: They advertised on CNN and ABC Comedy Central, and their

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Speaker 1: ads were kind of ingenious, just thirty seconds of silence,

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Speaker 1: which anytime there's an ad that is silent, I will

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Speaker 1: stole it. What every thing and be like, what the

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Speaker 1: fuck is that person doing?

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Speaker 2: My idiot box went quiet?

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Speaker 1: It must be broken. Everybody should dropped my kid? Did

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Speaker 1: you run over the slap the side? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Fop of the side now.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, this is the first time Calm has attempted to

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Speaker 1: mine our national political trauma. They also sponsored the CNN

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Speaker 1: key race alerts in twenty twenty, and more recently sent

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Speaker 1: their users push alerts during the Trump Biden debate, which

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Speaker 1: is I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like, okay, relax, Like, on the one hand.

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Speaker 1: Like this might be the best advertisement for meditation since

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Speaker 1: David Lynch. Like not the ad itself, but the fact

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Speaker 1: that they were clear minded enough to be like, man,

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Speaker 1: a lot of this is going to be bad for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. Yeah, their mind. This debate is

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Speaker 1: going to break people's brains. And then ahead of the

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Speaker 1: election they knew that. Again, unless part of me is like,

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Speaker 1: are they using our heart rate? Mon? Like, you know

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Speaker 1: all those apps like have access to so much of

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Speaker 1: our data, like your health stuff is there, just like

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Speaker 1: the CEO of their company sitting in a room like

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Speaker 1: the Bad Guy and Watchmen with just like monitors of

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Speaker 1: every American's health metrics and just being like, we've got

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Speaker 1: things of spiking, just like some real black mirror shit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, I mean that there are other

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Speaker 2: ones too that I think the other ones they had

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Speaker 2: like nature sounds and they are It's it is funny

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Speaker 2: how disorienting it is because it's used to like the

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Speaker 2: cacophony of like like and just like what the fuck

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Speaker 2: that when you hear like birds chirping, You're like, am

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Speaker 2: I okay?

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Speaker 1: Did I did I just die? Did I just die?

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Speaker 1: Why do I so happy? Am i? Uh? It apparently

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Speaker 1: paid off big time. The calm app jumped more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred spots in the app store. And we're always

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Speaker 1: looking at the app store charts here see what apps

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Speaker 1: it's it's cool that they have locked down, though, Like

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Speaker 1: what if it wasn't outside of things, what if you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why. I like the you know, in the

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Speaker 2: beginning of lockdowns. I just love that like three D

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Speaker 2: audio nature headphone shit I would used to wear and

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Speaker 2: just bliss out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah what if? What if? Not here? Let us send

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Speaker 1: you a push notification to remind.

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Speaker 2: You, Hey, relax, okay, thanks.

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Speaker 1: The other things that were happening on the idiot boxes

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Speaker 1: of America on election night. First of all, far fewer

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Speaker 1: people watching the election on TV this time around, a

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Speaker 1: sharp drop, I think, just generally. Even though the mainstream

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Speaker 1: media takes in the aftermath of the election are pretty infuriating,

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Speaker 1: the overall way that this election went I think is

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Speaker 1: the best indication we have yet that nobody is paying

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Speaker 1: attention to the instream media takes, so don't we don't

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Speaker 1: have to get too upset by them. But on various outlets,

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Speaker 1: it was it just felt like a game show, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember it was so funny. I pissed off her

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Speaker 2: majesty when we were watching because there was a shot

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Speaker 2: on like MSNBC or they have this augmented reality thing

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Speaker 2: where like it seemed like they were just they set

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Speaker 2: and I was like, WHOA look at that camera shot

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Speaker 2: went whoa, what was that camera shot? And so are

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Speaker 2: you fucking what? And I was like yeah, wowie, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like they got me. It's it was very, very

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Speaker 2: It was like it just pushed away from Karnaki and

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Speaker 2: it looked like there were steps down and then that

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Speaker 2: was like onto like the west lawn of the White

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Speaker 1: Big fuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was, it was. It was weird.

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Speaker 1: They had a Kornaki cam that followed and I'm quoting

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Speaker 1: here map daddy, Steve Kornaki.

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Speaker 2: I prefer daddy map.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm the make it to make it, to

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Speaker 1: make it, to make it a map daddy. But uh

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Speaker 1: cool criss cross reference.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, I'm years old. Yep.

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Speaker 1: It followed him the entire time On YouTube, you could

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't it just again, no need for that,

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Speaker 2: becomes like an eyeball palooza election, right, It's so weird that.

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Speaker 1: We keep electing a morally bankrupt reality show star when

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Speaker 1: we treat our elections like a game show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, acid trip game shows.

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Speaker 1: CNN released an app version of their quote iconic Magic Wall,

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Speaker 1: which is that just the map like the that you

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Speaker 1: can like hit Like, do they think they invented the

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Speaker 1: touch screen?

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Speaker 2: Look? Jack, It's Iconic Magic Wall, and we made it

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Speaker 2: an app that way we could get users to agree

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Speaker 2: to our weird privacy terms and conditions so we can

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Speaker 2: just start siphoning dat off whatever. It's iconic, man, it's iconic.

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Speaker 1: Wow. You two can pretend to be John King. Fuck yeah,

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Speaker 1: play normalize the creeping threat of fascism from your own

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Speaker 1: living room. Amazon Prime had an election night event that

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Speaker 1: our writer JM went and sought out. I was not

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Speaker 1: aware this was happening. It was hosted by Brian Williams,

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Speaker 1: who we all know from his poetic soliloquy about the

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Speaker 1: beauty of our weapons as like missiles were being launched

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Speaker 1: under the Middle East and the entire set was just

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Speaker 1: one big screen so that it could be shot in

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Speaker 1: Brian Williams's like basement. I guess, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what was.

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Speaker 2: Going on a set based on how big the amount

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Speaker 2: of movement, I think that was happening on that big set.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big old screen and it just like

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Speaker 1: the background looked like a weird AI slop hodgepodge of

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Speaker 1: like American iconography. Like on the left there was like

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Speaker 1: the red like the Arizona Devil's Tower, I think is

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Speaker 1: what that is, like the you know, Desert Mountain.

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Speaker 2: Is that why they're Grand Canyon or just some Arizona shit.

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Speaker 1: I think that's just some Arizona shit, right.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to that Arizona shit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, from sea to Shining Sea and everything. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: There's a new trend in people's jobs ending, and now

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Speaker 2: It's so wild that we went from but prior to this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a story about Gladiator two. Gladiator two is

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Speaker 1: Man excited that it feels like they've gone like maximal list.

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Speaker 1: Jack, Yeah, can we get to win this time?

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Speaker 2: I just like that. Now in the Hollywood Reporter, there's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about this. I don't like that.

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Speaker 2: Fuck it? If there's water, we gotta well, obviously you

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Speaker 2: was it bite your whole shit? What was your whole Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Forehold and then Jack O'Brian prophecies.

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Speaker 2: But I wonder though, too, if did they write this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if your expectations are where they need to be,

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Speaker 1: Finally, we're going to bid a fond farewell to the

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Speaker 2: You've Got Mail.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy passed away at seventy four. Name before

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Speaker 1: was Ellwood Edwards. Fucking great name, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Elo, Elwood Edwards, the wild shit. He only made

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Speaker 1: Is that real?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Fucking capitalism, So cool.

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Speaker 2: You've Got Mail, Wild's done, good goodbye, and to you

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh man, the number of Morning Zoo shows that

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Speaker 2: We're working some shit out in real time.

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Speaker 1: That door is actually working at porn now. You can

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Speaker 1: all right. Those are some of the things that are

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Speaker 1: trending on this Thursday, November seventh. We are back tomorrow

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Speaker 1: with a whole last episode of the show. Until then,

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Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get

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Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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