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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: Arm Strong and Getty and he I'm strong.

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Speaker 3: And the Iridian attacks on Israel coming after the US

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Speaker 3: military and Iran exchanged volleys of far this weekend near

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Speaker 3: to the Strait of Horn moves Sentcom saying it struck

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Speaker 3: Iranian radar site Saturday after its intercepted Iranian drones which

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Speaker 3: were threatening ships ran then firing missiles at US allies,

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Speaker 3: Qwait and Buchraine. But in a sign of the pressure Netanya,

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Speaker 3: who will now face domestically and from within his own government,

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Speaker 3: his far right security minister Itamar ben Gevier hosting a

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Speaker 3: Hebrew on X tonight, Tekran must burn.

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Speaker 2: What the heck has gone on? Middle East?

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Speaker 4: So middle of the day yesterday, Iran is attacking and

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Speaker 4: Hesbel is attacking Israel. Then Israel hits Iran pretty hard.

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Speaker 4: Iran strikes back. Then President Trump jumps in. I can

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Speaker 4: hit you with some of the actual verbiage of what

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Speaker 4: Trump said in the last twenty four hours, But most

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Speaker 4: of the media is still acting like the ceasefire is

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Speaker 4: in place. Trey Yanks was watching Fox earlier the day

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Speaker 4: he's a reporter that's in Iran or in Israel rather

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Speaker 4: for Fox. He said, the CeaseFire's over, he said, and

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Speaker 4: make no mistake, the ceasefires over. The war is back on.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he's officially backed off of that,

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Speaker 4: but like some of his most recent tweets have says,

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Speaker 4: the IRGC says they are halting attacks on Israel. And

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Speaker 4: then there is the Open Source Intelligence has out a

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Speaker 4: post saying that Netan Yahoo has told everybody to stand

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Speaker 4: down on what was supposed to be an im imminent

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Speaker 4: attack on southern Lebanon. But he's saying putting a halt

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Speaker 4: to it. After Donald Trump got a hold of net

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Speaker 4: and Yahoo and said you gotta stop. I got I'm

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Speaker 4: more close to peace here, you gotta stop. And apparently

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Speaker 4: net Yahoo went along with it.

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Speaker 1: At least temporarily. Yeah, who knows. He's a clever devil.

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Speaker 1: He's got stuff going on behind the scenes. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it appears both sides have said, all right, this round

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Speaker 1: is over. There's going to be no more.

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Speaker 2: We're fine.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we're going to spend another week hearing

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Speaker 1: about the soon to be achieved to peace talks or

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Speaker 1: soon to be as successful he's talks.

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Speaker 4: According to Axios, quoting people that were listening to the

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Speaker 4: phone conversation between Trump and net and Yahoo, Trump asked

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Speaker 4: him not to respond to the Iranian missile attack ballistic

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Speaker 4: missiles fired at the capital of their country, their tiny

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Speaker 4: little country, and to wait a few days for the negotiations,

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Speaker 4: claiming that something good in terms of a deal is

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Speaker 4: close to which net Ya who kind of agreed, though

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Speaker 4: he reiterated his call for st against Iran. That was yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Most recent is this. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yaho of

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Speaker 4: Israel appeared to be moving to de escalate after the

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Speaker 4: pushback from President Trump, halting preparations for another attack on

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Speaker 4: Iran today.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised that he's doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am too, Honestly, as the one clip made clear,

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Speaker 1: the right wing in Israel is calling for we've got

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Speaker 1: to defeat him.

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Speaker 2: Now I happen to agree with him. Uh yeah.

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Speaker 1: I suspect that net Yahoo and Israel are just waiting

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Speaker 1: for the next provocation because it's coming, and then they'll,

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Speaker 1: excuse me respond to that with a good hard whacking.

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Speaker 2: You were in the congo over the weekend, were you

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: I was enjoying a delicious chimp sushi buffet raw chimp.

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Speaker 1: It was more tender than you might imagine.

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Speaker 2: But I am bleeding from all of my horrified so

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Speaker 2: into the dock in the box.

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Speaker 4: The chimba sushi was good, but I am now bleeding

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Speaker 4: from all my rrifi. Yeah, so connecting the dots, Yola,

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Speaker 4: I mentioned Friday that I had a couple of those

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Speaker 4: adulting things I had to do.

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Speaker 1: I had to go to the dock in the box

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Speaker 1: for my the thing, my infected finger. It's a good

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Speaker 1: thing I did too. It was it's it came out

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Speaker 1: where your nail meets your your skin that's prone to

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Speaker 1: getting various infections. And sure enough, there is talk of draining.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to hear the word draining. But I'm

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Speaker 1: on like crazy powerful antibiotics now, like the kind where

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Speaker 2: They did they do? Did they have any needles in here? Anything?

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Speaker 1: No? No, no, it might not be necessary. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it is, because the antibiotic is working.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, what the hell, now's the time, though, now's

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Speaker 4: the time to just let loose, do whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: You could get any.

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Speaker 4: Sort of disease or bad infection in your set.

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Speaker 1: Right go to the congo. Oh that's a virus. Never mind,

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Speaker 1: that's not how that works. Uh yeah, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there any bacteria that it could affect me?

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Speaker 2: God?

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Speaker 1: You could.

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Speaker 4: You could walk through a South American brothel and just

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Speaker 4: have the time of your life, no problems.

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Speaker 2: I laugh in the face of gun area. Are you

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Speaker 2: kidding me? Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Then the next day my adulting task was because I

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Speaker 1: had let my global entry. It's like TSA when you

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Speaker 1: if you travel overseas, it all when you come back

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Speaker 1: into the country. Instead of having to wait in the

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Speaker 1: longest lines you've ever seen in your life to say no,

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Speaker 1: I have nothing to declare, Yeah I'm a freaking citizen,

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Speaker 1: look at my past or okay, great, thanks, yeah, good.

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Speaker 2: To be home.

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Speaker 1: Instead of doing that, you just go to a kiosk

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Speaker 1: back into the United SA's America. It's called the global

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Speaker 1: entry thing. It's like glorified tsa PreCheck and can get

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Speaker 4: I didn't actually know what it was, but I do

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Speaker 4: know this. When I was briefly in the world of

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Speaker 4: online dating, there are a lot of women who would

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Speaker 4: say only interested in people that have global entry access

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Speaker 4: or something like that. Now I really don't know what

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Speaker 4: that is, but I don't and I'm not traveling so

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Speaker 4: it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: And I would just you know.

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Speaker 1: You may be like a wonderful companion and I find

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of that. That's one of the reasons

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Speaker 4: a lot of like black and white ultimatum stuff over

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Speaker 1: I wonder if global entry is seen as some sort

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I just got it because

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Speaker 1: But so anyway, it expires after five years, and if

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Speaker 1: you renew because you're likely to become a terrorist five

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Speaker 1: yet later you decide you hate the country. No, if

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Speaker 1: But because of that, all of a sudden, you're presumed

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Speaker 1: to be in al Qaeda or or or or be

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Speaker 1: a Marxister. So there's a Marxists never university. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta get my passport and proof of address and drive

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Speaker 1: everything that the ushery in. Was there a BCS A

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Speaker 2: This is our country we're talking about. I'm ready. I'll

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Speaker 2: give you a honey. Here here, here's one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Do a body cavity search. Put your time, but.

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Speaker 1: Let's not rush through this. Huh. But so the the

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Speaker 1: You got a flat jacket on and everything, sitting at

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Speaker 1: ever been committed? Have you ever been convicted of any crime?

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Speaker 1: Ever been all the stuff that I'd already Oh, have

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Speaker 1: you ever been investigated for any crime in this or

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Speaker 1: any other country? Blah blah blah, And I've already filled

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Speaker 1: this out online. But they want to look you in

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Speaker 1: the eye as you give these answers. Then they fingerprint me.

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Speaker 1: You got my f and fingerprints. I gave him to

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Speaker 2: They're the same.

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Speaker 1: That's why fingerprints are a thing. All right, you can

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Speaker 1: have them again if you want here, they are here.

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Speaker 1: You go, I said, all right, great, click any click approve.

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Speaker 1: You'll be getting your card three and a half minutes,

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Speaker 1: three and a half minutes, two hours from my house

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Speaker 4: Studies have shown that every five years people are likely

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Speaker 4: to join al Qaida, right right, it's.

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Speaker 2: The five year itch.

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Speaker 1: You know. I've always been a a Christian, be a patriot,

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Speaker 4: So the number of women out there who really wanted

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Speaker 4: the global entry thing, or have your passport ready or

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Speaker 4: I don't want to date you or whatever, just okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Did any of them mention if they're attracted to.

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Speaker 1: Not see come you not see faux oysterman in general?

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Speaker 1: We've got a bit of a Graham Platinum update for you, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And boy, his fans and devotees, they don't care about

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Speaker 1: any of the allegations. He's their man well beyond. So

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Speaker 1: that's clearly a cult of personality.

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Speaker 4: Even more than that was the people who were willing

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Speaker 4: to say out loud, loud, and I've got the quotes.

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Speaker 4: I'll get to him, like old what's his name? James

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Speaker 4: Carvill said, Yeah, yeah, might be a Nazi, might be

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Speaker 4: this all sorts of a terrible person, but still better

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Speaker 4: than the alternative, Like wow, really better than a modern.

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Speaker 1: Republican islands who's barely a Republican and will vote to

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Speaker 1: impete Trump, impeach Trump, no matter the charge. She can't

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Speaker 1: wait to But you're gonna elect a woman of using drunk,

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Speaker 1: troubled Nazi.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because it's your party.

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Speaker 1: That is one of the greatest distillations of modern American politics.

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Speaker 2: You could you could hope for right.

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Speaker 4: And I heard somebody making the National Dispatch was making

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Speaker 4: the argument, how this is trump Ism winning if you

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Speaker 4: want to describe trump Ism as you know, our side

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Speaker 4: right or wrong, no matter what. The Democrats are using

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Speaker 4: the same playbook.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So you thought it was just awful that some Republicans

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Speaker 4: stood by Trump through no matter what. Now you're going

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Speaker 4: to do this with Graham Platiner. Okay, So I guess

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Speaker 1: And he did the richest thing ever, which is to

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Speaker 4: It's just a very very wealthy lemonade said, your mom

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Speaker 1: And then the fact that he had an account on Kick,

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Speaker 2: The sixth range.

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Speaker 1: And his Kick account was still active three days ago.

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Speaker 4: Well, Fetterman said. John Fetterman, Senator, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: He will well hear a suit every day from here

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Speaker 4: Wow, that kind of a thing to challenge another demo

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Speaker 4: Got a couple more comments on this coming upstairs, Armstrong

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Speaker 4: but didn't That's not the way we used to run politics.

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Speaker 4: We maybe since dispensed with that on both sides. For instance,

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Speaker 4: the way you pronounce her name? Of the View, I

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Speaker 4: on Kick, that's one of your apps that you can

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Speaker 4: Don't you want to ask about pe Hustle? Who's P Hustle?

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Speaker 2: Graham Platner? Why do you call him that?

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Speaker 4: No, that's what he calls himself, one kick, pe Hustle,

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Speaker 4: And so he only referred to him as P Hustle

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Speaker 1: And he said, and he said, new Fetterman, poststroke Fetterman

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Speaker 4: He said, if Pa Hustle can prove that all the

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Speaker 1: Wow, you know that's a heck of a thing.

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Speaker 4: So P Hustle Graham Platner all use his official oyster

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Speaker 4: Oyster farmer, grand planner, oyster farmer, gleam Putner sounds like

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Speaker 1: Really. Well, he has a little patch of water where

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Speaker 1: he's a hobbyist. Right. Anyway, I'll call me a professional golfer.

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Speaker 1: and I've taken a tour, so call me tour player.

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Speaker 4: Jokey, but to show you where the Democratic Party is.

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Speaker 4: In response to Senator Fetterman challenging him to prove that

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Speaker 4: posted that Fetterman is.

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Speaker 1: A tool of apak Ah. It's the Jews again, right

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Speaker 1: damn it. I should have known, good Lord.

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Speaker 4: Vote for Fetterman who backs Israel and is a tool

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Speaker 2: So that's where we are in that whole thing.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna win tomorrow, but then the knives really come out, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's all confusing because we have that.

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Speaker 4: Whole New York Times story from last week that was

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, the Republicans have been holding fire because they want

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Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah, So that's that story. Did I have any

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Speaker 2: more on that? Maybe not.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll be talking about tomorrow. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Oh you know, speaking of that sort of person. I

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Speaker 1: was just reading how James Tallerico, who's the toast of

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Speaker 2: Where is that.

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Speaker 1: He has ret He is repeatedly referring to women as

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Speaker 4: Wasn't the belief that he would tack toward the center

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Speaker 4: That's not tacking toward the center. That's not even tacking

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Speaker 1: I can't find the article, But to take my word,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't make that up.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't. It's too strange.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to revisit this apropos of nothing out of nowhere,

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Speaker 4: just because I came across it on Twitter. We've talked

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Speaker 4: about it before. It's better around tax time. But when

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Speaker 4: is tax time? I don't know about you, but it's

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Speaker 4: tax time every day in my world.

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Speaker 2: You don't you know?

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Speaker 4: Write your check or deal with it paperwork wise, but taxes.

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Speaker 2: Getting taken out all the time.

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Speaker 4: Milton Freeman, the great a libertarian economist from back in

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Speaker 4: the day that all Republicans and libertarians love. Milton Friedman,

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Speaker 4: what was his greatest regret? As we've said many times,

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Speaker 4: he is the guy that unfortunately invented withholding on your check.

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Speaker 2: Who was I talking to just yesterday?

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Speaker 4: They got Yeah, I was talking to a friend yesterday,

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Speaker 4: got out of graduate school, got his first check and

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Speaker 4: was talking.

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Speaker 2: About He said, I knew you. He said, it's not

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Speaker 2: my first job.

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Speaker 4: This his first job that like has paid well though,

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Speaker 4: And he said, I knew you know, I know about

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Speaker 4: tax stuff like that, but I didn't know how much

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Speaker 4: it was going to be from the number that I

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm telling people I make to what.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually getting.

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Speaker 4: Withholding, the federal government discovered the perfect crime in nineteen

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Speaker 4: forty three. Make employers collect taxes before workers ever.

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Speaker 2: See their paychecks.

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Speaker 4: You think he earned sixty thousand per year, he actually

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Speaker 4: earned seventy five thousand per year. You hand over fifteen

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Speaker 4: thousand to the politicians without over touching it. The psychological

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Speaker 4: difference is enormous. Of course, before payroll withholding, Americans wrote

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Speaker 4: quarterly checks directly to the Treasury.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I knew.

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Speaker 4: That before they withheld every quarter you wrote a check.

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Speaker 4: Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table writing a check

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Speaker 4: for four thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars or whatever

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Speaker 4: it would be, depending on how much money you make

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Speaker 4: to the irs every three months.

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Speaker 2: The pain was immediate and visceral.

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Speaker 4: Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens

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Speaker 4: felt the extraction in real time. With how where they

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Speaker 4: take it out ahead of time transforms this concrete loss

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Speaker 4: into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid

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Speaker 4: tax collector, and you never experienced the actual cost of

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Speaker 4: government Worse, most people celebrate their tax refor this is

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Speaker 4: the thing I'd bitch about every April fifteenth. Most people

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Speaker 4: celebrate their tax refunds as govern generosity, rather than recognizing

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Speaker 4: them as interest free loans they provided to politicians.

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Speaker 2: Slaps forehead.

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Speaker 4: The Treasury collects your money throughout the years, spends it immediately,

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Speaker 4: then returns your.

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Speaker 2: Own cash and receives gratitude.

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Speaker 4: This system enables the explosion in government spending that you

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Speaker 4: witness today, defense contractors billing six hundred and forty dollars

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Speaker 4: for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn serup, congressional salaries

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Speaker 4: for five hundred and thirty five people who rarely show

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Speaker 4: up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stopped demanding

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Speaker 4: accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped

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Speaker 4: to design withholdings as a wartime emergency measure, and later

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Speaker 4: called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognize that

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Speaker 4: the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for

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Speaker 4: fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands,

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Speaker 4: and the emergency justification justification disappears when the extraction mechanism

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Speaker 4: remains forever. I have been saying this for years long

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Speaker 4: for I thought of it before I even read this

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Speaker 4: Milton Friedman thing. I thought, imagine if people had to

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Speaker 4: sit down every year and write down the full amount

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Speaker 4: of taxes they paid, how different our country would be.

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Speaker 4: Every would be Everybody would be talking about we spent

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Speaker 4: how much on solar panels or you know, lean left,

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Speaker 4: maybe that fighter plane or whatever homeless program. Imagine people

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Speaker 4: would be outraged if they had to sit down and

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Speaker 4: actually write out the amount of tax. But because it's

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Speaker 4: withhold it ahead of time, you just don't feel it,

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Speaker 4: so you don't pay attention. Nothing could change our country

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Speaker 4: more I don't think than that one move.

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Speaker 1: And it's even more than you were describing, because every

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Speaker 1: buying decision you made that quarter, you'd have to think, remember, honey,

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Speaker 1: we've got to have approximately X in the bank to

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Speaker 1: write a check to the government for our taxes. So

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Speaker 1: you would think about it constantly, the proper conservative stewardship

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Speaker 1: of your tax dollars constantly. It's one of the great

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Speaker 1: ironies of political history that it was the great Milton

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Speaker 1: Friedman who came.

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Speaker 2: Up with this insidious idea that what's.

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Speaker 4: So wrong everybody would know their exact tax rate. You know,

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Speaker 4: currently most people don't have the slightest idea what their

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Speaker 4: tax rate is. Yeah, everybody would know exactly what it

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Speaker 4: is and argue about what it should be. If you

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Speaker 4: had to actually sit down and write a check every quarter.

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Speaker 1: Wow wow, And nobody ever thinks about it, or they

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Speaker 1: think the government is so good to them because.

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Speaker 2: They gave them a little money back.

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Speaker 1: Hi krumba, that's oh, I can't even say it's too

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Speaker 1: much irony.

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Speaker 4: I've never heard anybody run on repealing that, though, make

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Speaker 4: a big noise out of it. God, every Republican should

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Speaker 4: for sures restraint physical conservatives anymore.

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Speaker 1: It was the gateway to gigantic metastasizing government. It was

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Speaker 1: the necessary element without which it wouldn't have happened.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to.

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Speaker 4: Think of a you know you you like metaphors for

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Speaker 4: everything I'm trying to think of I do works?

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Speaker 1: What if uh, I like metaphor is more than a

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Speaker 1: bear likes honey.

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Speaker 4: I wonder like, how would you eat if you didn't

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Speaker 4: gain weight as you ate, but like uh, compounded through

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Speaker 4: to the end of the year and then shows up.

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Speaker 4: Then maybe a decade get hea, you only get the

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Speaker 4: extra weight at the end of a decade.

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Speaker 2: How much difference. I don't know if that works.

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Speaker 4: But the the idea of not being able to feel

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Speaker 4: little by little the pain of something has it makes

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Speaker 4: you react completely differently or hiding.

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Speaker 1: It completely I mean because you or making it painless.

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Speaker 1: That that's the insidious part. You're not even you're only

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Speaker 1: dimly aware of it. When you look at your your

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Speaker 1: your past up and Let's not leave this out because

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Speaker 1: nobody knows that.

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Speaker 2: Certainly progressive voters don't know that.

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Speaker 1: No this the government taxes your employer for hiring you,

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Speaker 1: a payroll tax. They have to pay tax you cost

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Speaker 1: your employer, in some cases twice what your salary is double.

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Speaker 1: You're only getting half the money because the government is

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Speaker 1: getting so much of it. I caram, I give up.

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Speaker 4: If you didn't have what's holding, we would not have

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Speaker 4: a thirty five trillion dollar debt.

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Speaker 2: Not a chance. Nope, We'll finish strong next. Arm Strong and.

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Speaker 4: Trying to get off the hedonistic treadmill. We're armstrong in Getty.

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Speaker 4: You don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: Listen to more of the show yep by a podcast

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getting on demand.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe you get all the stuff we do.

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Speaker 1: So a couple of stories from the fascinating world of beverages.

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Speaker 1: First of all, this is beverages and snacks. The Pepsi

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Speaker 1: Co is running thirty five driverless trucks in Arizona, so

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Speaker 1: many of them in Texas and Arkansas, twenty six pound

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Speaker 1: box trucks loaded with Dorito's Freedo light chips and soft drinks,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Heading for your local convenience store or Walmart

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Speaker 1: or whatever. No one at the wheel.

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Speaker 2: Are they the Tesla version or they have their own

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Speaker 2: version or what? Uh? You know what? That's funny.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember the the architecture. It's they've got multiple

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Speaker 1: cameras plus the lidar and like multiple state of the

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Speaker 1: art things.

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Speaker 2: Does it say? Oh?

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Speaker 1: The medium and heavy duty box trucks are manufactured by

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Speaker 1: Yasuzu Motors collaborating with Gattek Gatik in design and production.

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Speaker 2: So I know this is happening someplaces.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little confused why Tesla has not been able

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Speaker 4: to announce we're going whatever they call it, full driverless

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Speaker 4: so you don't have to pay attention. That is not

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Speaker 4: that leap has not been made yet yet. You have

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Speaker 4: completely driverless semi trucks out there.

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Speaker 2: Which seems more dangerous to me. M.

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Speaker 4: This is PEPSI goes up there, like you get more

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Speaker 4: leeway if there's no driver at all than if there's

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Speaker 4: a driver.

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Speaker 2: If there's a driver there, well they got to be

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Speaker 2: paying attention sometimes. But if there's not a driver at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, it's ironic, it's ridiculous. Yeah, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Pepsi goes operation using trucks outfitted with sensors and computers

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Speaker 1: from an autonomous truck company called Gatick step beyond on

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Speaker 1: pair on part, with the technical hurdles being cleared by

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Speaker 1: much smaller, lighter, driverless passenger taxis from Waymo, Tesla and others.

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Speaker 1: But they are running them in three different states right

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Speaker 1: now making deliveries, and a human being meets the truck

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Speaker 1: there and does the sales pitch and all, and then uh.

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Speaker 2: And unloads it if necessary. I guess I can't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how it works at the very end,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, they're running those truckses well.

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Speaker 4: I thought the liability to always be the issue with driver,

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Speaker 4: with not having to pay attention when need to drive

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Speaker 4: a car. But if we surmount that hurdle, do you

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Speaker 4: think that revitalizes electric cars. If the appeal is not

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Speaker 4: I'm doing this is because I'm green, I'm doing this

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Speaker 4: sot off to my gas. If you appeel is you

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Speaker 4: get in your car and snooze, have sex, drink, whatever

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Speaker 4: you want.

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Speaker 1: To do, I'll agree all three. If you're having a

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Speaker 1: good night, yeah, drink, have sex, fall asleep. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get to the story. I really wanted to get to crap.

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Speaker 1: Glad we have a show tomorrow. Jesus branded energy drinks?

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Speaker 1: What the these companies? Here's the key phrase. Are they

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Speaker 1: just treating Jesus like an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse? I thought

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Speaker 1: that was good. Jesus is mascot for consumer products. Yuck, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: my heart's palpitating.

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Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up their show as they always

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Speaker 4: do with final thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I went to here's your host for a final thoughts,

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Speaker 2: Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the truncated

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Speaker 1: crew this morning.

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Speaker 2: Katie on maternity leave.

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Speaker 1: Mike Langelo on vacation, Mike Hanson, what's your final thought?

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Speaker 6: Hey, just some good vibe for my friend Kathy and

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Speaker 6: the entire O'Donnell family. She unexpectedly went in for some

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Speaker 6: surgery this morning, and just wishing her quick and speedy recovery.

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Speaker 1: Cool, all right, shout out to Kathy.

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Speaker 2: Jack have final thought for us.

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Speaker 4: Just in case this is a crime, I'll say, I

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Speaker 4: know somebody who looks much like me and drives a

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Speaker 4: very similar vehicle to me, who.

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Speaker 2: Fell asleep for a full twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 4: The other day on the way home, and it was

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Speaker 4: fine gardener, Obamma, that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's awesome. Wow.

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Speaker 1: My final thought is just to remind you of the

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Speaker 1: phrase neighbor with uterus, the new progressive term for women,

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Speaker 1: except if you have a dick and you just say

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Speaker 1: you're a woman, then you're a woman.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's funny. That's a good point.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Armstrong getty rabber got about other 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 giddy dot com. Many pleasures await you there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we will see tomorrow. Well it'll be There'll be

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Speaker 4: a lot of news tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's the Warren i An or Platner in Maine.

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Speaker 4: He thinks there's a last day, final moment surprise on

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Speaker 4: the whole Platiner thing.

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Speaker 2: I wonder we'll see God bless America. I'm strong and getchy.

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Speaker 2: The loco a little too much, docky dog.

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Speaker 1: We work together and continue to work together, and to

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Speaker 1: work together.

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Speaker 2: Get out here. You more on me. I haven't said

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Speaker 2: a word, so stop yelling at me.

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Speaker 1: So let's go with your brother, slept with your wife?

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Speaker 1: What we with the Biden family and you later reconciled

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Speaker 1: with him. Would you name your next kid after him?

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Speaker 1: But I'm trying here. I don't know that I know.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty,