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

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

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Speaker 1: Greg k and he Arms live from studio. C ya,

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Speaker 1: I see you are still ailing, Sior. Damn it. I

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Speaker 1: even practiced with the microphone off for a little bit

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Speaker 1: so i'd be ready. I still didn't pull it off.

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Speaker 1: We're a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of

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Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. I'm trying to spread

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Speaker 1: my disease around everyone, and today we're under the tutelage

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Speaker 1: of our general manager, il Han Omar. What did she

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Speaker 1: know and when did she know it? About the gigantic

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Speaker 1: fraud by Oliver Buddies and contributors? Hum? Who is she?

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Speaker 1: She is the Somali born American hating America, hating Minneapolis

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Speaker 1: squad member House of Representatives. Got you, okay? That's nothing

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Speaker 1: but contempt for the United States of America and it's

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Speaker 1: laws and traditions. I don't know that story. I look

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Speaker 1: forward to hearing it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know the Minneapolis stealing money story. We

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Speaker 2: did that yesterday, But I don't know this latest thing

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Speaker 2: with her. Remember about a year ago or so.

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Speaker 1: When I said, a friend brought up to me, is

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Speaker 1: the first time I'd ever really fully embraced this. They said,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get sick a lot. And it's the

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Speaker 1: first time.

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Speaker 2: I'd ever fully embraced the fact that I am a

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Speaker 2: sickly human.

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Speaker 1: I do get sick a lot.

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Speaker 2: I either have a bad immune system or a poor

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Speaker 2: lifestyle or both, and I get sick a lot. And

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Speaker 2: it's just it's disappointing to me. It's very disappointing to me.

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Speaker 1: It runs counter to yourself image. Is yeah, plucky individualists.

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Speaker 1: That's why I hate admitting but it's clearly true.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, you also have kids, and that kind of

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Speaker 1: The kids too. But he gets sick a lot, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I get to go.

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Speaker 2: I was all very I'd get very little sleep, so

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Speaker 2: that probably doesn't help me in either. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how much of it is my lifestyle and how much

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Speaker 2: of it is I'm just one of those people to

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Speaker 2: get sick more often because I'm not good at fighting

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Speaker 1: Well, I know you check your tire pressure by licking

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Speaker 1: your tires. I've asked you not to do that many times,

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Speaker 1: just in general, you know, I like lots of stuff doorknobs. Sure, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it goes out to the mailbox instead of opening it,

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Speaker 1: he licks the handle to see if the postman's been

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Speaker 1: there lately. It's just it's a habit. Yeah, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I've tried to quit. Yeah. So Jack, are you forming

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Speaker 1: a plan to become more healthy? I mean, are there

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Speaker 1: steps you're gonna take or something? Why'd you have to

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Speaker 1: say that? I suppose I told her he wouldn't like

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Speaker 1: that hands and he's both getting more sleep would be

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Speaker 1: if there's anything else. Maybe eating, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Like we were talking about yesterday, you get you get

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Speaker 2: most of the stuff you need from unless you eat

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Speaker 1: Sure yeah, yeah. I've noticed your your boys got sick

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Speaker 1: a lot too. It's almost certainly just a genetic thing.

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Speaker 1: them is like Dad never gets sick. Oh there you go, huh. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: And they're you know, and they're in the same house,

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Speaker 1: do a quick checklist. Do you or do you not

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Speaker 2: Anyway, it seems to be getting worse. So that's exciting.

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Speaker 2: I have something fun. You want something fun?

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Speaker 1: Please? There's nothing more fun than fun. That's what I

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Speaker 1: always say. So they put out the list of the

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Speaker 1: which I found interesting. I do loves my end of

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Speaker 1: like about cold symptoms or whatever. But its spikes. It's

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Speaker 2: And so the top trending searches in the US this

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Speaker 1: lots of people thinking who's Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 2: And why is this such a big deal? Who weren't

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Speaker 2: aware or weren't in on it? K Pop demon Hunters

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Speaker 2: That has been very hot. It's a pop culture trend.

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Speaker 2: It's a what's it like a cartoon on Netflix or something?

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Speaker 2: My boys are at the age where boys like them

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Speaker 2: I think we also, I would be disappointed if anything

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Speaker 2: on these lists, any of these on this list we

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Speaker 2: hadn't talked about, because that meant we weren't doing our job.

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Speaker 2: The boo boo, that's that little doll thing that people

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Speaker 1: Yes, that people who desperately need to belong belonged to briefly. Yes,

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Speaker 1: did adults get into that, Katie, do you know? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And I also CBS right celebs adults. And I've also

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Speaker 3: seen something going around on TikTok where people are having

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, have a baby, please start a family,

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Speaker 1: for goodness sakes, It's funny. I said this yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Somebody sent me a picture they were in traffic of

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Speaker 2: somebody with the tesla in front of them said part

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Speaker 2: of the I hate Elon.

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Speaker 1: Club, And that's exactly what I said to them. People

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Speaker 1: the car company they run. They're extremely online anger over

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Speaker 1: the owner of the car company. It is a political status.

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Speaker 1: Yeah please, Oh my god, you so you're seriously angry

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Speaker 1: about like that last one fourth of one percent of

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Speaker 1: you and your joy? If you answered well, pretty much none, great,

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Speaker 1: you're normal. If you answered anything else, take a long,

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Speaker 1: go to Tibet. Do something just not what you're doing now,

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Speaker 1: go to Tibet. That's a good that's a good thing

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Speaker 2: Back to the Google list of spikes iPhone seventeen. When

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Speaker 2: it got released, people apparently googled it for several days,

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. One big beautiful bill Act got enough attention.

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Speaker 1: A piece of legislation that had spiked for a while.

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Speaker 1: People want to know what that was in I'm happy

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Speaker 1: Ron Mamdani, Who the heck is this guy? And everybody

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Speaker 1: lists something soccer related, FAIFA Cup, Club World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Oh? That reminds me. There's a there's a story in

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Speaker 1: the New York Times. Your package arrives, shocker, you have

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Speaker 1: to pay the tariff, and on some goods, like you

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Speaker 1: buy an expensive coat from overseas, tariff can be a

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Speaker 1: get it. Correct. Yeah, at least that's the conceit of

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Speaker 1: the article. If something surprised when your package arrives, you

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Speaker 2: Well, and who's gonna tell me that? Am the postman?

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Speaker 2: I'm not giving your package? Should hand me two hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: Well, after the coat was shipped, UPS told this gal

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Speaker 1: And finally I find this interesting the only AI related

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Speaker 1: A lot of people probably used Google's Gemini to figure

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Speaker 1: out what, you know, the Google searches are. But deep

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Speaker 1: Seek was the number one searched on AI company, which

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Speaker 2: Ah, you're right, and that's that's why people were searching

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Speaker 2: But there you go, there's your top searches. If you

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Speaker 2: didn't search any of those, your I don't know a

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Speaker 1: Coming up later in the show, who is on what

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Speaker 1: social media? And some of the numbers will shock you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I heard on Instagram. So stay with us

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Speaker 1: for that. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday, alrighty man,

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Speaker 1: this week went by fast December fourth or twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five or Armstrong Getty and we prove of this program. Okay, then,

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Speaker 1: so much to get to Let's get to it precisely

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Speaker 1: according to the FCC rules and regulations. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: The show starts at Mark.

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Speaker 3: People understand, these accounts could make a big difference in

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Speaker 3: the lives of young Americans.

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Speaker 1: When a young person has an account like this, they're

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Speaker 1: way more likely to graduate from college or high school,

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Speaker 3: Home, and be a productive member of society.

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Speaker 1: Michael Dell there, I'm talking about the Trump savings plans

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Speaker 1: and his ginormous contribution to them. I think it is

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Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. It strikes me some of the

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Speaker 1: obviously the simplest things are the truest things, and we

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Speaker 1: have systematically failed to do what he is encouraging us

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Speaker 1: we assumed because we were taught that and it was

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Speaker 3: And finally, from the Babylon b Tim Walls offers journalists

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Speaker 1: Oh god, he's tampon, Tim, tampon, Tim? What loser? Oh

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pay off? Why? Ilan Omar is our general

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Speaker 5: These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Minnesota, you have an incompetent governor.

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Speaker 5: He should be a shamed at beautiful land, that beautiful state.

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Speaker 5: Always talking about the constitution provides me with go back

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Speaker 1: That's a compelling story. Yeah, and I hate to jump

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Speaker 1: just literally said, this is crazy. There's something going on here,

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Speaker 1: to be uneradicable and imperceptible. Even atheists think in Christian

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Speaker 1: without knowing it. Yeah, that's a good book. I've been

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Speaker 1: into that book. Yeah, I've got to read that. And

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Speaker 1: to listen to this whole podcast, but essentially, what Christianity

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Speaker 1: has that Islam does not is the concept of the secular,

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Speaker 1: book he's referring to is called Dominion.

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Speaker 2: It's been around for a while and made a lot

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Speaker 1: You know, there's part of me that would just like

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Speaker 1: to read the entire New York Times piece. It would

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Speaker 1: People really use the word clinging, and I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: Everybody uses clinging. Well, the actual description that came out

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So that might be the testimony today.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I want to talk about the word clinging later,

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Speaker 1: among other things. One final note on the ilhan Omar

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Speaker 1: for asking too many questions, hinted that it was clearly racism, bigotry, islamophobia.

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Speaker 2: I was listening to a podcast yesterday with the Washington

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Speaker 2: I think it's thinks she's right. I think she's absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: Are they too busy being amused or cynical? That's a

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Speaker 1: good question. That's a good question right there. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to get into that. We got lots of good stuff today.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can stick around Mailbag next. Sickly Jack

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Speaker 2: My immune system is weak and pathetic. I'm gonna keep

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Speaker 1: First time I ever encountered the word sickly, it was

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Speaker 1: reading I Believe a biography of Edgar Allan Poe and

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Speaker 2: I'm like the grandpa from the original Uh what was

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Speaker 1: Here's your freedom woman. Quotes of the day from James A. Garfield,

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Speaker 1: to do hard work is not a skill, it's the

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Speaker 1: best possible substitute for it, And then in a similar vein,

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Speaker 1: type of thinking that masculinity is not toxic. Sure, there

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Speaker 1: You get both of those things moving along. Several people

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Speaker 1: weighing in on the question of driverless cars, which we

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Speaker 1: from North Carolina rights guys. Revenue from car insurance payments

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Speaker 1: would plummet if self driving cars became mandatory. I don't

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Speaker 1: agree that insurance companies want this. I hope your insurance

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Speaker 1: might not be mandatory if a chance of accidents are

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Speaker 1: next to nothing. I hope you're right.

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Speaker 2: I hate the fact that I think driving is going

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Speaker 2: to go away, but I think it is Conversely, in

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Speaker 2: a world where driverless cars are the majority and drivers

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Speaker 2: are not banned from driving. Insurance companies would welcome drivers

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Speaker 2: for the extra revenue, probably be cheaper two since the

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Speaker 2: risk would be lower. Okay, interesting, Thanks Jeff. And how

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Speaker 2: about this, Dan, auto shop owner and beautiful Sacamenta, California. Hello,

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Speaker 2: silly Jack and gullible Joe. You two had me yelling

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Speaker 2: that common? Under ten years? We're wasn't that what you?

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Speaker 2: Or we said that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? We think how long it'll be before majority the

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Speaker 1: government doesn't let you drive anymore out of safetyism and lawyers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he says, you proved, oh under ten years. Really, ten

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Speaker 1: years from now, maybe five percent of the cars on

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Speaker 1: the road will be fully self driving. It will be

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Speaker 1: thirty years before fifty percent of the cars on the

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Speaker 1: road or self driving. Has the government banned cars without airbags?

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Speaker 1: Have they banned motorcycles? Have they banned cars with drum brakes?

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Speaker 1: I love you guys, which you need to pull your

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Speaker 1: heads out of your asses on this one. Dan, If

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Speaker 1: a I was going to live that long and be cared,

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Speaker 1: I would bet you today. Yeah, well, you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be far fewer than thirty years before

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Speaker 1: Perhaps the only head in an ass is your sirt.

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Speaker 1: I think ten is on the outside edge. Actually yeah,

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Speaker 2: The point about you can still drive a car with

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Speaker 2: But yeah, oh yeah, so appreciate the thoughts, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: The idea that I'm sorry insurance companies would lose money,

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Speaker 1: that's a powerful point. Right side Joe Bob Wrights on

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Speaker 1: the Pete Hegsath controversy. I'm now convinced that Hexath needs

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Speaker 1: bit twenty year school marm great correspondent is a transplant

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Speaker 1: good stuff, but I don't want to rush through it,

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Speaker 2: Course, he hates Trump, but you know, emphasizing clinging once again. Well,

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Speaker 2: the news that came out yesterday is these dudes were

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Speaker 2: portrayed exactly. So maybe we can get into that at an

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