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

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

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and and he Armstrong Andy.

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Speaker 1: Did the US have any role at all, either providing

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Speaker 1: intelligence or otherwise in what looks like a targeted killing of.

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Speaker 3: The Russian general? Yeah, I can tell you we were

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Speaker 3: not aware of this operation in advance. We do not

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Speaker 3: support or enable those kinds of activities. Seeing the reports,

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Speaker 3: don't really have any information to provide other than what

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Speaker 3: I've seen in the press, And so I'd have to

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Speaker 3: refer you to the Ukrainians on that.

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Speaker 1: That's the assassination of a Russian general in Moscow. Buy

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Speaker 1: a Ukrainian and there's not a chance in hell that

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Speaker 1: that answer means anything, means anything at all. We might

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Speaker 1: not have had anything to do with it. We might

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Speaker 1: have been ninety percent of it, and we wouldn't say,

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Speaker 1: and nobody will find out for twenty five years.

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Speaker 4: Might have given them a ride, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: hired him an uber.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty damn sophisticated operation, though whoever was behind it.

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Speaker 1: Ian Bremmer called it a major escalation in the conflict

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Speaker 1: between Russia and Ukraine. It's got to make Putin kind

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Speaker 1: of worried, maybe not about himself personally, although again it

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Speaker 1: would get your attention. They got a bomb to a

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Speaker 1: general in Moscow, Okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, at some point speaking of foreign lands, I

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Speaker 4: would love to get to the story about the first

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Speaker 4: year of Javier Millais.

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Speaker 2: Being in charge of Argentina.

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Speaker 4: The liver Tarrian fire brand with long hair and cloned

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Speaker 4: dogs and the rest of his wackiness. But who said, Hey,

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Speaker 4: this socialist crap is ruining this country. We're gonna take

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Speaker 4: it back. It's gonna hurt for a while, but we're

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Speaker 4: going to bring down this rampant inflation, make this stuff,

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Speaker 4: make Argentina work again.

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Speaker 2: After year one, he's doing great.

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Speaker 1: Did you listen to him on the Lex Friedman podcast

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 1: It's really good. He's one of the more interesting people

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Speaker 1: on earth right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would agree.

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Speaker 4: And also coming up a year in review, kind of

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Speaker 4: a glance through a bunch of news stories that have

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Speaker 4: happened this year. It's it's worth doing, partly because it

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Speaker 4: well just for historical purposes, but partly because it reminds

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Speaker 4: you of how many things are made a huge deal over,

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Speaker 4: but they're really not that big a.

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Speaker 1: Deal at all. I'm going that's hardly discussed. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make my boldest New Year's resolution of my life year.

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Speaker 1: I'm almost a little frightened to do it. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it later.

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Speaker 2: I know you were.

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Speaker 1: Claiming you might match it, but we'll discuss that later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, all of that to come. I wanted to

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Speaker 4: get to this real quickly. This is just to set

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Speaker 4: up a joke. This headline Neanderthals and humans made it

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Speaker 4: more recently than previously thought.

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Speaker 2: Once you've had Neanderthal sapiens won't do it all.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Hi, Joe Getty, famously in the ninety ninth percentile

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Speaker 4: for Neanderthal.

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Speaker 2: Genes among a modern man and proud of it.

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Speaker 4: I got the big head, I got the brow, I

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Speaker 4: got the broad jaw. I am ready to take the

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Speaker 4: if necessary. This is my culture anyway. Actually, I think

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Speaker 4: that Neanderthals were not at all dumb beasts or right

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Speaker 4: nothing that was based on ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Had bigger brains, quite possibly smarter, but maybe didn't have

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Speaker 4: I do tend towards single mindedness and missing the obvious,

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Speaker 4: so who knows, who knows, maybe that's part of it. Anyway,

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Speaker 4: so so well, it's just really really good. The Caitlin

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Speaker 4: WNBA is making way more money, selling way more tickets.

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Speaker 4: They've had to rebook games in bigger stadiums. I mean,

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Speaker 4: a sea change. Everybody's going to start to make money

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Speaker 4: more money. She's the time as if anybody cares about

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Speaker 4: this Athlete of the Year, and the backlash has been

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Speaker 1: And clearly you'd be better off if people continued to

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Speaker 4: Paul Anonymous writes, Jack mentioned the desire for a parallel

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Speaker 4: universe experience where a black Caitlin Clark excelled in a

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Speaker 4: mostly white league. Maybe there is one. Tiger Woods dominated

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Speaker 4: recall this undeniable talent being universally celebrated by the world

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Speaker 4: of golf in all sports media. You're absolutely correct, absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: So that's not actually what I said, because I wanted

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Speaker 1: a parallel universe where a black player is exactly like

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, only black. The league is the same. Just

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Speaker 1: to see how much of the attraction hubbub bigger crowds

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Speaker 1: is You know you could attribute to Caitlin Clark being white. Oh,

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Speaker 4: Well, and my answer to that was, if indeed it

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Speaker 4: it turned out that a predominantly white country reacted with

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Speaker 4: more enthusiasm to Caitlin Clark becoming a huge, incredibly exciting star,

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Speaker 4: more on that, more than a young black girl with

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Speaker 4: the same credentials that would tell you something about humanity.

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Speaker 4: And if that is true, even among WNBA fans who

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Speaker 4: just tells you something about humanity, and you accept it,

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Speaker 4: what it is. That's you know, one of the great

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Speaker 4: tenets of conservatism is that human nature has not changed

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Speaker 4: in many, many thousands of years. We are still essentially

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Speaker 4: the left constantly thinks that can change humanity and human

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Speaker 2: You can't.

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Speaker 4: They're wasting their time and they oppress people, and they

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Speaker 1: That emailer might be onto something, though. Maybe it's the

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Speaker 2: It's just heroes. Everybody loves it. For some reason.

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Speaker 1: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not everybody.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, with any high profile athlete, there's craft that takes place.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, and then there are black guys that are

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Speaker 4: predominantly black sport, the W or the NBA, who get

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Speaker 4: tremendous acclaim and stardom, and on that tack, I will continue.

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Speaker 4: This is a note from uh, we'll just call her anonymous.

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Speaker 4: The quoted statement on Monday's show. Clark's race is a

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Speaker 4: huge reason for her popularity should be seen for what

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Speaker 4: it is. Other players jealousy of Caitlin's success and the

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Speaker 4: need to rationalize it is something other than her objectively

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Speaker 4: obvious talent. I'm going to stop there and tell you

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Speaker 4: I let the left do it again. This became a trial,

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Speaker 4: if you will, a forum, a question of whether Caitlin

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Speaker 4: Clark was being unjustifiably and for racial reasons elevated above

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Speaker 4: other players. This ought to be a trial about the

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Speaker 4: people who are accusing her of that and what's going

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Speaker 4: on with them. I will elucidate, illuminate. According to her critic,

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Speaker 4: she was only the Rookie of the Year because she

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Speaker 2: The same reason. But the facts shout for themselves.

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Speaker 4: She is, in fact, the best women's collegiate basketball player

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Speaker 4: former players including Pete Maravich and Lynette Woodard, and set

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Speaker 4: the NCAA all time scoring record. She's a marvel at threes,

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Speaker 4: she's quick af as the young people say, and a

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Speaker 4: champion in assists. Assists matter their credit for helping other

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Speaker 4: players do well. In all caps, she has said, I

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Speaker 4: better than most, plus you support your team, you get recognized.

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Speaker 4: Can't we all just concede that she's great and moved on.

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Speaker 4: It's not Caitlyn's job to appease that jealousy or frustrations

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Speaker 4: of other players are to endure their harassment attempts to

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Speaker 4: hurt her. And there's more on that, and I think

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Speaker 4: it's very good. Well, if her critics want to prove

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Speaker 4: that the great rise in viewership in the WNBA is

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Speaker 4: because she's white, then once they can perform as well

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Speaker 4: as she does, they can test their theory. But the

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Speaker 4: point is, actually, and it's great, and it's well made

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Speaker 4: by any objective standard, really, any objective standard. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Who what sort of.

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Speaker 4: Person would make this about race given the objective standards

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Speaker 4: not like musicians. The indictment is going in the wrong way.

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Speaker 2: Well said.

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Speaker 1: That sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: I do too, too, and I hate most of all

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Speaker 4: that the hardcore, really ugly activists have sucked along unsuspecting

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Speaker 1: It sucks for Caitlin Clark that she has to deal

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Speaker 1: with that. I remember in the Larry Bird documentary, the

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Speaker 1: Larry Bird, when he was League MVP three times in

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Speaker 1: a row, Isaiah Thomas, black player Detroit Distance, made some

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Speaker 1: because he cared so much about being a good player

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Speaker 2: For him. Yeah, anyway, it would be.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what you care about more than

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Speaker 1: It's just because I'm white, I'm not as good. I

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Speaker 1: would that would bother you. Sure, it's devastating.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and the flip side of that coin is

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Speaker 4: affirmative action programs and DEI programs, right because now anybody

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Speaker 4: they didn't earn it, as people say about DEEI that's

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Speaker 4: why it's so insidious. Anyway, I wish I was in charge.

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Speaker 4: Folks said, straighten everything out in your hands.

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Speaker 1: I straightened everything out in her I don't tell you

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Speaker 1: about her friends. And if I was in charge of everything,

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Speaker 1: I get everything fixed right away by.

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Speaker 2: The end of the day.

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Speaker 4: They never would have bad mouth Caitlyn Thok when I

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Speaker 4: Ordinary do not listen to Van Jones. Democrats do not listen.

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Speaker 1: Keep signing up people to knock on doors and bring

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Speaker 4: We'd go knocking on the door, you know what, people

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Speaker 4: the same result. The Year in Review coming up next.

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Speaker 4: Difficult to imagine whoa. In fact, it's impossible to imagine crazy.

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Speaker 4: So Michael cue the theme music. It's the year that was.

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Speaker 4: Katie jump on if you want to, just let's run

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Speaker 4: January began on January first with an earthquake in Japan.

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Speaker 4: Happy twenty twenty four Japan. Here's some devastation, but we

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Speaker 4: The hearing where she said, well, calling for the genocide

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Speaker 4: Remember that the gaming of February February eleventh, my birthday,

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Speaker 4: Kansas City Parade shooting. You remember that, ah, right? That

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Speaker 4: was horrified personal beef, young people with guns, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: February sixteenth, New York judge rules Donald Trump and his

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Speaker 4: business should pay more than three hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 4: dollars for misrepresenting his wealth for financial gain. That was

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Speaker 4: the infamous this has never ever been charged in history.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's happy with this deal case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was that period of time where Trump

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Speaker 1: was getting it like it seemed like on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: A new charge, a new fine, a new whatever, a

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Speaker 1: different court case, three different court cases. He's got to

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Speaker 1: show up to this week. That whole thing which helped

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Speaker 1: to get him elected for one thing, iron Lea and

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Speaker 1: have you been following the news. Number of people will

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Speaker 1: pointed this out in the last couple of days. So

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Speaker 1: George Stephanopolis and ABC had to pay Trump fifteen million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Will actually they give him fifteen million dollars for his library.

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Speaker 1: I love this line. Trump's gonna build a presidential library

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Speaker 1: and the dominant media is going to pay for it,

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Speaker 1: which is what's what's happening. But ABC got hit with

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Speaker 1: undervaluing their corporation and an attempt to pay less in

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Speaker 1: their fine. And see an End did the same thing

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Speaker 1: in a lawsuit they're involved in. Yeah, everybody tries to

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Speaker 1: hold down their value as much as possible in these

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Speaker 1: sorts of things. It's the way people do business.

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Speaker 4: Except when it benefits them, then they puff it up

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Speaker 4: as much as is reasonable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: February sixteenth, Alexa Navalny dies in a Siberian prison. Colony

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Speaker 4: was the day to day Yeah, February sixteenth. Part of

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Speaker 4: the reason that I enjoy doing this is I don't

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Speaker 4: know it somehow helps put the passage of time in

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Speaker 4: more perspective for something. If you'd asked me would't Havevalney died?

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Speaker 4: I would have said six months ago. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: wouldn't have.

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Speaker 2: Been off by a lot, obviously, but I was.

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Speaker 4: Toward the beginning of the year, a bunch of international

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Speaker 4: stuff nobody cares about. February twenty eighth, Senate Minority leader

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Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell says he will step down from his leadership

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Speaker 4: role because he's old as hell.

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Speaker 1: Did he freeze up again the other day? Was that

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Speaker 1: real or not? I saw a video that was horrifying,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't know if it was AI. It didn't

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Speaker 1: make the news. Have you do you know, Katie, he

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Speaker 1: took a spell, he fell, I know he fell, but

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Speaker 1: there was there was a I just saw a video

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Speaker 1: where he was asked something about his role in something

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Speaker 1: or other, oh, running for re election or something like that,

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Speaker 1: and he locked up and then his handler said, are

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Speaker 1: you okay? One of those deals? But I couldn't tell

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Speaker 1: if his ai are real and I haven't seen it

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Speaker 1: on the news.

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Speaker 4: It was in March this for our Californian listeners that

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Speaker 4: the gigantic blizzard dumped more than sixty inches of snow

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Speaker 4: over parts of this year and have had a mountains

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Speaker 4: and joined NATO in May. May seventh, let's see the

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Speaker 4: idea of banning TikTok was voted on and passed in

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Speaker 4: the House and Senate. It's breaking right now. The Supreme

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Speaker 4: Court has agreed to hear a First Amendment case about

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Speaker 4: whether we can ban TikTok or not, which got me

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Speaker 4: thinking during the commercial break. If it's a social media platform, period,

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Speaker 4: then obviously they're protected by the First Amendment. But then

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Speaker 4: I started to think, well, wait a minute. If I

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Speaker 4: as a Chinese communist agent embusted for espionage and say,

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Speaker 4: well wait a minute, I reported back to my superiors. Verbally,

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Speaker 4: I was speaking, I have freedom of speech. The First

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Speaker 4: Amendment protects me because TikTok is really a surveillance tool

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Speaker 4: and a propaganda tool masquerading is a social media platform.

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Speaker 1: I'm not small enough to understand how this is going

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Speaker 1: to turn out. What do you think the Supremes Court

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Speaker 1: is going to.

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Speaker 2: Do on that?

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Speaker 4: I think, and thank God for Trump's appointees, I think

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Speaker 4: they're going to say, look, to the extent that is

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Speaker 4: a social media platform with an opinion, we can't do

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Speaker 4: anything about it. But there are unquestionable ties to a

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Speaker 4: hostile foreign power. But I don't know' that's my very

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Speaker 4: short answer. I would love to hear, you know, well,

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Speaker 4: I'd love to hear the decision, and I think we'll

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Speaker 4: hear the arguments very quickly.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: I believe Tim, our friend, Tim the lawyer, and some

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Speaker 1: of our you know, more free speech advocate friends are saying,

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Speaker 1: you can't be banning news organizations just because you don't

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Speaker 1: like the news they put out.

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Speaker 2: It's a great question. Anyway.

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Speaker 4: It was in the middle of March that the realtors

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Speaker 4: came to that nationwide settlement of claims against price fixing

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Speaker 4: essentially and brought to actually less certainty and a little

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Speaker 4: chaos to who pays what, commissioned to whom, And that's

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Speaker 4: still being worked out.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 4: Oh, March twenty second terrorist attack on a concert hall

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Speaker 4: in Moscow suburbs killed at least one hundred and forty

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Speaker 4: five people. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

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Speaker 1: And we stopped one of those in the United States.

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Speaker 2: Remember that.

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Speaker 1: That's probably coming up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: March twenty six was the big bridge collapse in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was this year when the guy crashed

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Speaker 1: the big ship into the bridge.

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Speaker 4: Ever got all about well they were losing power. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 4: I would have said that was last year. So I

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Speaker 4: don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: March twenty eighth, Sam Bankman freed, sentenced to twenty five

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Speaker 4: years in prison. Him and his hair, his FTX fraud.

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Speaker 4: His hair was sentenced concurrently, Mousey little girlfriend. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 4: let's see, that's a boring nobody cares. April seventh, Caitlin

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Speaker 4: Clark in the National Championship Game, becoming a superstar even

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Speaker 4: though she lost.

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Speaker 2: And became a loser.

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Speaker 4: Let's see, we just got to go with it with

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Speaker 4: big ones. Trump's hush money trial began in April.

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Speaker 1: The hush Muney trial.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, another ridiculous lawfair trial. I want that

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Speaker 4: one to go to the appeals court. Judge Murchan has

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Speaker 4: just announced that, No, we're just gonna put it in

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Speaker 4: the freezer here and not do anything about it till

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Speaker 4: the guy's out office. Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna do

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Speaker 4: anything with it at all. Like, let it go to

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Speaker 4: the appeals court where they'll say you suck as a judge.

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Speaker 4: The jury only convicted because you misled them about the law.

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Speaker 4: Get rid of this and by the way, turning your

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Speaker 4: robe on the way out. Let's see what else. Oh,

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Speaker 4: the big campus protests pro humas up with terrorism.

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Speaker 2: Was in late April.

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Speaker 1: So that's when the Columbia students locked down that building

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Speaker 1: and had that whole thing exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, look, this list includes things like

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Speaker 4: April twenty eighth, inflation lingers. Thing's lingering not count When

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Speaker 4: did things happen? Let's see, Cornell's president resigned in May ninth,

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Speaker 4: same reason, anti Semitism, protests against Israel, and the fact

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Speaker 4: that you could protest anything in the world you wanted

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Speaker 4: and do anything you wanted as long as Jews were

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Speaker 4: on the receiving end, and as long as it wasn't

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Speaker 4: a conservative just trying to have Ben Shapiro do a

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Speaker 4: thirty minute talk. That is the problem. Uh d D

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Speaker 4: that's not a very important The Dow hit four thousand.

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Speaker 4: President of Iran killed in the copter crash May nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: That was tragic.

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Speaker 4: You remember that, Jack terrible and the next day a

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Speaker 4: one to two punch that America barely endured.

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Speaker 2: Red Lobster filed for bankers.

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Speaker 1: Because there are too many fat people that took advantage

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Speaker 1: of all you could eat shrimp doing, which was part

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Speaker 1: of it, which is one of the funniest things in

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Speaker 1: business history.

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Speaker 4: And they got caught painting their brown lobsters red end

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Speaker 4: debay last day. Trump convicted in New York all thirty

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Speaker 4: four counts in the so called hush money trial.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Wow, in half the country thought that was the end

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Speaker 1: of Trump, and it helped get him elected.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: June, first woman to lead Mexico hostage rescue in gaz

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Speaker 4: I remember that was so dramatic. Hunter Biden convicted in

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Speaker 4: Delaware of the gun charge and the President campaigning for

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Speaker 4: re election store he would not pardon his son. It

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Speaker 4: was in the middle of June at the High Court

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Speaker 4: threw out the ban on bump stocks. Oh right right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: let's see, Celtics won the NBA crown. It's a it's

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Speaker 4: a culture, not a costume. And this pronounced Celtics. Let's

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Speaker 4: see what else do we have? Scrowlin, Scrolllin, scrowlin. Oh,

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Speaker 4: Julian Assan cut that deal.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 4: June twenty seventh, Biden's disastrous debate, four months after her

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Speaker 4: report said, look, he's a senile, old bastard.

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Speaker 1: How's the middle of June. That's not that long ago?

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Speaker 4: Drops out less than a month later, although it's worth

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Speaker 4: pointing out it took almost a month for him to

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Speaker 4: drop out.

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Speaker 1: Right, that was one of the wildest months obviously in

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Speaker 1: US history.

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping that debate factors into the Clips of the

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Speaker 4: Year show on Friday. I mean, and then we killed

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Speaker 4: medicare I mean, some of the things he said in

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Speaker 4: that debate. I saw a couple of clips the other day.

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Speaker 4: I was reminded because, I mean, we all kind of

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Speaker 4: remember the general outline of the thing. Oh, that's right,

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Speaker 4: he came off as pretty senile. When you hear the

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Speaker 4: clips again, you remember a lot of it was jaw

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Speaker 4: dropping in that first fifteen minutes or so that month.

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Speaker 1: That included the debate, all the speculation about him. He

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Speaker 1: obviously has to get out how they're going to do it,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be the nominee? Picking Kamala Trump getting

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Speaker 1: shot the convention, That whole period of just a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks is just yeah, Michael.

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Speaker 4: I just remember on the Biden debate, all of us

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Speaker 4: texting each other within like the first two minutes, we

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Speaker 4: all were saying something's wrong.

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Speaker 1: The end of his career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're up against the break. We really need to

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Speaker 2: take a break.

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Speaker 1: Okay, more stay here.

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Speaker 4: I don't care who you are, what's your level of

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Speaker 4: expertise and music is you got to admit the baritone

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Speaker 4: saxophone is flatulent, very flatulent sounding instruments, Memories.

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Speaker 1: The fantastic analysis.

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Speaker 4: Finishing up the year in review, because there's no point

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Speaker 4: in going over stuff that happened three weeks ago. I

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Speaker 4: just want to point out it was life first that

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Speaker 4: the Supreme Court ruled on presidential immunity, a wildly hilariously

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Speaker 4: misinterpreted ruling on the left. Oh, this ll enable the

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Speaker 4: president to start death squads, just completely riduculs us. July thirteenth,

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Speaker 4: Trump survives assassination attempt. The infamous and amazing fist in

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Speaker 4: the air, bloody face flag in the background, an amazing

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Speaker 4: day unleashed an investigation in the Secret Service that continues

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Speaker 4: today found utterly derelict in their duties. July the fifteenth,

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Speaker 4: only two days later, Trump picks jd vance.

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Speaker 2: So far, so good.

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Speaker 4: Trump attended opening night of the Republican Convention with a

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Speaker 4: bandaged right here, we were there watching him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that was the fifteenth and he was

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Speaker 1: shot on the what the thirteenth correct? Yeah, God, that's incredible.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's amazing. The eighteenth he accepted the nomination.

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Speaker 1: The nineteenth was that big tech outage.

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Speaker 4: You remember that crowd strike thing, massive outage for millions

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Speaker 4: of Microsoft Windows devices, grounded planes, hit banks, exposed the

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Speaker 4: fragility of global digital technology. Took freaking eleven hours for

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Speaker 4: me to get two hours home anyway.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get I'm still in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.

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Speaker 4: H July twenty first, Biden bows out shortly after the

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Speaker 4: RNC endorsing Kamala Harris Halfwit to take over at the

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Speaker 4: top of the Democratic ticket.

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Speaker 1: And again that month they got to make a movie

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Speaker 1: There Will Be Books. That just was some crazy several

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Speaker 1: week period, the debate, they convention, the Kamala, all of

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Speaker 1: it right.

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Speaker 4: Two days later, the Secret Service director resigned and then

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Speaker 4: they mentioned that at the end of the months there

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Speaker 4: were strikes on hamas and hebel officials, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: when were the pagers and the walkie talkies? That was

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Speaker 4: September seventeenth. In the next couple of days after that,

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Speaker 4: the still mind boggling effective. You can't believe it's real,

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Speaker 4: taking out of hisbala's leadership and their guts literally with

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Speaker 1: There'll never be another political month three week period like

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Speaker 1: that one, hopefully, hopefully. And the fact that it came

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Speaker 1: out as well as it did and we're okay more

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Speaker 1: or less is well, it's fantastic, something close to a miracle. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no kidding. If you miss an hour, get the podcast.

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