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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, Katty Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jacky and Key Armrong.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you should not have to pay for today's episode.

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Speaker 2: I mean barely going through the motions.

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Speaker 1: He's fairly barely going through the motions, so fulfilling the

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Speaker 2: Cratch contractual requirement would be considered working today.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm going for. Wow. I am, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, have loaded for.

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Speaker 2: There, barely barely doing it at all live from studio

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Speaker 2: c S something or other ump another. And today we're

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Speaker 2: under the tutelage of our General Manager, Donald J. Trumph

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Speaker 2: my Resident of the United States right now, clearly.

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Speaker 1: Everything but the keys of the Oval Office.

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Speaker 2: And then soon Biden may wander off anyway, so Trump

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Speaker 2: might actually sit behind the desk. I promised yesterday we

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Speaker 2: would not talk about the government shutdown and all that

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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. But so they had that bill that

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Speaker 2: was gonna try to take care of all that, and uh.

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Speaker 1: Speaker john Holy as always, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson was pushing hard to let's get to signed

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Speaker 2: And looking good, and Elon had over one hundred don't

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Speaker 2: from him explaining all the different parts of it that

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Speaker 2: I just don't care at all. Maybe that makes me

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Speaker 2: a child, I don't know. But this is all. This

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Speaker 2: is all such a DC thing.

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Speaker 1: How many no, no, I must step in there.

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Speaker 2: This is wildly different than anything that has ever happened

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Speaker 1: No, that is insane.

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Speaker 2: That part I agree with, the the crisis of the

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Speaker 2: government shutting down. Oh how many times have I lived

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Speaker 2: through this? And it's just no memory of it whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: It just it comes and goes and whatever, no threat.

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Speaker 2: But the other part, yeah, is for better or worse.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, you got the world's richest man

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Speaker 1: Here's the truth.

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Speaker 2: And he's hurling truth bombs around like he's the Israeli military.

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Speaker 2: This is where I'm the most maga, if maga could

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Speaker 2: It's the opposite of conservative, and there's and you just

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Speaker 2: maga freaking tear it down, do it a different way.

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Speaker 1: How could it possibly be worse?

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Speaker 2: And every single time there's some reason that the Republican

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Speaker 2: Right, and then we'll come back after Christmas and then

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Speaker 1: Get enough attention. Something has to change.

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Speaker 2: Yes, public weeping, Yes, yes, Hey Michael.

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Speaker 1: I die. I hate to chew.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this close to Christmas. Can we get an explosion

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Speaker 1: Public crying, Yes, that's our aid. Public weeping.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you won't have gone far enough until you see

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Speaker 2: but it's just so annoying. I was listened to Speaker Johnson,

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Speaker 2: but I listened to him yesterday. Well, it's very important we

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Speaker 2: the neouguration, and yeah, that's what everybody says every single

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Speaker 2: I've heard this, I don't know sixty times since we've

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Speaker 1: Just we got to pass this one.

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Speaker 2: There's reasons for this one because of the war, of

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Speaker 1: But then we're no, you're never ever going.

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Speaker 2: To stop spending wildly.

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Speaker 1: You're just never gonna stop.

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Speaker 2: Well, he says, knowing full well he's about to get

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Speaker 2: the Doge brothers. Sure they will. And it's never this one.

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Speaker 2: It's never this gargantuan bill full of crap. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: So just blow it up. Blow it up, Mike, Yes,

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Speaker 2: until there is PW public weeping.

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Speaker 1: And oh my god, the endless the government shut down?

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Speaker 2: Well whatever, I tell you what, Yeah, shut it down

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Speaker 1: Let's see how we do out here in the private sex.

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Speaker 2: And if you close the national parks, we will fight

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Speaker 2: the grown ups when they push back it. Here's why

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Speaker 2: you can't shut down the government and the things that happen.

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Speaker 2: The problem is this, you never ever stop spending wildly.

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Speaker 1: It never happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is utterly you know, at the risk

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Speaker 2: now is indefensible, fiscally, morally, patriotically, it's it's it's treasonous.

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Speaker 2: I am not exaggerating, I'm not kidding. We are spending

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Speaker 2: we'll be a much weaker country and our children will

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Speaker 2: have much higher taxes and less services. Hey, seriously, if

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Speaker 2: for wildly irresponsible spending and deficit spending. That is treasonous.

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Speaker 2: because there's always a well you started it with this,

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Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I hate to do this. During the show. I've got

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Speaker 2: Hello Joe Getty here, Yes, History, it's History calling.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's what can we do for you? Okay, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, very Christmas too. Yeah. History

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Speaker 2: You have a disaster, you have a cataclysm, and that's

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Speaker 2: the only option.

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Speaker 1: Where's the eggnog?

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Speaker 2: History kept calling me. I blocked them. They they can

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Speaker 2: no longer get there. I don't want to hear from history.

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Speaker 2: And if you considered a set of history related encyclopedias, encyclopedias,

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Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. That'll be fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday,

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Speaker 2: December nineteenth. You're twenty twenty four. We are armstrong in

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Speaker 2: getting We approve of this program. Okay, let's leap indection.

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Speaker 2: Then officially, according to CC rules and regulations, here we

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Speaker 3: Sell Hackey to steal me here and see all you

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Speaker 3: wonderful people. And that's had a good time well out there.

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Speaker 3: You see, my family always had.

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Speaker 1: A lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: We always we always had a lot of fun. And

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Speaker 1: What was that, Michael.

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Speaker 2: That's one hundred and six year old woman, Florence Hackman,

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Speaker 2: and her secret is fireball whiskey.

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Speaker 1: That's what's kept her alive. One hundred and sixty six.

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Speaker 2: doubt that's the case. Yeah, one hundred and six years old.

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Speaker 2: That's that's old. And she drinks the fireball.

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Speaker 1: Good for her.

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Speaker 2: it's my darling bride's at birthday today. I've certainly wished

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Speaker 2: woman sniffing a decorative candle. Hey, they have candles that

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Speaker 2: smell like fire, Paul whiskey, and her friend replies, or

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Speaker 2: is we non alcoholic?

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Speaker 1: Non alcoholics call it cinnamon. That's pretty funny.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing how many of your super ancient people, when

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Speaker 2: they're asked about keys to life or what they do,

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Speaker 1: It's missed now and again. It seems that happened quite often.

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Speaker 2: It's involved some beverage, alcoholic beverage of some sort. Well,

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Speaker 2: when the world, family whatever is about to make you

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Speaker 2: completely insane, eh, you stop, Karen.

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Speaker 1: It's probably good for you. I would like to know

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Speaker 2: Freedom Loving Quota of the Day, Timoyer. Tim Sanderfer sent

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was driving around yesterday. Foppery everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, where you look? Thomas Sokaw with some

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Speaker 2: Plausible Deniability by Jim Biden, Padwey, Tasty Recipes for San

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Speaker 2: And finally, You're Gonna In for a Problem, a novel

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Speaker 1: That's some good that's some good material right there. That's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Senile, Joe Biden, stay with us next hout.

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Speaker 1: You're Gonna in for a Problem, That's one of my

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Speaker 2: Side show Bah excuse me, asking why on earth would

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Speaker 2: We've got all sorts of stuff to talk about. Elon Muskin,

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Speaker 1: You can't over sell. I don't think what a big

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Speaker 2: You need to keep meetings short and simple with them. No,

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Speaker 1: There's still one hundred percent denying it.

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Speaker 2: then there's a lot interesting stuff in that. I can't

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Speaker 2: If they want to get rid of it, I would

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Speaker 1: It's a man made thing. For what it's worth.

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Speaker 2: training the swamp. And a number of people pointed out

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00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: that during that time, when Bill Clinton was the president,

438
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Speaker 2: that was our last budget surpluses as a country.

439
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: They had a balanced budget multiple years.

440
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 2: So in ninety five I was barely following politics at all.

441
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: I don't remember I remember hearing stuff about Newton the shutdown.

442
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 2: I didn't think about it, ever, so how much of

443
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 2: the population would even be aware. DC goes nuts over

444
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 2: this stuff? Oh, if you didn't have the media acting

445
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 2: like it's akin to the nationwide wildfire or something, screeching

446
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: about it constantly.

447
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: No, you'd never notice, right, And it's always the thing

448
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Speaker 1: of this.

449
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 2: Many government ployees will miss a check, yeah, and then

450
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 2: they'll get the rest of it, like three days later.

451
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. They go with veterans.

452
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: It'll be veterans, disabled veterans, blind, disabled veterans will not

453
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Speaker 2: get their checks.

454
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

455
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: And the old, the very old, the soul they can't

456
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 2: even lift their hand to feed themselves. Trying to figure

457
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: out what sort of thing I want to talk about today.

458
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 2: Remind the mood for various things.

459
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Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, you mentioned Fox News and Brett Baer.

460
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Speaker 2: How much money he makes, yeah or not how much

461
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Speaker 2: money makes, But he's selling one thirty million dollar house

462
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 2: since he moved into a thirty five million dollars roughly, Yeah,

463
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Speaker 2: which means you have both at the same time, which

464
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 2: is crazy. Fox News dominated twenty twenty four so much

465
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Speaker 2: it beat easily CNN and MSNBC added together for.

466
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Speaker 1: The end of the year ratings. That is something I'd

467
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Speaker 1: like to know.

468
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Speaker 2: What News Nation and Oan and some of the other

469
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Speaker 2: ones are are what sort of traction they're getting? Yeah,

470
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Speaker 2: so that I don't want to bring that up. I

471
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 2: can't I find it interesting. Maybe i'll bring it up later.

472
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Speaker 2: I just can't make.

473
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Speaker 1: Myself talk about this. Wow, all right, it's a downer.

474
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: It's a conflicted man. We're listening to folks. So do

475
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Speaker 1: you know anything about this Yun?

476
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 2: The president of South Korea who's now gone because he

477
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 2: pulled that whole I'm going to become emperor thing and

478
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 2: martial law and all that.

479
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: Luckily suck, even suck.

480
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 2: Luckily they were able to get back in there and

481
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 2: vote him down and open the streets back up and

482
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Speaker 2: then impeach him. Ian Brummer tweeted this out yesterday, and I

483
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 2: know nothing about this. Yun's presidential campaign relied heavily on

484
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 2: ai deep fake version of him that was much more

485
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: engaging and sociable than the real him and got him elected.

486
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 2: The real Yun's capability turned out to be a rude

487
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 2: awakening to people. How did hell how did the world

488
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 2: miss the story? Did a guy get elected in a

489
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Speaker 2: major economicly powerful country? Ian is implying through deep fake

490
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Speaker 2: videos portraying him in a way he's not at all

491
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: wow and misled people. And then when he became president,

492
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: people are like, who are you? You're you're a weird,

493
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 2: off putting angry. Exactly did that happen?

494
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Speaker 1: Think if Kamala had the videos.

495
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 2: Out of her gliding around the room merely throwing out

496
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: clever bond Mo after bond Mo, making perfect sense, not

497
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 2: giggling like a moron, Yeah, it could have changed things,

498
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 2: huh much.

499
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Speaker 1: But they don't Hilary now Hillary.

500
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Speaker 2: If they'd had deep fakes of Hillary seeming youthful and

501
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 2: likable and whatever, that could have turned the tide of history. Yes, yes,

502
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: yes they didn't have They don't have a media there

503
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Speaker 2: in South Korea where there are sources that could come

504
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: out and say that that never happened.

505
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Speaker 1: Look, I was in the room that night. That is

506
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Speaker 1: not what happened or something.

507
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Speaker 2: I have no idea. This is this story's brand new

508
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 2: to me. I'm fascinating. I saw it late last night

509
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 2: and I thought I got to dig into that because

510
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 2: if that happened, that's a major turning point in world history.

511
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 2: I think, sure, Yeah, they do have to figure out

512
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: the AI. Some scientists needs to figure out what percentage

513
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: of perfect faces can the brain handle and still think

514
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: it's real or not because the perfect symmetry. I feel

515
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 2: like I can look at the AI created.

516
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: People and to me, that's AI.

517
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 2: They're too perfect. Nobody looks like that. Nobody's perfectly symmetrical.

518
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 2: Even really good looking people aren't perfectly symmetrical. But the

519
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 2: A people are the chicks usually because they got them everywhere,

520
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 2: and it just they're they're obviously fake. Yeah. What's interesting

521
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: is I know in digital recording, like music recording, you

522
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,479
Speaker 2: can fix something to a grid so it's perfectly in rhythm,

523
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 2: and then you can instruct it to insert fifteen percent variation. Interesting,

524
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 2: and I'll bet that sort of thing's come into visual.

525
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: And you add to it, and you would do that

526
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: to what mimic real humans?

527
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially, it's like you fix something and then you

528
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 2: unfix it a little bit so it sounds more human. Interesting.

529
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: So I was a club DJ briefly when I was younger.

530
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: I knowed I like that.

531
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Speaker 1: Gladys huh, And.

532
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: It was nineteen seventy seven. Disco was king many decades

533
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: after that. But so I would have to mix songs

534
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: together and like your your rap or hip hop music

535
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 2: or whatever they use what they call a click track.

536
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a computer dram. It's perfect, and so

537
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 2: you can mix beats together. But any rock and roll song,

538
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: if you'd try to mix it there, like you know,

539
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: back in Black ACDC or whatever, you can't, cause the

540
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: tempo varies, rolling stones, any of the beat varies. They

541
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: get a little faster toward the end, or slow down

542
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 2: in the middle or whatever, because it's human beings involved.

543
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Speaker 1: And I always thought that was really interesting.

544
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 2: Some of the most popular songs of all time, they

545
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 2: didn't keep a perfectly steady beat through it. Of course

546
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 2: you wouldn't, right, right, And I kind of regret being

547
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 2: mostly recording during the year of click tracks, because when

548
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: you listen to those songs and just pointed out to

549
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: you, you think that's why the last chorus sounds more exciting.

550
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 2: They picked up a pace, sped up a little, they

551
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 2: got excited, or they slowed down before it, just because

552
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: they were all looking at each other. And yeah, there

553
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 2: was human emotion involved, exactly. They got excited. Now I'm excited.

554
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 2: Everybody's excited. That'll be the difficult thing for AI to mimic,

555
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: although they'll figure it out soon enough. Also, looking at

556
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: some of the Elon headlines. He is a guy who

557
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: is not concerned what other people think about him. No,

558
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: I don't think it ever crosses his mind. I mean

559
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: he is, he is the all time king of I

560
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: have no e fs to give mine ego, wealth and autism.

561
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: I think there's plenty of people positioned, plenty of people

562
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: with ego and wealth, but they seem to be very

563
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Speaker 2: concerned what other people think.

564
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: He's not one.

565
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Speaker 2: And I said it yesterday you were gone somewhere that

566
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Speaker 2: I wonder how much of his ability. Oh, it was

567
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 2: the conversation we had about so Katie, you got the

568
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: name for me, some big business leader, gazillionaire also who

569
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: worked with Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk was talking about

570
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Speaker 2: the signal the noise.

571
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: Ratio thing that I'm kind of fascinated with, and he was.

572
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Speaker 2: He was talking about how Steve Jobs was ninety percent

573
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: signal ten percent noise, as in, ninety percent of everything

574
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 2: he did was focused on getting something accomplished with very

575
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 2: little extraneous whatever, and he worked twenty hours a day.

576
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 2: He said, Elon is one hundred percent signal.

577
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: Wow, just the way he is, like twenty hours a day.

578
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: And I wondered how much of that is his aspergers,

579
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: just his ability to stay focused without like, screw this,

580
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do something else. I'm gonna drink margaritas and

581
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: flip through, you know, a porn or something.

582
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what.

583
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: I wish you could step on a scale or get

584
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 2: a scan or something and they could say, well, Joe,

585
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: you're twenty.

586
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: Two percent signal. I'd be like, what, yeah, no kidding.

587
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Speaker 1: Do you remember who that was? Katie? Yeah, Kevin O'Leary,

588
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: also big on Shark Tank. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,

589
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: you know it's funny on that topic.

590
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: I I've got just a minor health thing on everything's fine,

591
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 2: but they wanted to do an MRI of my brain

592
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 2: to make sure it wasn't a brain tumor. And how

593
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: do you say I got a health thing. It's no

594
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: big deal. They did an MRI to see if I

595
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 2: got a brain tumor. That seems like a big deal.

596
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: I just the details of it aren't interesting, and we're

597
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: up against a break. It's it's a hearing thing, but

598
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 2: it's it's I think I know what it is going

599
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: to be fine. But anyway, I thought it was hilarious.

600
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: That I got the results. I actually saw them at

601
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: getting Ready with the show for the show today. Uh,

602
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: and it said please to share the patient and his

603
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 2: MRI looks normal and his brain showed nothing exceptional. And

604
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: I thought, well, that's pretty much confirmed by the trajectory

605
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: of my life. Exceptional the Joe Getty story.

606
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: That could be the title of your book.

607
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: We see nothing exceptional, the Joe Getty story. We've got

608
00:31:53,160 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines next. I like reading the style section of

609
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: various newspapers because I find them hilarious and they're so

610
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: out of touch with my real life. Anyway, here's one.

611
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 2: What is the hottest scent in perfumes right now? According

612
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 2: to the Wall Street Journal, it is pistachio, just a

613
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: hint of pistachio and all the most expensive scents out there.

614
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 2: And also their suggestion for the holidays, forego the hackneyed

615
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 2: holiday beanie, which I wore to work today to keep

616
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: my head warm. Foregoing it's hackneyed, you see, in favor

617
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: of the equally practical fullard fou l A R D flard.

618
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got three of them.

619
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Speaker 2: Some triangle thing you tie around your head. I hope

620
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: you're not wearing a hackneyed beanie this weekend.

621
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: Full hard. I wouldn't know one if you shoved it

622
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: up my chimney.

623
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: Anyway, Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead

624
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: story with Katie Green Katie starting with ABC.

625
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Speaker 4: The FAA temporarily bands drums and parts of New Jersey

626
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 4: notice threatens quote deadly force for imminent security threat.

627
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: There is as Joe is saying, this will go away

628
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: when Travis proposes to Taylor, or you know, something happens

629
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 2: Christmas will make this story go away, right, We'll all

630
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: forget about it. We'll come back in January sixth and

631
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: will have gone.

632
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: Away and nobody will remember how it got resolved, and

633
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: that'll be the end of it. The latest is you

634
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: got a bunch of New Jersey eights saying the.

635
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: Thing passed over my house and now I can't stop coughing.

636
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: Oh, any get weird symptoms?

637
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: Maybe you need a fillard to keep your head warm.

638
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 4: From The New York Post, Luigi Mangione arrives at courthouse

639
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 4: as hundreds of protesters gather outside to show support.

640
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: For killer freaking weirdos.

641
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 4: From The Washington Post, Amazon hit by teamsters strikes during

642
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 4: holiday rush.

643
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's thousands of people, and Amazon has one point

644
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: eight million employees or something like that. But in the

645
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: locations where they're centered, like San Francisco and see, if

646
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: you're expecting something, you know, overnight last minute rush, it

647
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: could happen.

648
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: Effect woops from.

649
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 4: The Associated Press, NASA's two struck as two stuck astronauts

650
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 4: face more time in space, with return delayed now until.

651
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: At least March.

652
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: That'd be a heck of bad news to get you

653
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: think you're coming back from space after being stuck up

654
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Speaker 2: there forever much change it again. Yeah, even if it

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Speaker 2: was kind of exciting that they would be up there

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Speaker 2: for an extended period, at first, they'd think, well, what

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Speaker 2: the hell I get to live in space for all?

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Speaker 1: They're probably good and sick of it now, unless you

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Speaker 1: don't like your family and you're thinking, oh right.

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Speaker 4: From CNN, humanoid robot that can do your laundry, dishes

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Speaker 4: and make you coffee could.

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Speaker 1: Be yours as early as next year. Awesome.

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Speaker 4: And finally, the Batlon Bee RFK Junior advises children to

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Speaker 4: leave out eight strips of bacon and a bowl of beef.

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Speaker 2: Tallow for s this year, which publication had the headline

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Speaker 2: about that you might have a robot next year CNN. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I have to look into that story. I need one

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Speaker 2: between AI and robots. We're spend a lot of time

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Speaker 2: and money on designing things that we could just do ourselves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We're going to make ourselves obsolete. The president is senile

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Speaker 2: and now everybody's admitting it. Major Wall Street Journal story

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