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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.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jackie and he arms wrong drum studio scene

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Speaker 2: see signor.

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Speaker 3: And it's Friday, and we're in a dimly lit room

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Speaker 3: deeper than the bowels the Armstrong and Getting communications compound.

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Speaker 3: And hey today we're under the tuteled of our general manager.

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Speaker 1: California Firefighters once again and Joe Biden, deliverer of the

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Speaker 1: world's most ironic eulogy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, look forward to that character character.

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Speaker 1: Jack.

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Speaker 2: I'm all about wild Card weekend in the NFL. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's the best playoff weekend. The first couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: we got all the games going on. Fantastic, fantastic, Well.

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Speaker 1: Big college football game last night too, the Golden Domers

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Speaker 1: last second victory over the League ger can't win the

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Speaker 1: Big One Penn Staters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and all those low seeds making it so far

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Speaker 2: shows that the whole picking smart people picking teams who's

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Speaker 2: gonna win didn't work very well. Yeah, well, way, wrong, way,

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Speaker 2: way a lot. Eight year's an. It's just entertainment. It's fine.

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Speaker 2: How about the uh the Rams play who do the

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Speaker 2: Rams play Michael the hated They were supposed to, They

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Speaker 2: were supposed to get to play at home, and the

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Speaker 2: game has been moved to Arizona because of the fires.

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Speaker 2: Is it the Chargers Rams Chargers?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Correct, oh nomtsorry they no, no, no, the Chargers San

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Speaker 2: Diegrig Chargers are playing in Houston, Texans.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Los Angeles Chargers. Sorry, it does not roll

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Speaker 2: No, I've never been able to say that, even after

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Speaker 2: all these The Chargers are at the Texans. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: the Rams game. So you get the home field of

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Speaker 2: gen advantage. You do everything you need to do when

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Speaker 2: your division, and you got to play in Arizona because

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Speaker 2: of the fires. The minor problem fire wise with all

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Speaker 2: the loss of life and property and uh what did

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Speaker 2: I hear? One of the fires is now thirty square

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Speaker 2: miles and the other one is twenty square miles, for

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Speaker 2: a total of fifty square miles of completely burnt to

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Speaker 2: the ground for the two biggest fires, which is an

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Speaker 2: imaginably large area of space. Absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 1: Katie informs us that the Mighty Rams are playing the

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Speaker 1: Marauding Vikings of Minnesota, featuring coach Tim Walls on the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: Does can you have a microphone in this for a

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Speaker 2: segment to be awesome? If she could just jump on

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Speaker 2: and say the words, yeah, idea, they're playing the Vikings awesome. Well,

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Speaker 2: good confirming the previous report was I gonna say I

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Speaker 2: had something to say about the footballame, I'll pop back

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Speaker 2: into my head. The welcome distraction from the horrible news

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Speaker 2: that has been going for the last several days. Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, the tremendous amount of fire coverage coast to coast.

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Speaker 2: Even your East coast news shows, which often ignore things

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Speaker 2: with the fire. It's just so freaking big. Plus it's

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Speaker 2: addition to regular people and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: But the coverage has been quite high, and it seems

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Speaker 2: like it is really turned toward MM. What were the

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Speaker 2: policies that caused this? I mean that is that at

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Speaker 2: least that was the focus of every news show I

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Speaker 2: saw last night. Yeah? Good, Yeah, what are the policies

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Speaker 2: that caused this? We're the failures and the fact that

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Speaker 2: the mayor bass of LA and the Governor Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of what they've done is indefensible, So

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Speaker 1: the fact that they had no defense is not that

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Speaker 1: And it's like, hey, you know what, those of us

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Speaker 1: trying to put out the fire. We have time. I

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Speaker 1: have time. I would not be welcome on the front lines.

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Speaker 2: So it's sentencing day for Donald Trump in the Stormy

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Speaker 2: Daniels hush money trial, as they called it inaccurately. The

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruled in favor of Now you gotta go

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Speaker 2: ahead and be sentenced today. The out of control maga extreme.

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Speaker 2: We need to add people, it's so out of control,

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court voted five to four that Trump is going

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Speaker 1: So all that rhetoric was always a shameless lie, a

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Speaker 2: Even the whack job Mersham, the judge who should have

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Speaker 2: said though, no jail time, no penalties, he's recommending whatever

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Speaker 2: the legal term is, some legal term that you go through.

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Speaker 2: So I guess he just wants it on the books.

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Speaker 2: He wants the cable news spectacle of the about to

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Speaker 2: become president of the United States having to be in

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Speaker 2: a courtroom and all that sort of stuff flexes his muscles,

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Speaker 2: even though there's no result that comes out of it.

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Speaker 1: And again, the Appeals Court will be treating this case

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Speaker 1: like aaron judge treats a high fastball as soon as

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Speaker 1: they get it, which will be delicious.

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Speaker 2: How long do you think that'll take? No idea? Were

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Speaker 2: you surprised the Supreme Court went five to four toward

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Speaker 2: we ain't doing anything about this.

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Speaker 1: Actually no, no, I'm not, And it was a five

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Speaker 1: to four ruling and unsigned, but I kind of agree

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Speaker 1: with the majority. He doesn't have to be there. There's

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Speaker 1: no penalty, there's no sanction, it's a virtual hearing. It

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Speaker 2: Get it done. Let's get onto the appeals. We should

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Speaker 2: start the show officially on this Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this How did it already get

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Speaker 2: to be the tenth of January? Ain't putting up with

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Speaker 2: any jive. No cut the jive, cut the jive. In

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Speaker 2: twenty five we are armstrong in getting we approve of

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Speaker 2: this program.

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Speaker 1: Let's begin the show officially. Then, according to FCC rules

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Speaker 1: or eggs, here we go at Mark.

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Speaker 5: Would that seventeen million dollars that had been cut from

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Speaker 5: your budget have made a difference in this fight?

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Speaker 6: I would say with the lean forward posture that we

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Speaker 6: to take from somewhere, and that was from the non

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Speaker 6: have taken on over the past many, many years.

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Speaker 5: But with all due respect, in December you had worn

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Speaker 5: that the budget cuts would severely limit your ability to

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Speaker 2: Is that true or not?

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Speaker 6: So I would say, yes, we were limited to a

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Speaker 2: Yes, O boy moron who is Karen Bass and it

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Speaker 2: will shock you a little bit later on in the show,

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Speaker 2: how you know, I'll go ahead and hit you with

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Speaker 1: But if a guy like Pete Hegzeth has a tattoo

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Speaker 1: a Crusades's tattoo, which has once been used by a

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Speaker 2: To be associated with blah blah blah blah blah. It's

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Speaker 1: This woman's an avowed communist and a friend of Fidel Castro.

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Speaker 2: Didn't really come up. I mentioned the other day I

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Speaker 2: am cynical about government. I'm definitely past skeptl in the

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Speaker 2: I mean, I assume the worst and et cetera, et

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Speaker 2: is not to inform you the voter. That's their job.

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Speaker 2: They work for us. They should be letting us know

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Speaker 2: et cetera. That's their wheels are always spinning on how

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Speaker 2: it drives me nuts. And including any of these press conferences,

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Speaker 2: would like to thank the blah blah blah letter agency

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Speaker 2: and making sure everybody knows your alphabet thing is working

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Speaker 2: so hard and deserves more budget. Fine, but tell the

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Speaker 2: But man, when the politicians get asked questions, they never

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Speaker 1: Politicians have three jobs gaining power, holding power, and if

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Speaker 2: They need to be kept on a.

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Speaker 1: Leash like a disobedient pit or even they're nos, pack

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Speaker 2: A lot of these people aren't politicians. They work for

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Speaker 2: various agencies that got appointed by politicians, are created by politicians,

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Speaker 2: but just their bureaucrats. Bureaucrats, Right, you got to answer

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Speaker 2: the questions people want to know. They don't care about

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Speaker 2: the laundry list of all the people you want to think. Oh,

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Speaker 2: drives me nuts, Especially in the middle of a crisis,

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Speaker 2: the answer doesn't matter. Just give us the truth, right right.

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Speaker 1: We need an Office of the Grim Reaper who will

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Speaker 1: go to those press conferences.

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Speaker 2: You don't need to wear the outfit, but.

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Speaker 1: You go to that press conference, some bureaucrat to unleashes

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Speaker 1: some crap answer like Karen Bass just did say, he

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Speaker 1: says you're fired.

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Speaker 2: No, there's no appeals process.

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Speaker 1: You're fired, right, No, deputy, step up the department, the

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Speaker 1: Office of the Grim Reaper of government officials?

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Speaker 2: Got did you see if we can get that passed?

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Speaker 2: See any of those videos? Are those planes dropping water,

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Speaker 2: flying in that high wind and then buffeting back and forth?

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Speaker 2: God bless them. Yeah. How does mailbag look? It's good

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Speaker 2: it's a Friday. We need to get to the first

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Speaker 1: Well, unlike Karen d Ass, I am competent to get

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Speaker 7: So on Friday mornings, I drive to work listening to

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Speaker 8: The whips of the week, the pal Estates fire burning

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Speaker 5: You were to describe what we're seeing is just apocalyptic.

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Speaker 2: This is not a terrorist event.

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Speaker 8: We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an

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Speaker 9: What either wore world leaders than any one of you

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Speaker 7: It's one of the most awkward moments in American politics.

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Speaker 2: Kamala D. Harris. Everyone loved Wicked.

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Speaker 3: I loved Wicked, My boyfriend loved Wicked. My boyfriend's boyfriend

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Speaker 8: Everybody, everybody good.

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Speaker 9: If we're going to freak out over every last tweet.

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Speaker 2: We will fight hard, fight hard for the freedom to vote.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jack, this is just In. Garth Brooks is a

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Speaker 2: Are they having a tug of war or singing a

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Speaker 2: good one and be an epic battle, wouldn't it, folks.

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Speaker 1: It's from author and motivational speaker Aga Mandino, who's a

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Speaker 1: Beginning today, treat every it's our series about beginnings.

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Speaker 2: Beginning today.

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Speaker 1: Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to

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Speaker 2: Your life will never be the same again. You'd have

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Speaker 2: to ease into that lifestyle. I don't think you could

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Speaker 2: That's a great font starter. I will keep it around. Mailbag.

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Speaker 1: Let's see drop a note mailbag at Armstrong and.

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Speaker 2: Getty dot com.

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Speaker 1: Antonio Wrights for those who want the government to take

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Speaker 2: Take a look at LA Way to Go, Gavin.

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Speaker 1: Let's see some succinct Thomas Sol from Joe and Weymouth, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: nicely in the Thomas Sol quote. There are no solutions.

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Speaker 1: There are only trade offs. For instance, smelt over water retention.

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Speaker 10: ABC's David Murror is being mocked for using clothespins to

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Speaker 2: Let's only hope that.

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Speaker 10: The sock he puts in his crotch his flame retardant.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, God for the wind. Those are good jokes.

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Speaker 1: Who is Karen Bass, the longtime powerful union hugging politico

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Speaker 1: A little bonus mail bag to lead us on to

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Speaker 1: the next step in the discussion. Let's see this is

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Speaker 1: a note from old friend Turlock Holmes. I believe that

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk says he thinks about Rome and the Roman

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Speaker 1: Empire daily. Gavin is Nero. California is burning, and Gavin

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Speaker 1: is fiddling and deflecting blame, as Nero did Gavin must

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Speaker 1: think we're gay, I mean gay, I mean blind.

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Speaker 1: On a somewhat different topic, Steve from Everett, Washington, Guys,

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Speaker 1: Elon and Viveck are not going to approach government sluggards

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Speaker 2: I agree with you completely, that's all true.

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Speaker 1: But I've been reading a great deal well some about

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Speaker 2: What what's better than this? What's better than the richest

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a certain smugness to the Beltway, including

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Speaker 1: we know how it works, and you silly business people

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Speaker 2: Efforts are cute, so don't try ever anything ever. I

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Speaker 1: Well, I would say Smugness's fraternal twin is complacency, and

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Speaker 1: as well. Let's see, Ryan from Houston says, all I

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Speaker 2: A month later. Yeah, yeah, so true. I wanted to

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Speaker 2: I hope they noticed maybe they grow up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: What you Michael.

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Speaker 1: At the eulogy yesterday, she was writing about I.

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Speaker 2: Character, character. Character. Because of that.

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Speaker 9: Character, I believe is destiny, destiny in our lives and

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Speaker 1: of how different the two men were, particularly when it

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Speaker 1: came to honesty and character.

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Speaker 2: Character, character, And.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to jump in the middle, but it's the

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Speaker 1: contrasting characters of the two men, one devoted to country

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Speaker 1: and faith, one to party and self that revealed the

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Speaker 1: starkest divide. Carter was elected on a promise never to

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Speaker 1: lie to the American people and he honored it. He

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Speaker 1: was unequal to his governing task, sometimes misguided, but he

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Speaker 1: genuinely wanted to make things better for the country. He

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Speaker 1: was humble and money many forget. He once fired half

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Speaker 1: his cabinet in recognition that his administration wasn't getting the

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Speaker 1: job done. Mister Biden leaves the Oval Office much as

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Speaker 1: he burst into presidential politics indulgently, self servingly, pettily. Joe

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Speaker 1: was drummed out for plagiarism and dishonesty, displays of arrogance,

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Speaker 1: and then she certainly could and does go into his

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Speaker 1: clemency to multiple child murderers, his money laundering for years

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Speaker 1: and years, his lying about Hunter Biden's pardon and covering

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Speaker 1: up for him, and just to please It was dishonoring

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter to have that old fart give the eulogy.

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Speaker 1: Oh and did Jimmy Carter actually ask him.

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Speaker 2: To do the eulogy. That's kind of amusing too, but

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Speaker 2: he gets that eventually. Yeah, And we talked quite a

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Speaker 2: bit about whoever it was that chose having John Lennon's

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Speaker 2: imagine be sung by Garth Brooks and his wife at

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Speaker 2: the cathedral. When it's got the line imagine there's no

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Speaker 2: heaven at the funeral of a guy who was as

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Speaker 2: Christian as Christian can get and no religion.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, so I'll just I'll hit this part.

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Speaker 1: But Biden claimed Carter asked me to do his eulogy.

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Speaker 1: These are highlights from his big interview with USA Today

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Speaker 1: the other day, which has been shockingly soft pedaled by

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media. I've got a bunch for you. Holy cow,

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Speaker 1: is this guy gone? I mean, he is barely hanging on.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, Biden claimed, Carter asks me to do his

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Speaker 1: eulogy during their last meeting in twenty one, as Biden

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Speaker 1: was bending down to kiss him goodbye. Page The journalist

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Speaker 1: followed up to find out what Carter actually said, and

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Speaker 1: Biden's response did not inspire much confidence.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 2: I believe that's what he said. Well, he implied.

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Speaker 1: If he didn't specifically ask, and what I he was

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Speaker 1: just such a decent guy.

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Speaker 2: Really really, I hadn't heard this. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: so he didn't ask.

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Speaker 1: You, no, no, well he implied it.

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Speaker 2: Well, even if you didn't, he's such a decent guy. Wow,

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Speaker 2: he's so full of crowd.

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Speaker 1: Try it's worth staying tuned. Yeah, that's what the three

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Speaker 1: things you lack. It's worth staying tuned for the other

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Speaker 1: highlights later on. So you wanted that quote again?

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Speaker 2: Huh? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, beginning today, treat everyone you meet as

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Speaker 1: if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend

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Speaker 1: to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster,

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Speaker 1: and do it with no thought of any reward.

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Speaker 2: Your life will never be the same again. So everyone

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Speaker 2: I run into, can I have your watch? Wow? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Wow, folks, some beautiful message and Jack has taken it cynical. No,

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Speaker 1: And you probably don't need to weep as you're checking

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Speaker 1: out at the Walmart either, because the checker it's just

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Speaker 1: it's it's a mental exercise.

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Speaker 2: She's not going to pass. Probably, I'm going to apply

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Speaker 2: for your job tomorrow as soon as you're gone. That

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Speaker 2: is what now, Well, in my mind, you're dying at midnight.

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Speaker 2: That's the way I go through my day. It helps

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Speaker 2: me put me in a proper frame of reference. Man,

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Speaker 2: you would be honest to God, saint like material obviously

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Speaker 2: if you could do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an incredibly appealing thought. And I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to say a single cynical thing about it, because if

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Speaker 1: we all moved an inch or a foot or a

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Speaker 1: yard or a mile in that direction, it would be

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Speaker 1: a better world. Here's a here's a junior version of

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Speaker 1: this that I brought to the show maybe a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago.

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Speaker 2: That made a huge, huge impression on me.

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Speaker 1: Everyone you meet today is suffering or will be very soon,

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Speaker 1: or someone they love very much is.

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Speaker 2: Keep that in mind as you deal with people. I

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Speaker 2: know people that are a lot closer to that ideal

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Speaker 2: you were just talking about that I am and h

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Speaker 2: m hmm, I'm amazing. Sure. So here's here's a question

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to keep this very vague, because Lord knows,

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Speaker 1: I've said plenty of things in my life for which

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Speaker 1: I should apologize. Somebody said something to me the other day.

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Speaker 1: It was specifically about the LA fires that was awful,

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Speaker 1: and they seem to mean it. And I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out because I've said more than once I'm incapable

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Speaker 1: of holding a grudge because I can't remember who I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be mad at.

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Speaker 2: That's a weird deficiency that becomes a strength.

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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, we'll be like, you know, talking to somebody,

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Speaker 1: or somebody's name will come up and Jack or somebody

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Speaker 1: will say, yeah, that's the guy who screwed us. I'm like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right. So yeah, So I'm trying to decide do

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Speaker 1: I I've got to it was not good and I've

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Speaker 1: got to file it away. So what's the same time

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Speaker 1: I have said unwise, unfeeling things and later regretted, though,

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, I can think of a couple off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head meat that I've said that I like,

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Speaker 1: what was I thinking?

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Speaker 2: Usually I was trying to be funny and it just,

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Speaker 2: you know, real fast fired one off and it was

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Speaker 2: really really wrong and out of line.

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Speaker 1: Or was in a mood or thought it would land

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Speaker 1: with a particular crowd, even though I didn't mean it,

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Speaker 1: like in a Ricky gervasish way, Right, the reason people

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Speaker 1: laughed is not because they agree, but because it was

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Speaker 1: outrageous to say it and they disagree.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, because I can think of a

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Speaker 2: couple of examples from the last couple of weeks in

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Speaker 2: my life. Oftentimes, if somebody says or does something that

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Speaker 2: upsets me, if I put a little time into it,

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Speaker 2: the reason it upsets me has more to do with

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Speaker 2: me than them. There's either a nugget of truth to it,

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Speaker 2: or it's something I've done, or there's some version of

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Speaker 2: I should look inwardly about why this is bothering me

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Speaker 2: so much?

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Speaker 1: Oh, even if you don't come up with anything, even

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Speaker 1: if you don't come up with anything, because that's still

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Speaker 1: a good exercise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who said that quote? But treating everybody like

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Speaker 2: they're going to die at midnight, man, that's a that's

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Speaker 2: of a way to live your life.

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Speaker 1: He was a writer and kind of motivational speaker and

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Speaker 1: all Augmndino of the twentieth century cool.

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Speaker 2: I get your parking spot. I think that as I

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Speaker 2: walk around.

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Speaker 1: You know who was it? It doesn't matter. Once pointed out,

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Speaker 1: all humor has a victim. A punchline is at somebody

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Speaker 1: or something's expense, every single joke, and somebody said to

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Speaker 1: us at one point, make sure that the victim isn't

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Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't have it coming. And so I'm thinking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, I will show no Christian mercy and aug

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Speaker 1: Mandino style a saintliness toward our dishonest, failing, money grubbing

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Speaker 1: scumbag politicians.

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Speaker 2: Quite quite the opposite.

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Speaker 1: I will get at them like a pit bull gets

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Speaker 1: at a lamb shank. But those who don't have it

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Speaker 1: coming or compassion.

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Speaker 2: Joe feeds his pitbull's lambshanks to get him ready for

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Speaker 2: the weekend dogfights.

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Speaker 1: That heat is rather the first, so shiny Katie's headlines

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Speaker 1: on the way, and a lot more stuff stay here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Humanity is over. Humanity is over. I just saw

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Speaker 2: at the consumer electronics show going on in Vegas right now,

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Speaker 2: the unveiling of the first life sized girlfriend AI programmed

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Speaker 2: bot Fantastic that did the humanity is over humanities. If

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Speaker 2: you can buy that and she's gonna talk to you

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Speaker 2: and tell you how great you are and have sex

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Speaker 2: with you whatever you want, that's the end of humanity.

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Speaker 1: It was a good run the ancient Egypt to you know,

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Speaker 1: the United States Empires, you know, a.

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Speaker 2: Hell of a good run. She asked, like that a

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Speaker 2: planet of the apes. What was your reaction, Katie, when

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Speaker 2: you saw it. It's a list of things we don't need,

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Speaker 2: no kidding.

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Speaker 1: More on this topic to come, but first let's figure

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Speaker 1: out who's reporting.

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Speaker 2: Watch here.

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Speaker 1: She is a real human being. It's the lead story

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Speaker 1: with Katie Green starting with.

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Speaker 4: Yahoo News arson suspect arrested by citizens near Kenneth's fire

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Speaker 4: armed with a pro paane tank or a flame thrower.

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Speaker 4: Turns out he used to hang people like this, right.

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Speaker 4: This guy claims that he was using this flamethrower was

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Speaker 4: more of like a I don't know, like a blowtorchs

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Speaker 4: looking thing to smoke weed because he couldn't.

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Speaker 2: Afford a lighter. Oh, couldn't afford a lighter way to

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Speaker 2: turn it? Sort of income inequality ISHU. Yeah, A most

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Speaker 2: person that start a fire? How many fires have been

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Speaker 2: started by homeless people or homeless camps? A lot?

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Speaker 1: We swoared off using that term in the New year,

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Speaker 1: but many are started by bums and junkies, street transient drug.

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Speaker 2: Addicts from KTLA.

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Speaker 4: Civilian drone hits and damages firefighting aircraft over the Palisades

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Speaker 4: fire m.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of that whole. We don't haven't really

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Speaker 2: quite figured out all the regulations for drones yet.

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Speaker 4: I guess from NBC evacuation alert sent in error to

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Speaker 4: phones of nearly ten million LA area.

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Speaker 2: Residents, WHOA, I heard it was a mistake, But that's

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Speaker 2: that's huge.

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Speaker 4: You'd get that and think I got to get out

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Speaker 4: of here. From Fox News. Bourbon Street terror victims sue

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Speaker 4: New Orleans as Louisiana ag investigates security lapses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we mentioned the other day, both the FEDS

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Speaker 1: and the state were telling them for years they had

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Speaker 1: to put up ballards in the Those are those poles

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Speaker 1: that keep a car from coming up on the sidewalk.

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Speaker 1: And they'd started and needed to repair somewhere. Just dragging

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Speaker 1: their feet. Just more municipal incompetence, left side.

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Speaker 2: Of the aisle. It's you know what it's worth.

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Speaker 4: From bright bark dot com. Kremlin warns Donald Trump to

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Speaker 4: stay away from Greenland. Russia has quote strategic interests in Arctic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that's gonna work on Trump. No,

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Speaker 2: and it shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: You shut up outen, you paper tiger, you dictate and bastard.

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Speaker 2: From the New York Post.

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Speaker 4: Passenger irritates fellow flyers by preparing a dessert from scratch

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Speaker 4: in her seat. Quote dumbest s, dumbest s I've seen

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Speaker 4: all day.

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Speaker 1: H boy, the egos and strawberry shortcake close cheesecake made

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Speaker 1: a cheesecake next name.

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Speaker 2: From scratch the crush? How does that work?

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Speaker 4: And Finally, from the Babylon Bee, awkward mourners at Jimmy

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Speaker 4: Carter funeral place flowers on Biden.

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Speaker 2: Uh, we got this text? Why did Obama laugh so

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Speaker 2: hard when talking to Trump? Trump ask him, Hey, do

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Speaker 2: you ever find that birth certificate? He did? In fact,

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Speaker 2: oh my god. We got a lot more heavy stuff

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Speaker 2: and funny stuff and informative stuff and interesting stuff and

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Speaker 2: all that. Who is Karen Bass? Really?

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned if you can't, grab a podcast later Armstrong

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Speaker 1: and Getty