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Speaker 1: Ron Berg and Dan talking and saything. Hello, do all

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Speaker 1: my podcast listeners. My name is ron Burgundy, and I'm

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Speaker 1: a very big deal. If you like common sense and

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Speaker 1: you can handle the truth, then you've come to the

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Speaker 1: right place. If you like fairy tales and Pally Waller,

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Speaker 1: then you can hit the road. Pal you know who

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Speaker 1: you are. I'm serious. If you see me out there

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Speaker 1: buying a magazine or a bag of pipe cleaners, how

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Speaker 1: about doing me a favor and walk the other way.

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Speaker 1: We have nothing in common you and I, so don't

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Speaker 1: make it uncomfortable. My listeners sign up for the truth,

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Speaker 1: not Pally Waller. The rest of you. Beat it. Carolina,

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Speaker 1: What do you got to say for yourself this morning? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: I wait, I'm so sorry. What does Palli Waller mean?

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Speaker 1: Palli Waller? You know? Nonsense? Pally Waller? Is that like?

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Speaker 1: Is that slang? I've never heard of it? You know what?

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's not a word. That's troubling. Where do

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Speaker 1: you suppose it came from? You said it, You said

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Speaker 1: it a second ago. No, no, no, I know, But

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Speaker 1: but where did it come from? Why did I say it?

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Speaker 1: I think we're onto something here, Carolina. Where do words

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Speaker 1: come from write that down for an episode idea etymology.

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Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I didn't make the word pally waller up.

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Speaker 1: I just used it in a sentence. Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 1: It's a word now and has a life of its own.

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Speaker 1: Pally waller. Huh, A bunch of noises coming out of

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Speaker 1: my mouth. And now it's a new word ready to

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Speaker 1: take on the world. If you're listening out there, I

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Speaker 1: suggest using the word pally waller, meaning nonsense, three times

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Speaker 1: a day. It's one of our new words in the

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Speaker 1: English language. And it came to me about a minute ago. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the word pali waller, I did, pali waller. Wonderful,

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Speaker 1: pali waller. I love it, Carolina, I do. But this

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Speaker 1: is a news and agricultural business program, so we shouldn't

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Speaker 1: doddle on new words. Has there ever been a news

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Speaker 1: and agricultural business program. I'm just yeah, you know, your right,

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Speaker 1: old friend, I was speaking nonsense. Yes, it sounds a

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Speaker 1: little bit like pali waller. Sensational. Uh, wonderful. So who's

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Speaker 1: on the program today, Carolina? You told me not to

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Speaker 1: book anyone because you said you wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: large crowds. Oh, so I did large crowds. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: get this out on the table quickly. It's it's come

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Speaker 1: to light that I was part of an unruly mob

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Speaker 1: of people that attacked our Capitol Building earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: I thought for the longest time I would escape. Notice.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't wearing a Viking costume after all. But photos

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Speaker 1: have surfaced, and yes I was there, and double yes,

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Speaker 1: I did rush into the Capitol Building that day. I'm

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Speaker 1: not proud of my participation in this ugly chapter in

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Speaker 1: American history, but I can't hide behind a curtain of

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Speaker 1: lies the way some people do and the way I

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Speaker 1: do quite often. Okay, So I would like to explain

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Speaker 1: what happened though, So Caroline, I hope you can indulge me.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm just trying to digest this. So you stormed

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Speaker 1: the Capitol Building January six with that ugly bunch of

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Speaker 1: was totally an accident, and I'll explain um all right,

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Speaker 1: I'm listening. January six, two thousand one, I was in

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Speaker 1: town for the usual reasons, a visit to the Washington Monument,

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Speaker 1: the Reflecting Pool, and of course my favorite, the Lincoln Memorial.

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Speaker 1: It's something I've done since I was a small boy.

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Speaker 1: I have always said it takes courage to be a patriot,

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Speaker 1: but it also takes work, hard work. Well, there I

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Speaker 1: was standing on the edge of the reflecting pool, reflecting

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Speaker 1: on a life well lived. I thought about all the

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Speaker 1: dogs I've owned and the goats. I thought about the

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Speaker 1: different beards I've tried out. And I thought about Mary

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Speaker 1: lou Retton, who was such an inspiration and just a

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Speaker 1: just a dynamo of positive energy. Do you remember Mary

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Speaker 1: lou Retton, Carolina? No. I reflected that day on her.

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Speaker 1: I also reflected on what we as a nation had become.

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Speaker 1: I was troubled from the reflecting pool. I walked over

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Speaker 1: to the Lincoln Memorial, signing autographs as I strolled along

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Speaker 1: the wide walkways of our nation's capital. Oh, taurusts and DC,

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Speaker 1: not a ton I think I signed for Do you

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Speaker 1: offer to sign them before someone asks? Fully, I seek

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Speaker 1: people out their opportunity to get my autograph viewed as

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Speaker 1: like a public service. That's very generous, so, as I

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Speaker 1: and I thought what I've always thought, We are a

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Speaker 1: lot of like you and I, which is true, in

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Speaker 1: a verified fact. We are both tall. I like to

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Speaker 1: a chair. That's true. We both liked the ladies and

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Speaker 1: books tell us that his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln was

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Speaker 1: and I are tot swan. I'm sorry toats. Yes, Totes

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Speaker 1: the brand name you can trust for your rainy day protection,

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Speaker 1: rain slickers, shoes and boots, and of course the world

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Speaker 1: famous Tots umbrella. When it's what outside, I reached for

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Speaker 1: my Totes Totes, Oh your wet weather needs. Now let's

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Speaker 1: see if anyone upstairs at my heart is listening. That

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Speaker 1: hopefully someone will go chase that bread. When you say upstairs,

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Speaker 1: are you yelling upstairs? There's nobody upstairs. I was yelling

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Speaker 1: in the direction of what I feel like would be upstairs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's no boss upstairs. We're just in a studio. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: where where I was, I was our story. You were

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Speaker 1: explaining how you ended up storming the Capitol building by accident.

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Speaker 1: We're all waiting. Sometimes I can get off on a tangent.

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Speaker 1: It leads to a lot of pally water, but I

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Speaker 1: find my way back again. Anyway, back to the storming

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Speaker 1: the story of the Capital. That was pretty cool, as

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Speaker 1: the kids say. Anyway, there I was in deep spiritual

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Speaker 1: conversation with honest abe Lincoln when often the distance I

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Speaker 1: didn't bother me that much. Lincoln and I had a

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Speaker 1: lot to discuss. The world changes at such a dizzying

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Speaker 1: rate these days, Carolina. We we have women doing men's jobs.

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Speaker 1: We have adults eating children's cereal. We have dogs wearing

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Speaker 1: shoes in the rain, Totes dog shoes, which you can

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Speaker 1: find at tote dot com. Anyway, we have a population

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Speaker 1: non white. None of this bothered me terribly, and I

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Speaker 1: asked Lincoln what he thought about it. Of course, he's

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Speaker 1: in neptune. He started laughing. The laughter was loud and

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Speaker 1: I take great exception to people who laugh at me.

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Speaker 1: Usually they get a fist to the face, and more

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Speaker 1: often than not, that fist carries a ring with it. Well,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't about to punch a giant stone statue of

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Speaker 1: into that right now. Please don't know. It's a spiritual thing,

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Speaker 1: and you have no spirituality being a Swarthmore grad. No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't go to Swarthmore Oberlin. No, Santa Clarita School

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Speaker 1: of Dynastry. No, You're an elusive and complicated bitch. Toughs.

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Speaker 1: Stop calling me a bit, right, right right? I actually

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Speaker 1: wrote don't call Carolina a bitch on my hand today,

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Speaker 1: says Carolina a bit. I get it now, Okay. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: here's what our sixteenth present said to me. He said, run,

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing because the world's always changing. It's been changing

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Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. Cowards fear the change. They

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Speaker 1: always have Go, he said, go today and see for yourself.

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Speaker 1: Listen to them, yelling that the world needs to go backwards.

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Speaker 1: Go roun Burgundy, go into the crowds of people. See

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Speaker 1: why I am laughing? And so I ran. I ran

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Speaker 1: You needed to understand. But I'm sorry. They have a

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Speaker 1: video of you running through the chambers yelling like a

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Speaker 1: crazy animal. I'm getting to that. Cool your jets, flapjar

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Speaker 1: or cool them for you? You cool your jets? No?

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Speaker 1: very hard to be unclassy. However, if you're dressed like

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Speaker 1: Well that's what was happening. First. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: which made literally no sense to me. But they were

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Speaker 1: they believe the election was stolen from Donald Trump. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know that. I didn't know anything. I was in

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Speaker 1: Washington to take my annual bath and democracy. These these

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Speaker 1: I love yelling. When people yell, I get excited. I

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Speaker 1: was in a Hooters bar in North Carolina one time.

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Speaker 1: Have you been to a Hooters establishment? Um? Yeah, once?

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Speaker 1: But it was ironically, of course, ironically me too. Ironically, yes,

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Speaker 1: I would say sarcastically right. Anyway, the waitresses at Hooters

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Speaker 1: going there. That's what they're famous for. You. Also, the

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Speaker 1: hot Wings are superb Hooters for the best boobies and

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Speaker 1: should be chasing, folks, free out for Hooters. Where was I?

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Speaker 1: You were in the Hooters, North Carolina? That's right. It

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Speaker 1: was a humid and heavy night. The restaurant was overcrowded

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Speaker 1: the crowd became unruly. I would characterize it more like

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Speaker 1: we were all having a good time. The yelling started.

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Speaker 1: I joined in. I love to yell. The crowd was

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Speaker 1: My name is Ron Burgundy. My story is as old

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Speaker 1: It's simple. These photos were photoshopped on a computer. They

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Speaker 1: acting patriotically. How's that that's your defense? Your honor. I object,

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Speaker 1: little bit, just this once, Mr Burgundy, crowds have always

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Speaker 1: Mr Burgundy speak, Thank you, your honor. I'm sorry I

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Speaker 1: I think it's for the better. Where was I you

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Speaker 1: it's all over, Mr Burgundy, This is a court of law.

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Speaker 1: courtship and no law without love. I object. Shut your

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Speaker 1: Since I was a kid, I've always loved a crowd,

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your honor, Hello, distinguished guests,

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Speaker 1: and I stand accused of the crimes of high treason

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Speaker 1: deliberately against the country he loves, in an attempt, along

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Speaker 1: with hundreds of other idiots, to overthrow the House of

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Speaker 1: Congress on January six two one. First of all, may

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Speaker 1: it pleased the court, But I have some explaining to do.

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Speaker 1: Dressage is the highest expression of horse training, where horse

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Speaker 1: and rider are expected to perform from memory a series

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Speaker 1: of predetermined movements. It's a big deal, and I'm one

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Speaker 1: of the sports biggest names. Look it up. I've jured

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Speaker 1: horses and dressage tournaments all over the world. I've taken

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Speaker 1: home golden cups and beautiful sashes. Do I let someone

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Speaker 1: else ride my horses? No? I ride my own horses

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Speaker 1: in the tournament I enter. That's how dedicated I am.

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Speaker 1: My horses and I are welcome. And most of the

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Speaker 1: finest arenas in the world, not Portugal. Because I was

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Speaker 1: accused by my fiercest rival, Artagon del Gregory of Aasquez

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Speaker 1: of cutting the tendon of his horse Thedan before a tournament.

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Speaker 1: All of this will be cleared up in a different

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Speaker 1: courtroom for a different day. My main point is that

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Speaker 1: let's not forget I'm a man of class and I

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Speaker 1: own six horses hoth Gar, Apple, Butter, mr Landau, Templeton Jones,

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Speaker 1: Karen Bradstreet and Octavious Pope. So before I begin my

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Speaker 1: formal closing statement, I just wanted that information out there

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Speaker 1: about Drssage and how I am a big deal in

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Speaker 1: the equine world. Okay, now that that's out of the way,

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Speaker 1: what's next. Let's see. Oh, yeah, I was the only

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Speaker 1: guy in that crowd that day wearing a tie. That

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Speaker 1: should be duly noted. And I rest my case. That's

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Speaker 1: your closing argument. You just told us your horse's names,

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Speaker 1: and you told us what drssages, and then you just

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Speaker 1: said that you wore a tie. Yeah, I mean maybe, well, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I have a lot more. You know, at this point,

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Speaker 1: to try it would probably pull a classic sidebar, you know,

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Speaker 1: something like if it's so, may please the court, May

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Speaker 1: I approach the bench and I would say something like

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Speaker 1: this quietly to the judge and the prosecutor. Your honor.

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Speaker 1: We all know this is bullshit. You know it, I

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Speaker 1: know it, the prosecution knows it. Maybe we should just

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Speaker 1: call it today and the three of us just to

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Speaker 1: find the nearest watering hole. I suggest Tommy Shenanigan's, and

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Speaker 1: I'll buy everyone a scotch. You have already scouted out

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Speaker 1: a bar near the courthouse named Tommy Shenanigans. Is the

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Speaker 1: second time you brought it up, that watering hole? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you can just call it a bar. Yeah, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: But I also don't think you can just approach the

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Speaker 1: bench during your closing arguments. Is that something they taught

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Speaker 1: you at us? Anyway, I'm the lawyer here. You can

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Speaker 1: sidebar whenever you feel like it. Okay, But it doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: because after that persuasive argument about my involvement in the

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Speaker 1: sport of grssage, I would bring it all back around

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Speaker 1: with some real Mr Smith goes to Washington type stuff.

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Speaker 1: Give me an example, Okay, are you prepared to cry? Sure? Well,

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Speaker 1: here it comes the water works, Ladies and gentlemen of

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Speaker 1: the jury. I've laid out my case. I'm a big deal.

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Speaker 1: I'm important in the equine gssage world. We got to

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Speaker 1: move past the dersage. And even though I didn't talk

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Speaker 1: about it much, I have a large collection of painted driftwood.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not here to boast about my great accomplishments. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm here to talk about the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: What is America? When I was a small boy growing

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Speaker 1: up in the Heartland, we had an idea of America.

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Speaker 1: You waved to your neighbors and to your friends at church,

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Speaker 1: and it looked like a stingray bicycle making its way

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Speaker 1: to the five and dime to buy a sling shot

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Speaker 1: with money we had saved from our paper route. We

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Speaker 1: collected string and caught frogs, and we made it home

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Speaker 1: for dinner before it was too late. America was as

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Speaker 1: certain as a B fifty two bomber. And when Walter

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Speaker 1: Croncott came on TV and told us that's the way

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Speaker 1: it is, we slept well, knowing he wouldn't lie to us. Well,

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Speaker 1: something happened over the years. We lost all of this.

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Speaker 1: The Cubs won a World Series, and we voted an

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Speaker 1: unashamed racist and narcissist into our highest office. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: looks like America is over. Not so fast. Let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at what's happened Since I bought that sling

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Speaker 1: shot with my paper route money, women have been appearing

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Speaker 1: in the workplace and higher numbers and with more influence.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe you're saying this right now, unrepresented groups

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Speaker 1: are making their way into places of power. Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Is it happening fast enough? Of course not. But changes

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Speaker 1: on the horizon, and those that fear it will be

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Speaker 1: left behind. Those that see the change as good are

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Speaker 1: the Homo sapiens. They stand on two feet and see

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Speaker 1: the horizon before them, filled with the possibility of hope.

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Speaker 1: They are the true Americans. This is strange to be

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Speaker 1: so aligned with you mentally right now. This is a

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Speaker 1: strange feeling. My name is Ron Burgundy, and I am

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Speaker 1: a patriot. If I was in that capital building on

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Speaker 1: that fateful day, it was because I cannot control myself

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Speaker 1: with loud noises. I have a condition. People were yelling

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Speaker 1: and it looked like fun, so I joined. In the end,

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Speaker 1: I'll leave you with this. I had a dog when

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Speaker 1: I was but a boy. His name was Peter Blakovich,

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Speaker 1: but I called him Pet. We were inseparable, Pet and I.

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Speaker 1: We went everywhere together through the fields and woods, and

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Speaker 1: swimming holes around my town. He wasn't short my best friend.

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Speaker 1: One day I came home from school and Pete wasn't

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Speaker 1: there to meet me at the gate like he always did,

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Speaker 1: bouncing and wagging his tail. My father was on the

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Speaker 1: front porch and I could see his head in his hands,

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Speaker 1: and he was crying. Why are you crying, father, I asked,

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Speaker 1: it's Pet, he said. A lump formed in my throat.

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Speaker 1: I was almost too afraid to ask, is something the

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Speaker 1: matter with Pet? No? Pet's fine, son, he said. Pet

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Speaker 1: ran off with your mother and stole my money in

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Speaker 1: our silverware. I'm ruined. How is this possible? I asked.

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Speaker 1: My father explained Pet was a circus performer and a

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Speaker 1: dog costume. He worked his way into our family, gaining

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Speaker 1: our confidence as a beloved dog. As soon as the

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Speaker 1: coast was clear, he took the money, the silverware, and

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Speaker 1: took your mother and headed for Arizona. I don't believe it,

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Speaker 1: I said. He was our dog for four years. He

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Speaker 1: ate dog food and slept outside in a doghouse. It's

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Speaker 1: called along con Ron, and you'll learn about it as

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Speaker 1: you grow older. Well, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

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Speaker 1: the long con is alive and well, I thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. You never told me that your mom

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Speaker 1: ran away with a man dressed as a dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hard to talk about, Carolina. Did you ever

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Speaker 1: see your mom again? Oh? Yeah, I saw her about

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Speaker 1: three weeks later and for the rest of her life.

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Speaker 1: So she didn't stay with the guy and the dog outfit.

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Speaker 1: She had no idea there was a guy in a

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Speaker 1: dog costume. She literally fell in love with Pet, a dog, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and eloped with him. But when the circus performer inside

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Speaker 1: the pet costume revealed himself, she was heartbroken and came home.

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Speaker 1: So she didn't know it was a guy in a

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Speaker 1: dog costume. She just fell in love with your family dog. Jesus, Yes, Carolina,

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Speaker 1: she eloped with a dog. My mother fell in love

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Speaker 1: with a dog, left her family of six children and

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Speaker 1: a husband for a dog named Pet. Okay, okay, are

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Speaker 1: you happy dredging up this awful episode in My Child?

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Speaker 1: Are you okay? I'm so sorry for laughing. It's just

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Speaker 1: so ron. Let's move on. That's enough podcast for today.

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Speaker 1: Um To our listeners, the word for the day was

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Speaker 1: pali waller, meaning nonsense or jelly. Foil the opinions expressed

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Speaker 1: in today's podcast, or the opinions held by only the

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Speaker 1: finest and best people. The Ron Burgundy Podcast is not

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Speaker 1: responsible for how you live your life. But on behalf

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Speaker 1: of Ron Burgundy, who's going to be okay, he's just

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Speaker 1: getting it out. I will say, stay classy, America,