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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: Jettie and he arms wrong. I'm a tram a studio

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Speaker 1: see see senior, A dimly let room deeper than the

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Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Today we

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Speaker 1: are under the tutelage of our general manager, not the tariffs,

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Speaker 1: not the terrors, our first ever negative general manager. They everbind.

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Speaker 1: So I'm slightly distracted. Then I'm going to get my

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Speaker 1: to get my egg together. Okay, I was out spitting

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Speaker 1: on the way in again, did you it looked like

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Speaker 1: why I feel like this. I have no idea, but

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Speaker 1: I really it is subsided a little from when I

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Speaker 1: other people who are pop passed out in either vomiting

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Speaker 1: or other or worse, any of them employees. Yes, just

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Speaker 1: see Hans in the the RV. There's an RV parked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so my kid is going to law school far

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Speaker 2: enough from the radio ranch.

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Speaker 1: It's irrelevant. But man, the neurovirus is everywhere, is it really? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pupkin and poop, and it's just it's rough. I haven't

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Speaker 1: the stories about those cruise ships. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: what management would do here. They would lock the doors

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Speaker 1: and make us all live in here like a cruise

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Speaker 1: ship until we were over it. Right. You know, I

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Speaker 1: I just it's not appropriate. People wouldn't enjoy it. I'll

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Speaker 1: restrain myself for once. Oh man, all right, So explain

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Speaker 1: the whole tariff situation.

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Speaker 2: They look well, Donald J came hard at the Mexicans

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Speaker 1: We got to put that aside. Their dirty comedies. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to take over the globe. They commit genocides, that

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Speaker 1: they're they're they're a horrible regime. But our neighbors are

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Speaker 1: our friendly neighbors to the north and the south. He

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Speaker 1: came at them hard with the big giant tariffs if

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Speaker 1: other things, and and and honestly, and I kind of

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Speaker 1: predicted this. They came with some small to medium concessions

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Speaker 1: We'll hold back on those big giant tariffs. So they're

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Speaker 1: not my area of expertise or interest. Really, uh this

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Speaker 1: I think Trump became more aware that more people were saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: It's just a early February. We've got to get used

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Speaker 1: to the unique Trump style of chaotic leadership and not

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Speaker 1: figure out. Speaking of MSNBC, I was watching Stephanie Rule's

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Speaker 1: bind over Trump trying to shrink government in a variety

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Speaker 1: all the workers saying, hey, you all can quit if

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has gotten access to a bunch of information

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Speaker 1: that is supposed to be scary, and it's trying to

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Speaker 1: that's a threat, but the it's it's interesting to me

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Speaker 1: how for because I don't have this mindset. So's it's

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Speaker 1: They would put it like the federal government should be

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Speaker 1: themselves public servants. Well, if you're a public servant as

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Speaker 1: So I was just listening to a report on NPR

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Speaker 1: stuff that can't be But the other pushback that drives

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Speaker 1: Would be the government. Why not? It is responsible to

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Speaker 1: do that, and the government has the opportunity to do that. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's so maddening. Now, it's frustrating to me because I

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Speaker 1: don't think Trump and Elon are going to get very far.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that they are taking the biggest swing

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Speaker 2: Let's see, and let's see if Trump in this one

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Speaker 1: Who knows, chip away, chip away, Let's start the show efficiently. Oh,

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Speaker 1: what's on the table of options here for me? Eight?

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Speaker 1: Something bad? I don't think that's on the table. Yeah, illness.

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Speaker 2: I doubt Well no, no, no, I don't mean like

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Speaker 2: life's threatening. I mean like you know, it was your

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Speaker 2: too much of something last night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. You know what I should do

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Speaker 1: is I should just google fatigue nausea? What could that

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Speaker 1: be hopefully stage four bank grant cancer. It's the only thing.

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Speaker 1: Let's start to show you slept poorly last night, one

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Speaker 1: of the other. Exactly, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty

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Speaker 1: mark at the Mexican Cartel plans on using drones as

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Speaker 3: Or obviously I could stand for that lawrence, the most

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the cartels, just what is their association with

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Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Jim Rown.

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Speaker 2: You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances.

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Speaker 2: The seasons are the wind. But you can change yourself.

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Speaker 2: That is some thing you have charge of.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: They're in that theme. You are not a victim of

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Speaker 2: We sometimes the captain of the ship needs only to

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Speaker 2: and Giddy dot com. Definitely not Scott in Danville, California.

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Speaker 2: with my bride for our honeymoon. Anyway, very common protest

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Speaker 3: Good news for anyone hoping to score a last minute

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Speaker 3: Super Bowl ticket. Tickets for the could be historic game

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Speaker 1: I don't think that has anything to do with it.

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about? Day to day? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: you guys are starting to be a couple of negative nannies.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday you were whining about Trump's tariffs. Thirty minutes later,

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Speaker 1: Trump is at fifty two approved thirty eight disapproved, the

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Speaker 1: You know, Tim so sanderfer is great, No bad things,

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Speaker 2: This is a Congressman, Jamie Raskin, who evidently has his

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Speaker 2: practical governance is to frighten the voters with a never

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Speaker 2: ending series of hobgoblins. Please, Elon Musk is going to

433
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Speaker 2: become some sort of king. I'll bet you a dollary doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Before we get to what China just announced. I thought

435
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Speaker 2: Mark Helprin's right up on the tariff thing of the

436
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Speaker 2: last twenty four hour was interesting. First, he lays out

437
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Speaker 2: a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump blinked,

438
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Speaker 2: and a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump

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Speaker 2: showed how he is the master of the art of

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Speaker 2: the deal. Halpern writes Trump got exactly what he wanted

441
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Speaker 2: in a rare moment of day trader playing a medium

442
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Speaker 2: term game demonstrating to Europe that, as with Columbia, the country,

443
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Speaker 2: not the university, they can do this the hard way

444
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Speaker 2: or the easy way.

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Speaker 1: Let me read you a quote from the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: It gets Trump just right on this topic. He thrives

447
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Speaker 1: in chaos, he thrives in uncertainty. John Feeley, the former

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Speaker 1: US Ambassador of panamaon deputy Chief of Mission in Mexico,

449
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Speaker 1: said of mister Trump, he doesn't need to have a metric.

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Speaker 1: You're making a mistake if you think he's sitting there

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Speaker 1: at a spreadsheet. He's not. He's sitting there looking at headlines.

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Speaker 1: And if he feels like the headlines are mostly that

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Speaker 1: the other side back down, which I think that is

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Speaker 1: what the headlines mostly are, then he considers it a win.

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Speaker 2: Right, and he obviously his modus operandi is chaos is

456
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Speaker 2: when we to describe it, everybody being uneasy and everything

457
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Speaker 2: being up in the air, and everybody else like with

458
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Speaker 2: wide eyes. He has, like a predator realized, Okay, that's

459
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Speaker 2: when I'm at my most efficient.

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Speaker 1: That's when I get the most stuff done.

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Speaker 2: So he shows those seats, Hey, can we get back

462
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Speaker 2: to the federal workforce thing for a minute. The idea

463
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Speaker 2: of government jobs going away to being terrible and Elon

464
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Speaker 2: Musk being some sort of horrific, befanged creature. It's it's

465
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Speaker 2: chewing up lives and souls as he ranges unchecked across Washington, DC.

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Speaker 2: Love this from the Free Press. I think it's Nelly

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Speaker 2: Bowles writing. She points out that Bill Clinton, because everybody's

468
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Speaker 2: freaking out over Doge and the White House sending out

469
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Speaker 2: that email saying fork in the road, if you'd like

470
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Speaker 2: to quit your government job, will let you collect eight

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Speaker 2: months worth of pay for not working, and blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: and everybody's pretending like that's some sort of outrage or

473
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Speaker 2: maybe if it's even illegal to send emails to.

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Speaker 1: The government workers or something.

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Speaker 2: So she's talking about that, and she talked about how

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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton offered did the same thing. He offered a

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Speaker 2: buyout for all federal workers back in the day. The

478
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Speaker 2: move saved the government almost one hundred and ten billion

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Speaker 2: dollars over five years, but this time federal workers have

480
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Speaker 2: responded with rage. Reddit is full of government workers saying

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Speaker 2: they feel unsafe about the email.

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Speaker 1: Oh please, I know, Oh my god, you are a

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Speaker 1: I most use the P word, which is a little harsh.

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Speaker 1: You should be you should be ashamed of yourself, embarrassed

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Speaker 1: for yourself. Yeah, America needs, I don't know, to start

486
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Speaker 1: producing testicles in factories so we can hand them out

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Speaker 1: to people. You have become such a and there's so many,

488
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Speaker 1: There are so many tough, smart women in the world.

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Speaker 1: I hate to even use some of those metaphors because

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Speaker 1: it's there are plenty of women who endure much and

491
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Speaker 1: complain little and kick ass. But it's just there's got

492
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Speaker 1: to be a better way to describe it. Anyway. A

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Speaker 1: bull of workers decided might actually be.

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Speaker 2: Illegal to email them all in ur suing the Office

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Speaker 2: of Personnel Management. If you work through the government, the

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Speaker 2: whole point is you never get emails, or at least

497
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Speaker 2: you never have to respond to them.

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Speaker 1: I saw one saw TikTok.

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Speaker 2: A one federal worker explaining that work from home is

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Speaker 2: essential because now our colleagues are going to have to

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Speaker 2: figure out childcare, which was the first time I learned

502
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Speaker 2: that federal workers are also full time stay at home moms.

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Speaker 2: NPR has dived into the new reign of commuting terror,

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Speaker 2: highlighting a government worker who commutes to the office two

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Speaker 2: days a week by driving twenty minutes to the train

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Speaker 2: and then taking a train for forty minutes. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm so exhausted at the end of the day, this

508
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Speaker 2: worker says, Oh my god. By that third morning, when

509
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Speaker 2: I'm you know, waking up and teleworking, I'm just so

510
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Speaker 2: brain dead.

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Speaker 1: It's actually hard to focus that next day. And I

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Speaker 1: cannot imagine trying to get in the car and go

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Speaker 1: in a third day. You've got to be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: A third day, Nellie writes, I bet this guy's running

515
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Speaker 1: the irs. Wow. Wow, So asking you to ease back

516
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Speaker 1: to coming to work, I don't know, two or three

517
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Speaker 1: days a week is so awful, so cruel, So it's.

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Speaker 2: Practically slavery ish. It's completely out of bounce. Wow, folks.

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Speaker 1: I don't think our government is too unbloated. I'll just

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Speaker 1: say that, yeah, And I know we're gonna get pushed

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Speaker 1: back on the text line from people in government work

522
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Speaker 1: who talk about how hard they work and some other project.

523
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Speaker 1: And that my very, very true. But I do think

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Speaker 1: people who work in government, especially over time, completely lose

525
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Speaker 1: track of how in the private sector, you think you're

526
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Speaker 1: gonna get fired every day of your life, every day

527
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Speaker 1: of your freaking life. Certainly recognize it's possibility, yes, And

528
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: it happens regularly and out of nowhere and at bad times,

529
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Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do about it, and nobody

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Speaker 1: writes an op ed piece about it. It's just the

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Speaker 1: company cuts back ten percent and sends out an email.

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Speaker 1: And you know, a thousand of your friends are gone

533
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: across the country, right and you text them or go

534
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: out to lunch with them and say how it sucks.

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Speaker 1: And it happens every single day. You know. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna give the metaphor of.

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Speaker 2: Sports teams that they get rid of a fair number

538
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Speaker 2: of their players every single year because they figure they

539
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Speaker 2: can do better, because their pursuit is of excellence. It's

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Speaker 2: not some sort of jobs program where everybody assumes they

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Speaker 2: will be employed for life. It's well, it's one of

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Speaker 2: the reasons FDR was staunchly against public employee unions. But

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Speaker 2: we have definitely gotten ourselves into a place where there

544
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Speaker 2: are a perverse set of beliefs about anyone employed by

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Speaker 2: the government.

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Speaker 1: Reverse and utterly unhealthy. And I can understand how the

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Speaker 1: people that have those jobs push back. I'm just surprised

548
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Speaker 1: that there's such a big constituency out there of people

549
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Speaker 1: in the private sector who are so for a big,

550
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Speaker 1: bloated government full of government workers getting your money that

551
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Speaker 1: can't be fired without paying any attention to how much

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Speaker 1: they get done or accomplish anything, or are needed.

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably hard for people like us and

554
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Speaker 2: a lot of the folks listening to get inside the

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Speaker 2: head of somebody who considered as considers it an article

556
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Speaker 2: of faith.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just it's an unquestionable truth that the government

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Speaker 1: is here to help me.

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Speaker 2: The more government it is, the more problems they will solve.

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Speaker 2: I just I can't imagine what the sky looks like

561
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Speaker 2: in your world.

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Speaker 1: It seems crazy to me. So we didn't get to

563
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Speaker 1: the China announce some tariffs on us, but maybe we'll

564
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Speaker 1: do that now or two. We got Katie's headlines on

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Speaker 1: the way stay here. You know what it makes me feel

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Speaker 1: better is a chocolate covered strawberry crem frappuccino that hits

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Speaker 1: Starbucks today. I guess it's one of their popular Valentine's

568
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Speaker 1: Day themed drinks. Even though Starbucks announce the other day

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Speaker 1: they're cutting their menu by a third, the number of

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Speaker 1: the drinks they have by a third, because I think

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Speaker 1: that's part of the reason there businesses down. They have

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Speaker 1: too many options and it's confused things. But uh, chocolate

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Speaker 1: covered strawberry crim frappuccino you got at the coffee shop, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's your you're gonna get. I'm gonna stop buy and

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Speaker 1: get some coffee. Does it tell you how many grams

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Speaker 1: of sugar or in that thing? No? I should look

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Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, the faton and sugar would be insane

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Speaker 1: on that. Yeah. Yeah. I talked to Gal the other day.

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Speaker 1: I was telling me about how she stopped every single

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Speaker 1: day and got a big old one of those and

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Speaker 1: not slender either. But you don't each the first of all,

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Speaker 1: have our challenges. First of all, it's like that's probably

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Speaker 1: ten dollars a day. Yeah uh and then yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, let's figure out who's reporting what it's knock

585
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Speaker 2: story with not one that it sounded like my dad.

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Speaker 1: Non capable of restraints. That was at the lead story

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Speaker 1: from Katy Green Katie starting.

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Speaker 4: With NBC Elon Musk and Doge are hacking at the government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you either you're either like reflexibly think awesome,

590
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Speaker 1: I hope they can pull it off or you're horrified.

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Speaker 1: Apparently just looking at the reddit thread. The fed worker

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Speaker 1: reddit thread will be reading some of that later. It's

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Speaker 1: its own industry. They feel like they're an industry, which

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Speaker 1: they are, and they're under attack, and so they're rallying

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Speaker 1: the troops.

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Speaker 2: I think you were absolutely right, though, that the dynamics

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Speaker 2: of the free market that the rest of US deal

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Speaker 2: with all the time, they've drifted so far from it.

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Speaker 2: It's inconceivable to them that a job would go away.

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Speaker 1: How would a job go away? I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: From the Washington Post, China strikes back at Trump's tariffs

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Speaker 4: with levies on US imports.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Decoupling is going to be painful and difficult and long

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Speaker 2: with China, but absolutely necessary, particularly critical goods and industries.

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Speaker 2: We can't be getting our drugs from China, nor our computers,

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Speaker 2: nor our weapons.

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Speaker 4: For ABC News, Gabber gave support from two key GOP

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Speaker 4: senators ahead of confirmation votes.

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Speaker 1: So the votes are today right on Gabbard and RFK Junior,

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Speaker 1: So that'll be big news from USA today.

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Speaker 4: Rubio says El Salvador has offered to jail US criminals

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Speaker 4: and deportees of any nationality.

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Speaker 1: Well think I have information on that. It's really interesting, cool,

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Speaker 1: and there are a couple of aspects of it that

616
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Speaker 1: are probably a bit too much, but we'll talk about.

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Speaker 1: From the Wall Street.

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Speaker 4: Journal, the Super Bowl has never seen anything like these

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Speaker 4: five gigantic humans. Apparently the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line is historically.

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Speaker 1: Large, really average six foot six. Do you have that

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Speaker 1: those numbers in front of you, Katie, I do. They're

622
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Speaker 1: be a myths. That's how they pull off the whole

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Speaker 1: tush push thing. That's a big part of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where they us, they're just so big they can just

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Speaker 1: move any line forward a foot or a yard or

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Speaker 1: whatever they need.

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Speaker 4: On average, they stand at six six and weigh three

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Speaker 4: hundred and thirty eight pounds.

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Speaker 1: That's the average sheeperidge. Holy crap, an average three thirty

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Speaker 1: eight for every slender three point fifteen, or you got

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Speaker 1: a three sixty guy out. Wow, six six mid threes

632
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Speaker 1: is a big dude. Yeah, I mean, holy crap.

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Speaker 4: From brightbart dot com, waffle House adds fifty cent surch

634
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Speaker 4: charge per egg due to bird flu.

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Speaker 1: There you go, huh, I'm gonna start throwing chairs, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: The only waffle house is gonna cost three dollars. The

637
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Speaker 1: only thing you can do a waffle house if they

638
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Speaker 1: hit you at that price is walk over to that

639
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Speaker 1: guy and punch him in the face. Exactly from the

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Speaker 1: Smoking Gun.

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Speaker 4: Twenty two year old stripper busted for banana battery at

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Speaker 4: seven to eleven store.

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Speaker 1: She beat up the clerk with a banana. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of hot. Wow.

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Speaker 4: You know I expected something, but not that.

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Speaker 1: Wow. What disgusting?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, on that note, the Babylon Bee illegal immigrants

648
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Speaker 4: helpfully wave flags, so I snow which country to send

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Speaker 4: them back to.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, I love that. I saw two strippers fight

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Speaker 1: at a bar one time, and there were lots of

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Speaker 1: guys around watching. The interesting thing was a midget broke

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Speaker 1: up the fight. That's what made it the Hemingway like

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Speaker 1: short story that it was two strippers and a bar

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Speaker 1: fighting and a fight broken up by a midget, a

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Speaker 1: small person. I'm sorry, we're on acid right now? Does

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Speaker 1: somebody slip acid in my coffee? Where was I? We

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Speaker 1: had crossed the border from North Carolina to South Carolina

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Speaker 1: where they shut down the bars two hours later, so

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Speaker 1: it was like three in the morning or something. All right, Hemingway,

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Speaker 1: you gotta paint a picture for me. What was the

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Speaker 1: the the exotic dancer's state of dress and or undressed

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Speaker 1: At that point, they were wearing clothes. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is a bar. They were just probably wearing like Jeane

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Speaker 1: shorts and a tank top or something good enough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: exactly enough. Yeah, I don't know what they were fighting about. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we have more details in the Chinese tariffs and other

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Speaker 1: things on the way. Our two Armstrong and Getty