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

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy. You know, that

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Speaker 1: whole mommy party daddy party thing is a pretty decent

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Speaker 1: like shorthand for describing Republicans versus Democrats a lot. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I hate the being the eat your

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Speaker 1: real life. I never eat vegetables, but uh, just dealing

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Speaker 1: with you know, the realities of life and things you

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Speaker 1: gotta do and that sort of thing. But that's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of what this segment is going to be.

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Speaker 1: So there's a Bricks conference going on in in Russia.

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Speaker 1: So the Bricks Group, back before we realized Putin was

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Speaker 1: completely evil, and definitely before we realized China was evil

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Speaker 1: or were admitted to ourselves that China was evil, people

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Speaker 1: started talking about the bricks countries, the emerging economies and

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Speaker 1: the world stage. Brazil, Russia, India, China. It was just brick.

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Speaker 1: And now they've added South Africa to make it bricks.

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Speaker 1: And now they've actually gone plus where they add in

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Speaker 1: a couple of other countries, including Iran. Now many of

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Speaker 1: these countries are enemies of the United States, but they're meeting.

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Speaker 1: They're having their big conference, kind of trying to offset

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Speaker 1: the g seventh Summit, which is like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: United States and Britain and France and people like that.

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Speaker 1: This bricks thing is in Russia. So this whole idea

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Speaker 1: that Putin was going to become a pariah and isolated

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Speaker 1: on the world stage and their economy was going to

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Speaker 1: not so much. No, they started their own club. They

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Speaker 1: add up to well more than half the world's population

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Speaker 1: are meeting Putin in Russia. And guess who's gonna be

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Speaker 1: there with them. The General Secretary of the UN unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: That guy's a monster. He is a piece of crap.

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Speaker 1: So he lectures Israel about committing a genocide or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but goes to Russia to meet with Putin and she

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Speaker 1: for the Brick Summit. Here's a little news story about

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Speaker 1: what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now.

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Speaker 2: This is the safest way out of Bahmut, but not

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Speaker 2: really safe at all. Video obtained by CNN of the

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Speaker 2: view from a Ukrainian armored vehicle shows the wasteland the

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Speaker 2: this that Marina and Yevhenia escaped from Bahmut. Their building

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Speaker 2: was hid in a bombardment last Thursday, killing three among them.

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Speaker 2: You have Hennia's thirty three year old grandson. I had

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Speaker 2: to help him, she recalls, but I couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 2: They waited in their ruined homes with the dead for

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Speaker 2: three days before the army could rescue them. Marina's daughter

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Speaker 2: was married to Ye have Henya's grandson. What will I

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Speaker 2: tell my daughter? Cries Medina. She and my grandchildren are

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Speaker 2: in Poland. The shelter nearby, chase Yare, provides them some

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Speaker 2: comfort and warmth, but they're still not out of danger.

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Speaker 1: So Putin continues to bomb these little towns, just completely indiscriminately.

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Speaker 1: In fact, if it's a hospital or a school, that's

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Speaker 1: a better target. Just one more. This is a very

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Speaker 1: short clip of what Than's doing.

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Speaker 2: This town is well within range of Russian guns, and

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Speaker 2: since the battle for Bahmut began seven months ago, it

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Speaker 2: has regularly come under shelling. On this day, the Russians

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Speaker 2: were firing incendiary munitions over the city designed to cause

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Speaker 1: So, how in the world can there be any public

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Speaker 1: while being okay with Russia doing what they're doing in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do you possibly square that circle?

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Speaker 3: Because most appeals to morality or principle, whether in domestic

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Speaker 1: So your theory is they don't believe the crap they're saying,

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Speaker 1: almost never at that level. So at the college kid level,

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Speaker 1: they believe it, but they're just ignorant of the reality

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Speaker 1: of the world. They were focused on the Israeli Palestinian

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Speaker 1: thing by professors and just don't have this on their radar,

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Speaker 1: the fact of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and

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Speaker 1: over half the world's meeting there right now and slapping

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Speaker 1: to be able to do this more often rather than

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the kids, the college kids were indoctrinated successfully by

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Speaker 3: the very people who I'm talking about, who again will

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Speaker 3: raw exercise and accumulation of power that it's horrifying.

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Speaker 1: The whole world could look like bach Moot if Russia

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Speaker 1: different than the size of Gaza. We have like two hospitals.

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Speaker 1: They seem to have a hospital on every block in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: It's always a hospital. They claim everything in the hospital,

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Speaker 1: but they actually bomb standalone hospitals. Russia does, and China

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Speaker 3: Going on at those hospitals except the care of patients,

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Speaker 1: And if you don't think Russia would do that to

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Speaker 1: just you're delusional. Yeah, it's a little tiring.

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Speaker 3: The Western world, in short and ato if you want,

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Speaker 3: and through the yers of success and affluence, we have

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Speaker 3: descended into a incredibly self indulgent, self congratulatory illusion that

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Speaker 1: It's not, it's not. It is until the moment that

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Speaker 3: The moment somebody is willing to challenge that with the

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Speaker 3: raw exercise of power, it gets back to being about

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Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be horrifying that these countries are getting

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Speaker 1: together with Putin. Well, Putin can't go anywhere, he'd get

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Speaker 1: taken out or arrested by us. But the fact that

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Speaker 1: there should be protests in the street. Whether you care

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Speaker 1: about genocides or the environment, is the environment you think?

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Speaker 1: These are the biggest polluters in the world, representing over

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Speaker 3: Other than if it helps out their economy. Are you nuts? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I agree with you one hundred percent. My only quibbal

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Speaker 3: is that it's completely unsurprising that these people are meeting

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Speaker 1: Iran, China and Russia getting together for a conference, and

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Speaker 1: then these other countries perfectly willing. I mean, India is

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Speaker 1: not evil, but they're perfectly willing to meet with these

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Speaker 3: Power and self interest run the world. I always have,

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Speaker 3: always will correct well when we do it. This is

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Speaker 3: my favorite thing that Henry Kissinger would always say, countries

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Speaker 3: are it's okay for a country to look out for

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Speaker 3: its self interest, including the United States, but how many

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Speaker 3: for their self interest, but not the United States.

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Speaker 1: When we do it, it's somehow awful.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, according to Howard Zinn and our entire educational

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I don't mean to just depress the crap

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Speaker 3: entitled person who has completely forgotten about how Grandpa built

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Speaker 3: and on about liberal values because that gets them cachet

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Speaker 3: real world, they would fail immediately. They have completely lost survivability.

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Speaker 3: I feel that way about our country sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanted to bring up that bricks conference

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Speaker 1: just so if you end up in a situation where

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Speaker 1: and the leaders of Iran in Russia, I've got some

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Speaker 1: perfect example of what I was drawning on about. Coming

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Speaker 1: China and their infiltration of the United States. There is

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Speaker 1: live anywhere but like farm country. Wow guaranteed. And Liz

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Speaker 1: Cheney actually brought up an interesting thing opposite direction of

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Speaker 1: what she was in intending about who you would let

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Speaker 1: babysit your kids. I want to ask that questions. See

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Speaker 1: You can scream it at your radio. Stay here.

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Speaker 4: interrupt Sunday's Philly Eagles game to encourage them to vote.

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Speaker 4: It's part of a new assisted suicide campaign.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bother much of Eagles fans, Philly fans watch their

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Speaker 1: Is that a sports joke, That's that's the point they're

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Speaker 1: intense fans. Jeck, Okay, gotcha, Yeah, that's the nature of

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Speaker 3: So ranting earlier about how the United States and the

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Speaker 3: aging limousine liberal our. The hard scrabble generations are years

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Speaker 3: spouting you know, progressive valueues because we've built.

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Speaker 3: Prosperous world through the opposite of those values, that we

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Speaker 3: last segment, which is, in the real world, nothing matters

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Speaker 3: but power and self interest. If you can use your

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Speaker 3: your nature, to paraphrase Lincoln. But once you lose lose

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Speaker 3: sight of the fact that the quest for power around

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Speaker 3: the world is an utterly practical one and is not

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Speaker 3: all flowery and filled with principle. Once you lose sight

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Speaker 3: of that, you're in serious danger. Anyway, I've referenced this

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Speaker 3: or may not rhyme with the Bouniversity of Ballifornia at Bavis.

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Speaker 3: Well for the modern era, for the present day, they

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Speaker 3: If you around your head, if you bend your knife

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Speaker 1: it anyway. Here's an article in Politico this is new

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Speaker 1: So why would you put that again? Trump arrangement syndrome.

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Speaker 6: I need that money for groceries and bills. But the

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Speaker 6: Cutting social Security is like giving the middle finger to

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Speaker 1: it's a one sided deal.

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Speaker 3: And that side that ran that ad insists to you

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Speaker 3: that they are so noble and above it all that

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Speaker 3: they should be gifted with the power to censor what

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Speaker 3: they perceive to be misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, which was

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Speaker 3: the greatest example ever of people using lots of words

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Speaker 3: to sound smart, even though those all are the same insane.

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Speaker 1: God would load a crap. I know that's incredible, it

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Speaker 1: really is. That can't last, right, Don't enough people see

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Speaker 1: through this at this point? Then it becomes so cynical

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Speaker 1: that you just don't believe either side is telling the truth.

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Speaker 3: No, because the old stor who watches the Alphabet Networks

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Speaker 3: evening news heard that is terrified is going to vote

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Speaker 3: for Commlin.

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Speaker 1: There's no time to get through to them.

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Speaker 3: And because a fascinating aspect of human psychology, which you've

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Speaker 3: highlighted through the years, you tend to believe that which

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Speaker 3: you hear first, even after it's refuted.

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Speaker 1: Boy, look for that in your own life. I run

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Speaker 1: into that pretty regularly, and now that I know that,

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Speaker 1: it sometimes pops into my head. Okay, you're fighting this

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Speaker 1: because you heard first that this is true and now

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Speaker 1: you know it's not, but you're still knee jerk fighting

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Speaker 1: for the original position. It's just the way our brains

458
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Speaker 1: are built for some reason. It's troubling actually, and shows

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Speaker 1: you why salesmanship and politics are the way they are.

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Speaker 1: And one more thing I'm on to thrown about this. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there are two big articles today. The AP's got one

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Speaker 1: that The New York Times got one about how Trump

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Speaker 1: is basic going to base his first term off the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five project. It's just well known here are

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Speaker 1: the ties between the Heritage fundation. And you know he's

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Speaker 1: said over and over that he's not that he doesn't

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Speaker 1: even know what it is. Which do you think Trump

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Speaker 1: has read the twenty twenty five project. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's ever read anything.

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Speaker 3: No, No, for goodness sakes again, project twenty twenty five

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Speaker 3: is like so many other things churned out by think tanks.

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Speaker 3: The Brookings Institution has cranked out some wish list of

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Speaker 3: progressive crap recently, I'm sure, and a bunch of Obama

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Speaker 3: heights and Biden Night's work at the Brookings Institution.

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Speaker 1: It's fine.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't mean Kamala Harris authored the damn thing. It's

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Speaker 3: just more phoniness. Why are they resorting to outright lies

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Speaker 3: and phone well? Can you can you think of a

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Speaker 3: single reason why?

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Speaker 1: Desperation? Maybe they're losing on the issues, So are you

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Speaker 1: gonna do any of the too sy Friday night when

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Speaker 1: you're partying. That's the hot new drug. I'm sorry, the

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Speaker 1: what now, tucy? That's the hot new drug some some

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Speaker 1: people some people t u s I. I'm not positive

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Speaker 1: you pronounce it w uh or pink cocaine, pink colorcane

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Speaker 1: or the toosy. It's a cocktail that contains ketamine, ecstasy

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Speaker 1: in meth, actually doesn't have cocaine in it, but they call.

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Speaker 3: It ketamine ecstasy and mad well it's a timesaver.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow? Is that for people? That's like meth just

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Speaker 1: not doing it for me, or ketamine or ecstasy.

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Speaker 3: You know, I might have a glass of pinot with dinner,

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Speaker 3: but I'll pass on the toosi.

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Speaker 1: So if you hear anybody reference it, Hey, you want

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Speaker 1: to do a little tuosie before we go to the concert.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is. That would be a hard No.

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Speaker 1: The pink can, the pink cocaine which has no oh

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Speaker 1: cocaine in it. That's mislabeling kennemine rocks without evidence. That

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I have a warning for you if

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Speaker 1: you're thinking of getting the iPhone sixteen, I have a

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Speaker 1: warning before you do it. If you're at the Apple

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Speaker 1: store right now, wait until you hear and my warning

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Speaker 1: among other things coming up. Stay tuned, he getty.

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Speaker 7: So a woman in Australia got stuck upside down between

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Speaker 7: two rocks for seven hours, all because she lost her phone.

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Speaker 7: She dropped it was trying to get it back when

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Speaker 7: she fell into a ten foot crevice or is that curvross.

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Speaker 7: When rescuers were finally able to get her out, she

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Speaker 7: had only some scratches and bruises. The phone is still

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Speaker 7: between the rocks.

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Speaker 1: How do you fall and get wedged upside down and

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Speaker 1: not get hurt? I would think you'd be terribly hurt,

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Speaker 1: your head or somethinged and your head get it was

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Speaker 1: a classic wedge to me.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, so your hip Scott wedge, but your

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Speaker 3: head was not being squashed by rocks or whatever. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: maybe she's a little hippie. That doesn't make her a

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Speaker 3: bad woman, right, women tend to accumulate weight or in

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Speaker 3: the middle of the body.

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Speaker 1: It's all right. That actually might be the answer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she might be shaped in such a way that yeah, yes.

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Speaker 3: Low center of gravity, Yeah, saved her life. Perhaps that's

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Speaker 3: why if she was built like a little boy, like

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Speaker 3: the damn magazine models.

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Speaker 1: It's unrealistic. She just slipped right down and cracked her head.

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Speaker 1: She'd be dead now. Somebody texted this on the topic

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Speaker 1: of would you like Saved by the Booty? That would

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Speaker 1: be my headline, but the movie, the Hallmark movie, will

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Speaker 1: be called Saved by the Booty. M Ellen DeGeneres used

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Speaker 1: to do a comedy bit telling about how she won

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Speaker 1: a survey once on who would be best to babysit

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Speaker 1: your kid? She'd say me a childless lesbian comedian, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty funny on the topic of would you let

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Speaker 1: Trump baby sit your kid? So, speaking of phone, so

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Speaker 1: you don't end up wedged upside down? Telling you about

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Speaker 1: the iPhone sixteen. So one cool feature kind of in theory,

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Speaker 1: it's a good idea is it's got a new button

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00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: on the side that is quite sensitive. You click it

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Speaker 1: once and you're in camera mode. And so the idea

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Speaker 1: is instead of like, as something pops up you want

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Speaker 1: to take a picture of, you know, your kid or

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Speaker 1: I don't know, a fight starts at a McDonald's or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is you want to do. Yeah, you just

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Speaker 1: like just one click and you're you're immediately taking pictures

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Speaker 1: and if you hold it for a second and then

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Speaker 1: you're immediately taken video. So it's it's kind of handy

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Speaker 1: and theory, but the problem is it's in a place

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Speaker 1: where I'm constantly accidentally switching on the camera or the

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Speaker 1: video all the time. And like, for instance, I was

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Speaker 1: going through my photos yesterday to try to find some

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Speaker 1: news thing. I screen capture news all day long. There's me,

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Speaker 1: there's my wang, me completely naked. Oh lord, me completely

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Speaker 1: naked in my bathroom. I'd gotten on my phone, you know,

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Speaker 1: to check the news, and had taken a picture of

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Speaker 1: me out fresh out of the shower. And I've learned,

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Speaker 1: and I've never had picture like that in my phone,

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Speaker 1: and I did. I didn't even know it was there

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00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: because of that dang button. So you gotta be careful.

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Speaker 1: I find all kinds of stray photos, like here's a

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Speaker 1: trash can, here's the inside of my car, here's or whatever,

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Speaker 1: because I grabbed and then I accidentally.

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Speaker 3: But I'll text to a fifteen year old girl, you're

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Speaker 3: on her anthony waynter.

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Speaker 1: You got me, really careful or you're accidentally taking pictures

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Speaker 1: all the time, I shay guilty the court of Judge Joe,

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Speaker 1: why would I want that? That's the last thing I want.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine final thought, sweet thing.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the fact that exists in the world is

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Speaker 1: horrifying to me. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I about a final.

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Speaker 3: Thought from everybody in the cruder wrap things up for

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Speaker 3: the day. Michaelangelow Ar technical director, will lead the way, Michael, Well,

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 7: Looking at getting the iPhone sixteen, but after hearing that,

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Speaker 7: I might just go with thirteen or fourteen.

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Speaker 1: This, you know exactly don't need the newest stuff. No, no,

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Speaker 1: you know it's it's too dangerous, Michael. Katie Greener seemed

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Speaker 1: to Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that whole I was looking at the news naked

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Speaker 1: and I accidentally took it. It sounds like groundwork there, Jack,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, somebody's going to get a picture.

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Speaker 4: Well, what I do mean too?

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Speaker 1: It was the platin Trust me, if I ever wanted

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Speaker 1: to take a picture like that, the lighting and angle

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Speaker 1: would be a lot better than was. That was not

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Speaker 1: a flattering No lord portray naked.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you encouraged this conversation Katie, You're to blame Jackie.

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Speaker 1: A final thought for us if yesterday was in the indication,

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Speaker 1: the lead story on ABC News being the ridiculousness about

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Speaker 1: minimum wage, this last two weeks of the election is

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Speaker 1: going to be a lot of really low brow pandering. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree.

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Speaker 3: My only final thought is that I've realized that Italian

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Speaker 3: food is my kryptonite.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason is.

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Speaker 3: It's the tomato sauce, the spices at it, whether it's

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Speaker 3: pizza or I had this fabulous meat bald dish last

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Speaker 3: night and I knew I should stop it. I went

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Speaker 3: back for more. And I'm usually pretty disciplined, but it's

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Speaker 3: Italian food. I can't resist.

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Speaker 1: It's the food of my childhood. Armstrong and Getty wrapping,

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Speaker 1: I'm another grueling four hour workday. What's the matter? You

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Speaker 1: put down? The fuck? So many people?

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Speaker 3: Thanks a little time good Armstrong Geeddy dot com. Oh

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Speaker 3: the Hot Dogs Are Dogs t shirt is flying off

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Speaker 3: the shelves.

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Speaker 1: Get it at the Ang store, drop us the line

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Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong Geddy dot com. Check out to

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Speaker 1: hot Legs. We will see you tomorrow. With all the foolishness.

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Speaker 1: God bless America. I'm man enough to enjoy it. I'm

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Speaker 1: strong and getty.

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Speaker 5: I've been thinking that we really all need a hug.

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Speaker 1: About I'm gonna stop you, get out of here.

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Speaker 3: But I mentioned the burrito of deceit well, the tangy

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Speaker 3: salsa of irony.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm not feeling good today. I'm not

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Speaker 1: liking this. Can you do different metaphors that aren't like

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Speaker 1: food that would make me feel bad? Parsley on the

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Speaker 1: soup of deceit is they are very much armstrong and

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Speaker 1: getty