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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 Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jetty enough He Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we

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Speaker 2: will do a job with it too. We'll own it

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Speaker 2: and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded

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Speaker 2: and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,

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Speaker 2: create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of

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Speaker 2: jobs and housing for the people of the area.

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Speaker 3: Worth pointing out. As you can tell he's reading there.

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Speaker 3: This wasn't like just something he shot off the top

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Speaker 3: of his head. Somebody wrote that, correct, and he walked

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Speaker 3: into read it the whole The United States is going

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Speaker 3: to take over gozele thing.

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Speaker 1: He's half serious about this.

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Speaker 4: We're joking last hour about how everybody's freaking out when

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Speaker 4: Trump he just he indicates what direction he wants to

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Speaker 4: go by making outrageous demands or statements or whatever, and

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Speaker 4: then the negotiations begin and it's gonna be fine. It's

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Speaker 4: the only thing that keeps HIMSNBC on the air is

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Speaker 4: freaking out over what Trump says, for instance, but not

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Speaker 4: around here.

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Speaker 1: We try to bring you what's happening, then help you

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Speaker 1: understand it. If we can.

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Speaker 4: I will tell you this as insane as the idea

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Speaker 4: of US owning Gaza is. It's been what was described,

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Speaker 4: at least in the Wall Street Journal as a closely

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Speaker 4: held idea among a small group of senior advisors.

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Speaker 1: Now I listened to Trump talk.

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Speaker 3: And all like he as a real estate developer, like

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Speaker 3: Dick Cheney and some of though there's other names I've forgotten.

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Speaker 4: Want to take over a rack that crowd. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I can't remember if they named names. I read this

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Speaker 4: a couple of hours ago. Taking control of the hotly

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Speaker 4: contested territory would put the US at the center of

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Speaker 4: the world's most complicated diplomatic and national security conflicts, raising

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Speaker 4: the prospect that Trump is signing up for exactly the

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Speaker 4: kind of foreign entanglement he told voters he would avoid.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is absolutely self happening.

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Speaker 3: Taking Gaza and holding it would make a rack seem

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Speaker 3: like taking over Nebraska.

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Speaker 4: It would certainly be the bet. The best case. It

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Speaker 4: would be very similar. Yeah, although it's a much smaller area.

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Speaker 4: Definitely that that that's an advantage. But oh my god.

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Speaker 3: So it's funny, and it's funny since he said yesterday,

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Speaker 3: I didn't even contemplated it in reality because I just

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Speaker 3: assume that's not on the table.

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Speaker 1: Right and I am. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say two thirds, one third, two thirds is

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Speaker 4: all right. He's signaling directionally that the time for farting

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Speaker 4: around is over right the Arab Muslim neighboring countries, you're

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Speaker 4: not going to turn your back and say it's Israel's

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Speaker 4: problem in the US is anymore, you're gonna help us,

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Speaker 4: or I'm gonna hurt you, or we're just gonna start

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Speaker 4: taking over giant swath's land.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I definitely think that's the message. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: two thirds of it.

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Speaker 4: So when the other third of it is that he

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Speaker 4: and his advisors have been talking about this, wrote out

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Speaker 4: that statement and he was like, you could hear the

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Speaker 4: lust in his voice as a real estate developer, because

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Speaker 4: you know, if you're not familiar with this, the Kaza

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Speaker 4: Strip is an astonishingly valuable piece of land.

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Speaker 1: Globally speaking.

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Speaker 4: It is a beautiful, temperate, La like climate right by

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Speaker 4: the Mediterranean with nice hills and everything. I mean, it

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Speaker 4: would be You can't even imagine the value of that

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Speaker 4: land if you could get crazy Islam out of it.

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Speaker 4: And a third of me here's Trump talking about that,

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Speaker 4: and I can hear the excitement in his voice, and

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Speaker 4: there's about a third of me that thinks he's at

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Speaker 3: Well, let's hear some more of the Trump stuff so

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Speaker 3: we can discuss it all.

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Speaker 1: Let it just roll on in order there, Michael.

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Speaker 5: This was not a decision made lightly. Everybody I've spoken

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Speaker 5: to loves the idea of the United States owning that

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Speaker 5: piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs. If

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Speaker 5: the United States can help to bring stability and peace

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Speaker 5: in the Middle East, we'll do that.

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Speaker 3: A quick question, where are the people going to be

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Speaker 3: when we have it? Somewhere somewhere else? He kind of

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Speaker 3: sort of gets to that, doesn't he.

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Speaker 2: We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts,

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Speaker 2: and there are many of them that want to do

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Speaker 2: by the one point eight million Palestinians living in Gaza.

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Speaker 2: Ending the death and destruction and frankly bad luck. This

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Speaker 2: could be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth.

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Speaker 2: It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, twelve,

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Speaker 2: It could be numerous sites, so it could be one

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Speaker 3: To me, that my takeaway yesterday was he's telling Egypt

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Speaker 3: people anymore about how awful it is for the Palestinians,

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Speaker 3: while at the same time not allowing a single Palestinian

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Speaker 3: into your country when you're right next door.

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Speaker 4: That game is over. Here's the rub. They're smart to

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Speaker 4: not let them in. The countries that have tried, you know, Lebanon, Jordan,

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Speaker 4: Kuwait at one point.

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Speaker 1: You know what they get.

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Speaker 4: They get angry Islamist revolutionaries in their country screws up

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Speaker 4: their country. Look at the Beirot Civil War if you

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Speaker 4: want to, you want to see bloodshed, sectarian bloodshed. So

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Speaker 4: that's the rub. There's and it's funny. We have a

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Speaker 4: lot of new folks listening new radio stations. Thank you

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Speaker 4: very much for being here. Give it a little while

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Speaker 4: you get used to it. It's not like a lot

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Speaker 4: of talk shows that always try.

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Speaker 3: To New Hampshire Hello for Oklahoma City, Yes, and others.

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Speaker 1: Oh, from the country, Hello Tulsa, Fort Collins, Colorado? Love

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Speaker 1: Fort Collins? Anyway?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Or were we? Oh?

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Speaker 4: A lot of talk show hosts are constantly trying to

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Speaker 4: sell you certainty. They know everything all the time, every

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Speaker 4: single second. There are times that there is uncertainty. For instance,

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Speaker 4: I'm looking through some of the specifics that Trump said,

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Speaker 4: and a top advisor said, and and and I don't

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Speaker 4: want to be inflammatory, I do, but if you were

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Speaker 4: to momentarily take seriously the idea that, Okay, the US

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Speaker 4: is gonna quote unquote take over Gaza temporarily, We're gonna

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Speaker 4: relocate all the Palestinians, temporarily, find them nice places to

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Speaker 4: live in other lands. All right, we're gonna rebuild it

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Speaker 4: into a fabulous seaside resort town with jobs for everyone

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Speaker 4: and well of plenty. And then uh yeah, yeah, the

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Speaker 4: plan is we'll let all the angry, militant Palestinians right

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Speaker 4: back in. Now, if you heard that as a realist,

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Speaker 1: What's the last part there? Exactly? They're gonna clear them

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Speaker 4: And Israel having decided post October seventh, something is gonna

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Speaker 4: change fundamentally, I mean really really change. We're not going

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Speaker 4: to have uneasy peace with people who want to wipe

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Speaker 4: us off the map because we're Jews anymore. That's over

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Speaker 4: and throughout the history of mankind. And again I'm not

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Speaker 4: saying this is true. I'm just saying it's in your

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Speaker 4: pie chart of possibilities in the history of mankind. The

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Speaker 4: way you settled an intractable situation like that is you

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Speaker 4: got rid of the people occupy in that land.

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Speaker 1: Where are we supposed to go? I don't know, not

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Speaker 1: here in short Israel, And.

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Speaker 4: It's ally the United States are going to take over

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Speaker 4: that land and assuring a fundamental change of who's in

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Speaker 4: what place in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me uh with this.

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Speaker 3: This was in Mark Alprin's political newsletter this morning, in

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Speaker 3: which he wrote his newsletters called the Wide World of News.

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Speaker 3: He said, this from a Wide World of News reader,

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Speaker 3: one of the smartest and most anti Trump people I

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Speaker 3: and I'll just read a little bit of it. Trump

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Speaker 3: made me love him. This is from one of the

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Speaker 3: most anti Trump people Alprin's ever met. Wow, Trump made

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Speaker 3: me love him. He spoke to the reality of the

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Speaker 3: situation that a winning side must now emerge, and it

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Speaker 3: must be us. The cycle of killing between jew and

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Speaker 3: Arab Muslims must end, and he is Colossus, will make

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Speaker 3: it happen. Quite stunning, quite obvious, quite visionary, quite outrageous

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Speaker 3: to everyone but me. He's got MSNBC spinning. He stunned

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Speaker 3: Bbie and left him speechless. Amazing theater. But the message

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Speaker 3: is somebody needs to emerge the victor, and the time

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Speaker 3: is now.

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Speaker 1: This ends exactly. Yeah, And you know it's funny.

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Speaker 4: I've been pitching that idea for a while and some

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Speaker 4: people probably think I sound like a lunatic. But Israel's

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Speaker 4: peace plan is to defeat their enemies, and defeat them

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Speaker 4: They're not a threat in any way. It's also Homas's plan,

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Speaker 4: Israel's flexibility to like have a a half solution, a

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Speaker 4: something October Sixthy, No, they've decided they're not going to

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Speaker 4: it looks like the complete and total annihilation and or

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Speaker 3: All Right, that's something we haven't figured out in the

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Speaker 3: make the fighting stop. And we've stopped doing that around

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Speaker 1: We've stopped doing that.

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Speaker 3: And the only way for this to end is for

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Speaker 4: That right right, Well, I just think that the Barack Obama,

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Speaker 4: unconditional surrender type conflicts mostly which I think is a

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Speaker 4: good idea if you can do it diplomatically. Don't kill people,

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Speaker 4: don't hurt people, don't wreck their stuff. But they thought

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Speaker 4: you could. You could do that completely one hundred percent,

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Speaker 4: eliminate wars of annihilation or total victory. It's not realistic.

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Speaker 4: Human beings will not cease to be human beings just

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Speaker 4: because you want them to stop anyway. Again, though I

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Speaker 4: can't decide which of those options Trump is most enthusiastic about.

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Speaker 1: The Other thing about Trump is that.

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Speaker 4: He is he's a bullet of china shop negotiator, but

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Speaker 4: he's very good at a couple of things. Number One,

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Speaker 4: he understands one hundred percent where leverage is in a negotiation.

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Speaker 1: He is acutely aware of that, like a like a fox.

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Speaker 4: And he's also very good at understanding if you're not

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Speaker 4: willing to walk away from a negotiation, you have lost

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Speaker 4: a significant amount of leverage. And so he will walk

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Speaker 4: Quote what will that look like? If I may quote

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Speaker 4: All of this stuff is unfolding better than I could

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Speaker 1: All power behind him, and he hasn't been elected to anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why why would you be so resistant? I mean,

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Speaker 3: You are so insulated from the real world, you government employees,

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Speaker 4: equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces in business communities.

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Speaker 1: Many many other examples. Also.

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Speaker 4: An analysis by the Middle East Forum says one hundred

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Speaker 4: and sixty four million dollars of USAID money has supported

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Speaker 4: radical organizations around the world, and one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 4: two million of that aid was going to groups aligned

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Speaker 4: with foreign terrorist organizations.

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Speaker 1: We are funding to the tune of hundreds of millions.

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Speaker 4: Of dollars, the very people who are killing our soldiers

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Speaker 4: and our people if they stray into the wrong part

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Speaker 4: of the world.

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Speaker 1: Well, to your point of the air examples of it

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Speaker 1: doing good, and I'm sure there are, Oh, I'm not

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Speaker 1: close to my ultimate point.

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Speaker 3: You can probably answer yours one of your points, but

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Speaker 3: one of your points being there are you know, there's

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Speaker 3: money spent that's doing good. And then the idea that

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Speaker 3: there are, you know, domestically employees or programs or whatever,

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Speaker 3: they're good.

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Speaker 1: Fine, then we'll bring them back.

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Speaker 3: Let's go too far, let's go way too far on

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Speaker 3: cutting the government. And if it turns out, you know,

463
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Speaker 3: we really need that agency, it'll be easy to put back.

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Speaker 3: We seem to be really good at growing the government.

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Speaker 3: That never seems to be a problem.

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Speaker 4: You don't care if kids dive ades in Africa anyway,

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Speaker 4: that would be the response. So anyway to work to

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Speaker 4: my ultimate point, the list of these dumb, wasteful, or

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Speaker 4: like in a bloody way, self defeating expenditures. They're not

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Speaker 4: only stupid and amusing or frustrating, they're proof that here

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Speaker 4: I put like this, the fact that those expenditures exist

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Speaker 4: proves that the agency is utterly corrupt. The problem is

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Speaker 4: not those expenditures specifically, although that's a problem, but the

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Speaker 4: agency that would permit that and promote that and be

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Speaker 4: happy of it and proud of it. That is a

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Speaker 4: disease agency that Oh yes, Jack says.

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Speaker 1: Let's go too far. Yeah, yeah, they're they're crazy people.

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Speaker 3: For one thing, you're crazy people, way out of step

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Speaker 3: with the mainstream of America. If you saw how many

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Speaker 3: people would have to be involved, maybe shockingly few would

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Speaker 3: have to sign off on millions of dollars for some

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Speaker 3: sort of trans clinic in India. I mean, that's not

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Speaker 3: in step with the American priorities.

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Speaker 1: What was my other point on that? Oh yeah, And

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Speaker 1: to your point, they're they're corrupt.

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Speaker 3: But that's the stuff that we can look at and

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Speaker 3: we obviously scratch our head and think, oh, okay, you

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Speaker 3: need to justify that. How about the programs that sound

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Speaker 3: pretty There are lots of programs in the United States

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Speaker 3: that sound great and they still don't accomplish anything. You're

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Speaker 3: gonna tell me we don't have lots of those around

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Speaker 3: the world that their intention is great, but they're just

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Speaker 3: flabby or poorly run or it didn't work or whatever.

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Speaker 3: You know, that happens all the time, all the time.

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Speaker 4: And according to virtually everybody I trust who's looked into

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Speaker 4: USA through the years, it has become this incredibly self congratulatory,

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Speaker 4: self regarding branch of the government that views itself as

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Speaker 4: above the government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what above taxpayers.

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Speaker 3: That was the other point that I flit it out

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Speaker 3: of my head was the it shows how insulated they

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Speaker 3: think they are, how nobody's watching, and they can do

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Speaker 3: whatever they want because they know how unpopular some of

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Speaker 3: this stuff would be. But they're just so confident nobody's

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Speaker 3: paying any attention. We can do whatever we want and

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Speaker 3: nobody's gonna notice or care.

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Speaker 1: Well. I think it's even worse than that.

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Speaker 4: I think their beliefs not that nobody's watching, but that

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Speaker 4: nobody dare criticize them, and nobody should have that right.

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Speaker 1: Which leads me to my favorite tweet I mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe the US is about to invade Gaza

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Speaker 3: and our government has zero dollars to put on any

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Speaker 3: transgender musicals there.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of which, the self declownment of Hollywood through this

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Speaker 4: ridiculous gender bending Madness Movie, Amelia Perez. It's even funnier

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Speaker 4: than I thought, and I thought it was funny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to get to that next segment. That

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Speaker 1: is great.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to jam in this one thing just because

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Speaker 3: we were talking about USAID. This is a tweet from

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Speaker 3: Peter Baker, who's an incredibly smart guy. He's got one

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Speaker 3: of the most important journalistic positions on planet Earth. He's

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Speaker 3: the White House reporter for the New York Times. Smart guy,

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Speaker 3: And this is what he tweeted out. Total USAID annual

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Speaker 3: spending to provide food, medicine, shelter, and other services to

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Speaker 3: impoverished countries around the world.

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Speaker 1: Thirty eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: Total increase in Elon Musk's net worth since November election

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty six billion.

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Speaker 1: And that's the whole tweet.

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Speaker 4: Uh, what's the next part because that's completely what really.

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Speaker 1: The hell is that? Oh?

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Speaker 2: My right?

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Speaker 3: And so that lands with the New York Times today, right?

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Speaker 3: Does that land with the New York Times crowd with?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Devastating, That's just devastating.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I don't understand the way you people look at

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Speaker 3: the world.

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Speaker 1: It just I can't even wrap my hand around it.

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Speaker 1: Let me this rabbit down its hole.

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Speaker 4: So if, for instance, Tesla had had the worst quarter

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Speaker 4: ever and Elon's wealth had dropped.

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Speaker 1: By thirty percent, that would excuse or justify a different

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Speaker 1: level of government spending.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't quite get the nexus there, and

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Speaker 4: there isn't one.

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Speaker 3: It's just kind of scary sounding, emotion provoking, progressive.

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Speaker 1: No, somebody's rich and it's not me, is the whole message.

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Speaker 1: I think. I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, the transgender movie thing is great and a

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Speaker 3: bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us, arm strong. Yeti's very nice to meet.

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Speaker 7: I let you know about change up a ratio.

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Speaker 2: I see, I see men to women, A woman, two men.

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Speaker 4: The feel good hit at the springtime for at least

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Speaker 4: hit music goal.

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Speaker 3: Amelia gomet is the female Alia Press is the female

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Speaker 3: sounding voice, the former guy that's now a woman that's

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Speaker 3: nominated for an Oscar.

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Speaker 4: It's Zoe Saldana, who's a sturdy and fine actress and

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Speaker 4: unfortunately a completely embarrassing movie a self beclouding. It is

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Speaker 4: the most exquisite self declouning in the history of self

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Speaker 4: declouding Hollywood, driving like the Last Ten Nails in its

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Speaker 4: own coffin by nominating.

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Speaker 1: This horrific wreck of a movie for thirteen oscars.

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Speaker 3: So this person tweeted the other day we mentioned this

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Speaker 3: yesterday tweet or tweeted a couple of years ago. She

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Speaker 3: had tweets in twenty twenty about George Floyd, writing in

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Speaker 3: a thread that she believed very few people ever carried

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Speaker 3: about the drug addict swindler George Floyd. She also had

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Speaker 3: tweeted out remarks about Muslims, calling Islam an infection for

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Speaker 3: humanity and describing Muslim migration to Spain as a planned invasion.

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Speaker 3: Those kinds of things have got her on the wrong

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Speaker 3: side of the wolf crowd.

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Speaker 4: Her being a male, but it makes it very confusing

576
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Speaker 4: if we don't stay consistent.

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Speaker 1: With the pronounce here.

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Speaker 4: Also posted once positive once that Adolf Hitler simply had

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Speaker 4: his opinion of the Jews and he was entitled to it.

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Speaker 1: So this is the whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 3: You can't say like, that's just your opinion man about

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Speaker 3: Hitler and the Jews.

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Speaker 4: Right, So, this brave, brave transgender person who's the first

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Speaker 4: dude ever nominated for a Best Actress in Hollywood is

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Speaker 4: nominated this wreck of a movie for thirteen Awards, just because.

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Speaker 1: It's all about the ugly, nasty.

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Speaker 4: Murderous cartel boss who longs to be a girl and

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Speaker 4: his plucky lawyer helps him be one and that turns

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Speaker 4: him into a saint. And we'll get more into that.

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Speaker 4: But it's even worse than that. And I mentioned that

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Speaker 4: that Mexican audiences hate it and Latinos in general are

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Speaker 4: not digging it. But I hadn't really fully understood why

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Speaker 4: the flaws of Amelia Perez I'm quoting from an article

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Speaker 4: here in IndieWire were always more disturbing than out dated

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Speaker 4: tropes or it's casting director's absurd suggestion that the production

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Speaker 4: couldn't find qualified actors in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: Analogies are imperfect, but to understand why Latinos Latinos are

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Speaker 4: appalled by Amelia Perez, imagine this.

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Speaker 1: The Academy lauds a clan.

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Speaker 4: Rehabilitation musical like The Klan was really pretty cool themed

602
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Speaker 4: musical set in the Deep South but shot in Paris.

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Speaker 4: Its non American actors speak in British and Assy accents,

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Speaker 4: and the few black actors are relegated to extras. That's

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Speaker 4: what this movie is to Mexican people, Hispanic people, Central Americans.

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Speaker 1: Whatever. It's like. Cartels aren't so bad.

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Speaker 4: With no Mexican people, them slaughtering the language, speaking in

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Speaker 4: the wrong accent, and and just like pretending like it's

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Speaker 4: no big deal. Latinos, especially those from working class communities

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Speaker 4: along the border of view cartels as the lowest of

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Speaker 4: the low. These aren't code bound Hollywood thugs like Tony Montana.

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Speaker 4: Cartels show no mercies. They kidnapped, torture, and dismember, including children.

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Speaker 4: They're victims number in the hundreds of thousands with no

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Speaker 4: end in sight. And it's infuriating to see a ward's

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Speaker 4: bodies celebrate a film that repackages suffering as a kitchy

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Speaker 4: telenovella with garish musical numbers.

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Speaker 1: Equally frustrating.

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Speaker 4: One more sentence is Hollywood's obliviousness to regional class divides, which, uh, well,

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Speaker 4: that's kind of a distraction.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead. I'm just noodling this through.

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Speaker 3: So and I am appalled by the idea that they

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Speaker 3: put out this trans movie at this moment in time,

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Speaker 3: and Hollywood jumped and gave it the most Oscar nominations

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Speaker 3: in the history of motion pictures. I mean, give me

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Speaker 3: a break. I mean, that's just so over the top,

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Speaker 3: it's ridiculous. But that particular critique about the way they

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Speaker 3: treat the cartels, how's that different?

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Speaker 1: Like I was just looking at.

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Speaker 3: The latest list of the greatest movies of all time

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Speaker 3: and Goodfellas was in the top ten, and it is

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies of all time. How's that

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Speaker 3: not kind of making the mob seem cool and like

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Speaker 3: you kind of wish you were a part of it.

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Speaker 1: That would be too long an answer comparing it to

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Speaker 1: this movie.

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Speaker 3: I just mean, that's an overall thing where you take

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Speaker 3: something back, you know, like Bonnie and Clyde or Butching

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Speaker 3: Sun Dancer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and that's that gets done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the concept of the anti hero, Yeah, absolutely it does.

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Speaker 4: To be sure, some American outlets did cover the unease

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Speaker 4: among the few Latinos who'd seen Amelia Perez in November,

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Speaker 4: well before the Best Picture nomination, reported that acclaimed Mexican

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Speaker 4: born raised cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto described it quote as completely

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Speaker 4: an authentic. Renowned Mexican writer George Volpi blasted it as

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Speaker 4: quote one of the crudest and most deceitful films of

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Speaker 4: the twenty first century for its sheer incompetence. Even if

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Speaker 4: you believe Latinos are overreacting, the film's blunders are blatant

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Speaker 4: and they go into a list. But I think that

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Speaker 4: it's it's a movie for black people, explaining that the

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Speaker 4: Klan wasn't that bad without black people in the cast.

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Speaker 4: Everybody speaking in aussy and British accents, and they get

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Speaker 4: everything wrong and like dismiss the suffering is it doesn't

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Speaker 4: really matter because this transgender clansman is now a really

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Speaker 4: nice guy.

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Speaker 1: Something's what this movie is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and some of them might be the timing. You

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Speaker 3: know a lot of mob movies, if you had shown

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Speaker 3: them in the neighborhoods where the mob was being so

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Speaker 3: cruel at the time it was happening, the people in

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Speaker 3: that neighborhod probably wouldn't thought it was so great, would

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Speaker 3: have enjoyed it the same way.

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Speaker 4: And the mob didn't have hundreds of thousands of disappeared

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Speaker 4: victims of just from the general populace, including children.

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Speaker 1: Important question, has the Oscar voting happened already?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Because I want them, I want them to give the

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Speaker 3: awards to these people. I want them to go up

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Speaker 3: there and the crowd try to decide if they should

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Speaker 3: cheer or not, and how they're.

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Speaker 1: And I hope it's too late. I know with every

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Speaker 1: fiber of me, I hope that.

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Speaker 3: I hope they've already voted and this person's already set

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Speaker 3: to win Best Actress.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be The movie has got to win ten

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Speaker 1: Awardes Armstrong and Getty