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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.

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Speaker 3: deeper them the Babbles, so the Armstrong in getting communications compound.

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Speaker 2: And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager,

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Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump, his world. We're just living in it.

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Speaker 1: Then, no doubt, no doubt. I got a philosophical question

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Speaker 1: for you. Then you're perfect to answer. I hope so

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Speaker 1: arguing about in my head as I was driving, but

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Speaker 2: This music's nice groove.

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Speaker 1: This is a fine groove, Michael, thanks for playing it

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Speaker 1: doing so. Two of our lead stories today we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking about is Trump threatening, Uh all hell breaking loose

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Speaker 1: in Gaza if they don't turn over the hostages. That's

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Speaker 1: a good one. We'll talk about that today. The AI conference,

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Speaker 1: it's going on in Europe and all that.

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Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But you know, uh, plenty of doge stuff is still

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Speaker 1: going on, Yeah, roiling the country.

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Speaker 2: DC and everything like that.

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about the power of status quo,

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Speaker 1: how it's just just the momentum of status quo is

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Speaker 1: just so amazing. And then I thought to myself, but

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Speaker 1: really putting a finger in my chest. Say hey, wise guy,

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Speaker 1: your anti status quo. I thought that's what conservatism was,

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Speaker 1: you know, conserving things, hanging on to things. Then I

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Speaker 1: figure out this. So the idea of conservatism is to

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Speaker 1: hang on to things that are working. The status quo, though,

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Speaker 1: that we're trying to disrupt are things that aren't working.

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Speaker 1: So that's where status quo becomes a problem. Why would

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Speaker 1: we hang on to things continue doing things that don't work?

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Speaker 1: For instance, public schooling, we're spending multiples more money than

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Speaker 1: we were spending ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty

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Speaker 1: years ago for less results. Why wouldn't you want to

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Speaker 1: disrupt that in a major way.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like in a major way where people going,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, what are we going to do now?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, something different because this isn't working. Sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the fundamental problem is awareness. If people are

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Speaker 1: aware of the miserable failure of our government schools. They

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Speaker 1: are in enormous numbers in favor of some serious reforms,

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Speaker 1: even if they're not quite sure what those should look like.

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Speaker 1: But I think a huge percentage of population assumes that

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Speaker 1: their school experience is.

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Speaker 2: Continuing on today. That's roughly the same what's roughly the

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Speaker 2: same effectiveness.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be a word for that, though, the

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Speaker 1: difference between status quo for things that aren't working versus conservatism,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, moving slowly in a Burkian way.

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Speaker 1: Because we got a functioning society, you don't want me

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Speaker 1: That's a good distinction, really interesting topic. I just think

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Speaker 1: fence unless you know one hundred percent why it was there. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that's all about understanding effectiveness of always appraising

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Speaker 1: whether things are working or not. That's that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the other side of the coin. If something is clearly

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Speaker 1: not working, it's fine to get rid of it. Here's

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Speaker 1: here's here's another example of the power of status quo.

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Speaker 1: Let me grab this. This is from ABC looking at

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Speaker 1: their tweet and Emon musk Ally, hired to overhaul the

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Speaker 1: sector that demoralized staff and made them fear for their jobs,

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Speaker 1: according to interviews with several former employees, Well you might cute,

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Speaker 1: you might be demoralized and fear for your job if you're.

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Speaker 2: Not needing needed or you're doing a sucky job.

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Speaker 1: Why I don't I don't even understand the conversation. It's

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Speaker 1: if ABC's point is losing your job sucks, or industries

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. But acting like that's just.

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Speaker 1: A horror in general, or that something unfair has been done, right, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: just you know, we're gonna do things differently now because

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Speaker 1: as and this seems just so dopey it can't be true,

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Speaker 1: of different examples of this, a bunch of different contexts.

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Speaker 1: We've had very similar conversation. If it makes someone feel bad,

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Speaker 2: There you go. That is a lot of the coverage of.

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Speaker 1: This, and it extends to all sorts of things, from

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Speaker 1: parenting to government reform, to ending programs that don't work,

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Speaker 1: to reforming schools to you know, the teacher's union head

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Speaker 1: who would have made just a great Nazi. It seems upset.

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Speaker 1: Therefore this must be wrong. Someone is upset, This must

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Speaker 1: be wrong. I guess that gets to that difference in

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Speaker 1: I'm sad for all the kids in school across the

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Speaker 1: Do you get sad for the individual middle management person

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Speaker 1: What is standing in the way of educating those children?

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Speaker 1: And then addressing it? And absolutely people are going to

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Speaker 1: if this education week where Doge is really loicing at education,

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Speaker 2: Why and this is just.

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Speaker 1: What would their answer be on the left? Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: think answer it's a jobs program. It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 1: The political answer would be we need experts to solve

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Speaker 2: To get to the bottom of this, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But no, the the honest answer is no, we're just

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Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable. Every civilization, every society, every culture has

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Speaker 2: And it's a beautiful thing. And it is a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most incredible things that's ever been

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, the honest truth is there's only a.

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Speaker 1: We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's

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Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this it is how did it already

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Speaker 1: get to be? Tuesday February eleventh, Here twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: Jive and we approval.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules

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Speaker 1: and regulations, here we go at mark elon Musk. Where

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Speaker 2: Your ass of a hair? How you can? Says hair?

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Speaker 1: Kid with an IQ between seventy five and eighty five

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Speaker 1: deserve a congresswoman too.

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Speaker 2: Bring your ass over here.

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Speaker 1: Maxine Waters, Elon Mike walk over, he's that kind of guy,

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Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the penny as Maxine and Chuck and Jakim

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Speaker 1: bravely stand up for bureaucrats and against the American people.

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Speaker 2: Good strategy. Elon Musk, Bring your ass over here, Wed

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Speaker 2: and they getting weird fast. You're right?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: You unelected dictator? How does the mailbag look? Oh, that's right,

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Speaker 1: we've moved mailbag. I The listeners must be adjustinguse I.

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Speaker 2: Know who I am? Yes, moved mail bag too. Different segments.

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Speaker 2: So this Jack considers this Chesterton's teas.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to remove this teas until we fully

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Speaker 1: understand why mailbag was In the second segment, Man jd

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Speaker 1: Vance gave quite a statement about AI in Europe yesterday

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Speaker 1: in front of the world leaders of AI controversial, among

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Speaker 1: other things, stay with us.

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Speaker 1: got a connection anyway. Alex Jones, Oh great, Thomas Edison,

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Speaker 1: what order is this?

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Speaker 2: That's a good list. You've got good in a way, Alex.

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Speaker 1: Jones, Well, sharing sharing day with a big with your

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Speaker 1: birthday with other people.

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Speaker 2: Thomas Edison, that's a big one.

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Speaker 1: That is a big one. Although you know, my great, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll finish some of the list. It is, I know,

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Speaker 1: just always in a hurry, and I'll explain that in

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Speaker 1: a moment. But Leslie Nielson, the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer

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Speaker 1: Aniston and other.

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Speaker 2: People who don't matter.

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Speaker 1: But I've always been resentful that I was one day

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Speaker 1: short of sharing birthday with my great hero Abraham Lincoln,

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Speaker 1: which had been said. I get Burt Reynolds traded the

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Speaker 1: beard for the mustache.

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Speaker 2: I guess what you're gonna do it?

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Speaker 1: Moving along, moving along with mailbaging the question of the

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Speaker 1: Democrats going crazy and j T read an interesting Victor

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Speaker 1: Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,

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Speaker 1: the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding

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Speaker 1: middle ground working together.

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Speaker 2: Ever since Trump came down that.

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Speaker 1: Escalator, they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The

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Speaker 1: result is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,

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Speaker 1: anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,

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Speaker 1: and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools

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Speaker 1: based on the science, they were against it. When Trump

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Speaker 1: went to control the border, they want to leave it

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Speaker 1: wide open. When Trump wants to apport it legal aliens

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Speaker 1: guilty of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists.

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Speaker 2: And gang members in the country.

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Speaker 1: When Trump plus to save taxpairs, billions or trillions of

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Speaker 1: wasteful government spending dollars. They want to fight for the

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Speaker 1: wasteful government spending. There is no common ground to be

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Speaker 1: found in a party that's held vent on opposing everything

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Speaker 1: Trump wants to do. It's it's a bizarre sort of politics,

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Speaker 1: just dumb. I like your strategy of I would hang

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Speaker 1: back and wait for something to go wrong, because inevitably

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Speaker 1: will on the world stage, domestically something, and then take

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Speaker 1: your shot to the the trying to turn what's going

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Speaker 1: in right now into something bad.

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Speaker 2: You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.

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Speaker 1: I felt like there was a different tone on the

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Speaker 1: evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it

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Speaker 1: to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump

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Speaker 1: having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like

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Speaker 1: I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in

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Speaker 1: David Muir's VOI as they were covering Trump yesterday at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him

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Speaker 1: like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a

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Speaker 1: point sort of tone. I you know, maybe I'm making

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Speaker 1: that up, but I really feel like that. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I guess should agree.

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Speaker 2: They should be.

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Speaker 1: There should have been somebody in that news director meeting

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Speaker 1: and all of those newscasts saying, hey, look, people, he's

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Speaker 1: got a fifty three percent approval rating after all of

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Speaker 1: this craziness has happened. So maybe other people don't think

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Speaker 1: it's as crazy as we do. Maybe we ought to

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Speaker 1: look at it slightly different. I mean, they'd be nuts

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Speaker 1: if they.

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Speaker 2: Weren't doing that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't have any great admiration for politicians brains

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Speaker 1: and wisdom and the rest of it. I think most

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Speaker 1: of them are hacks and greed heads. But I would

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Speaker 1: think they would at least perceive a what you just

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Speaker 1: said and be that the frantic the sky is falling.

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Speaker 1: He's a Russian agent. He's going to kill millions of

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Speaker 1: people with COVID. I don't trust his vaccine now that

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Speaker 1: it's our vaccine. Jabbt into yourself, whether you like it

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Speaker 1: or not. I mean, just the systematic kid he wants

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Speaker 1: the borders closed, to open up the.

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Speaker 2: Borders led rapists in.

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Speaker 1: Having seen how miserably all that failed, I would think

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Speaker 1: they would at least say, hey, let's talk.

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Speaker 2: About this for a couple of weeks and figure out

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Speaker 2: what to do.

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Speaker 1: But instead they're I mean, full speed ahead, moron, Maxine

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Speaker 1: Waters screeching as security guards at the the Department of

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Speaker 1: Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing, we will fight in the streets.

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Speaker 2: What are you going to fight in the streets? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Uh, we're kind of getting off on a tangent

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Speaker 1: away from mailbag, which is fine.

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Speaker 2: A number of people have sent the screenshot.

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Speaker 1: House votes on the Protection of Women and Girls in

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Speaker 1: Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen to nothing yay,

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Speaker 1: with two Democrat votes joining them. But Democrats were two

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Speaker 1: zero six to two against protect protecting.

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Speaker 2: Girls, and spot didn't know that well.

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Speaker 1: In the caption is imagine being the party that accuses

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Speaker 1: the other party of hating women and then voting against

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Speaker 1: women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the

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Speaker 1: nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.

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Speaker 1: My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want

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Speaker 1: to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that

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Speaker 1: to the bank, Okay, yeah, because that strikes me. I've

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Speaker 1: received it from a bunch of people. It says it

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Speaker 1: appears to be a screen capture from Fox News, but

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Speaker 1: it's easy to make things appear to be something they're not. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: that'll do for now, sprinkling some more later. Copper is

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Speaker 1: already up two and a half percent. This was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked today because of the announcement of ending

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Speaker 1: the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so far this year

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Speaker 1: and it's early February. So the return on keeping pennies

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Speaker 1: in a jar is beating interest earned by keeping cash

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Speaker 1: in the bank currently, at least for pennies.

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What

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Speaker 2: you actually throw them away?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not leave them?

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Speaker 1: Well no, no, no offense, and I would call thefense. Good lord,

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Speaker 1: I know what you worth next. I can't have you

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Speaker 1: destroying currency. Yeah, uh no. I just leave them places

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Speaker 1: for people to find them.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's nice. I'll leave them on counters or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell if that's nice or just like super

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Speaker 1: the opposite.

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Speaker 2: Here's a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have

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Speaker 2: a good day. I left them a penny. I don't

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Speaker 2: address them to their face like that.

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Speaker 1: I just leave it and fellow oligarchs like me will

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Speaker 1: pass it by and say I'm not picking up that

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Speaker 1: filthy piece of copy.

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Speaker 2: But the poor m I'd appreciate my all.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's the way. Then we'll take a

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Speaker 1: break for Katie's headlines. I've said for years that's the

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Speaker 1: way they should judge whether or not we should keep currency.

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Speaker 1: Get one hundred random people. Maybe do it at an

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Speaker 1: airport or bus station or something like that. You leave

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Speaker 1: a penny on the ground and nicol the ground on

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Speaker 1: the dime on the ground. What percentage of people bend

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Speaker 1: over to pick it up. Almost nobody's gonna bend over

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Speaker 1: to pick up a penny, which is proof that it

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Speaker 1: is worthless. I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody

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Speaker 1: I think would pick up the dime, but nickel, I

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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure. You're You're sour on the neck.

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Speaker 1: I still think a nickel is something. But practically nobody's

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Speaker 1: going to bend over to pick up a penny, which

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Speaker 1: I think is I don't think I have spent twenty

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Speaker 1: seven hours in the last year with any change in

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Speaker 1: my pocket. Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,

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Speaker 1: you don't. You haven't spent an hour with any money

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Speaker 1: in your pocket at all in the last year.

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Speaker 2: Younger people.

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Speaker 1: I know, just the idea of having money in your

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Speaker 1: pocket seems insane.

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Speaker 2: Why would you do that? Hmm, yes, Katie.

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Speaker 5: Another big indicator the numerous shops on Etsy of people

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Speaker 5: drilling holes in pennies and turning them into keychains.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, any jewelry everywhere. Oh really yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's happening. Your currency is no longer. How did

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Speaker 1: it take till now for Trump to say, nobody, we

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Speaker 1: don't need the penny. It's that weird clinging to what

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Speaker 1: is saddest quote, whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,

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Speaker 1: or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of

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Speaker 1: re examining things and asking the only question that matters

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Speaker 1: is this working?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: But then we adopt as a country or get scared

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Speaker 1: into adopting. All of a sudden, dudes can participate in girls'

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Speaker 1: sports and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so how does that sweep the nation?

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Speaker 1: At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do

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Speaker 1: away with the time change that we all hate, or

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Speaker 1: the penny, which is worthless.

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Speaker 2: It's bullying. That's how bullying, I guess. Biradicals.

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Speaker 1: Katie's headlines on the way stay here? Have we had

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Speaker 1: the best three weeks in the culture war and a

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Speaker 1: half a century? As Rich Lowery writes of The National Review,

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Speaker 1: maybe the uh there's some new polling out about people's

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Speaker 1: attitudes towards the whole trans thing. Kind of interesting, man.

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Speaker 1: It's moved a lot m the correct direction in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot. So we'll get to that next hour.

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Speaker 2: Among other things. The next great.

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Speaker 1: Challenge schools, American government schools. We can arouse the awareness

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Speaker 1: of the population and help them understand how miserable the

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Speaker 1: current state of things is. I think we could really

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Speaker 1: change the society for the better. Anyway, More on that

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Speaker 1: to come, but right now, let's figure out who's reporting what.

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Speaker 5: It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, thank you guys, NBC.

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Speaker 5: Trump threatens quote all hell is going to break out

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Speaker 5: if Hamas delays the hostage release.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get into a couple of statements he made yesterday,

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Speaker 1: one on the plane and one from the Oval office.

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Speaker 2: He ain't kidding either, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: Kind of alone, neither we, nor Hamas nor Israel really

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Speaker 1: knows what the shape of that might be.

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Speaker 5: To bring it on brdbart dot com. Nearly one third

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Speaker 5: of Gossen's wanted to leave.

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Speaker 2: Before the war. I'm not shocked.

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Speaker 1: If you lived in a society governed by AMAS, how

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Speaker 1: much would you enjoy it?

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Speaker 5: From The Business Standard, FBI uncovers twenty four hundred secret

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Speaker 5: records on John F.

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Speaker 2: Kennedy's assassination.

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Speaker 1: Not you know what's the significance? Oh yeah, I'm making

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Speaker 1: my skeptical face. Then mister Jones interviewed mister Smith, who

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Speaker 1: had nothing of interest to say. Is that one of

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Speaker 1: the records?

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Speaker 2: I don't know?

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Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, China g is building an

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Speaker 5: economic fortress against US pressure as Trump turns.

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Speaker 2: Up the heat on Beijing. Yeah, we got to get

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Speaker 2: into JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance's statement at the Big Ai summit in Paris from yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and it was all directed at China as the world

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Speaker 1: is attempting to hamstring us around Ai, when China is

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Speaker 1: going to ignore those rules similar to the climate change stuff.

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Speaker 1: And xiz in Ping while evil as smart as hell,

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Speaker 1: and he's understood that, all right. So the US tries

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Speaker 1: to pressure us in this way, that way, and that way,

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Speaker 1: we need to build an economy in a society that

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Speaker 1: can't be pressured in any of those three ways.

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Speaker 2: So they're working at it like crazy. He's incredibly strategic

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Speaker 2: and evil.

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Speaker 5: For The Washington Post, Elon Musk and group of investors

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Speaker 5: launches ninety seven billion dollar bid for chat gpte maker

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Speaker 5: open Ai.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to which Sam Altman immediately replied, how about I

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Speaker 1: buy Twitter for nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't have time to figure out that whole rift

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Speaker 1: between those two guys. It's like Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

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Speaker 1: To me, I'm aware they hate each other, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure why.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Elon is concerned about the fact that open ai

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Speaker 1: is about to go private, when the whole the reason

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Speaker 1: it's called open ai is originally was you know, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be open and people can see it

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Speaker 1: and it's not going to be evil, and Elon's braid

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Speaker 1: it's gonna take everything evil and he wants to buy

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Speaker 1: it and stop that from happening.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon Bee doubles in value after being egged.

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Speaker 1: There you go, being egged is a good thing. Now

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Speaker 1: try to scrap it off. You and catch it in

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Speaker 1: a cup. If you could egg lick it off like Rocky,

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Speaker 1: you get it raw egg heist. So you're also the country.

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Speaker 1: We have more on more on that. There's quite a

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Speaker 1: bit of news to talk about today. So our two

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Speaker 1: could be juicy. I don't appreciate that choice of words,

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Speaker 1: but I agree it will be action packed

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty