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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, Joe, Katty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong, Andy and He Armstrong and Getty Strong and I

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Speaker 2: have a handful of stories that are centered around the

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Speaker 2: same theme, all of which have come out just in

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Speaker 2: the last day or two, all of which are being

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Speaker 2: covered in major publications, and quite responsibly. Number one India's

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Speaker 2: I'm Sorry Inside Syria's sectarian cauldron, kidnapping, Trigger's cascade of violence,

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Speaker 2: blood soaked Weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims and the

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Speaker 2: Druze minority in southern Syria slaughtering the hell out of

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Speaker 2: the Drews because of their religion and their tri et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Isn't sectarian politics? Grant and the Druser Are they Christian adjacent?

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Speaker 2: I forget I read this letter there. They're like an

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Speaker 2: Abrahamic religion or beliefs. All of the prophets are cool,

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Speaker 2: and trust me, I'm not a Druiz theologian, but it's

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Speaker 2: kind of a universal Abrahamis religion anyway, and it's absolutely horrifying.

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Speaker 2: These are not that it matters, but you look at

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Speaker 2: these people. They are thoroughly modern, normal people living their lives,

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Speaker 2: hoping to get a career, going, raise their children, blah

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Speaker 2: blah blah. And they have armed gunmen storming their houses

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Speaker 2: and shooting them all dead in the streets because of

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Speaker 2: their religion. Moving along, it's an interest interesting story from Texas,

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Speaker 2: of all places, Epic City replacing Old Glory with the

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Speaker 2: Crescent Moon. Picture this a Muslim only city governed by

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Speaker 2: Sharia law, beyond the reach of democratically elected officials. Officials, Uh,

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Speaker 2: something like that is happening in Texas, and its founders

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Speaker 2: call it Epic City. The East Plano Islamic Center EPIC

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Speaker 2: is the largest mosque in Texas and one of the

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Speaker 2: mosque formed Community Capital Partners LLC or CCP and announced

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Speaker 2: the formation of Epic City, a master planned Islamic development

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Speaker 2: project that caters to the evolving needs of families in

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Speaker 2: the Muslim communities. And again, we could get into this

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Speaker 2: idea in depth in what is wrong with it, but

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Speaker 2: I don't really have time. Josh Howley's called for US

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Speaker 2: the US to condemn the persecution of Christians in Muslim

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Speaker 2: majority nations, including several that were kind of friendly with

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Speaker 2: these days. But whether it's Africa or the Middle East, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's wholesale persecution of Christians going on, frequently, slaughtering them

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Speaker 2: by machine gun fire or machete And Hawley, is he

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Speaker 2: grand standing? He often is? Or is he sincere about this?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. How weird is it that the US

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Speaker 3: If my main thing politically is standing up for Christianity

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Speaker 3: around the world, I think those are better stories to

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The resolutions that are co sponsored with several other

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Speaker 2: Republicans urge the President to prioritize the defense of persecuted

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Speaker 2: Christians in America's foreign policy, including via diplomatic engagement with

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Speaker 2: Muslim majority countries as well as efforts to stabilize the

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Speaker 2: Middle East. Urges the president to leverage the diplomatic tool

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Speaker 2: kit to advance the protection of persecuted Christians worldwide and

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Speaker 2: within Muslim majority countries. So I certainly applaud that effort,

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Speaker 2: and all of those headlines bring us to this, And

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Speaker 2: it's a piece I came across by Paul Freesen Paul

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Speaker 2: Didn't really know his work, but I found this to

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Speaker 2: be extremely persuasive. He talks. He starts this article talking

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Speaker 2: even look it up on a map. But they're idyllic, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It's infinity pools, bioluminescent beaches, you got your bungalows over

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Speaker 2: is not in the arts of critical thought, but in

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Speaker 2: the compulsory admiration of Sharia and all non Muslim religious practice,

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Speaker 2: room alone in the Maldives, or it is punishable. There

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Speaker 2: Any descent, whether whispered by a secular blogger or typed

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Speaker 2: And then he says this is not uniquely Maldivian or

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Speaker 2: interviewous drip of unchecked pluralism. Right, there are a lotisms,

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Speaker 2: They're all explained, but this is the point of what

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Speaker 2: he's writing. The Maldives is not just an outlier. It

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Speaker 2: that once separated church from state begin imparting ideologies that

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Speaker 2: merge the two, like Siamese twins sharing a judicial spine.

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Speaker 2: This is not a clash of cultures. It is a

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Speaker 2: conquest by bureaucracy, and we are funding it for the

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Speaker 2: umpteenth time. Read Michael Halibec's submission novel came out a

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Speaker 2: Trump Trump I'm reading while I'm talking, how France becomes

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Speaker 2: an entirely Muslim country and freedom of speech and religion

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Speaker 2: Oh that's the thing, you How would you describe how

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Speaker 3: Little by little, with a lot of decent people not

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Speaker 3: wanting to come off as racist or islamophobe, and then

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Speaker 2: Anyway, here's his main point. And this is the part

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Speaker 2: maybe we'll talk to him someday. It was Carl Popper,

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Speaker 2: he writes, who warned that a tolerant society must be

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Speaker 2: intolerant of intolerance or it would cease to be tolerant

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Speaker 3: Obviously, that's where it's the way we're always mocking the

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Speaker 3: coexist bumper sticker, coexist, coexists. A couple of those symbols

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Speaker 3: can't coexist with somebody who wants to take over. A

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Speaker 3: tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it would

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Speaker 3: cease to be tolerant at all. Can you think of

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Speaker 3: any other modern movements that punished you even disagree with them,

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Speaker 2: M anyway, He goes on, it's a delicious paradox, too

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Speaker 2: statements and geo pamphlets. But the second half, the requirement

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Speaker 2: anathema unfashionable. The paradox has become pathology. Here's what he means.

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Speaker 2: Our courts allow Sharia arbitration councils to function in British cities.

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Speaker 2: He's a brit obviously adjudicating matters of family and inheritance

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Speaker 2: with standards that would make a twelfth century canon lawyer flinch.

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Speaker 2: seven year olds and teach that homost sexuality is satanic filth.

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Speaker 2: Our public broadcasters will era documentary about the importance of

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Speaker 2: of Muhammad are unhelpful. This is not multiculturalism. It is masochism.

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Speaker 2: It is the belief that liberalism must be so open

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Speaker 2: be accused of racism by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.

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Speaker 2: We have enshrined the right of the theocrat while criminalizing

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Speaker 2: the instincts of the secularist. The result is not harmony,

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Speaker 2: it is humiliation. And then he goes into let's dispense

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Speaker 2: with the ritual disclaimers. Not all Muslims or Islamists, not

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Speaker 2: all believers who wish to impose There are believers who

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Speaker 2: wish to impose their theology on others, of course, but

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Speaker 2: neither are all white people racist. Yet no progressive chokes

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Speaker 2: white people are racist. A lot of white people are good, honest, decent,

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Speaker 2: long list of disclaimers.

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Speaker 3: Right well, the first one, though, is not seen as

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Speaker 3: true by you know, your local school. Quite possibly spent

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Speaker 3: and his whole theme is you are automatically racist if

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Speaker 2: He goes on, why must we say religiously motivated extremism

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Speaker 2: is now enforcing them in reverse. The new heresy is

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Speaker 2: criticism of faith, at least of one faith. To mock

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Speaker 2: It is a sacred exception carved out in the name

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Speaker 2: And he's absolutely right, especially about Europe. Britain France are

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Or it would cease to be tolerant at all. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Pretty obviously, but obviously not obvious enough to keep it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those of you who don't have the courage to

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Speaker 2: find it if you can. Those of you who do

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Speaker 2: were with me the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your show, podcasts and our hot links, the arm

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Speaker 3: I guess it's my Uh, maybe it's my music radio

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Speaker 3: But I like to be aware of crazies, even if

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Speaker 3: it's not something I'm into. I like to know what

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Speaker 3: the hot TV show is, hot movie, hot music, whatever.

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Speaker 3: I like to know what's really popular, even if it's

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Speaker 3: not my thing. I just I've always thought I need.

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Speaker 2: To know that. I like to think about the ancient

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Speaker 3: Nobody else is doing that. The La Boo Boo craze

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Speaker 6: Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,

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Speaker 2: A victory for our friends at the Goldwater Institute. Tim

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Speaker 2: So what are we going to do here? In a groundbreaking,

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Speaker 3: The way they're crafting their organization to teach your kid,

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Speaker 2: So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,

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Speaker 2: who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to

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Speaker 2: the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, I could quote the judge, but they said

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Speaker 2: more or less what you'd think they would have said.

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Speaker 2: First Amendment, et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely

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Speaker 2: not racially insensitive or mean or Yeah. That is absolutely nuts.

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Speaker 5: Let's see.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi

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Speaker 2: alma mater, I went for an entire year of courses.

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Speaker 2: Who graduated there?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Wow, rock Chock Jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.

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Speaker 2: University of Kansas is offering a course in the fall

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Speaker 2: called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the rise

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Speaker 2: of the angry white male in the United States. The

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Speaker 2: course will be offered with the goal of teaching about

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Speaker 2: the prominent figure that is the angry white male. That's exciting.

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Speaker 3: I got a half of an mba from there, So

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Speaker 3: that's probably why I've gone out in the world and

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Speaker 3: done a half assed job of being a business person.

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Speaker 2: And finally this, ah, is this even worth trying? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. It's a think piece and a really good

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Speaker 2: one written by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld,

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Speaker 2: entitled Stoner Logic in Academia, and he's talking about in

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Speaker 2: particular Michelle Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called,

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Speaker 2: but it's pronounced French Bastard, who is one of the

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Speaker 2: most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids here, his

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Speaker 2: idea is more than virtually anybody's. He is one of

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Speaker 2: the founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism. I

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Speaker 2: know that from listening to James Lindsay go on and

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Speaker 2: on about this human being. Indeed, and if you would like,

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Speaker 2: read his and Helen pluck Rose's brilliant cynical theories anyway,

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Speaker 2: So it's all about how this guy was a bright stoner.

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Speaker 2: I like to read and learn stuff, but he never

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Speaker 2: really felt like applying himself at college and that sort

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Speaker 2: of stuff. But he realized he really needed more formal

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Speaker 2: education and somebody to help lead him if he was

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Speaker 2: going to get anywhere in his life. And he went

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Speaker 2: to college and found that a lot of what they

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Speaker 2: were trying to teach was Stoner logic. He just stone

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Speaker 2: and he explains that. One day, a lecturer, this is

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Speaker 2: my favorite exams ample. A highly esteemed scholar launched into

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Speaker 2: a shallow Fucoian analysis of something or other as it

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Speaker 2: applied to the university. He went on and on with

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Speaker 2: a sort of smug self awareness, like he thought he

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Speaker 2: was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds. He says,

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Speaker 2: I should note here that this lecture is really likable

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Speaker 2: and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom, said

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Speaker 2: the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of this

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Speaker 2: classroom exerts power. You are all on one side, stepped

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Speaker 2: up in auditorium seating, so I can see all of you,

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Speaker 2: but you can only see me, not each other. You

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Speaker 2: are kind of forced to look and listen. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: con true, But why, he continued the construction of this lecture.

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Speaker 2: Theater exerts a system of power and ensures the self

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Speaker 2: perception of you the students as lacking knowledge, and it

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Speaker 2: sets me up as the distributor of knowledge, and thus

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Speaker 2: it conveys power for what I'm paying. I hope you're

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Speaker 2: not a distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us.

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Speaker 2: But you're absolutely right. These systems of power are everywhere

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Speaker 2: hidden in the architecture and the systems of our society,

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Speaker 2: design to maintain and designed to maintain the continuity of power.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, and this guy who's writing I really

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Speaker 2: like says I remember being thoroughly unimpressed. This was exactly

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Speaker 2: the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive analysis that I

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Speaker 2: and other high school graduates had arrived at many times

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Speaker 2: while sitting around a bong, and it wasn't even accurate.

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Speaker 2: I remember thinking that since class sizes tend to be smaller, university,

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Speaker 2: ninety percent of the teaching rooms were not stepped auditoriums.

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Speaker 2: They were smaller, flat office like rooms, perfect for egalitarian,

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Speaker 2: discussion oriented classes. The only rooms with this structure were

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Speaker 2: the few lecture theaters intended for hosting large audiences, and

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Speaker 2: in any case, they clearly had that structure for acoustic

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Speaker 2: and a communicative reasons, not because our neo liberal overlords

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Speaker 2: wanted to inculcate us in some sort of pliable consciousness

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Speaker 2: lest we threaten their systems of power. Oh's more, that

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Speaker 2: is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was a

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Speaker 2: knowledge differential between us and him, at least there was

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Speaker 2: supposed to be. We were there as young people with

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Speaker 2: less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledgeable teacher.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't see how pointing this out at this obvious

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Speaker 2: fact was some kind of mind blowing revelation. And then

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Speaker 2: a couple more sentences that I'll stop. Crucially, while he

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Speaker 2: had an issue with these systems of power inherent in

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Speaker 2: the structure of the lecture theater, he apparently had no

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Speaker 2: objection to the avert power required to make students pay

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Speaker 2: for a core curriculum of course is he helped design

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Speaker 2: than he teaches, and for which they had to buy

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Speaker 2: the compulsory textbook.

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Speaker 3: Right that he co Wroteulously, he didn't have any problem

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Speaker 3: with that system of power, right.

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Speaker 2: And the insane charge for books that whole scamp. So

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Speaker 2: his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and that's

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Speaker 2: what the course was, was just a way to indoctrinate

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Speaker 2: students into a simplistic worldview. Your boss has a bigger office,

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Speaker 2: makes more money than you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he

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Speaker 3: has the experience and the expertise to be the.

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Speaker 2: Boss and manage us, so the company can.

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Speaker 5: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to

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Speaker 2: like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power

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Speaker 2: is always wrong and the person with less power is

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Speaker 2: always right. I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said

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Speaker 2: more than once. If my dog expressed that idea to me,

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Speaker 2: I would hit him with a rolled up newspaper for

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Speaker 2: being so stupid. And I do not mind.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh my god, Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Getty Show.

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Speaker 3: Not surprisingly, we got a fair number of texts about shreking, which,

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Speaker 3: according to the USA Today and somebody who texted me

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Speaker 3: with personal knowledge, is a thing where women date down.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like anybody whoses the term date down

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Speaker 3: should be pushed off a cliff. People date down on

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Speaker 3: purpose thinking this is a cliff good enough? Or should

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Speaker 3: it be a volcano? Just asking back to you. People

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Speaker 3: who date down in terms of looks feel like they'll

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Speaker 3: be treated better because this person really realizes what they've.

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Speaker 2: Got this might be how I got married.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well maybe I'm just so outrage because I'm wondering

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Speaker 3: how often does this happened to me?

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Speaker 2: As a friend of the Armstrong Getty Show wrote shreking,

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Speaker 2: I thought I was just charming. Well now I know

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Speaker 2: on the topic though.

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Speaker 3: So a person I know said that some of her

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Speaker 3: friends have done this. They have dated down thinking and

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Speaker 3: they would get treated better, and then weren't treated better,

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Speaker 3: and so they call that being shrecked. And we're disappointed.

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Speaker 3: And as Joe pointed out, maybe they just figured out

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Speaker 3: you're a shallow bitch.

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Speaker 2: Of manipulative she deviled. Yes, not quite as complicated as

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Speaker 2: it sounds.

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Speaker 3: But then there was the other person, this friend of mine,

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Speaker 3: a person who's shreked, who actually tells guys, if you

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Speaker 3: want to go out with me, it's gonna I need

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Speaker 3: five hundred dollars to look the way you want me

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Speaker 3: to look, hair nails, everything like that, and then you

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Speaker 3: get to be seen with me, I guess or whatever.

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Speaker 3: And I thought that was appalling. But we got this

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Speaker 3: text regarding rent a hottie. How is that different from

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Speaker 3: renting a ferrari? So no one should ever rent a Ferrari.

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Speaker 3: If you have the dollars, do what makes you smile?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would suggest that you have priorities that will

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Speaker 2: lead you not to happiness. But you do, you brother,

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Speaker 2: There's I can't.

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Speaker 3: I'll have to think about it for longer than I've

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Speaker 3: got right now. On why it is incredibly different to

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Speaker 3: rent a Ferrari to see what it's like to drive

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Speaker 3: a Ferrari.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, number one, you get to

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Speaker 2: drive the Ferrari. If you know what I'm saying, Well, okay,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even think of that. But if you're but well,

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Speaker 2: it's different, are you mo? Seriously, he's paying money to

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Speaker 2: be seen standing next to a Ferrari. That's stupid.

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Speaker 3: See, I would rent a Ferrari, maybe to actually drive

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Speaker 3: a Ferrari, because I don't know what it's like. I've

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Speaker 3: never done it, and it may be pretty cool. And

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Speaker 3: then for a variety of reasons, I can't or ever

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Speaker 3: won't own one because it doesn't make practical sense. Is

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Speaker 3: that's a similar thing, but it's way different than that.

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Speaker 3: If you're actually dating, like you're trying to be in

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Speaker 3: a relationship with somebody, which is like one of the

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Speaker 3: most satisfying things that can happen in your entire existence

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Speaker 3: on planet Earth. And if that's what your goal is

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Speaker 3: and you're going about it this way, I don't I

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Speaker 3: don't know what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're doomed to misery. Let's go ahead and bottom

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Speaker 2: line it. You're doomed to misery. Yes, it's a ClearCase

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Speaker 2: of DTM.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I know.

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Speaker 3: So if you tell her I'm not paying you five

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Speaker 3: hundred dollars, is she going to show up in sweats

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Speaker 3: and no makeup? And what an odd way to live

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Speaker 3: your life? No kidding, how's that working out for you?

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Speaker 3: Would be a good question.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are you know, sub sectors of American

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Speaker 2: society that are as foreign to me as you know

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Speaker 2: somebody in Africa with a plate in their lip, or

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Speaker 2: you know in Afghanistan where they play that sport where

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Speaker 2: you whack a calf's head around on horseback or something

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Speaker 2: like that. I can't remember precisely. Out work.

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Speaker 3: If you're picking somebody only looks so how long is

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Speaker 3: that enjoyable? I would think that would wear off so fast.

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Speaker 3: I don't really have anything in common with you. I

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Speaker 3: don't really find you very interesting, but I guess I'll look.

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Speaker 2: At you for How long does that last? The arm

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Speaker 2: Strong and Getty Show Armstrong jacking Jar to tell you

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Speaker 2: Joey will be just.

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Speaker 5: Down.

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Speaker 2: Cost you that Armstrong in Getty on the Man.

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