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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 Ketty, I'm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Jatati and he Armstrong and Hetty.

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Speaker 2: If confirmed, the former Independent White House contender would oversee

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Speaker 2: a one point seven trillion dollar budget, ninety thousand employees

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Speaker 2: and agencies including the FDA, CDC, NIH and Medicare and

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Speaker 2: Medicaid Services. Kennedy says his Make America Healthy Again pursuit

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Speaker 2: would prioritize nutrition and shift federal research away from infectious

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Speaker 2: disease towards chronic illness.

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Speaker 3: The first thing I've done every morning for the past

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Speaker 3: twenty years is to get on my knees and pray

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Speaker 3: to God that he would put me in a position

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Speaker 3: and the chronic disease epidemic interesting.

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Speaker 4: That's RFK Junior is hearing arted yesterday and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: play with my lights and it continues today.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to take the fun out of this.

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Speaker 4: But my feeling on the whole thing in general is

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Speaker 4: if he gets approved, and he most likely is, if

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Speaker 4: he does anything super crazy, there will be a revolt,

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Speaker 4: including among Republicans, and they'll have to get somebody new.

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Speaker 1: That's what I suspect as well.

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Speaker 4: He's not going to declare no vaccines for schools, and

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Speaker 4: everybody else say, I guess we just have to go

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Speaker 4: along with it. That's not going to happen, right right,

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Speaker 4: And we could well, I mean, his reign could well

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Speaker 4: lead to a debate on a number of issues and

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Speaker 4: we come out at a better place. I'm not a

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Speaker 4: fan of the guy, but some of the Harem Scaram talk.

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Speaker 4: I mean, for instance, here in clip thirty two, Michael,

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Speaker 4: this is Jake Tapper's fair and balanced to lead on

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Speaker 4: the story.

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Speaker 1: Robert F.

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Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior, who's been spreading lies about vaccines for decades,

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Speaker 5: pressed on his reign of error. Luckily nobody heard that

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Speaker 5: because nobody watches CNN.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I saw a club.

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Speaker 4: I should have had hands and grab it, but I

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Speaker 4: saw a pushback that RFK Junior had later in the day. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so here's three of my conspiracy theories that turned out

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Speaker 4: to be true. And he went through a number of

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Speaker 4: them that were things he had said that are now

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Speaker 4: adopted as true. That you could spread the COVID even

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Speaker 4: if you were vaxed. That was considered a conspiracy theory

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Speaker 4: for a long time. So do I think RFK Junior

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Speaker 4: has conspiracy theories that aren't true? Yes, he absolutely does.

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Speaker 4: But your own government, Jake Tapper, your side, spread all

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Speaker 4: kinds of stuff that was completely false, and they knew

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Speaker 1: They weren't even just crackpots.

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Speaker 4: They were cynics who were saying the opposite of what

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Speaker 4: they knew to be true, and you gave him a

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Speaker 4: pass for it.

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Speaker 1: So give me a.

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Speaker 5: Break because the people were too stupid to handle the truth.

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Speaker 5: The one aspect of JFK or RFK thing that I'm

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Speaker 5: troubled by, and I would like to discuss with somebody

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Speaker 5: who is an expert in this because I'm not, is

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Speaker 5: the fact that he believes one of the ways to

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Speaker 5: get real accountability out of the big pharma companies is

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Speaker 5: to sue the but Jesus out of them and to

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Speaker 5: weaken the protections that they enjoy. There are a set

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Speaker 5: of laws that have to do with protecting the companies

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Speaker 5: for vaccine lawsuits, and then there's a federal fund to

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Speaker 5: pay damages. Because the perception was, or the decision was,

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Speaker 5: it's so important to vaccinate all kids against these awful

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Speaker 5: and some of them are just nightmares childhood diseases.

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Speaker 1: We can't ask.

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Speaker 5: The private companies to take on the ginormous risk of lawsuits,

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Speaker 5: and so the federal government is going to give them

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Speaker 5: a little protection and blah blah blahs, it's so important

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Speaker 5: to all of us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, same with the research.

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Speaker 4: Why would you spend all the money on research for

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Speaker 4: some vaccine for some new disease if you think you're

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Speaker 4: going to get the Bejesus suit out of you if

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Speaker 4: anything goes wrong, right, And.

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Speaker 5: They there is a point to that philosophy, there's absolutely

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Speaker 5: that's not crazy.

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Speaker 1: RFK is saying.

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Speaker 5: The way we bring the big pharma folks to heal

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Speaker 5: is in the style of say, the giant lawsuits against

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Speaker 5: the Sackler family and the oxy Conton and the rest

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Speaker 5: of it is through lawsuits, and so they're over protected.

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Speaker 5: Well wrinkle number two. RFK Junior makes scads of money.

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Speaker 1: On those losses. That's troubling. That's how he gets rich.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so conflict of interest, much as they used to

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Speaker 1: Now anyway, does he needs scads of money?

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Speaker 4: He's a Kennedy don't they all just go home and

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Speaker 4: jump in a big pile of money like Scrooge McDuck.

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Speaker 5: I have no idea another outdated reference. I have no

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Speaker 5: idea what the finances of the arn't of the average Kennedy.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if they got fifty million dollars in

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Speaker 5: the bank, or if they're you know, like your your

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Speaker 5: classic rock star who didn't actually get make much money

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Speaker 5: and tours constantly because they have to pay their bills.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know anyway. One shocking revelation

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Speaker 5: from the RFK hearings was right here. Michael is thirty four.

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Speaker 3: Addiction services, substance abuse services, I this is a priority

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Speaker 3: for me. It was a priority for me when I

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Speaker 3: was running for president. During my campaign, I was a

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Speaker 3: heroin addict for fourteen years. I've been forty two years

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Speaker 3: in recovery. I go to twelve seven meetings every day,

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Speaker 3: so I hear the stories every day.

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Speaker 1: Wow. A couple of interesting things there.

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Speaker 4: He does twelve step meetings every day after forty some years,

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Speaker 4: which is interesting. And he was a heroin addict for

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Speaker 4: a decade plus, almost a decade and a half.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Presidential terms and half of the next.

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Speaker 4: Wow, man, if you got a loved one who's a

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Speaker 4: heroin addict for that long, you've given up on them

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Speaker 4: being alive at that point. Yeah, I gotta think you

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Speaker 4: think they're they're They're never coming back. I'm just going

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Speaker 5: And over there on the other side of wash d

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Speaker 5: see Pete Hagsith is saying, oh, and I got drunk twice.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, we have a report here that you once

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Speaker 4: got drunk at a bowling alley at a work function.

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Speaker 4: Arth K Junior was a heroin addict for fourteen years.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's that is interesting.

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Speaker 5: And then there was quite the argument between Elizabeth warrenar

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Speaker 5: Just to go back to that before we move on.

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Speaker 5: There is something around that, for whatever reason, culturally that

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Speaker 5: if you're a if you're a drug addict, it's kind

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Speaker 5: But if you're very difficult, very difficult to handle jack

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Speaker 5: but all get But if.

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Speaker 1: You're drunk, it's just pathetic. You're a stupid loser. It

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Speaker 1: would be a drunk you're a stupid loser. Yes.

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Speaker 5: The heroin addict, on the other hand, it's highly addicted,

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Speaker 5: kind of cool when rock stars do it.

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Speaker 1: And he had back pain and took pills. Blah blah

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Speaker 5: Just kind of a weak, dumb loser. All right, But

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Speaker 5: enough about my hobbies. Elizabeth Warren K.

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Speaker 1: I saw an AI thing yesterday.

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Speaker 5: AI.

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Speaker 4: You know it's so good and believable as her. Yes,

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Speaker 4: they call on her and she goes oh.

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Speaker 1: In the AI phone. I don't think that happened. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to that's not accurate. I saw a great

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Speaker 1: deal of hearing. She did not make an Indian war cry.

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Speaker 5: Let's let's get that dead out of the way, all right. Anyway,

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Speaker 5: she took a war hatchet in hand and went after

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Speaker 1: This is what it sounded like.

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Speaker 7: And I'm asking you to commit right now that you

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Speaker 7: will not take a financial stake and every one of

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Speaker 7: those lawsuits so that what you do as secretary will

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Speaker 7: also benefit you financially down the line.

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Speaker 6: I'll comply with all the ethical gods. That's not the

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Speaker 6: question you and I. You have said you're asking me.

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Speaker 3: You're asking me not to vaccine prose companies.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you are, That's exactly what you're doing.

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Speaker 7: Hell, look, no one should be fooled here. I tear

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Speaker 7: of ahhs. Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut

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Speaker 7: vaccines and vaccine manufacturing across our country. And for all

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Speaker 7: of his talk about follow the science and his promise

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Speaker 7: that he won't interfere with those of us who want

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Speaker 7: to vaccinate his kids, the bottom line is the same.

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Speaker 7: Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions

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Speaker 7: of dollars while.

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Speaker 1: He does it.

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Speaker 7: Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in

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Speaker 7: the Senator.

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Speaker 3: I support vaccines, will I support the childhood schedule?

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Speaker 6: I will do that. The only thing I want is

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Speaker 6: good science, and that's it.

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Speaker 4: I also saw an AI thing where she used every

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Speaker 4: part of the buffalo there in the hearing room. Wow,

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Speaker 4: And I don't think that happened actually either a.

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Speaker 5: Bit of a distraction there, but to the substance of it,

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Speaker 5: I can't stand Elizabeth Warren. She's a liar and a

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Speaker 5: phony and a race baiter and the rest of it.

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Speaker 5: But there is a concern there. I'm doing this lawsuit

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Speaker 5: because it's the right thing. I get a referral fee,

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Speaker 5: and it's going to be paying me money.

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Speaker 1: Long into my old.

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Speaker 4: Well, let me read from Brit Hume, a Fox No

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Speaker 4: fan of Elizabeth Warren. The exchange devolved into a shouting match,

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Speaker 4: but Elizabeth Warren for once had a valid point and

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Speaker 4: asking Bobby K Junior to foreswear receiving money from the

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Speaker 4: trial law firm he's associated with. Her point was that

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Speaker 4: as HHS Secretary, he'd be in a position to influence

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Speaker 4: the outcome of lawsuits filed by that firm. Kennedy kept

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Speaker 4: saying she was demanding he not sued drug companies, but

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Speaker 4: that was not.

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Speaker 1: What she was saying. According to Brit Hume of Fox.

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Speaker 5: Right, I would agree that's the way I read it

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Speaker 5: too again and trust me, it's not comfortable being in

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Speaker 4: And then she jumped on her pony side saddle and

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Speaker 4: wrote out of there in the ais I saw, okay,

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Speaker 4: well excellent. And then what of the onesies?

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Speaker 1: Jack?

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Speaker 5: Another notable exchange between the always colorful bemitten socialist Bernie

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Speaker 5: Sanders an RFK Junior.

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Speaker 1: What about the onesies?

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Speaker 8: Now you're coming before this committee and you say you're

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Speaker 8: pro vaccine, just want to ask some questions. And yet

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Speaker 8: your organization is making money selling a child's product to

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Speaker 8: parents for twenty six bucks, which cast fundamental doubt on

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Speaker 8: the usefulness of vaccines.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us now that you will, now that.

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Speaker 8: You are pro vaccine, that you're going to have your

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Speaker 8: organization take these products off the market?

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Speaker 3: Senator, I have no power over that organization, not you've

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Speaker 3: heard of it.

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Speaker 6: Resigned from the board that was just.

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Speaker 8: A few months ago. You founded that you certainly have

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Speaker 8: power you could make that. How you supportive of this?

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Speaker 8: I've had nothing to do with your supportive of these onesies?

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Speaker 6: I'm supportive of vaccines.

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Speaker 8: Are you supportive of these this clothing which is militantly

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Speaker 6: I am supportive of vaccines.

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Speaker 3: Well, I want good science and I want to protect

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Speaker 3: But you will not tell.

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Speaker 8: The organization you founded not to continue selling that product.

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Speaker 9: The onesies say, unvexed, unafraid or no vax, No problem?

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Speaker 5: Despise bullying, but it's a conversation worth having.

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Speaker 4: Actually, we have some more stuff on the hearings, Tulsa

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Speaker 1: I think it's easy to see these attacks for what

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Speaker 10: In fact, I have publicly, including in the interviews provided

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Speaker 1: That's Cash Battel being grilled to by the senators. They're

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Speaker 4: That was a Republican asking that question, Chuck Grassley, So

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Speaker 4: old he didn't realize mister Bondie is clearly miss Bondie,

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Speaker 4: But Chuck Grassley, a Republican, was asking me that question

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Speaker 5: Would be the only thing one hundred percent correct. That's right,

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Speaker 5: And you know it's funny. Hadn't even occurred to me.

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Speaker 1: It makes no difference to me at all.

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Speaker 5: But if you were a Democrat, gosh that the Braezes

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Speaker 5: So a completely different topic, although related in that the

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Speaker 5: Disgracefully, most of the NEWSVDA media went along with it.

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Speaker 5: They defended, they parroted. Academia went along, as did most corporations.

445
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Speaker 5: Many mainstream churches went along, placing a secular word of

446
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Speaker 5: a doddering president above their own received wisdom. The open

447
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Speaker 5: society was closed for repairs until further notice. And here's

448
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Speaker 5: the part that needs to be etched into granite. The

449
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Speaker 5: greatest danger in a closed system that shuts off debate

450
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Speaker 5: is an error, but the impossibility of correcting error, of

451
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Speaker 5: ever arriving at the truth.

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Speaker 1: And it goes into a fair amount of detail.

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Speaker 5: But the idea is we can absolutely deal with people

454
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Speaker 5: who are wrong or have bad ideas existed. We've been

455
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Speaker 5: dealing with that since the dawn of mans. They had

456
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Speaker 5: no starts, like the Almighty had no star. But it

457
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Speaker 5: will know no end people being wrong or misguided. But

458
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Speaker 5: the one thing we can't take is restricting people from

459
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Speaker 5: saying out loud I think you're wrong. That's the one

460
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Speaker 5: sin we must never ever commit, no matter how good

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Speaker 5: the excuse is.

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Speaker 4: Well, having lived through it, which I didn't think I

463
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Speaker 4: ever would in my life, but having lived through it,

464
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Speaker 4: it was something to see how quickly it it could

465
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Speaker 4: go away, like really quickly, and how quickly people went

466
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Speaker 4: along with it. Oh, yeah, that's the way it goes away.

467
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Speaker 4: You have enough people who are out of being frightened.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 1: So I'm super in Just gonna.

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Speaker 5: Say it's the desire for safety, which is incredibly powerful.

471
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Speaker 1: And what is my side saying?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm super into civilizations falling apart through history.

473
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Speaker 4: It's just something I'm really interested in. And I because

474
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Speaker 4: I think there's a chance I'm living through it or

475
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Speaker 4: may live through it in my lifetime, and I don't know,

476
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Speaker 4: I just kind of want to have a heads up

477
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Speaker 4: but like I'm currently reading this book becas I've mention

478
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Speaker 4: many times about France eighteen seventy, when they're many times

479
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Speaker 4: in France their civilization has falled apart, fallen apart, where

480
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Speaker 4: that just they go nutso and it's a lot like

481
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Speaker 4: what we did.

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Speaker 1: During COVID, where.

483
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Speaker 4: You pick a side and your side can do no

484
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Speaker 4: wrong and you're completely immune to logic for a while,

485
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Speaker 4: and all kinds of things go out the window, and

486
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Speaker 4: it's just it's something to see that it has happened

487
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Speaker 4: so many times throughout history. That's why dudes are into

488
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Speaker 4: the fall of the Roman Republic, like how how does

489
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Speaker 4: something that was working go away?

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Speaker 1: And it's just troublingly easy.

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Speaker 5: As I've said many times, it was almost worth it

492
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Speaker 5: to live through it. Yeah, to see I mean, how

493
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Speaker 5: right mister Merrill who's writing this, or Thomas Jefferson was,

494
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Speaker 5: for instance, I'm about to quote Jefferson because Merril writes

495
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Speaker 5: about how in seventeen ninety eight, and Jack you've pointed

496
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Speaker 5: out and it's incredibly troubling and almost bitterly amusing because

497
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Speaker 5: it shows how human beings.

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Speaker 1: Are, the very founding generation.

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Speaker 5: Themselves past the Sedition Act President John Adams arm twisted

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Speaker 5: Congress into enacting this Edition Act, which is essentially through

501
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Speaker 5: citizens in jail for slandering the federal government, which is

502
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Speaker 5: to say bad mouthing him or you know, criticizing him.

503
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Speaker 5: Now Adams won or two years later in eighteen hundred,

504
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Speaker 5: and this is how he put it in his first

505
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Speaker 5: inaugural address. Quote, if there be any among us who

506
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Speaker 5: would wish to dissolve this union or to change its

507
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Speaker 5: republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the

508
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Speaker 5: safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where

509
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Speaker 5: reason is left free to combat it. The idea, it's

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Speaker 5: a restatement of one of his great guiding principles that

511
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Speaker 5: I'd much rather attend to the problems of too much

512
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Speaker 5: liberty than too little.

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Speaker 4: Yeah well, yeah, I guess that proves a point right there.

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Speaker 4: And if the founding generation could get that off track

515
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Speaker 4: that fast with free speech, then you can't blame the

516
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Speaker 4: current times because it's just it's it's easy to fall for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, in this circumstance, you can't have free speech is

519
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Speaker 4: always the thing. We've got a unique circumstance COVID. You know, uh,

520
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Speaker 4: we're just putting together the country and we got you know,

521
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Speaker 4: we got to worry about to England and France and everybody.

522
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Speaker 4: So now is not a time for people saying whatever

523
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Speaker 4: they want. There's always some reason why now is a

524
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Speaker 4: specifically unique time.

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Speaker 1: Just to join us.

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Speaker 5: Once you in the army of the lovers of liberty

527
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Speaker 5: in that whenever an excuse is given for censorship because

528
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Speaker 5: they're wrong or misguided or dangerous, the reply is, are

529
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Speaker 5: we free to say that that they're wrong and misguided

530
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Speaker 5: and dangerous?

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Speaker 1: Yes, well then we're good, We're fine.

532
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Speaker 4: Yeah, reading this stuff about France or lots of different places,

533
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Speaker 4: popularism and mob ment is so frightening and unwieldy and

534
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 4: just completely unpredictable and happens out of nowhere, and once

535
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Speaker 4: it gets going, stopping it is incredibly hard. Yeah, the

536
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 4: whole populism thing should be treated with kid gloves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It is a human impulse that is among our more

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Speaker 10: Well, guys, Valentine's Day is just around the corner.

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Speaker 1: I saw an ad today that really caught my eye.

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Speaker 11: This Valentine's Day, if you're planning to ask her that

579
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Speaker 11: very special question, make sure she knows you really care

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Speaker 11: by giving her something more valuable than all the diamonds

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Speaker 11: in the world, a single egg speckled farm's best because

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Speaker 5: It, very expensive eggs.

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Speaker 6: I get it.

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Speaker 4: I think you am I wrong, Katie. I think proposing

586
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Speaker 4: on Valentine's Day, most women would go you no.

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Speaker 1: Yeh, don't do it, don't do it? Not cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, New Year's Eve, Valentine's for whatever reason, those are

589
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Speaker 4: off limits.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm troubled by the performative nature of everything in

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Speaker 5: the modern world. You've got to have a giant performative engagement.

592
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Speaker 5: You've got to have a giant performative wedding. Well, somebody's

593
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Speaker 5: got to have their phone out and you have to

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Speaker 5: post it. Certainly, Well, you've got to have a giant

595
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Speaker 5: performative gender reveal. You've got to have a giant performative

596
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Speaker 5: here's me at the art museum, whatever happened to go

597
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Speaker 5: and place us and doing stuff exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'm making a TV production of it now.

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Speaker 4: Valentine Day this year is on a Friday, So forget

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Speaker 4: going out to eat. I remember one time, many many

601
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Speaker 4: years ago, only once in my life, that I try

602
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Speaker 4: to go out to eat.

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Speaker 1: On Valentine's Day, and it was awful, just awful.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you like standing in a shoulder to

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Speaker 4: shoulder lobby of whatever restaurant for a half an hour

606
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Speaker 4: before you even get to your reservation in a very

607
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Speaker 4: crowded restaurant, go ahead. But oh, it's on a Friday

608
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Speaker 4: night this year. But here's the good news. Calendar wise,

609
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Speaker 4: Groundhog Day is Sunday. We don't have to deal with it.

610
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 4: This year, we missed out on Groundhog Day. Thank god,

611
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Speaker 4: America's stupidest day, clearly.

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Speaker 1: Boy, big worry of mine.

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Speaker 4: Well, every year we get a the CBS Early Show,

614
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Speaker 4: they're gonna have the The Today Show, They're gonna be

615
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Speaker 4: there in punk Satani, and they're gonna have the damn Rodent.

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Speaker 4: Just please, we're all grown ups there, all right, We're

617
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Speaker 4: not six years old exactly.

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Speaker 1: You're taking your weather forecast from a rodent? What else

619
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Speaker 1: are you doing? Eating your own fingernails?

620
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Speaker 4: I got a question that we're going to talk about

621
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Speaker 4: the hearings. Our three have some serious things to say

622
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Speaker 4: about that. Cash Ptel just said, and this is a

623
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Speaker 4: pretty big deal. He's the guy up for a FBI

624
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Speaker 4: director that a lot of people think it way too trumpy,

625
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Speaker 4: and he's just he's going to do Trump's bidding and

626
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Speaker 4: retribution and jail the people who don't like Trump and

627
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Speaker 4: that sort of thing. Cash Ptel said about the j

628
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Speaker 4: six pardon commutations. I do not agree with the commutation

629
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Speaker 4: of any sentence of anyone who committed violence against law

630
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Speaker 4: enforcement on January seven, breaking with his bulls. That's a

631
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Speaker 4: pretty big break. That's some independence right there. Yeah, I'd

632
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Speaker 4: say so, And he's right. Tulsea Gabbard, attractive Hawaiian woman

633
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Speaker 4: wants to be the d and I Director of National Intelligence. Uh,

634
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Speaker 4: she's wearing her white outfit that she's kind of famous for.

635
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Speaker 4: She's always got that gray streak.

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Speaker 1: In her hair.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know, maybe you know this, Katie, I

638
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Speaker 4: don't know, is that a is that an? Is she

639
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Speaker 4: just born that way where she's got dark hair and

640
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Speaker 4: but one streak of gray? Does she die it that way?

641
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Speaker 4: Because I know plenty of women who do the one

642
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Speaker 4: blue one. You know, he had a red streak or

643
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Speaker 4: a blue streak or whatever.

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Speaker 5: For the record, we're talking about the Director of National Intelligence,

645
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Speaker 5: And this is Jack's question.

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Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, I don't know. Is an optional? I don't

647
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Speaker 1: know if she was. I know that that is a

648
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Speaker 1: condition people are born with. But the gray hair thing.

649
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Speaker 4: Is really in right now, the women letting it go gray,

650
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Speaker 4: letting it go gray, or dying at gray before it

651
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Speaker 4: goes gray.

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Speaker 1: It's it. Oh yeah, friend of mine just went gray

653
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Speaker 1: or silver as she called it, at what age you mean? Right? Yes,

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Speaker 1: she's howled thirty nine or forty thirty nine, going early gray. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe that'll become a thing. She spotted a few and said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to embrace it.

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Speaker 4: You know, when I run into a woman who's decided

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Speaker 4: to fully embrace the gray like men generally do, am

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Speaker 4: I shocked.

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Speaker 1: But you don't see that very often.

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Speaker 4: But Tulsa's just goes with the streak like a skunk stripe.

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Speaker 4: And I just wondered if that's justly or is that

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Speaker 4: now you think it's.

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Speaker 5: That's not the most flattering way to describe it. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I suspect that that's just the way her hair grows.

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Speaker 5: I'm a little more concerned about her affection for the

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Speaker 5: Kremlin and her whack adodal half a cult spiritual beliefs

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Speaker 5: in their pyramid schemes, and her affection for Edward Snowden,

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Speaker 5: who did a hell of a lot more than simply

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Speaker 5: exposed some of the NSA's sins. On the other hand,

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Speaker 5: her hair color is fascinating and worthy of inquiry.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Katie, so she's actually commented on it.

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Speaker 2: I started to gray in that spot during my first

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Speaker 2: deployment to Iraq, so I've chosen to keep it as

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Speaker 2: a daily reminder of the terrible.

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Speaker 1: Cost of war.

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Speaker 5: Awesome answer. That's a cool answer, That is very cool.

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Speaker 5: I still think she's a crackpot.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I'll tell you what Joe is doing, because

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Speaker 4: she said in her opening statement before I close, I

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Speaker 4: want to warn the American people watching at home, you

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Speaker 4: will hear lies and smears like you just said from

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Speaker 4: Joe Getty that challenge my loyalty and love of our country.

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Speaker 4: Those who oppose my nomination imply I'm loyal to something

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Speaker 4: or someone other than.

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Speaker 1: God, said the trader.

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Speaker 4: So Joe's part of the smear lizing, I guess said

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Speaker 4: she's claiming.

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Speaker 5: As I said in some of the fever pitch run

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Speaker 5: up to the hearings during the transition period.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad they have hearings. I got an idea.

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Speaker 5: How about we have the Senate advice and consent on

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Speaker 5: the president's appointees and we'll take a good, solid look

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Speaker 5: at all this stuff. I'm very content with this process.

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Speaker 5: And if she gets through it and all the Republicans

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Speaker 5: say for a job this critical, If all the Republicans say,

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Speaker 5: you know what, no, it seems that she's a good gal,

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Speaker 5: and let's give her.

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Speaker 1: The job, man, all right with?

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about the whole process because I

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Speaker 4: heard a good podcast about it the other day, whether

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Speaker 4: it's outlived its uselessness. You know, most of our nation's history,

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Speaker 4: we didn't do this, even though it's in the constitution,

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Speaker 4: we didn't do it this way, at least partially because

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Speaker 4: there were no TV cameras. There is no benefit to

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Speaker 4: grand standing alone in a room like there is now.

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Speaker 4: But senators would do a little research on their own

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Speaker 4: and then and they you know, they would, they would

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Speaker 4: they they would vote one way or another, or write

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Speaker 4: a letter asking a question or whatever. That'd be their

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Speaker 4: advice and consent. Now we do this show, and there's

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Speaker 4: only been one time, like in the last forty years

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Speaker 4: that anything has ever come out of one of these

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Speaker 4: hearings that anybody thought actually made a difference in terms

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Speaker 4: of how people were already going to vote. See, you

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Speaker 4: gotta wonder if it's actually doing anything. But the process

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Speaker 4: does lead to all the media stuff that happens leading

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Speaker 4: up to it, and a number of people have been

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Speaker 4: out of the nomination by the media scrutiny before the hearing.

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Speaker 4: So maybe that's the real advice and consents going on.

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Speaker 4: Digging into Matt Gates before he even gets to the hearing,

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Speaker 4: and he, you know, he pulls his name.

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Speaker 6: Oh.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it reminds me of you know, well, I don't

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Speaker 5: have time to explain the metaphor, but I think it's very,

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Speaker 5: very useful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and

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Speaker 4: Getty on demand

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