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

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie. I know he Armstrong and Yetty I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be on a couch for at least one

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Speaker 2: of those NFL games, or at least paying attention to

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Speaker 2: them person the modern era where you can dial it

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Speaker 2: on and that's something I would love that when I

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Speaker 2: was a kid.

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Speaker 1: You gotta have the big screen though, the big screen experience,

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Speaker 1: the behemoths crashing into each other, life size in your home.

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Speaker 2: I have lost the ability to like sit on a

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Speaker 2: couch and watch a TV show. It just feels so

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Speaker 2: incredibly self indulgent to me. I just can't do it,

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Speaker 2: mostly because I have so many things I need to

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Speaker 2: it's with the kids, because this is something I'm doing

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Speaker 2: for the kids. I just never ever sit down and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are downsides to the empty nest thing, but

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Speaker 1: there are also upsides.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking of this yesterday when I was running

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Speaker 2: myself freaking ragged and and my one son, just constantly

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Speaker 2: needing something I thought. I always tell myself, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: miss this more than anything in the world someday. But

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Speaker 2: it's killing me today. It's freaking killing me. Also, correct

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Speaker 2: so much to squeeze in this hour. It's the last

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Speaker 1: We've got some more information on the Supreme Court unanimous

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Speaker 1: upholding of the not TikTok ban, the ban on the

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Speaker 1: communist Chinese controlling TikTok unanimous decision and a good one

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Speaker 1: that much much more. But first, let's take a fond

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Speaker 1: look back the week that was.

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Speaker 2: It's cow clips of the week, and so we all

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Speaker 2: better off that we're working together.

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Speaker 3: Give me a joke, which is the weak And we

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Speaker 3: have a ruling from the US Supreme Court on the

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Speaker 2: Bitedance is a foreign entity. It does not have First

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Speaker 2: Amendment writing. But there are serious national security risks here.

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Speaker 4: Now I don't fully understand Chinese culture.

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Speaker 5: At all, Like, what do you mean in other countries

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Speaker 5: they don't have to spend twenty percent of their paycheck

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Speaker 3: Oligarch is taking shape in America of extreme wealth power

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Speaker 3: and influence that.

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Speaker 2: Literally threads our entire democracy. They push us super hard

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Speaker 2: to take down things that we're honestly, we're true. Former

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Speaker 2: Fox News anchor Pete hagsays in the hot seat, I

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Speaker 2: don't want women. I don't want moms. What's wrong with

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Speaker 2: a mom? By the way, you know.

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Speaker 6: What that sounds to me that you will apply with

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Speaker 6: such an order you will shoot protesters in the in

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Speaker 2: Senator, I was falsely charged. I'm fully investigated and completely cleared.

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Speaker 7: How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?

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Speaker 7: Have any of you guys asked him to step down

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Speaker 7: and resign for their job.

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Speaker 3: It's time to give someone with dust on his boots

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Speaker 7: As I get bilingual protester, I think is an injury?

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Speaker 8: Cool?

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Speaker 2: What will be worried about? Please question? Sure you're right

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Speaker 2: now and listen I watch I have call me a child.

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Speaker 7: I am a ceasefire deal between Israel and Tomas.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Boks credit for this. Mister President, you or try.

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Speaker 6: Joe security as you may carried out by alcasombriad or

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Speaker 6: made a source of pride for our people and our resistance.

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Speaker 6: What that will be passed down from generation to generation

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Speaker 6: after it struck a fatal blow to the end of

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Speaker 6: Mother Nature owned us.

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Speaker 2: It was like a hurricane. It just was shooting like

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Speaker 8: We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure

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Speaker 8: that our firefighters can do their jobs.

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Speaker 2: Did they fail you? Yes? Looking back, would you have

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Speaker 2: taken that series? You know? I am going to focus today,

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Speaker 2: but on what we know? Does the buck stop with you?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're governor of California, Advidy will be the

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Speaker 2: We're all better off, we're all better off. We're all

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Speaker 2: better off, and we're working together. This is what you're

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Speaker 1: Side committee, Yes, you want to take it outside, Go

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Speaker 2: I still contend the biggest story in America is Zuckerberg

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Speaker 2: saying a week ago the White House was threatening a

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Speaker 2: professor I quoted the other day? It's got a book

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Speaker 2: out currently, Ilia Shapiro. No guy who wrote the book.

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Speaker 2: How about originalism that's out now, it doesn't matter. He's

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Speaker 2: all right, law professor. And he said this should should

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Speaker 2: this should be going to the Supreme Court. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I've been howling that for some time. I think it's

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Speaker 1: Everybody says everything's outrageous these days, it's actually outrageous.

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Speaker 2: Randy Barnett is the name we're looking for. It's horrific.

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Speaker 2: And let me quote.

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Speaker 1: Zuckerberg a little bit more because I happen to have

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Speaker 1: the transcript in front of me.

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Speaker 2: They pushed us.

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Speaker 1: It's super hard to take down things that were honestly

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Speaker 1: were true. They basically pushed us and said anything that

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Speaker 1: Joe Rogan asked him, who is they, Zuckerberg, it was

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Speaker 1: people in the Biden administration. These people from the Biden

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Speaker 1: to some journalists where he was basically like, these guys

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Speaker 1: these different agencies and branches the government basically just like

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Speaker 2: It was brutal.

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Speaker 1: So the full complex pack of attack dogs of the

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Speaker 1: federal government was unleashed to punish them for not immediately complying.

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Speaker 1: Zuckerberg could have said so out loud at the time,

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Speaker 1: and that would have been an incredibly brave and patriotic

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe someday he'll talk about why he decided

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Speaker 2: And you got Joe Biden leave an office, given speech

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Speaker 2: after speech about, you know, restoring norms and guard rails

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Speaker 1: And if you don't mind a bit of a humorous

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Speaker 1: note from the brilliant Nelly Bowls talking about Zuck confirming

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Speaker 1: and Zuck's centrist rampage isn't done. He's dismantled the internal

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Speaker 1: racial quota system of diversity goals. He's removed the tampons

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Speaker 1: from the men's bathrooms. Seriously, that is a real thing

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Speaker 1: they did this week, timed for the day before his

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Speaker 1: appearance on Rogan. Some daily wire pilled project manager has

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Speaker 2: They must be stopped soon. Unmarried thirty five.

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Speaker 1: Year old women on Facebook will get a by a

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Speaker 1: Posts something emotional to Facebook, he'll get an auto alert

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Speaker 1: asking if he really wants to be that gay? That's

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Speaker 1: really funny. Nelly Bowls might be the funniest woman in America.

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Speaker 1: Good news writer too so. Joe Biden's heading out of office.

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Speaker 1: He ends he's done at noon on Monday. Maybe that's

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Speaker 2: The end it was n P freaking r barely throwing

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Speaker 2: of tiny nice things to say, even they were burying him,

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Speaker 2: just disaster after disaster. This was a mistake, This was selfish,

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Speaker 2: This was a bad idea. This didn't work out on NPR.

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Speaker 2: I thought, Yeah, so what I've been saying is Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden is the least popular president, just aside from Nixon

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Speaker 2: and just barely above Nixon.

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Speaker 1: And many many points below the next person up.

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Speaker 2: I mean when you've got NPR seeing these things, and

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Speaker 2: farewell article to Joe Biden. Biden's refusal to pass Torch

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Speaker 2: Put I mean, when they're saying that about you on

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Speaker 1: it emerged that George Washington was actually two little people,

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Speaker 2: Wearing a grown up suit. Exactly. I've got a little

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Speaker 2: more from today's New York Times article to what Joe

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Speaker 2: stick around. So it wasn't Nancy Pelosi that pushed byden

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Speaker 2: We'll get to some more of that coming up next segment.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, so the Supreme Court has unanimously real the rule

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Speaker 1: that Congress is within its rights to ban the communist

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Speaker 1: Chinese ownership of TikTok. They're not banning TikTok, they're banning

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Speaker 1: the ownership by the communist Chinese. We have some really

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Speaker 1: important analysis of this case and what it means and

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Speaker 1: why it's right.

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Speaker 2: But it's Friday. Let's make time.

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Speaker 1: For little mirth. Here are a couple of idiots. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry that was prejudicial.

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Speaker 1: Here's a couple of stinking morons talking about downloading Red Note,

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Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer wrote an absolutely brilliant, brilliant piece entitled why

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Speaker 2: Like I said, Jill says, now seated in the green

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Speaker 2: We were friends for fifty years. It was disappointing. Well,

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Speaker 2: It's not important, but I thought it was interesting. Among

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Speaker 2: You can always express what you think in our caucus,

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Speaker 2: a couple of hours ago, for the UH to deliver

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Speaker 2: his own blunt message. I thought this was really interesting.

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Speaker 2: Schumer gave a detailed blow by blow of what each

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Speaker 2: Democratic senator had told mister Biden's top aides on Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill two days earlier, earlier, leaving the President wide eyed

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Speaker 2: and leading Schumer to conclude that his aides had not

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Speaker 2: briefed him on what had transpired.

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Speaker 1: That fits the freaking believe that siting the polls, etc.

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Speaker 2: His top advisor, chief of staff go to meet with

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Speaker 2: all the Democrat Democrat senators. They're screaming, he's got to

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Speaker 2: sit down, and we're not going to keep our mouth

449
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Speaker 2: shut anymore. And they don't go back and tell their friend, boss,

450
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Speaker 2: colleague what happened. They just keep it a secret from him.

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Speaker 2: How the meeting go?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: What great? It was good. Everybody says, hello, wow, how

454
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Speaker 2: the freak did you think this was going to play out? Geniuses?

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Speaker 1: I have throughout my adult life observing politics. Stop the

456
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Speaker 1: whole Cheney's a puppetmaster. He's pulling the strings and all

457
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Speaker 1: of those, you know, because every administration gets it. I

458
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Speaker 1: am shocked that it was that literally true. Biden would

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Speaker 1: send his top advisors over to the Senate. They would

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Speaker 1: have the meetings and come back and say, went, great, great,

461
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Speaker 1: we had ham sandwiches.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, how are you that's scary. It is scary. You

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Speaker 2: combine that with the Polsters, which are about to get

464
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Speaker 2: into a little bit more here. If there's a secret ballot,

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Speaker 2: mister President, my guess is that you might at most

466
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Speaker 2: get five yeses of senators that want him to stick

467
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Speaker 2: it out, five out of fifty two. Really, mister Biden responded,

468
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Speaker 2: I know my caucus. You know, I know my caucus.

469
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Speaker 2: Mister Biden nodded. Then Schumer delivered the speech he had

470
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Speaker 2: been rehearsing. Some people go into politics for money and power,

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Speaker 2: but some do it to leave a legacy. You're certainly

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Speaker 2: one of those. And he ticked through the impressive This

473
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Speaker 2: is good strategy for a salesmanship, because he's trying to

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Speaker 2: sell Biden on the idea of stepping down, and he

475
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Speaker 2: knows he's got to play to his ego. He ticked

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Speaker 2: through the impressive list of policies and acted together, including

477
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Speaker 2: the assault weapons ban and other gun controlled measures, the

478
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Speaker 2: Violence Against Women Act, and mister Biden's ambitious domestic agenda.

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Speaker 2: If I had to leave politics tomorrow for whatever reason,

480
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Speaker 2: I would say to myself, all this s we take

481
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Speaker 2: in this job is worth it, for making the world

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Speaker 2: a better place, and your legacy twenty times mine. Then,

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Speaker 2: as the President listened silently, I mean, mister Schumer told

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Speaker 2: him he risked going down in history as one of

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Speaker 2: the darkest figures. That's a hell of a thing to say.

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Speaker 2: Not a dark figure like negatively seen, but one of

487
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Speaker 2: the darkest figures in presidential history. Is the act of

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Speaker 2: a thing to say.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Schumer said that if he had even a fifty percent

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Speaker 2: chance of winning, he'd probably keep going fifty to fifty,

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Speaker 2: it'd be worth it. But mister President, you're not getting

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Speaker 2: the information as to what the chances are. When he

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Speaker 2: asked whether mister Biden had talked to his polsters about

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Speaker 2: his chance of winning the race, the President shook his head. Well,

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Speaker 2: I've talked to him, Schumer said, My guess is you

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Speaker 2: have about a five percent chance. And none of your

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Speaker 2: polsters disagree with me. They didn't tell Biden he has

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Speaker 2: a five percent chance. He wasn't talking to them at all,

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Speaker 2: apparently only twice. To go ahead, I was just gonna

501
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Speaker 2: say he was so.

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Speaker 1: Clearly the Meal take it right for his staff, for

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Speaker 1: his advisers.

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Speaker 2: Same as he's been for his family. So he's got

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Speaker 2: the politicians who, for political reasons keeping him in the dark,

506
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Speaker 2: just need him to be there. And then he's got

507
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Speaker 2: Jill and Hunter and his brother who are of course

508
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Speaker 2: going to tell him to stick around because he's a

509
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 2: different version of a Meal ticket, right, and that something.

510
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Speaker 2: Only twice did Biden interrupt to ask a question, and

511
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Speaker 2: both times it was do you really think Kamala can win?

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Speaker 2: He interrupted Schumer twice in an hour, and both times

513
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Speaker 2: he said, do you really think Kamala can win. Schumer

514
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Speaker 2: said he didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Joe answers no, no, no, no, she can't.

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Speaker 2: Schumer said he didn't know, but she had a far

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Speaker 2: better chance than Biden did. That's true, That is true. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Biden has since made it clear that he thinks he

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Speaker 2: would have won. That's what the New York Times says here,

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Speaker 2: which is true. H Upholster came out since Friday and

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Speaker 2: said the President was fully briefed on his campaign polling

522
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Speaker 2: and fully briefed him. Okay, either he was. Either he

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Speaker 2: was or wasn't. I think he probably wasn't. At the time,

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Speaker 2: mister Biden revealed a little of his own thinking, but

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Speaker 2: he did not argue with Schumer, and he did not shout.

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Speaker 2: He just said, I need a week. So he must

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Speaker 2: have at that point decided, well when fund somebody finally

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Speaker 2: told him the truth. If they had told him the

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Speaker 2: truth earlier, he might have He might have gotten out

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Speaker 2: a year earlier if people have been honest with him.

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Speaker 1: Certainly, Dough everybody's still claiming, oh, he's absolutely I can

532
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Speaker 1: barely keep up with.

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Speaker 2: Him behind the scenes. That was that time, and it's

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Speaker 2: known that he watches Morning Joe. He could flip on

535
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Speaker 2: the morning cable news while he's doing his jazzer size

536
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 2: or whatever, and see Joe Scarborough saying he's the best

537
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: Joe Biden I've ever seen. So, of course he was

538
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Speaker 2: thinking that I need a week. As he ushered Schumer

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Speaker 2: into a small elevator to exit the House, the President

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00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 2: put two hands on the senator's shoulders and offered a

541
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Speaker 2: quintessential Biden Esque bit of hyperbole. You've got bigger balls

542
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Speaker 2: than anyone I've ever met, he said. The two embraced

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Speaker 2: as Schumer headed back to his car, where he broke

544
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Speaker 2: down in tears as he recounted the meeting to his aides.

545
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: He didn't know what mister Biden would end up doing,

546
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Speaker 2: he told him, but he felt he had gotten through

547
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: to him. Yeah. Wow, So really seems like the narrative

548
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Speaker 2: that Nancy pushed him out is unless there's new reporting

549
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Speaker 2: to come. Maybe she was doing something similar also in

550
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Speaker 2: the House.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are surely to be counter leaks any minute now.

552
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Speaker 1: But all of that rings very, very true, including and

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Speaker 1: I've never been terribly sympathetic for Chuck Schumer in any way,

554
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: because I think he's a cad and a liar and

555
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: a propagandist and a progressive nut. But that would be

556
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Speaker 1: a heavy conversation to have with an old friend slash associate,

557
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: because the underlying theme is you're too old and.

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Speaker 2: Your brain doesn't work. That's why, right, somebody putting it

559
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Speaker 2: out the other day, Remember when Nancy Pelosi would do so,

560
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: Joe Biden would go, would come out and say, I'm

561
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: staying in the so and anybody thinks I'm not as crazy,

562
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: And then Nancy Pelosi'd be asking, we're still waiting for

563
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: him to make up his mind, and we're gonna give

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Speaker 2: him time to think about it.

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Speaker 1: We will go with whatever the president decides. I've decided

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Speaker 1: I'm staying in, and when he makes the decision, we

567
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: will abide by it. I'm in, I'm running. The president

568
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: gets to decide.

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Speaker 2: But we're in the very early part of the writing

570
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Speaker 2: of all this history. It needs to change over time, though.

571
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: USA Today's headline today in the retrospective of the Biden presidency,

572
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 2: Biden's refusal to pass Torch earlier hangs over his legacy.

573
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Speaker 2: You gotta be knocking his aids. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you can blame the guy if he wasn't getting the

575
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Speaker 2: true information right, especially when he's senile. Anyway, we will

576
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Speaker 2: finish strong next. First of all, if I'm Joe Biden,

577
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 2: while I'm still president, I'm gonna have those people executed

578
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: for treason who didn't tell me the truth about what

579
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: was going on or something controversial or something. LEAs and

580
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: Colein and said, what the hell? You went to meet

581
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 2: with the senators and they said, unless he gets two

582
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: neurologists to say he's okay and answers questions, we're coming

583
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: out tomorrow and saying he needs to step down. And

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00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: you didn't tell me that. You didn't think I would

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00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: hear about that at some point.

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably happened already before he headed off

587
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: to the beach to wander off to die like an

588
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: old elephant.

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00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: Different story. NFL playoffs this weekend. I barely know this.

590
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: Maybe Joe knows more about it. I know there was

591
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: some dust up between Packers fans and Eagles fans at

592
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Speaker 2: the playoff game last week. Got a fair amount of attention.

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00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: Turns out, and I saw the headline, but I didn't

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Speaker 2: read it. We got this tech text. Turns out that

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Speaker 2: the Packers fan from that Eagles game where there was

596
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Speaker 2: a fight as an Internet grifter who goes to games

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Speaker 2: like this, buy seats in certain sections where the rowdiest

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Speaker 2: home fans are, provokes them to get this exact response,

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Speaker 2: and then post vot videos on YouTube and makes a

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Speaker 2: big deal out of it and somehow benefits.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're out of Eagles fan called her a dumb

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Speaker 1: sea or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Is she.

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Speaker 2: What the what?

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Speaker 1: I would never use that sort of crude letter terminology.

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Speaker 1: My thirteen year old still thinks the sea word is crap.

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Speaker 2: So that's good. As long as I can keep that,

609
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Speaker 2: it's fine. That good, Yes, Katie, I won't. I won't

610
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Speaker 2: say she's a dumb sea.

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Speaker 8: But the guy who called her that ended up losing

612
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Speaker 8: his job. They sicked the internet all over this guy,

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Speaker 8: and he's being publicly shamed everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so it had an effect on him and it

615
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: was just a YouTube Internet ruise. I go to places

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Speaker 2: where I know this kind of fan is and try

617
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Speaker 2: to provoke them. Wow. Still, you shouldn't call that woman

618
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Speaker 2: that you did. It's very rude. I don't know. Hey, kids,

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Speaker 2: it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty. You know,

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Speaker 2: Joe Getty Bears fan. I think you're in the the

621
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Speaker 2: really hardcore Bears section. You're drinking beer and there's somebody

622
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Speaker 2: just getting in your face with their finger the whole game.

623
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Speaker 2: I think you or I are capable of saying anything

624
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Speaker 2: to that person. Well, first of all, Niners fans.

625
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Speaker 1: Secondly, if I had a beer or two in this scenia,

626
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Speaker 1: of course you had, Yeah, I would unleash something truly horrifying.

627
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Speaker 1: Merchant Greens, combat veterans would, would would blink back tears.

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Speaker 2: Here, Yes, here's your final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew

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Speaker 1: to wrap things up for the week. Michelangelow, our technical director,

631
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Speaker 1: will lead us. Michael final thought.

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Speaker 2: Mark my words.

633
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Speaker 3: At eleven forty five am on Monday, Biden will issue

634
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Speaker 3: an executive order that changes the US to the metric system.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes before.

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Speaker 1: Hilarious Katie Green are estemed to Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, well, with.

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Speaker 8: The release of this New York Times article and all

638
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Speaker 8: this other information coming out, I am loving the infighting.

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Speaker 8: Oh Democrats, Oh yeah, that's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: My final thought I'm gonna jump the gun is that

641
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Speaker 1: I think all of this while great gossip also helps

642
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: to illustrate for us how politics actually works.

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Speaker 2: Yep, behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: It's not the speeches and the grand pronouncements and the

645
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: rest of it. It's not even the laws. It's that

646
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: sort of crap.

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Speaker 2: Jack. Final thought, Yeah, my final thought was going to

648
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 2: be that's why the founding fathers thought you needed to

649
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Speaker 2: have government be as small as possible, because, as you

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Speaker 2: can see in that article, even among Democrats, people look

651
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 2: out for their own interest more than the country's interest,

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Speaker 2: or even their parties or anything. That's just the way

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Speaker 2: people are built. Power corrupts Man Armstrong and Getty wrapping

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Speaker 2: up another grueling four hour workday, so many people.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can pick up some ang swag. Love those hoodies.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice strop us an ode. If there's something we

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Speaker 1: ought to be talking about you see over the weekend

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Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Man will be a lot to talk about Martin

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Speaker 2: Luther King a day on Monday, the inauguration, in all

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Speaker 2: the football game See you then, God bless America. Armstrong

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Speaker 2: and Getty and I said, boy, they look two people that.

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Speaker 6: Like each other, and again, thank you so much for.

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Speaker 2: Sharing that I can't imagine.

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Speaker 4: I'm all beautiful fish.

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Speaker 2: Why are you such a nerd?

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Speaker 7: Bro't whatever you say and listen give me a joke.

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Speaker 4: It's now I don't fully understand at all.

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Speaker 2: Who're not?

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Speaker 1: Have a great Friday, you, Mother, Armstrong and Gaddy