WEBVTT - Happy June, Everyone! 

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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.

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<v Speaker 2>Armstrong and Jett and now he is Armstrong and Eddy.

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<v Speaker 2>So right before we go on, there is a promo

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<v Speaker 2>that mentioned the Epstein Files. Right before we go on,

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<v Speaker 2>there is a promo that's mentioned the Epstein Files. Was

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<v Speaker 2>that designed to demoralize me for the entire week? Or

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<v Speaker 2>was avoid back? Michael, you just you tried to put

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<v Speaker 2>me on my heels to begin with?

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<v Speaker 3>No, not at all.

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<v Speaker 2>So the implication being that if one were to remain

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<v Speaker 2>tuned into whatever station aired, that one would hear talk

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<v Speaker 2>of the Epstein Files, that very promise, that tantalizing promise

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<v Speaker 2>would keep them tuned in. Yeah, well not here maybe whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe whatever comes after us wherever you are live from

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<v Speaker 2>Studio C season your a dimly lit room deep with them,

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<v Speaker 2>the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Kicking

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<v Speaker 2>off a brand new week, a brand new month. Pregnant possible.

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<v Speaker 2>This will be the greatest month of your life. Yes, Sime,

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<v Speaker 2>mister Wright, do you win the lottery? Right? That one? Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>That one? Or nor could go the other way? Oh oh,

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<v Speaker 2>not feeling so good, you go to the doctor Ebola.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, that would explain all the bleeding. Anyway, today

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<v Speaker 2>we're toiling under the title of the show what is

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<v Speaker 2>the Wounded Bear Caucus or Happy June Everyone, which sounds

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<v Speaker 2>lame and silly, But I myself was motivated a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of times in recent hours, yesterday and today, thinking all right,

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<v Speaker 2>it's June, for God's sake, let's get this done. And

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<v Speaker 2>I actually got stuff done. Wow. Well, it's an accident

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<v Speaker 2>of the calendar. They could announce the calendar changes and

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<v Speaker 2>three days from now would be June first. It doesn't matter.

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<v Speaker 2>For some reason, humans do that, Like you had a

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<v Speaker 2>list of things you were supposed to do this year. No,

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<v Speaker 2>just stuff I've been putting off. Okay, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 2>this is a mess I've been saying for weeks and weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>And I thought, all right, it's June, so you know what,

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<v Speaker 2>it's time to get to the door work. You can

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<v Speaker 2>put whatever that was in a bottle and give it

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<v Speaker 2>to me. I'd like it, because I got I got

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<v Speaker 2>such a list of things to do, just just just

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<v Speaker 2>towering over me. It just it's so oppressive. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid it only comes around about as often as

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<v Speaker 2>the Olympics for me, that that urged, But yeah, was

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<v Speaker 2>striking that iron's hot. Like I got so much paperwork

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<v Speaker 2>for both kids for enrolling for school next year that

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<v Speaker 2>I just can't make myself do because it's just so much.

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<v Speaker 2>First of all, you got all this information from last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Why do we have to do this again? So I

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<v Speaker 2>have that problem where I fight things as supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>just do them because it's not like I can change

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<v Speaker 2>the world. But why don't we have to go through

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<v Speaker 2>this every single time? How much? You just asked me

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<v Speaker 2>if all that information I gave you last year is

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<v Speaker 2>still correct like they do at the doctor's office, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>well yeah sometimes, But you know what, it'd be interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>I've thought about this before with uh, with whether my

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<v Speaker 2>son going on a boy Scott trip, because I got

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<v Speaker 2>tons of paperwork there once again we filled out these

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<v Speaker 2>medical forms like fifty times. Why do I have to

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<v Speaker 2>fill it out again? But I'd like to go back

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<v Speaker 2>in time. This would be a waste of a time machine.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you get a time machine, this would be

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<v Speaker 2>a dumb thing to do with it. But I'd like

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<v Speaker 2>to see how much paperwork, how much paperwork was there

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<v Speaker 2>for my mom to enroll me in high school. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>guessing little, maybe nothing. It's quite possible. Nothing other than names,

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<v Speaker 2>phone number I might have just shown up. Wow, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>who are you all right? Jot that down, let's start learning. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I remember, well, right, I remember permission slips. They're like

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<v Speaker 2>half sheet of paper. Was the date, your name, your parents' name,

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<v Speaker 2>and a signature, and that was it. Yeah, and those

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like, yeah, we're few and far between. But

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<v Speaker 2>now it's all, oh my god, the well every parent

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<v Speaker 2>knows it. Just every It's like you're applying for a

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<v Speaker 2>passport or something like that. Any who, speaking of it's

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<v Speaker 2>a new month, maybe this is as good a place

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<v Speaker 2>to start as any, just for the mood of the country.

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<v Speaker 2>In the first quarter of this year, the percentage of

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<v Speaker 2>credit card balances that were at least ninety days delinquent

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<v Speaker 2>ROAs to over thirteen percent. That's the highest level in

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen years. The most sensed the two thousand and eight

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<v Speaker 2>financial crisis. Wow, and those were some unsettled days, those

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<v Speaker 2>were some real was the biggest, one of the biggest

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<v Speaker 2>financial crisis is probably the second biggest in our nation's history,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's that bad for people that are ninety days

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<v Speaker 2>delinquent on their credit cards. The Wall Street Journal headline

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<v Speaker 2>was Americans are falling behind on their one point twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five trillion dollar credit card saw that car Loans are

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<v Speaker 2>in pretty bad shape too. I don't remember if they

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<v Speaker 2>got into that in that same article, but yeah, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of financial squeezings going on. Yeah, those chickens

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<v Speaker 2>will come home to roost at some point. Right, consumer

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<v Speaker 2>spending is kept up pretty well, but at some point

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<v Speaker 2>when your credit cards maxed out, I suppose people will

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<v Speaker 2>stop after Yeah, which brings us back to the whole

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<v Speaker 2>concept of a K shaped economy where a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>people are cutting back a lot about the upper crust

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<v Speaker 2>twenty percent or whatever spending like mad. It's hard to

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<v Speaker 2>know how true that is, but there's got to be

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<v Speaker 2>some element of truth. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I

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<v Speaker 2>just I use my own eyeballs. When there are no

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<v Speaker 2>cars in line at the Starbucks, when the airports aren't full,

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<v Speaker 2>when restaurants aren't full, then I will think, yeah, things

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<v Speaker 2>have changed. But I don't know. Maybe that's the credit

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<v Speaker 2>card thing. Any who. I feel like there's a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of that stuff could come to a head this summer.

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<v Speaker 2>The financial stuff where people drastically change their lives. Is

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<v Speaker 2>that having a conversation with yesterday somebody who certainly middle

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<v Speaker 2>class at worse, talking about things are so expensive every

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<v Speaker 2>single thing I buy, I thought, prankly, this is somebody

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<v Speaker 2>who doesn't really follow politics. Good for them, probably much

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<v Speaker 2>happier than anybody else. I thought things were supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>go go down when Trump became president. It seems like

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<v Speaker 2>they've gone up. Well, it's because statistically they have gone up.

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<v Speaker 2>Inflation's up the most in a while, also in three years.

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<v Speaker 2>But so yeah, that's that's not your imagination either. If

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<v Speaker 2>your grocery bill, I don't know what I ordered the

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<v Speaker 2>other day, groceries or whatever, I is door dashing some

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<v Speaker 2>groceries in in a panic, and it's like one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and five bucks for fourth things like, how is this

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<v Speaker 2>even possible? Sure? Talking to a couple just last night,

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<v Speaker 2>fairly comfortable financially went out for pizza and two soft drinks,

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<v Speaker 2>a little tip for the waitress in there over fifty bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah oh yeah, yeah absolutely, And then uh oh, inflation

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<v Speaker 2>is a tax and the theft fight it, fight it,

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<v Speaker 2>fight it. How Joe, I'll explain later. Stay with us

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<v Speaker 2>if you didn't hear this. We really like this Babylon

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<v Speaker 2>Bee headline from last week. This is on the story

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<v Speaker 2>that young people it's mostly young people that eat out

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<v Speaker 2>and door dash, which is the most expensive way to eat,

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<v Speaker 2>and young people are the poorest. But the Babylon Bee

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<v Speaker 2>joke was the generation that put US thirty eight trillion

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<v Speaker 2>dollars in debt. Very unhappy with the way young people

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<v Speaker 2>spend money. Yeah, fair, fair criticism, Pretty good, it's pretty good. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>we can check in on a couple of different wars

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<v Speaker 2>for you. We obviously need to talk about the full job.

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<v Speaker 2>Buck Biden interview came out yesterday, which was just a

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<v Speaker 2>nothing burger of nothing burgers, which it shouldn't be. It

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't be. A nothing burger is one of the most disturbing,

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<v Speaker 2>slash interesting things that's happened in our nation's history in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of the White House, but the interviewer turned it

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<v Speaker 2>into a nothing burger by not following up on any

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<v Speaker 2>of the important things. More on that in moments. Hey, Michael,

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<v Speaker 2>do we have a bear sound do? How hard will

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<v Speaker 2>that be to come up with grizzly white brown and

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<v Speaker 2>any bears, fine, white, polar you mean yes or no,

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<v Speaker 2>mich I got it. This is the closest I can

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<v Speaker 2>get to right now, sus. We need to talk about

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<v Speaker 2>the Wounded Bear caucus. That's clearly a lion. That is

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<v Speaker 2>clearly a lion. You are the audience. China doesn't pass

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<v Speaker 2>it off you fair enough. Well, let's start to show officially,

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<v Speaker 2>because this will lead us into the conversation. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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<v Speaker 2>He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, June. First,

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<v Speaker 2>the rent is due. The rent it's too damn really is,

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<v Speaker 2>and so is everything else, including gas and diesel. The

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<v Speaker 2>year twenty twenty six, warm Strong and getting we approve

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<v Speaker 2>of this program. Okay, let's leap into action. Then for

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<v Speaker 2>the weeks, the months, the year whatever, officially according to the

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<v Speaker 2>FCC rules, the rags here, we go at.

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<v Speaker 1>Mark and we left the stage area, and what people

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<v Speaker 1>don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>He had two events after that and he was fine.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, he was fine. It was inexplicable.

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<v Speaker 1>But what if that had happened during a meeting with foreign.

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<v Speaker 2>Leaders or something like that.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know how to answer that.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I would like to characterize that entire debacle. CBS

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday Morning read a Braver interviewing doctor Jill Biden as

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<v Speaker 2>one old broad who, if she ever had a prime

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<v Speaker 2>it's far behind her interviewing another old broad who's a liar, delusional,

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<v Speaker 2>or more likely both oof. So I took some notes.

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<v Speaker 2>This was during the first half of the interview that

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<v Speaker 2>aired on CBS. That's doctor Jill Biden. I heard some

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<v Speaker 2>podcasters going through her whole doctor what that means? She

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't even have a normal PhD. Which you know, that's

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<v Speaker 2>a that's a fudgy line for a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>Whether you need to call that sort of person a

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<v Speaker 2>doctor or not. You got a p HD in nature

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<v Speaker 2>of history? Do I need to call you doctor? Any

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<v Speaker 2>Her doctor isn't even as good as that, but AnyWho.

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<v Speaker 2>Aside from that, So I took some notes during the

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<v Speaker 2>first half of the interview when she first the interviewer

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<v Speaker 2>first asked doctor Joe Biden, and it took a long

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<v Speaker 2>time to get to this. So you're sitting down with

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<v Speaker 2>the person that has the greatest insight into one of

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<v Speaker 2>the biggest debacles in US presidential history, and you have

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<v Speaker 2>all kinds of conversations about different things before you get

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<v Speaker 2>around to the only topic anybody cares about. Did you

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<v Speaker 2>ever see your husband and mental decline? Very now? Then

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<v Speaker 2>a very soft follow up, and immediately onto how awful,

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<v Speaker 2>what's it like to watch them tear down the East

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<v Speaker 2>Wing after you spent so much time there? Wow? A

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<v Speaker 2>quick sideline into January sixth and how awful that was

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<v Speaker 2>when the Trump supporters were storming the capitol, and then

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<v Speaker 2>into how doctor Jill Biden kept working as a teacher.

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<v Speaker 2>You're at a local college, even his first lady.

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<v Speaker 4>They just they just moved on to that sort of

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<v Speaker 4>softball stuff after that summer that we all went through

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<v Speaker 4>that was just such turmoil with the presidents and everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>In the country knows he's losing his mind. He's got

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<v Speaker 2>to step down. How work blah blah blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 2>You ask one softball question, you pivot and the next thing,

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<v Speaker 2>what's it like to watch the East Wing torn down? Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>That is embarrassing. That is embarrassing. What kind of country

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<v Speaker 2>are we? What kind of journalism do we have? It's

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<v Speaker 2>just embarrassing. What show Welcome to two old ladies exchanging pleasantries.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's all it is. It's nothing. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>nothing burger. Well, that's not the last interview Jill Biden's doing.

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<v Speaker 2>She's doing Morning Joe tomorrow. Whether anybody on Morning joke,

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<v Speaker 2>because I've seen a lot of fairly high level Democrats,

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<v Speaker 2>like the the the pod casters I pod Save America. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>those guys who are part of the whole Obama world.

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<v Speaker 2>They're just besides themselves with disgust about this coming out

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<v Speaker 2>and treating it like this, in the way the media

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<v Speaker 2>is handling it, and how it's damaging the Democratic Party's

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<v Speaker 2>brand to pretend that this is real. So I just

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<v Speaker 2>wonder where's Joe Scarborough take it tomorrow on Morning Joe.

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<v Speaker 2>I really could see Joe Scarborough hit it pretty hard

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<v Speaker 2>because he's a bootlicking insider. But the Bidens are Yesterday's news. Please,

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<v Speaker 2>They're worse than that. They're that to you know, that

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<v Speaker 2>leftover that's been in your fridge for like a week

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<v Speaker 2>and a half and you keep meaning to get rid

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<v Speaker 2>of it, but you haven't yet. The Biden family is

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<v Speaker 2>dead to democratic politics, and Joe god bless him, used

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<v Speaker 2>to be something like a truth teller. I think he

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<v Speaker 2>still wants to cling to a little bit of that,

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<v Speaker 2>so I got it. I'm a little optimistic. We'll see

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<v Speaker 2>if she's going to do a bunch of interviews. I

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<v Speaker 2>would think at some point somebody's gonna really hit her

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<v Speaker 2>with hard questions. We will see. We'll have any highlights

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<v Speaker 2>when they ever come about. But that was embarrassing. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>we've got headlines on the way. Stay here, Army Strawn

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<v Speaker 2>and Yettie. Do you remember this is a horrifying story,

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<v Speaker 2>but it turns out it's not true, so you don't

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<v Speaker 2>have to be horrified because it never actually happened. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you remember the mass grave near a Catholic school in

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<v Speaker 2>Canada's story that became such a thing five years ago?

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<v Speaker 2>Now completely made up, So we'll talk about that later. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>completely made up on the flimsiest evidence you could possibly imagine,

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<v Speaker 2>and the media just ran with it as clearly true.

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<v Speaker 2>But we'll talk about that later. All right, let's figure

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<v Speaker 2>out who's talking about what it's the lead story with

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<v Speaker 2>Heather Myers. Heather, what's happening?

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<v Speaker 1>Happy Monday, first day of June, Joe Jack, Good morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's find out how the networks are covering the news,

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<v Speaker 1>Starting with NBC News US and Iran trade strikes amid

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<v Speaker 1>talks to end war from Fox News, US military attacks

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<v Speaker 1>Iran and self defense strikes over the weekend, and from

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<v Speaker 1>NPR US bombs Iranian military sites in Kuwait is hit

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<v Speaker 1>by drone and missile fire.

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<v Speaker 2>So, Joe, what's your opinion on this whole kind of ceasefires?

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<v Speaker 2>This is not a ceasefire, is it. That's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>likening it too. As long as you're both saying I

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<v Speaker 2>love you in the midst of your fight before you

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<v Speaker 2>go to bed, you know things are still okay. So

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<v Speaker 2>when one of you stops saying I love you, that

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<v Speaker 2>you've got a real problem. Both sides are saying it's

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<v Speaker 2>a ceasefire. But what if one of the sides in

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<v Speaker 2>your charming and heartwarming illustration has a history of constantly

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<v Speaker 2>telling the others, somebody of the other sex that they

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<v Speaker 2>love them just to get stuff out of them. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, and will only bow to being bombed, not

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<v Speaker 2>in the marital context, in the geopolitics. Don't bomb your spouse.

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<v Speaker 2>No drones, no ICBMs, none of it. I'm confused by

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<v Speaker 2>my own metaphor. Now back to you.

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<v Speaker 1>From NBCLA. But Sarah Steier lead in New California governor's

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<v Speaker 1>race pull Hilton now in close third place.

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<v Speaker 2>WHOA what poll is.

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<v Speaker 3>That that is from? That might be the Emerson poll that.

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<v Speaker 2>Must have come out this morning. To talk more about

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<v Speaker 2>that later. Oh my god, Well that's what I was

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<v Speaker 2>talking about on Friday, though directionally the polling was screaming

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<v Speaker 2>that direction because well, we'll talk more about it later.

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<v Speaker 2>But dang it. If it ends up being one Democrat

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<v Speaker 2>and one crazy old billionaire, that's quite a choice. So

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<v Speaker 2>ia hoo.

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<v Speaker 1>Spencer Pratt leads Karen Dass and LA Mayor's race. That's

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<v Speaker 1>from MC California post poll better News. Yeah, yeah, parent

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<v Speaker 1>box news ballants in La found BYRN voting center vandalized.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, there's a great ad that Spencer Pratt put out

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<v Speaker 2>one of the voting drop boxes where his ad was

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<v Speaker 2>basically Karen Bass keats writing ads for me. One of

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<v Speaker 2>the drop off your ballot places. There were homeless people

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<v Speaker 2>around it. You'd have had to step over the homeless

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<v Speaker 2>people sleeping next to the ballot bank to stick your ballot.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow from Breitbart.

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<v Speaker 1>Outrage mounds after trans athlete ab Hernandez wins Californian girls

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<v Speaker 1>track championship.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going big on that later. Well done, sir, well done.

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<v Speaker 2>Beat those girls down, show them Moo's.

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<v Speaker 1>Boss from Katila this morning, Google wants to release up

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<v Speaker 1>to thirty two million good mosquitos in California and Florida.

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<v Speaker 2>Interesting. Need to know more about that one.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, people are saying Google, I thought.

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<v Speaker 1>And finally from the Babylon Being Newsome designates California sanctuary

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<v Speaker 1>state for Frond.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's a good one. As you can see, there

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<v Speaker 2>are a bunch of stories there we need to touch on,

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<v Speaker 2>including those new polls that came out that I haven't

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<v Speaker 2>even seen yet because they're voting tomorrow in California, among

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<v Speaker 2>other things. On the way, I hope you can stay.

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<v Speaker 3>Here, Armstrong and Geddy.

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<v Speaker 2>An interview, Madonna said that John Kennedy Junior was the

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<v Speaker 2>best sex of her wife. What about us? Said the

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<v Speaker 2>Detroit Pistons. My god, no boy, wow, that's uh. But

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<v Speaker 2>people who do these tell all books or interviews or

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<v Speaker 2>whatever and start talking about people they had sex with

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<v Speaker 2>decades ago, What the hell is that? Have some dignity?

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<v Speaker 2>Good lord, Hey, I'm broke. I gotta sell books. I

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<v Speaker 2>gotta throw some sex in there or whatever. No, So

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<v Speaker 2>there are two big races in California and uh in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of national attention, the one that seems to be

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<v Speaker 2>most interesting to people is the LA mayor race because

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<v Speaker 2>he got the Trump He's not Trump uh uh in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of his politics, but he's a trumpy style uh. Anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>He's also got the former reality star thing too, like

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<v Speaker 2>Trump had. I don't know that that's his biggest similarities

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<v Speaker 2>people make it out to be. But Spencer Pratt, this

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<v Speaker 2>guy running his Republican in LA and he's doing really well,

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<v Speaker 2>and it really looks like that race is gonna so

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<v Speaker 2>tomorrow that you do, you pick the top two and

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<v Speaker 2>then those people run against it. It's going to be

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<v Speaker 2>the sitting mayor, Karen Bass against Spencer Pratt, the up

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<v Speaker 2>and comer, and there'll be a lot to talk about

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<v Speaker 2>in that race leading up to the actual election. That

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<v Speaker 2>one's almost dialed in. It seems to me, based on

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<v Speaker 2>the polling. The governor's race, our man Steve Hilton, who

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<v Speaker 2>was leading in the polling for a very long time.

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<v Speaker 2>We've had Steve on a bunch of times, and he

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<v Speaker 2>used to have a show on Fox, and we used

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<v Speaker 2>to have him on every single week and he's got

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<v Speaker 2>a beard now, and there's just so much going on.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a Republican. He has fallen in the polls a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit. Well, actually he's gone up a little, but

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<v Speaker 2>not up near as much as Tom Steyer, the billionaire,

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<v Speaker 2>and Javier Bessera, the former HHS secretary over Biden. And

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't even know that because he was a non

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<v Speaker 2>entity during the pandemic. And even people in the Biden

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<v Speaker 2>administration say he's going to be the governor in California.

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<v Speaker 2>He's an embarrassment. He's a do nothing hack. Anyway, he

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<v Speaker 2>came out with something late yesterday that I really really like.

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<v Speaker 2>You need Chevron. I need Chevron talking about the gas

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<v Speaker 2>company that's wanting to move out of California, and the

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<v Speaker 2>current sitting governor has been beating him up all the

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<v Speaker 2>time because he says he's not on board with the

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<v Speaker 2>California transitioning to Electric Vehicles mandate that Gavinism has been

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<v Speaker 2>behind and the whole Democratic Party's been pushing and he's

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<v Speaker 2>not on that, which, you know, the noises of politician makes.

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<v Speaker 2>How much that reflects what they believe, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>but I like him at least saying these things California,

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<v Speaker 2>because currently in California they're going to ban new gas

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<v Speaker 2>vehicles starting in twenty thirty five, which is hilarious, and hybrids,

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<v Speaker 2>which is hilarious. Right. Well, we said when that was

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<v Speaker 2>first announced, that's idiotic and it'll never happen, which was

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<v Speaker 2>true then and is now. Yeah, that was a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of years ago. Now that we're getting closer, it's just

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<v Speaker 2>it's just ridiculous. They've already banned. By the way, you

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<v Speaker 2>can't go out and buy a new mower or all

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<v Speaker 2>kinds of different stuff that runs on gas. That's so maddening. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>Bsera said California should transition from gas powered vehicles when

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<v Speaker 2>it makes sense, when infrastructure and affordability are there for

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<v Speaker 2>California families. That is a He told Politico that that's

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<v Speaker 2>a very reasonable thing to say. He later elaborated in

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<v Speaker 2>the interview, explaining that California's move away from fossil fuels

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<v Speaker 2>hinges on unpredictable factors like federal backing, automaker collaboration, the

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<v Speaker 2>state's financial health. We are not going to live in

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<v Speaker 2>a world that's make believe. If you could tell me

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<v Speaker 2>where things are, I could give you a much more

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<v Speaker 2>precise answer, and if anyone says they can give you

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<v Speaker 2>that answer, then they're just making a lot of inflated promises.

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<v Speaker 4>That's a good thing.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a that's a good thing for him to say that,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the truth. So I could admit he's still a

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<v Speaker 2>hack and a you know, a lackey for the unions,

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<v Speaker 2>but at least he's of a somewhat more realistic bent

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<v Speaker 2>than Gavey and his ilk. Maybe, well, at least the

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<v Speaker 2>California Post is quoting a whole bunch of unions and

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<v Speaker 2>power brokers in California that really hate him saying that,

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<v Speaker 2>and he did, you know that was a gutsy thing

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<v Speaker 2>to come out and say that he's trying to win

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<v Speaker 2>the governor's race, and that gives him a better shot

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<v Speaker 2>among people that think our party has gone way too

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<v Speaker 2>crazy Democrats. If I were to be cynical, and I am,

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<v Speaker 2>I would say the recent polls indicate he's clearly in

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<v Speaker 2>the runoff. He's the leading Democrat that's supports colesd around him,

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<v Speaker 2>So he's already tacking to the center to win the general. Gotcha,

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<v Speaker 2>He is definitely in the runoff. So it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be him either against Hilton or Stire and I think

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<v Speaker 2>the direction the polling is going, it's unfortunately going to

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<v Speaker 2>be the billionaire nut job against Savier Bisera, which is

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<v Speaker 2>very disappointing. Yeah, dang it, Chad Bianco has to drop out,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, like a week ago and tell everybody supporting

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<v Speaker 2>him you got a vote for Steve Hilton. Hilton did

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of interviews over the weekend, saying that, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm surprised that some of the other Democrats haven't gotten

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<v Speaker 2>out to make it easier for the Democrat to win,

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<v Speaker 2>Like you know, Katie Porter ain't going anywhere, but you know,

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<v Speaker 2>out there to make some man miserable somewhere right right,

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<v Speaker 2>Earl Potatoes and or other side dishes at him. Ah. Right.

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<v Speaker 2>But politics, now, as we've discussed many times, it's not

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't sit in people's minds and hearts the way

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<v Speaker 2>it used to. It is who you are. And so

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<v Speaker 2>people who have declared themselves Bianco people, with all due respect,

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<v Speaker 2>I liked a lot of things he said. They can't

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<v Speaker 2>change who they are as opposed to just you know,

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<v Speaker 2>he seems like the better candidate. Oh, he can't win

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<v Speaker 2>there's like no chance. All right, well, this guy's certainly

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<v Speaker 2>the next best choice. I'm going with him. No, it's

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<v Speaker 2>like uprooting yourself. It's like a divorce or or to

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<v Speaker 2>change religion or something like that. It goes down to

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<v Speaker 2>your soul. Politics is not supposed to be that. How's

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<v Speaker 2>around some people yesterday because we're voting, well, California is

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<v Speaker 2>voting tomorrow, and a bunch of different things. But then

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<v Speaker 2>in the I live in, there's the number of different

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<v Speaker 2>things A vote non man there on. Some people, Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>they are so passionate about all this, and I suppose

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<v Speaker 2>that's ultimately good. It's just I've never lived that way

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<v Speaker 2>where I was that passionate about politics at all, let

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<v Speaker 2>alone your June nobody's paying any attention sort of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, just just so into this, so many signs,

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<v Speaker 2>so involved and everything like that. And I realize that

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<v Speaker 2>we've been complaining, lots of people have been complaining for

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<v Speaker 2>years that we need to get more active in politics,

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<v Speaker 2>but we did it wrong somehow, somehow the passion is

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<v Speaker 2>not exactly right. Right. Yeah, Yeah, that's actually kind of

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<v Speaker 2>what I was thinking. It's great to be passionate and involved,

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<v Speaker 2>but it depends where that energy is directed toward what

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<v Speaker 2>things and in what way. I mean, if your passion

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<v Speaker 2>is I think all people should have freedom of speech, okay, great.

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<v Speaker 2>If your passion is that this guy has to get

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<v Speaker 2>elected and if it turns out he's not the guy

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<v Speaker 2>or gal, then I'm just turning bitter and angry and

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<v Speaker 2>turning off the process and blah blah blah like a

0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:06.440
<v Speaker 2>religious fanatic. Oh no, that's not good. I was thinking

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<v Speaker 2>more in terms of the whole. The passion is, My

0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:12.600
<v Speaker 2>entire life's identity is being involved in this. Oh, that's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>It is very weird. It's very weird. And I'm too

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<v Speaker 2>old to join in that crowd. And it seems to

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<v Speaker 2>be mostly lefty young women. Is where the a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of the passion is coming from. But we'll see how

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<v Speaker 2>the voting turns out tomorrow and we'll have all the

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<v Speaker 2>fallout for you. Then a touching moment, a touching your

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<v Speaker 2>word message from our friends at rough Greens. The day

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<v Speaker 2>you brought your pop home, you made a silent promise

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<v Speaker 2>that would be to take care of them, to protect

0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:41.600
<v Speaker 2>them and give them the best life possible. And you're

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<v Speaker 2>trying to do that best you can. Rough Greens can

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<v Speaker 2>Roughgreens makes any dog food better. I was wondering, Hansen,

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<v Speaker 2>was there any fallout from my Very foul Mouthed podcast

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<v Speaker 2>from Friday after the show. We cut a One More

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<v Speaker 2>Thing podcast in which I just screamed curse words for

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<v Speaker 2>several minutes about how much I hate paperwork, in particular

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<v Speaker 2>to paper. We still call it paperwork, even though most

0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:57.840
<v Speaker 2>of it's done online, and that's where a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>the rub comes, and the websites don't always work the

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<v Speaker 2>way they're supposed to work when you're doing papork, Do

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<v Speaker 2>not recognize that sign on or password? I just filled

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<v Speaker 2>it out twenty seconds ago. What do you mean? Or

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<v Speaker 2>you fill out all the crap and then it says

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<v Speaker 2>can't process at this time. Try again later. Oh does

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<v Speaker 2>that mean I got to type in all this crap

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<v Speaker 2>again later? Yeah? I wrote an impassioned email to company management,

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<v Speaker 2>to various corporate partners in our advertisers, decrying your obscene rant,

0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.760
<v Speaker 2>your unhinged, angry rant. It was terrible. We got a

0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:37.600
<v Speaker 2>lot of great emails about it, though that were oh yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>well me was door or harten that somebody was saying

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<v Speaker 2>it out loud. It was one hundred percent from the heart. No,

0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:48.160
<v Speaker 2>that was not unexploded your heart. That was not an

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<v Speaker 2>act in any way. That was that was a glimpse

0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:53.720
<v Speaker 2>at me in my I'll call it. My office doesn't

0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:58.240
<v Speaker 2>look much like an office at home. And when I'm

0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.880
<v Speaker 2>trying to do anything and websites don't work, I lose

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<v Speaker 2>my freaking mind. It makes me insane, and I can't

0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:06.520
<v Speaker 2>believe AI is going to take over the world and

0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:10.240
<v Speaker 2>we're still there with trying to do stuff online. How

0:27:10.240 --> 0:27:15.480
<v Speaker 2>long before that gets figured out? Especially because I think

0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:18.840
<v Speaker 2>his companies become more and they're engineers who know how

0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:21.399
<v Speaker 2>this stuff works and can manipulate it unlike normal people.

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<v Speaker 2>As they become more and more confident that this is

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<v Speaker 2>the way to go, the opportunity to reach out to

0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:29.239
<v Speaker 2>a real human being will become less and less, So

0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:33.320
<v Speaker 2>your only choice will be AI, phone Tree nightmare. Yeah,

0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:35.640
<v Speaker 2>it practically is already anyway. So we'll get to mail

0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:37.080
<v Speaker 2>bag on the way. We've got a lot of stories

0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:39.560
<v Speaker 2>today that are that are pretty good. We haven't touched

0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:43.240
<v Speaker 2>on Iran. There's a deal that came to Trump and

0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:45.760
<v Speaker 2>he has is tinkered with it a little bit and

0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:47.480
<v Speaker 2>now he's sent it back and we can get into

0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:57.720
<v Speaker 2>that maybe an hour or two. Stay here six two

0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.240
<v Speaker 2>and thirty eight pounds according to the physical Donald Trump

0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:03.119
<v Speaker 2>took last week. We can get into some more of

0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:06.280
<v Speaker 2>the details, and to the health of our leader and

0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:10.520
<v Speaker 2>the kind of ridiculous pageantry that we go through around

0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:14.480
<v Speaker 2>that whole thing, and why doctors are calling foul on

0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.000
<v Speaker 2>the non release of some of the info that could

0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:21.720
<v Speaker 2>be something. Who cares. There's your freedom loving quote of

0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:25.760
<v Speaker 2>the day. You might agree with this, you might disagree

0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:27.679
<v Speaker 2>with this. You might like the guy who said it,

0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:29.200
<v Speaker 2>You might not, But I thought it was a really

0:28:29.240 --> 0:28:35.840
<v Speaker 2>good description. Populism is progressivism in disguise. The problem with

0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:39.160
<v Speaker 2>populism goes beyond policy blunders. It would replace our faith

0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.479
<v Speaker 2>in limited government and traditional values with an agenda stitched

0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:47.200
<v Speaker 2>together by opinion polls, personal grievances, and performative outrage. Populists

0:28:47.240 --> 0:28:51.120
<v Speaker 2>follow urges, not principles. They would erode our commitment to

0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:55.160
<v Speaker 2>the Constitution and abandon US leadership in the world. Mike

0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:57.440
<v Speaker 2>Pence wrote that he was talking about Republicans need to

0:28:57.440 --> 0:29:02.200
<v Speaker 2>make a choice between principles and populism. Huh. The other

0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:08.120
<v Speaker 2>thing is populists seem to be particularly easily swayed by

0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:13.520
<v Speaker 2>charismatic leaders. Yes, so you could, you know, you just

0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:16.880
<v Speaker 2>you go with whoever is like the coolest or most

0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:20.720
<v Speaker 2>entertaining or whatever at any given point or best evokes

0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:25.200
<v Speaker 2>your outrage and grievances, and that sort of thing, which

0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.280
<v Speaker 2>is not to say, reflecting the outrages and grievances of

0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:31.960
<v Speaker 2>the electorate is a bad thing. Necessarily. You just have to,

0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:37.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, you gotta understand the gray area of you know,

0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:40.760
<v Speaker 2>what's sincere policy prescriptions and what's just whipping people up.

0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:44.480
<v Speaker 2>Does populism ever, not latch onto a single individual, because

0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:46.760
<v Speaker 2>it seems like it always does, and then it becomes

0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:49.880
<v Speaker 2>a cult of personality thing. Yeah, to some extent. Yeah, Yeah,

0:29:49.960 --> 0:29:55.520
<v Speaker 2>mail Bag, feel free to correspond. Mail Bag at armstrong

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<v Speaker 2>and getdy dot com is the email address. H Eric

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<v Speaker 2>from a story of Oregon writes, with regard to your

0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:07.160
<v Speaker 2>recent theme of optimism, I'm reminded of this sardonic chess,

0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:11.920
<v Speaker 2>not probably of Jewish Russian tradition. Pessimists says, it can't

0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.640
<v Speaker 2>get any worse. The optimist says, oh yes it can.

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<v Speaker 2>Laheim from Eric in Astoria, thank you, my good friend.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's see this is from uh Anna in Sunny la

0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:33.360
<v Speaker 2>mesa guys words matters talking to the media not us.

0:30:33.720 --> 0:30:35.960
<v Speaker 2>Last week it was that the media and politicians need

0:30:35.960 --> 0:30:40.680
<v Speaker 2>to stop using the term teen takeovers. They're riots this week.

0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:42.560
<v Speaker 2>It's that they must stop calling the stuff going on

0:30:42.640 --> 0:30:46.680
<v Speaker 2>in Newark, New Jersey, demonstrations and protests they're riots. And

0:30:46.960 --> 0:30:49.600
<v Speaker 2>a great many people there aren't concerned protesters. They are

0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:54.920
<v Speaker 2>well funded Marxist rioters. Wake up people, boy, so true.

0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:58.960
<v Speaker 2>The language people are so good, that's obviously true. Whoever

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<v Speaker 2>first decided, no, no, no, let's not call it a riot.

0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:04.840
<v Speaker 2>Let's call it a teen takeover. And people are just riots,

0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:10.720
<v Speaker 2>like a separate phenomenon, not like a mob crime spree.

0:31:10.800 --> 0:31:13.080
<v Speaker 2>Let's call it a teen takeover. That sounds like they're

0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:16.800
<v Speaker 2>going to have a sockhop down at city Hall. Yeah, yeah,

0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:24.200
<v Speaker 2>so dishonest. Here's here's Anita Jack Joe. The US will

0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:26.400
<v Speaker 2>be two hundred and fifty years old is July fourth.

0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:29.920
<v Speaker 2>The concert farce. That's the the whole two hundred and

0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:33.720
<v Speaker 2>fiftieth birthday and the competing organizations and the Trump sponsored

0:31:33.760 --> 0:31:37.680
<v Speaker 2>concerts and the musicians quitting and Trump announcing I will

0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:40.280
<v Speaker 2>be the headliner. We'll talk about that a little more later,

0:31:40.400 --> 0:31:44.200
<v Speaker 2>but do we have time? Know? I know, But Anita writes,

0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:46.760
<v Speaker 2>the concert farce, with all the has been artists walking

0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:49.080
<v Speaker 2>away seems to have turned into some sort of presidential

0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:51.960
<v Speaker 2>pep rally. Like it or not, Democrats are Americans too.

0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:54.240
<v Speaker 2>People who do not support the president who are actual

0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:57.200
<v Speaker 2>citizens are Americans too. It would be a travesty to

0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:59.640
<v Speaker 2>turn July fourth, twenty twenty six into a partisan pep

0:31:59.760 --> 0:32:03.920
<v Speaker 2>rally for President Trump and his ambitions or the opposite, honestly,

0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:07.400
<v Speaker 2>and I think Trump fans, big Trump fans, would respond well.

0:32:08.360 --> 0:32:10.080
<v Speaker 2>The other side was to turn it into some sort

0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:14.360
<v Speaker 2>of anti Trump rally. Sure, Oh, for God's sake, I'll

0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:16.800
<v Speaker 2>bet you, father, he tried our best. I'll about you

0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:19.360
<v Speaker 2>a shiny new two hundred and fifty dollars Trump bill

0:32:19.840 --> 0:32:21.920
<v Speaker 2>that whatever happens is going to be hard to take.

0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:26.640
<v Speaker 2>Oh boy. Here's a note from Joe and Honduras commenting

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<v Speaker 2>on cal Unicornia. Guys, I'm happy to report that my

0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:32.680
<v Speaker 2>father received his mail in California ballot for Tuesday's election.

0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:35.560
<v Speaker 2>The problem my father left California in twenty oh five

0:32:35.600 --> 0:32:38.080
<v Speaker 2>and became a resident of South Dakota. All of his

0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:41.440
<v Speaker 2>official documentation was changed to reflect that move. Driver's licensed

0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:45.200
<v Speaker 2>vehicle registration, voter registration, et cetera. My brother bought my

0:32:45.240 --> 0:32:48.000
<v Speaker 2>father's house, so I know he continues to get ballots

0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:50.760
<v Speaker 2>at his previous California address. By the way, my father

0:32:50.880 --> 0:32:53.680
<v Speaker 2>passed away in twenty fifteen, so it's even worse, and

0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:57.520
<v Speaker 2>every government agency was informed informed of his death. But

0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.160
<v Speaker 2>to this day, California continues to send a mail in

0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.160
<v Speaker 2>ballots for every election. But I'm sure no one is

0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:06.280
<v Speaker 2>taking advantage of all those ballots similar to my father's.

0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:09.720
<v Speaker 2>Then he mentions, having moved to Honduras in retirement, the

0:33:09.720 --> 0:33:11.840
<v Speaker 2>political system here doesn't seem as corrupt as what I

0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:14.600
<v Speaker 2>see in my former state of California. Keep fighting a

0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:18.720
<v Speaker 2>good fight and keep enjoying the sunsets and drinking whatever

0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:24.000
<v Speaker 2>you'd drink there in hontd'rs some unholy mix of sugar

0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:27.440
<v Speaker 2>and medical coal or so. I don't know. Rum terrible,

0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.640
<v Speaker 2>let's see, speaking of cal UNICORNI of voting. This is

0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:33.680
<v Speaker 2>from Scott. I'm unable to vote in person, so I

0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:35.760
<v Speaker 2>went to drop off my ballot at the voting box

0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:39.440
<v Speaker 2>in pleasant Hill, California's city hall. I had to wade

0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:43.520
<v Speaker 2>through and suffer about two hundred old loud protesters surrounding

0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:46.000
<v Speaker 2>the area, some within ten feet of the box. They're

0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:49.880
<v Speaker 2>blowing whistles, shouting through bullhorns, tote and signs, screaming anti

0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.600
<v Speaker 2>Trump stuff in me and anybody who came close. Hard

0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:56.040
<v Speaker 2>to believe this is the United States, Well it barely is.

0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:01.800
<v Speaker 2>Let's see, on a different fare, the topic of Iran,

0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:04.600
<v Speaker 2>which we'll be getting into, as there was an exchange

0:34:04.640 --> 0:34:08.239
<v Speaker 2>of fire over the weekend, some fairly significant attacks going

0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:11.719
<v Speaker 2>both ways. As the ceasefire barely hangs on in the

0:34:11.800 --> 0:34:16.640
<v Speaker 2>negotiations allegedly continue. It is a just as JT in Livermore,

0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:18.920
<v Speaker 2>it's a logical fallacy to think that a deal can

0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:21.879
<v Speaker 2>be achieved with Iran without regime change. It's the same

0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:25.640
<v Speaker 2>logical fallacy underpinning the thinking that economic sanctions alone can

0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:28.960
<v Speaker 2>bring Iran to an honest bargaining table. In both cases,

0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.800
<v Speaker 2>the problem is that the terrorists in Iran aka the

0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:34.359
<v Speaker 2>Mullas and ir GC have all the guns, which means

0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:36.560
<v Speaker 2>that any money food riches that do exist will go

0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:40.880
<v Speaker 2>to them first. Well, yeah, absolutely, as we've said, and

0:34:41.000 --> 0:34:44.239
<v Speaker 2>he echoes anybody old machine gun, forty two thousand of

0:34:44.280 --> 0:34:47.360
<v Speaker 2>their own citizens in the streets, doesn't care if bread's

0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:51.520
<v Speaker 2>a little expensive. Excellent point. David Sanger in The New

0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.839
<v Speaker 2>York Times had a pretty good paragraph about where we are.

0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:56.560
<v Speaker 2>We'll get to that an hour or two. He concludes

0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:58.920
<v Speaker 2>only regime change can ensure a true end to the

0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:02.560
<v Speaker 2>nuclear ambitions and terris leanings of the current Iranian leadership. Yeah,

0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:05.080
<v Speaker 2>I would agree with Jay too. Read some great analysis

0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:07.640
<v Speaker 2>by a bloke who said, look, there are three things

0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:10.759
<v Speaker 2>that need to be one hundred percent certain if this

0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:14.879
<v Speaker 2>agreement holds any water whatsoever. Number One, you don't get

0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:18.399
<v Speaker 2>rewarded for engaging in the diplomatic process Iran. You get

0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:22.880
<v Speaker 2>rewarded if you do stuff. Okay, we've entered into negotiation,

0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:26.759
<v Speaker 2>so have freed up some oil revenue. No second, has

0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:30.000
<v Speaker 2>Bullah and Lebanon got nothing to do with what we're

0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:35.080
<v Speaker 2>talking about. Don't try to rope your proxies in to this. No,

0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:37.520
<v Speaker 2>you don't get a proxy network anymore, or we're going

0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:39.400
<v Speaker 2>to pound the crap out of you. We can get

0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:41.400
<v Speaker 2>to point number three next hour, but those are the

0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:45.480
<v Speaker 2>two biggins. President Zelenski says, Putin's about to try to

0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:48.680
<v Speaker 2>pound the crap out of Ukraine, including decapitation strikes and

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:50.960
<v Speaker 2>that sort of stuff. Like one of the biggest pushes ever,

0:35:52.040 --> 0:35:54.000
<v Speaker 2>that's what he's warning the United States about. Maybe we'll

0:35:54.040 --> 0:35:56.520
<v Speaker 2>talk about that later too, if he means missiles. Yeah,

0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:59.000
<v Speaker 2>three more hours to go and if you miss a

0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:00.880
<v Speaker 2>segment at the podcast, are I'm Strong and Getty on

0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:01.440
<v Speaker 2>demand

0:36:04.320 --> 0:36:06.480
<v Speaker 3>Armstrong and Getty m