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Speaker 2: on the hour, we will explain for those of you

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Speaker 2: joining us in this hour, what why the Trump tariffs

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Speaker 2: are happening, what's led up to this this point, And

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Speaker 2: just to reiterate that nobody really knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: There's a as usual with Trump, there's.

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Speaker 2: A lot of hysteria, there are a lot of wild predictions,

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Speaker 2: not a whole lot of detailed explanation, and the lot

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Speaker 2: of a lot of nope. You know, everybody's like compulsively

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Speaker 2: makes predictions. It was just in a very strange culture

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Speaker 2: and just saying, you know what, we don't know what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen here. Maybe it's not going to work out,

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Speaker 2: but there's there's a there's a strong reason he's doing this.

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Speaker 2: It's not just to blow up the economy. We'll get

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Speaker 2: into that coming up after three point thirty. What's working

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Speaker 2: out for sure is his border policies, because the number

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Speaker 2: of people crossing the border has dropped by well over

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Speaker 2: ninety five percent now and the amount of fentanyl being

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Speaker 2: November election. And we are going to talk with Todd

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Speaker 2: Bensman on He's with the Center for Immigration Studies. He's

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Speaker 2: a journalist who's been stationed at the border for a

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Speaker 2: number of years now and increasingly getting very lonely. There's

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Speaker 3: You feeling pretty lonely actually down here in Del Rio, Texas,

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Speaker 3: right on the border today. Yeah, this is a bit

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Speaker 3: always accuse me of being kind of depressing in my

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Speaker 3: agenda to shut down the flow of fetanyl is an

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Speaker 3: And it turns out that in fact, they have gotten

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Speaker 3: Part of the country where the feanyl is all produced,

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Speaker 3: something like that. And it's looking pretty good. The numbers

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Speaker 2: I've seen estimates of seventy to one hundred thousand people

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why this is such an important story because

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Speaker 2: Well, and let me point something out here that you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've heard but until you just told that story,

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Speaker 3: It's it's very underreported. I wouldn't say it's totally unreported.

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Speaker 3: Derek Maltz, who is head of the Dea, the Drug

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Speaker 3: Mexican cartels have made a strategic business shift to stop

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Speaker 3: So if that holds, If that's true and everything holds,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was wondering when I was reading your report,

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Speaker 2: of their distribution system. They're still going to want that money,

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Speaker 2: so they're now sending the drugs elsewhere in the world.

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Speaker 3: Well Montz told me that they believe right now that

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Speaker 3: won't be as profitable still, it's a lot farther and

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Speaker 3: But they are increasing cocaine and math, he said, to

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Speaker 3: those are terrible drugs. I'm not saying that they're not terrible,

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Speaker 3: cocaine does not wipe out ninety thousand Americas.

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Speaker 2: Sent Inel was instant death and you only needed a

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Speaker 3: Right, So this is this is early news. We're two

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Speaker 3: it's not coming in as much, and so that continues. Then,

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Speaker 3: you know, I point out that, you know, this whole

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Speaker 2: Because we were something we were told for ten years

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Speaker 2: Well it turns out they can't find a way, or

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Speaker 1: They'd rather try other markets.

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Speaker 3: We're told to, you know, ball up into a fetal

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's good Mexican media reporting as well, excellent.

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Speaker 3: That's just remarkable. And it doesn't look like the cartels

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Speaker 2: Sure you have time, because you also have a second

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Speaker 2: He's got something like he said, with the Daily Wire,

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Speaker 2: with Todd Bensman. In the last segment, he talked about

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Speaker 2: how fentidel smuggling is down dramatically. It's dropped fifty percent

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Speaker 2: STUDIESCIS dot org. Is you know, he spent a lot

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Speaker 3: Well, all through the four years of the greatest mass

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Speaker 3: You could see runners being smuggled through to you know,

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Speaker 2: Todd, thanks for coming on. It's been quite a journey

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 2: Todd Bensman Center for Immigration Studies CIS dot org. Also

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Speaker 1: See it works. He just enforced the law.

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Speaker 2: And I wonder how many people are self deporting. That's

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Speaker 2: There has been a NonStop, obsessive tariff coverage. Today the

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Speaker 2: Well, Trump put a tariff on just about every country

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Speaker 2: You've heard about the trade imbalance. We send a lot

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Speaker 2: start negotiating all this stuff. I'm not saying this is

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Speaker 2: They're not doing it to crash the economy. Believe me,

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Speaker 2: We could do this, or you know, we could go

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Speaker 2: So it's it's way, way, way too early to issue

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Speaker 2: any proclamation or predictions.

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Speaker 1: More coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: We got Conway coming up in moments and Mark Thompson

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Speaker 2: as well. You know, I was talking about how our

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Speaker 2: our bad trade policy for decades, and this is at

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Speaker 2: the heart of why Trump instituted these tariffs. You know,

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Speaker 2: there have been millions and millions of manufacturing jobs lost.

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Speaker 2: All those guys who are more suited for factory work.

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Speaker 2: What are they doing, well, a lot of mart working

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Speaker 2: at all, or they're doing drugugs, or they're living in

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Speaker 2: the basement. They're not having families because they don't have

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Speaker 2: meaningful work. We sent their jobs overseas. Some of them

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Speaker 2: maybe got into the fast food business. And Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: intruded in that industry by signing a bill mandating a

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Speaker 2: twenty dollars an hour minimum wage. It was written by

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Speaker 2: an idiot named Chris Holden, who was an assemblyman out

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Speaker 2: of Los Angeles. His dad was a politician, Nate Holden.

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Speaker 2: His dad was an idiot. Chris is an idiot. And

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Speaker 2: so a year ago this week, this law kicked in

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Speaker 2: twenty dollars an hour fast food minimum wage. You know

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Speaker 2: what's happened in the last year, twenty two thousand jobs

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Speaker 2: have been lost in the fast food industry. Twenty two thousand.

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Speaker 2: So as the federal government sent the manufacturer jobs overseas,

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Speaker 2: fast food jobs became one of the few ports in

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Speaker 2: the store. Here comes Gavin Newsom to the rescue. Oh,

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Speaker 2: they're doing it for the workers, right, the unions who

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Speaker 2: bribed the hell out of people like Newism twenty two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Not only that, but fast food prices in California have

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Speaker 2: gone up fourteen and a half percent of a year.

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Speaker 2: How's that for inflation? Fourteen and a half percent. That's

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Speaker 2: double the national average. Eighty nine percent of all restaurants

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Speaker 2: in the state reduced employee hours after the minimum wage

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Speaker 2: law passed eighty nine percent and eighty seven percent plan

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Speaker 2: more cuts in the next year. They're going to automate

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Speaker 2: all the restaurants. We were talking about this the other day.

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Speaker 2: They're going to have AI working the order box really now.

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Speaker 2: Instead of getting a muffled, scratchy voice often they can't

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Speaker 2: speak English, you are going to get a clear AI

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Speaker 2: voice who's going to understand your order, and they're going

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Speaker 2: to get that to you far quicker than humans are

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Speaker 2: doing it now. And they accelerated all this because of

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Speaker 2: the minimum wage Conway's.

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Speaker 5: Here he now, Hey, no, let's go let's roll around

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Speaker 5: or fly around here. That's what we do around here.

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Speaker 5: We got a big show, really big show. Alex Stone

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Speaker 5: is coming on with us. That guy is always great,

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Speaker 5: and it's we're talking about the tariffs. You know how

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Speaker 5: they're gonna affect the local businesses here in southern California.

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Speaker 5: And we have a guy who runs Santa Anita. We

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Speaker 5: got a big day coming up the day after tomorrow,

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Speaker 5: the Sanity to Derby. I got tickets, John, if you

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Speaker 5: want to slide out there with a lovely one. And

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Speaker 5: then we also have Ted Ziggenbush, world class handicapper. We're

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Speaker 5: going to try to figure out who's gonna win. Dean

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Speaker 5: Sharp will be on at five twenty. But you know

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Speaker 5: what a lot of people don't know this about John Coleblt.

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Speaker 5: But your wife was once addicted to horse racing?

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Speaker 2: Is that true? I wouldn't say addict? Did Where did

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Speaker 2: you go on your first date with her? It was

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Speaker 2: the second day and the second win. I think to Monmouth,

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Speaker 2: that's a racetrack in the Jersey Shore. And because she

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Speaker 2: had to bet? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Is that it true?

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Speaker 2: No, she didn't have to bet. Maybe I make the

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Speaker 2: story something silly to do, but didn't. She picked like

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Speaker 2: a six races in a five, five out of six.

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Speaker 2: She went Wow, and and the sixth one they came

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Speaker 2: in second. Oh my god, you could have You wouldn't

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Speaker 2: even'n have to be sitting here to be at sant

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Speaker 2: and need every day with that kind of luck. And

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Speaker 2: she was looking at the charts. I gotta take her

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Speaker 2: out there. She claims she was analyzing the charts. She's

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Speaker 2: good with numbers. She can she can do this, Is

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Speaker 2: that right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Still, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: We haven't gone in a while. We got to get

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Speaker 5: out there. Yeah, look, I was shocked she could. She

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Speaker 5: could put us in private jet. That's why I thought

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Speaker 5: maybe i'd have marry this one. Yeah, exactly. But that's

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Speaker 5: so great. I mean to have a second date at

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Speaker 5: the racetrack. Yeah, that's that's that's a touchdown, you know,

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Speaker 5: us another sports.

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Speaker 1: And that it wasn't my to do, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you get twenty five minutes between races, but that

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Speaker 5: was back before you could bet off track.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you had to talk for twenty minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's nine hundred races going. Don't remember why we did that.

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Speaker 2: It seems like absurd now.

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Speaker 5: But a turf club, table service, waiter, waitress, no, no bleach.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's when I had a side job in addition

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Speaker 2: to radio. Oh, I was working at a miniature golf course. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I get it. Okay, so you're a rail bird.

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Speaker 5: I was the catch boy, right, you were the guy

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Speaker 5: in the rail with mustard on you somehow in the mustards.

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Speaker 1: We're doing two dollars bets. But at least we've bet

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Speaker 1: a profit.

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Speaker 5: Right, But that's more than you bet, now, that's right,

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Speaker 5: that is that's two dollars more than I bet.

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Speaker 1: We got to get her out there. What's her name again, Deborah? Deborah?

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Speaker 1: All right, we got to get her out there.

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Speaker 5: You know, listen, I'll pay for everything if she can.

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Speaker 1: You know, pick those horses, you can, you can work

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Speaker 1: out a deal.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we lunch. I'll get a lemo or uber. I

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Speaker 5: assume the magic still works.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Plus I love the fact that she's used to two

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Speaker 5: dollars gamblers.

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Speaker 1: I can do that, right, that's all you got, all right?

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Speaker 3: Joy?

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Speaker 1: Is Thompson coming in?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Thompson's here, okay, eating hitting lamb in the

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Speaker 5: other room.

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