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Speaker 1: And broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the

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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 3: We Are Armed. Boy? Did we have some good stuff

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Speaker 3: for so?

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Speaker 5: Speaking of this behavior, right, the Gaines has been an

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Speaker 5: absolutely courageous spokesperson for women's sports, women's private places, and

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Speaker 5: women's rights in general, and on college campuses where undergrads

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Speaker 5: are majority women.

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Speaker 3: The reception she's gotten has been absolutely horrific.

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Speaker 6: I have been in several environments, especially on these hotbeds,

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Speaker 6: these college campuses, where I have been spit on, of course,

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Speaker 6: I mean the most profane, o've scene heinous things yelled

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Speaker 6: at me, drinks port on me, glass bottles thrown at me.

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Speaker 6: There was an incident in San Francisco where I was

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Speaker 6: literally held hostage for five hours. Were protesters, the mob,

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Speaker 6: the angry, violent mob on the outside demanded that I

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Speaker 6: had to pay them money if I wanted to make

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Speaker 6: it back home to my family safely, all while university officials,

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Speaker 6: the Dean of students, the vice president of student affairs

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Speaker 6: at the university. They applauded the students for their brave behavior,

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Speaker 6: saying that people like me, with our dissenting viewpoints, we

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Speaker 6: were the ones who were basically asking for this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole transgender cult thing. How else to describe

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Speaker 3: of you so adamant and fevered that you would behave

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Speaker 3: like that when a young woman was trying to protect

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Speaker 3: women's sports and women's private areas like locker rooms and

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Speaker 3: bathrooms and stuff. I mean, you are nuts.

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Speaker 4: You don't mean a private area like her, Yahoo, good lord,

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Speaker 4: I mean the space she's in.

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Speaker 3: You're an idiot, and I will not dignify that. Speaking

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Speaker 3: of people standing up for women's rights, this is such

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Speaker 3: an interesting little episode in the history of that. Tishheimen

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Speaker 3: is the name of the black lady. You may have

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Speaker 3: seen her who was aghast when she was bare naked

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Speaker 3: at the Gold Gym in Los Angeles and turned and

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Speaker 3: there was a full grown man looking at her, and

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Speaker 3: she told aforementioned fella to get the hell out. He said,

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Speaker 3: he said, I'm a woman, I get to be in here,

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Speaker 3: and started screaming at her that she was a bigot

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Speaker 3: and misgendering him. And the rest of it, we played

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Speaker 3: you that well. Tish, to her credit, traveled north to

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Speaker 3: the San Francisco Bay area and attended a town hall

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Speaker 3: meeting being held by none other than the world's eating pervert,

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Speaker 3: Scott Wiener, who hopes to hold Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat soon.

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Speaker 3: And she Tish was asking Scott about protecting women, and

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Speaker 3: it took some really interesting turns. We'll start with seventy

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Speaker 3: mine as.

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Speaker 7: A lesbian woman who was attacked in a woman's locker

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Speaker 7: room at Goldshin this week by self identifying trends with

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Speaker 7: the documented history of domestic violence. I'm deeply concerned about

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Speaker 7: women's safety and female only spaces. What would you say

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Speaker 7: to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will

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Speaker 7: be protected from men who, by California law and self

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Speaker 7: idea as women and women only space To sir, please tell.

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Speaker 8: Me, yeah, so we want, I mean everyone to be safe.

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Speaker 8: And we also know that you know, we have transitople

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Speaker 8: book men and women to our men and women, and

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Speaker 8: so you know, so you trans women.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a floundering, fumbling, bumbling effort to translate the

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Speaker 3: academia talk Scott Wiener's memorized into like real world language.

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Speaker 3: You just couldn't do it. No.

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Speaker 4: Well, often when you're saying stuff you don't actually believe,

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Speaker 4: it's difficult to form your sentences and thought.

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Speaker 3: I think he does believe that though. I mean he's

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Speaker 3: in favor of everything from man boy love to yeah please.

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Speaker 3: He says birthing persons. He's just said birthing persons ten

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Speaker 3: years ago. He's an activist in this. Anyway, it keeps

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Speaker 7: And we want to know, are you going to protect women?

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Speaker 7: Not translemen women?

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Speaker 3: Women? Trans women are lemon lemen.

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Speaker 7: Listen, we need to protect.

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Speaker 3: I was assault No, they are not. I was assaulted.

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Speaker 3: He broke my saw, so pressed you need.

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Speaker 7: I'm a lesbian. I'm not sure I saw me and

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Speaker 7: I'm black. So if there's another black woman you here,

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Speaker 7: I want to tell me how they feel, please join in.

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Speaker 7: But all of you are not and I don't know

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Speaker 7: who you are what you are, But I'm a lesbian

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Speaker 7: and I'm telling you right now men are harassing women

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Speaker 7: in the locker room.

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Speaker 3: The question.

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Speaker 4: That's where it turns super interesting in terms of the

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Speaker 4: left eating their own because then she gets into the

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Speaker 4: wait a second nobody can criticize me. I'm black, I'm

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Speaker 4: a woman, and I'm gay. Those three things leave me

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Speaker 4: in a situation where you can't possibly disagree with me.

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Speaker 4: And then comes along trans and apparently trans trumps all

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Speaker 4: of those other things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, black lesbian ladies. I wish we could help

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Speaker 3: you here, but you're getting back a line place. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I loved and listen, I'm not on her side

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Speaker 3: of the intersectional totem pole battle thing, but I love

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Speaker 3: the dynamic of white men trans cultists saying trans women

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Speaker 3: are women, trans women are women, trans women are women.

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Speaker 4: Right, so you got you have adult white males who

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden end up in the in the

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Speaker 4: right using my finger quotes right position, correct position. Yeah

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Speaker 4: for the woke left over a black female gay person

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Speaker 4: because we've crossed into the trans conversation. Right, Sorry, sorry,

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Speaker 4: it's complicated. You need a float chart.

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Speaker 3: Right. And then she of course knows those are the

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Speaker 3: cards to play on the left, so she tries to

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Speaker 3: play that because they're not always worked for her her

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Speaker 3: whole life, I'm sure, right. Then a full grown dude

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Speaker 3: shows up in the locker room. She yells out of

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Speaker 3: this whole hierarchy of victims thing.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it gets a little weird. Yeah, I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm on her side in this conversation, and I don't

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Speaker 4: know her. Maybe she hasn't been playing this card her

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Speaker 4: whole life, although she pulled it there pretty quickly. But

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Speaker 4: there are plenty of people who do play that card,

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Speaker 4: and it works, whether you know the bus didn't pick

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Speaker 4: you up, or you got a bad grade in school,

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Speaker 4: or they want you to pay your rent on time.

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Speaker 3: Or whatever the hell it is.

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Speaker 4: It's always worked until you run into some white guys

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Speaker 4: who are on the other side of.

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Speaker 3: Trans right, right, I remember, And it works in the

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Speaker 3: other way too, that you can discount, dismiss insult to

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Speaker 3: anyone by pointing out that they happen to be a

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Speaker 3: white person. I had that card first played on me

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Speaker 3: like twenty years ago. I was like, wait, what, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's popular anyway. The meeting already Jazzy rolled on.

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Speaker 8: You were I appreciate you talking about it, and.

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Speaker 3: Obvious that.

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Speaker 8: I have also know that women are also rutalizing in

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Speaker 8: this country. So women and women rutalizing the country, and

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Speaker 8: we have them.

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Speaker 3: We have the women.

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Speaker 7: We cannot be raped in the battles by men that

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Speaker 7: want to say they're women.

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Speaker 6: They're not women.

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Speaker 3: They're not way.

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Speaker 9: I'm leaving.

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Speaker 7: It's okay, but I'm not going to leaving because you

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Speaker 7: know what, you guys are not protecting women. You're doing

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Speaker 7: a lot the bills that you're passing.

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Speaker 3: For the law, I've read a lot of them.

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Speaker 7: They're great, but these things with the trans it's not right.

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Speaker 10: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: You're wrong. So the key phrase there is women and

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Speaker 3: sis women need protection. So sorry, born with ovaries, et cetera. People,

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Speaker 3: you're in second place. Women, real women and cis women

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Speaker 3: need to be protected. In Scott Wainer's world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the only woman term that doesn't have a qualifier

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Speaker 4: attached is to say the exactly, Katie, you're smoldering.

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Speaker 3: I'm at a loss for words, you know.

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Speaker 11: I know, and as a woman who is pregnant and

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Speaker 11: my body is doing all sorts of things, this is

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Speaker 11: even more infuriating because they.

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Speaker 3: Have more I can totally relate, totally relate because I

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Speaker 3: identify as a woman. Yeah, yeah, you are a kids.

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Speaker 3: My effing teeth in for saying that. Right, I'm glad

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Speaker 3: you're too far away.

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Speaker 4: And she just needed one more thing, was your uncle

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Speaker 4: of Cherokee? Do you have anything?

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Speaker 3: What do you got? Let's think, let's brainstorm here, the

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Speaker 3: both all for your limbs work? Okay, no, let me think,

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Speaker 3: let me think your eyesight? Okay? No, all right? She

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Speaker 3: had one more shot as she walked out the door.

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Speaker 3: You heard, all right.

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Speaker 7: Don't let them use our blackness and our civil rights

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Speaker 7: as a reason of past me and dolls the children

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Speaker 7: to transformed. It's wrong.

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Speaker 3: My sister is in jail. She can't get free temples,

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Speaker 3: or she.

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Speaker 7: Could get free transformation of medication, big format.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott, well that was a pretty good one. Would

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Speaker 4: Whoever's in prison, can't get tampons, but you could get

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Speaker 4: free transition surgery or medics science medication exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well made a pretty good point that don't let

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Speaker 3: It's it's obscene we left out at this Scott Wiener

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Speaker 3: person because you don't know him all around the country

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Speaker 3: like we do in the Bay. He's a Bay Area

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Speaker 3: of stuff. He wants to take Nancy Pelosi's seat. He's

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Speaker 4: I almost hope he wins. It's going to be so crazy,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's pro everything that's perverse, including you know,

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Speaker 3: he kind of hints at it. But uh, yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to decide right now if it'd be better

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Speaker 3: or worse to have him in Congress. I would like

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Speaker 3: the I don't know people are so easily talked off

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Speaker 3: of their beliefs in ways that shocked me, like during COVID.

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Speaker 4: And you gotta be careful with this whole, you know, Mom.

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Speaker 4: Dami wins, that'll be good for us. Scott Wheeder wins,

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Speaker 4: it'll be good for us. Pretty soon, there's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a lot of people in positions of power with horrifying ideas.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of the sheeple and or young people

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Speaker 3: who are easily sold on a lot of this garbage.

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Speaker 3: I just feel bad that lady lost the intersectional contest.

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Speaker 3: She walked in there feeling great.

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna say something to a gay black woman?

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Speaker 3: I am bulletproof. Sorry, I'm trans. Oh no, the superpower

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Speaker 3: my kryptonite. Damn it. Armstrong and Jack.

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Speaker 9: And Jar here to tell you your name will be

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Speaker 9: just fine.

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Speaker 4: Just down.

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Speaker 4: In fact, one hundred percent of people who you said

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Speaker 4: that to and think you're going to O D and die,

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Speaker 4: But they just keep doing it. I feel like that's

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Speaker 4: the situation we're in now because the average voter has

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Speaker 4: no grasp. And this is true in France, it's true

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Speaker 4: in Britain, it's true in the US. Has no grasp

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Speaker 4: of the concept of fiscal restraint. They you know, it's

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Speaker 4: too easy to sell them on. You deserve handouts. I

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Speaker 4: just did you know. I don't know how.

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Speaker 3: Legitimate this quote is. I've seen it a million times old.

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Speaker 3: The Scottish guy that when a people realizes it can

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Speaker 3: vote itself money themselves, money from the treasury, a republic

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Speaker 3: is doomed. I'm not sure there's any turning it around

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Speaker 3: short of a cataclysm. But you don't bounce back from

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Speaker 3: every cataclysm. It was like, you're only half serious. God

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Speaker 3: send me a warning, so I get really serious about

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Speaker 3: getting healthy, like a minor heart.

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Speaker 4: Attack, right, I ask God to give me a minor

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Speaker 4: heart attack, so I would start eating better. Well, your genius, Jack,

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Speaker 4: your unappreciated genius, is that's a perfect metaphor for the

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Speaker 4: United States. The only thing that will stop us wolfing

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Speaker 4: down bacon, drinking a cord of bourbon a night, and

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Speaker 4: smoking four packs a day is a fiscal heart attack,

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Speaker 4: the problem being you don't always survive them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, the pandemic was quite the cataclysm, and it didn't

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Speaker 4: make things better anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Oh, you know that's funny. And when we

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Speaker 3: were talking a couple of segments ago, whenever it was

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Speaker 3: about young people and young men and their anger and

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Speaker 3: anti Semitism and that whole stew the writer that I

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Speaker 3: was quoting mentioned how bitterly painful the COVID shutdowns were

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Speaker 3: for young men in so many ways, and it drove

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Speaker 3: them away from girlfriends and real friends and jobs and

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Speaker 3: striving and pride in being a man. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: The COVID shutdowns, which were specifically opposite of what all

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Speaker 3: the health organizations around the world had said they would

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Speaker 3: do when there was a pandemic. They abandoned all their

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Speaker 3: plans and panicked and shut them down and kept the

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Speaker 3: kids out of schools, the rest of it. I don't

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Speaker 3: think we've reckoned with a third of the damage that did. No.

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Speaker 3: Definitely incredible evil that perpetrated. I'll be saying that until

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Speaker 3: I'm lowered into my grave. Straight from our europe and

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Speaker 3: News desk. Okay, this is that was Joe Getty's your bureau.

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Speaker 3: It was so horrible, it was great. Oh Man, Armstrong, he.

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Speaker 2: Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 10: Anaheim Police detective Heather Skaglioni says the thieves used a

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Speaker 10: tablet meant for locksmith's that can connect to technology and

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Speaker 10: newer vehicles. He's being handed a like a locksmith tool,

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Speaker 10: a computer device that plugs into the computer system in

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Speaker 10: the car so you can quickly reprogram it and turn

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Speaker 10: the car on so you can leave with that truck.

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Speaker 10: Thieves are also using antennas to pick up signals from

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Speaker 10: keyfobs inside homes.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, yeah, go back to metal keys that

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Speaker 3: just stick in the ignition and twist.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: In the In the video attached to that news article,

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Speaker 11: it actually showed a ring camera at the front door

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Speaker 11: and the thieves were holding an antenna and they had

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Speaker 11: some kind of device tucked in their pocket that this

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Speaker 11: thing was connected to, and when they held it up,

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Speaker 11: they just touched the house. And then the car that

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Speaker 11: was parked in the driveway started because somebody had already

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Speaker 11: was able to get into it and start the car

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Speaker 11: just by using the key fob signal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember two cars ago, I think it was.

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Speaker 3: Was that your trains amuh yeah, yeah with the t tops. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: my fob keyfob kept the battery kept dying. I said,

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Speaker 3: where do you keep it relative to your garage? And

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Speaker 3: it was too close to the garage. They said, he

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Speaker 3: either got to shield it or move it because the

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Speaker 3: car and the keyfob keep talking to each other.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that. That's why my battery runs down

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Speaker 4: so fast.

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Speaker 3: I my key fob.

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Speaker 4: I feel like every place it every two weeks, and

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Speaker 4: nobody's ever told me that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, anyway, so yeah, obviously they are putting out signals,

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Speaker 3: and you know, well putting out signals all the time.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you can sniff them and use them to

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Speaker 3: break into a car. What the heck? Death penalty for

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Speaker 3: car thieves?

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Speaker 12: There?

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Speaker 3: You go, hang them. They're the modern horse thieves. Hang them.

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Speaker 3: That's right right outside general motors, you know, forder whatever

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Speaker 3: it may be. It's your local dealer. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Come on down, bring the kids, we'll spin the wheel

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Speaker 3: of prizes, hang a car thief. They're actually making these

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Speaker 3: free hot dogs.

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Speaker 11: They're making these key chains now too, that you can

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Speaker 11: get on like Amazon or whatever, that you just put

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Speaker 11: on there and then you can tuck your keyfob in

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Speaker 11: that middle block that signal I saw.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good, yeah, excellent, there you go. Simple solution. Thank you,

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Speaker 3: Katie life hack. Yeah. So we're talking about conspiracy theories

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Speaker 3: and how they work and what's at the root of them.

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Speaker 3: And I remembered a piece I brought to you a

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Speaker 3: while ago, about a month ago, about gnosticism. How a

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Speaker 3: lot of the people pushing this stuff are like the

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Speaker 3: first century Gnostics, a Christian heresy that holds that the

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Speaker 3: material world is evil, that a special KnowledgeR knows this

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Speaker 3: with a g lifts us out of its corruptions into redemption.

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Speaker 3: Salvation under its theory, requires neither faith nor action, only

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Speaker 3: the recognition that you're being lied to and that your

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Speaker 3: soul belongs elsewhere. Gnosticism, like orthodox religions, asks why evil exists,

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Speaker 3: but instead of traditional answers rooted in personal responsibility. It

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Speaker 3: posits that malevolent forces control the world. Knowledge of these

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Speaker 3: forces becomes the work itself. Discover them and you are redeemed,

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Speaker 3: which is interesting. But then this from Claire Layman, a

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Speaker 3: piece called the New Medievals, and he goes into a

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Speaker 3: variety of people, including Candace Owens, who has been implicating

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Speaker 3: everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Turning

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Speaker 3: Point USA itself to Erica Kirk and last week her

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Speaker 3: speculation reached tapagee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself

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Speaker 3: was involved, which is, well, what the hell go for

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Speaker 3: a touchdown if you're throwing the ball. But then she

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Speaker 3: writes to Claire Wright's owns, while theorizing is an anomaly,

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Speaker 3: it's part of something older and darker. There's a distinctly

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Speaker 3: medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right, a world

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Speaker 3: animated by unseen cabal's moral corruption and divine punishment disguised

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Speaker 3: as politics. Then she talks about how in journalism, if

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Speaker 3: it bleeds, it leads in any story that features a

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Speaker 3: villain or a group of villains doing something dastardly to

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Speaker 3: innocent victims is much more likely to be read and

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Speaker 3: shared than an article that say debunks such narratives with statistics.

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Speaker 3: She explains, our mammalian brains are wired to perceive and

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Speaker 3: anthropomorphized threats. When our ancestors saw thunderbolts crashing down from

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Speaker 3: the sky, they didn't think it was caused by electricity

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Speaker 3: in the air and complex weather systems, but by the

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Speaker 3: wrath of vengeful God. That's what I believe it looks

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Speaker 3: like humans. Yeah, Jack still believes that we have to

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Speaker 3: talk him down after every weather forecast. But so media entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 3: whether it's a candas owns or a big publisher or executive,

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Speaker 3: knows that readers want to be frightened by stories of plotters, vandals, criminals,

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Speaker 3: and killers in literature and film disproportionate attention compared with

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Speaker 3: the works of other sorts. For example, thrillers make up

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Speaker 3: over twelve percent of adult fiction sales in the US,

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Speaker 3: True Pride crime podcast account for nearly a quarter of

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Speaker 3: the top rank. Show US very very hot yet conspiracy theories,

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Speaker 3: Those tales of shadowy cabals wreaking havoc in the world

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Speaker 3: seem to be the most seductive at all. I'm sorry

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Speaker 3: the most seductive of all. They combine the adrenaline of

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Speaker 3: a thriller with the morality of a fable. These moral

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Speaker 3: horror stories, as literary professor Jonathan Goshall argues in a

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one book called The Story Paradox, succeeded not

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Speaker 3: because they persuade people rationally, but because they gratify audiences

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Speaker 3: on an emotional level. He wrote, quote, conspiracy stories promise

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Speaker 3: heroes and villains, secret clues, and moral urgency, and each

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Speaker 3: one invites the listener to join a righteous crusade. That's

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Speaker 3: a really good example. Heroes and villains, secret clues, and

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Speaker 3: moral urgency, and you get to join a righteous crusade.

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Speaker 3: I get this, and clearly it's true.

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Speaker 4: I just it's interesting to me that some people like

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Speaker 4: me just aren't susceptible to it. If it doesn't make sense, like, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't get that, and then there's no proof that

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Speaker 4: it's that this is true. And then I just let

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Speaker 4: it go, you know, one more note before the break,

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Speaker 4: and then I want to come back with more of

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Speaker 4: this because it's super thought provoking. But he mentions she

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Speaker 4: mentions a couple of scientific experiments psychological experiments through the

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Speaker 4: years where people who feel powerless, confused, overwhelmed, powerless begin

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Speaker 4: to see patterns that are not there because they really

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Speaker 4: want to bring order to the disorder that they perceive.

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Speaker 3: Quote. Participants who lack control were more likely to perceive

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Speaker 3: a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images and noise,

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Speaker 3: forming illusory correlations in stock market information, perceiving conspiracies, and

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Speaker 3: developing superstitions, the authors wrote. Another twenty twenty study found

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Speaker 3: that the lack of a sense of lack of agency

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Speaker 3: also predicted belief in Jewish conspiracies.

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Speaker 4: Specifically, well, maybe that's why conspiracies don't work on me.

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Speaker 4: Then I don't generally feel powerless or lacking agency, so

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Speaker 4: they don't grab me in the same way.

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