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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty, and

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Speaker 2: now he Armstrong and Yetty. So I haven't heard this yet.

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Speaker 1: This is an adult translating gen Z words for older people.

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Speaker 2: Now hang on in a second gen Z. That's which

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Speaker 3: The young teens and early twenties, right, the people that

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Speaker 3: the young was a great depression. No, I don't believe

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Speaker 3: so the younger people, Okay, the youngsters.

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Speaker 4: Ohio is weird, bogus, skibbitty is random, is off the wall,

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Speaker 4: Riz is swag is game, Rizzler is player, is mac daddy,

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Speaker 4: No cap is no lie for real, Sus is shady, sketchy,

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Speaker 4: Yatt is dump truck booty, cotton four K is exposed,

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Speaker 4: busted meat, writing is simping, brown nosing, pressed is butt

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Speaker 4: herd bent out of shape, bust in is bomb dope.

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Speaker 1: So Kenda relates it to the slang of a previous

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Speaker 1: generation or two. I wish I had that written down

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Speaker 1: in front of me, because there were several of those

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Speaker 1: couple of those I've used with my sophomore in high school,

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Speaker 1: and he said, Dad, nobody says that anymore. But several

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Speaker 1: of those my son does use currently, like Ohio gets

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Speaker 1: used a lot, I don't know, point for state of

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Speaker 1: Ohio came to represent. We played the very beginning of

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Speaker 1: that again, Ohio is weird bogus? Yeah, yeah, Ohio gets it.

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Speaker 1: That is so Ohio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he uses that now and then, you know,

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Speaker 3: as a guy with an empty nest, I can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: And he says, I have less interest in knowing than

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Speaker 3: the momentary slang of the young, except in a kind

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Speaker 3: of linguistic curiosity.

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Speaker 1: Wow, and it comes to go so fast, So I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't try to memorize it or anything that.

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Speaker 1: But it is hilarious that And I'm sure you had

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Speaker 1: this experience when your kids were younger. Sometimes I hear

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Speaker 1: my son having a conversation where he like either doesn't

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Speaker 2: I'm listening.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what, Bra, you're so Ohio, bra bustin'.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know

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Speaker 3: you people are talking about Yeah, that's been true for

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Speaker 3: I just you know, in all of human history until now,

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Speaker 3: the fact that my generation finally got old and bitter

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Speaker 3: and we're exposed to the lingo of the youth through

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Speaker 3: the damn Internet and or media.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one thing will always be true. Hippies ruined the world.

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Speaker 2: So yes, got a haircut.

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Speaker 1: Harpie Tim Bussfield, pretty famous actor for Depending on Your

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Speaker 1: Age for a couple of big shows that he was in,

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Speaker 2: Friend of the Armstrong Engetty Show.

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Speaker 1: If you have caught on to he's in the news lately,

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Speaker 1: made the evening newscast last night, so we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that story coming up next.

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Speaker 2: We have a personal connection with the guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely accused of some terrible, terrible things. So

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Speaker 3: Trump and Cump have become convinced that the affordability thing,

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Speaker 3: the economic stuff, is important, especially to their electoral chances

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Speaker 3: made in the midterms, maybe the most important thing. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: they've decided that because it's absolutely correct. Yeah, and they've

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Speaker 3: trotted out a handful of different measures or proposals, I

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Speaker 3: should say, like a ban on large investors from buying

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Speaker 1: Like this is all with a very short runway, because

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Speaker 1: it's all about for the mid terms, trying to make

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Speaker 1: enough people think Trump. There's about affordability that on the

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Speaker 1: election in ten months, the Republicans can hold onto the House.

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Speaker 1: So it's almost I don't know how many of these

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Speaker 1: just got to sound like a really good idea.

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Speaker 2: And some of them would have an effect by then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, if you accept that analysis, and I

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Speaker 3: think you're absolutely right talking about the wisdom or lack

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Speaker 3: I mean, because Trump doesn't plan on any of these

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Speaker 2: Ain't necessarily a good idea for the country.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, a lot of it, like capping credit

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Speaker 3: That's going to be as inflationary as Joe Biden's wildest

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Speaker 1: Well, let's back up to the first one, and then

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the credit card ones, the

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Speaker 1: one you talked about with corporations buying single family homes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I flip on NPR when.

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Speaker 1: I get in my truck yesterday and they had somebody

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Speaker 1: single family homes. And they tossed it somehow, they twisted

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about.

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Speaker 1: If there's anything unfair going on here, it would be

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Speaker 1: against the super rich, who you know, probably should have

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Speaker 1: the right to an ability to do, just like everybody else,

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Speaker 1: to buy homes if they have the money. But it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that NPR had to twist it into a way

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Speaker 1: that it was a bad thing, right, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean I have a Jarney idea this sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely several of them are well.

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Speaker 3: Elizabeth Warren has come out in favor of, like captain

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Speaker 3: credit card raids, which again is an insane idea because

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Speaker 3: everybody will just get cut off, they won't have credit

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Speaker 2: But the housing thing is interesting.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me a little bit of the question of

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Speaker 3: a lot of our libertarian brothers, like Capital l Libertarian

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Speaker 3: Party wackadoodles who get together at their conventions and accomplish nothing. Ever, sorry,

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Speaker 3: fellas and you're almost entirely fellas and anyway, but fellas well,

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Speaker 3: And it reminds me of the discussion about open borders.

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Speaker 3: They're staunchly in favor of open borders, but that's conditional

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Speaker 3: on there being no welfare state. And though I might

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Speaker 3: dream of such a beautiful day, and I think certain

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Speaker 2: Let's not get off on that tangent.

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Speaker 1: The disappearance of the welfare state is never going to exist,

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Speaker 1: So stop yelling at me about open freaking borders.

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Speaker 2: We're wasting our time here.

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Speaker 3: And the housing thing, My argument against the free market argument,

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Speaker 3: a limited number of licenses, and so you can't have

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Speaker 3: in the housing market, it's it's very, very difficult, especially

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Speaker 3: as well, that jacked up the price. So more and

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Speaker 3: But again, there's so many artificial government constraints on building

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Speaker 3: so if you're going to have the regulations, you can't

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Speaker 2: Part of the free market at work.

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Speaker 3: And again it pains me to make that argument, but

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Speaker 3: I just I despise the ideas of the idea of

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Speaker 3: Chinese oligarchs buying up all of these starter homes in

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Speaker 2: It's just it's poisonous. I don't like it. We're just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, community matters, and we've underestimated underestimating that as a country.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm culture and community matter.

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Speaker 2: I love this issue in general.

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Speaker 1: I was listened to a podcast about it the other

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Speaker 1: using a whole bunch of different examples of you love

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Speaker 1: the idea of having principles and beliefs.

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Speaker 2: We all do. I do. I do have principles and beliefs.

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Speaker 1: But there are all kinds of examples where you can

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Speaker 1: It's just impossible when it runs up against the real world.

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Speaker 1: And it's a fascinating topic.

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Speaker 2: It happens a lot, and.

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Speaker 3: It certainly doesn't happen enough that you ought to not

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Speaker 3: have prince. No, no, you've got to You've got.

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Speaker 1: To have principles in belief, right, and uh but you

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Speaker 1: because there are other realities, kind of like your example

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Speaker 1: of sure, I like a practically non existent safety net

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Speaker 2: Love the idea of that. Uh, but we're never gonna

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Speaker 1: So since we have a giant safety net to help

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Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't want to work, you can't have open borders.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so those two things running up against each other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for what it's worth, there's more on and

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Speaker 3: you know, some days, just you know, how much do

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Speaker 3: you good people want to be outraged? I mean, you

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Speaker 3: got your own problems, You got your own life. You're

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Speaker 3: ware the government sucks, it's fraudulent, they're still and your money.

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. But we don't want to lay it

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Speaker 3: on too thick, because you know, you know, you don't

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Speaker 3: want to be angry all time. But I tweeted the

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Speaker 3: other day a whimsical definition of welfare, which is a

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's pretty good. Yeah, And man, you look coast

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Speaker 3: The notable thing about the Minnesota rip off is the

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Speaker 3: however many billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: The notable thing about it is that anybody's paying any

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Speaker 1: attention to it. It's not even that impressive buy for instance,

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Speaker 2: There's a giant scandal in Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: It's welfare, the government dole is a theft program.

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Speaker 2: That occasionally is exploited by the needy.

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Speaker 5: In late twenty twenty four, Timothy Bussfield is working as

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Speaker 1: A related story about Tim Busfield, It's got nothing to

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Speaker 3: chunk of people who say, yes, I just want them

442
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Speaker 3: brought down, even if it enriches the evil doers and

443
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Speaker 3: doesn't want that.

444
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Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to bring it up. That's way.

445
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Speaker 2: It's a deadly sin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's why I wanted to bring it up,

447
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Speaker 1: and I teased it last hour. As you know, if

448
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Speaker 1: you want to spend the rest of your life living

449
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Speaker 1: in envy and being miserable.

450
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 2: Because that's what you're setting yourself up for.

451
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna go with the idea, if

452
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: some people have more than me.

453
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 2: I'm unhappy. What you'll never be happy.

454
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: It's a nut job way of looking at the world.

455
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 2: Do you have enough right now? You know?

456
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Speaker 1: Look back to when you were twenty five and if

457
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Speaker 1: you if you'd told twenty five year old you you'd

458
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Speaker 1: be living in this house and driving this car and

459
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, would you have been happy with it?

460
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Speaker 1: And if you can say yes to that.

461
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Speaker 2: Who gives a crap?

462
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: If there's a billionaire somewhere, what the hell difference does

463
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: it make? Right? Unless you think the deck is stacked,

464
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: then it's the deck stacking that you ought to go after.

465
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Speaker 3: But that's you know, hard and complicated. But yeah, it's

466
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 3: just envy. And trust me what I say. And it

467
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 3: took a long day and time we've done okay. And

468
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 3: there's always somebody with more mind. There's always somebody with

469
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Speaker 3: a bigger house, more houses, cooler stuff, et cetera. Goes

470
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 3: out to nice your dinners, buys more expensive mind. There's always, always, always, always,

471
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 3: always somebody. If you'd like to make yourself completely insane,

472
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: base your happiness on what other people have.

473
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Speaker 2: We've been talking about this for so long.

474
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Speaker 1: I used to say unless you're Bill Gates, there's always

475
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Speaker 1: somebody out there with more money. Now it's Elon Musk,

476
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: buy a lot. He has seven hundred billion dollars. But

477
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: unless you're Elon Musk, there's everybody on the planet. There's

478
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Speaker 1: somebody that has more money than you. So what you're

479
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: gonna be You're gonna be unhappy until they're brought down

480
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Speaker 1: to your level. That makes no sense to me, whatsoever.

481
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Speaker 1: Fifty three percent said the measure. The reason they're against

482
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Speaker 1: it is the measure won't make a difference in the

483
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Speaker 1: gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Yeah, it's the

484
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Speaker 1: question on its face drives me nuts.

485
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Speaker 2: So I don't know what to do about that.

486
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Speaker 1: I hope I can teach my kids to not think, Okay,

487
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Speaker 1: you got a nice car you wanted, you got a

488
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Speaker 1: house you wanted, you got the things you wanted, but

489
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: that guy across town has more. I'm not happy yet

490
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Speaker 1: if he had less, Oh that would be so nice.

491
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Speaker 2: Geez, want to rest a for misery? That's human beings.

492
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 2: That's human beings.

493
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Speaker 1: Sure, or we should be able to be talked out

494
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Speaker 1: of that. I'm a human being and that's not the

495
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Speaker 1: way I look at it.

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Speaker 3: Well, right, Yeah, I agree with you, But I think

497
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 3: our ancient mechanisms for figuring out if something a situation

498
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Speaker 3: is fair, getting back to the beginning of the discussion,

499
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 3: has to do with you know, we're all in a tribe,

500
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 3: we're all working. If you don't work, you gets thrown

501
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 3: out of the tribe or killed or whatever. And so

502
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 3: if Johnny ends up with four pounds of buffalo meat

503
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 3: and I've got two pounds and we've all been working

504
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 3: as hard, that's unfair. And I think maybe that ancient

505
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 3: because I'm you know, I love kicking people for being dopey,

506
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 3: but there's part of me that also is interested in

507
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 3: since it's so widespread, obviously it's very common.

508
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Speaker 1: So where does that come from? And I think it

509
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Speaker 1: is that human.

510
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Speaker 3: Beings are not built to live in the modern world.

511
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Speaker 3: The model world is a half a blink of an

512
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: eye in you know, the span of the one of

513
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 3: the Like, what are those tortoises that live one hundred

514
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 3: and thirty years the modern world?

515
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 2: We are not adapted to it yet at all.

516
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, I get it, that's human nature. But

517
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Speaker 1: my point is you should be able to talk somebody

518
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Speaker 1: out of that by the time they're a teenager and

519
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 1: then they get over it. But it is why, uh,

520
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: it's so easy to sell socialism and so much harder

521
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: to sell the free market.

522
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 2: Ye, because it requires some.

523
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Speaker 1: Explanation, not a lot of explanation with socialism. With socialism,

524
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Speaker 1: everybody would have the equal amount. And like you said,

525
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Speaker 1: we're built to think, oh that'd be awesome.

526
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Speaker 3: Well all have the same amount fantom good Speaking of DEI, yeah,

527
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 3: we'll all have the same amount miser but misery. We'll

528
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 3: have lots and lots of misery except for the fat

529
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,239
Speaker 3: cats who control it all. That's funny. Didn't see that

530
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 3: coming anyway. Speaking of that sort of thing, DEI and

531
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Speaker 3: the damage it did to the United States military, it's

532
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Speaker 3: it's worse than I thought, a material damage to our

533
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 3: war fighting capabilities.

534
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Speaker 2: Have that for you in a moment.

535
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: I want to talk later about maybe I should see

536
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 1: a doctor about this sensory issues. I want to know

537
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: why I'm willing to go through the entire day with

538
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: one shoe tied way too tight and being uncomfortable because

539
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: of it. Before I can recognize it.

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Speaker 3: I can't even imagine that plus was disclosed a few

541
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 3: days ago. You've been wearing the wrong size shoes quote unquote.

542
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: For a very long time. Oh yeah, I did that

543
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: until I was fifty something.

544
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Speaker 1: Somebody actually texted us about that and said, you moron.

545
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: You mentioned in twenty nineteen, so you were whatever age.

546
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: I like to like the fact this so people keep

547
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: closer track of when I do things and say things

548
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: than I do. Anyway, we got that DEI stuff on

549
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: the way, and a whole bunch of other things.

550
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 2: Hope you can stay here.

551
00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: Two decades Steeler coach Tomlin out in Pittsburgh, So now

552
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: nine teams are looking for a new head coach, almost

553
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: a third of all the NFL teams.

554
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 2: That's him. Yeah, absolutely crazy.

555
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 3: Speaking of crazy, we spend a lot of time an

556
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 3: hour one of the show talking about the oral arguments

557
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: in front of the Supreme Court about the gender benning

558
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 3: madness trans boys playing in girls' sports, and it.

559
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,719
Speaker 2: Was pretty damn good, frankly, but we're going to revisit.

560
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 3: The topic and stretch out a little more talk about

561
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court with our favorite legal analyst on a stage,

562
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 3: Boden from the Pacific Legal Foundation.

563
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 2: Is that right, Yeah, that's where she's from. Anyway.

564
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Speaker 3: That's next hour so join us or stay with us,

565
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 3: or grab it via podcast if you can. So totally

566
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 3: different topic, there's a new book out called The Lost

567
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 3: Generation that Jacob Savage is the author. He describes how

568
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: US media and academia in the twenty tens closed the

569
00:28:55,160 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 3: doors to millennial white men and the DEI thing was

570
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: so evil in academia and media, but it also infected

571
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Speaker 3: the US Armed Forces, and under President Biden, senior officers

572
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 3: worked to make our military less white. That precipitated a

573
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Speaker 3: recruitment crisis, which you're not going to hear about much

574
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 3: from the media, obviously, But during Trump's first administration, lethality

575
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 3: was the military's focus.

576
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Speaker 2: Obviously, that changed.

577
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, mister Biden issued in an executive

578
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Speaker 1: order I'll bet you remember this, embedding quote diversity, equity, inclusion,

579
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Speaker 1: and accessibility across all parts of the federal workforce, and

580
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Speaker 1: then Defense Secretaryary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of

581
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Speaker 1: ordering a stand down to combat quote unquote extremism in

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Speaker 1: the armed forces. By the time the independent report commissioned

583
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Speaker 1: by the Pentagon found that these concerns were baseless, they'd

584
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Speaker 1: already formed the ideological permission structure, as they call it,

585
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: for the DEI crusade. So in twenty twenty two, you

586
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: remember General C. Q. Brown, who was later promoted Chairman

587
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the black guy,

588
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: the Air Force guy. He issued a memorandum that set

589
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Speaker 1: numerical quotas for everyone from white males to Pacific Islander

590
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Speaker 1: females among commissioned officer applicants to the Air Force, which

591
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: is obscene, racist and non American racial discrimination likewise distorted.

592
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: What a great way to build the most lethal fighting

593
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Speaker 1: force on the planet, do it by racial quotas.

594
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Speaker 2: That's suicidal.

595
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 3: Racial discrimination likewise distorted admissions to the US Naval Academy.

596
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Speaker 3: For instance, black applicants scoring in the fourth decile, meaning

597
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Speaker 3: forty percenters had an admission rate higher than that of

598
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Speaker 3: whites in the eighth decile. And uh, god, well, and

599
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 3: the media isn't. I'm sorry, the military isn't the media.

600
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Speaker 3: It requires young people to sign up for unglamorous and

601
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 3: sometimes dangerous jobs far from home. By signaling that white

602
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 3: men were left welcome, DEI initiatives pushed thousands of them

603
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Speaker 3: away from military service, and between twenty thirteen and twenty

604
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Speaker 3: twenty three, Annual mail enlistments in the army fell thirty

605
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Speaker 3: five percent from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three. The

606
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Speaker 3: number of white army recruits dropped from forty four thousand

607
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Speaker 3: to twenty five thousand. No other group saw such steep declines. Meanwhile,

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00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 3: the share of white high school boys who in Monitoring

609
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Speaker 3: the Future said a survey said the military is doing

610
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Speaker 3: a good or very good job declined from seventy six

611
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Speaker 3: percent to fifty seven percent in ten years.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you were aware of this at all, like

613
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Speaker 2: as a parent or.

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Speaker 1: A kid, you would think, well, and you're white, you'd think, well,

615
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Speaker 1: now's not the time for me to go into the military.

616
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm never going to get anywhere, and

617
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: they've made it that is horrifying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it absolutely is.

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Speaker 3: You know the thing about DEI, and I hope this

620
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Speaker 3: is clear to everybody at this point, is you know,

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Speaker 3: I've often said diversity is it means more Marxists, Equity

622
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: is Marxism, and inclusion means including more Marxists. Have you

623
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Speaker 3: ever noticed that the diversity well they couchy this, we

624
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 3: need more black people. But it's always progressive black people.

625
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: It's never a conservative black man or a woman or

626
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Speaker 3: conservative Hispanic person.

627
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 2: It's always Marxists.

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Speaker 1: And the inclusion never includes anybody who has even a

629
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Speaker 1: slightly conservative bent. It's because that's not what they're doing.

630
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Speaker 2: It's a lie. It's canard and every DEI.

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Speaker 1: Program everywhere it exists in government, in media, in education,

632
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: in the private sector today by the end of business,

633
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: by close of business as they say, thank you for

634
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: your attention to this matter. God, I wish there could

635
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: be some sort of a law, maybe Congress to do this.

636
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: We don't do any of these cultural experiments on the military.

637
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: Military is separate from you want to try this stuff

638
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: in school. I don't like it anywhere. But if you

639
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: want to try this stuff in schools or the workplace,

640
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: or your sports team or whatever the hell you want

641
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: to do, but you don't get to touch the military

642
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: with these various experiments in crafting.

643
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Speaker 2: Utopia right because it's too important.

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Speaker 3: It reminds me of a couple of other things we've

645
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: talked about, like should boys be allowed to compete in girls' sports?

646
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: Ask that question a dozen years ago, people are like,

647
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: why are you asking me that?

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00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: What are we even talking about here, of course, not

649
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: the idea that should we conduct weird sociological experiments that

650
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: may compromise our fighting ability in the military. People would

651
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: be like, of course, not, why would you even ask

652
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: me that question? A pretty short time ago in our history. God,

653
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: I don't care if the military is ninety five percent

654
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: Hispanic or all black or whatever you end up with.

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Speaker 1: Just have the best people in the important positions. God,

656
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: dang it you think the Chinese.

657
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: Are worried about it.

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Speaker 3: My final bit of evidence, female recruitment is up in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Encouragement to a list increased.

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Speaker 3: Among Blacks, Hispanics, and women under fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: It's up among everybody because the DEI thing doesn't serve

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Speaker 1: serve anybody but Marxists. Actually, there's a story about law

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Speaker 1: school admissions are getting much and much less racial quota E.

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Speaker 1: And the fascinating part of it is a lot of

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Speaker 2: I just I don't have the chops.

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Speaker 3: How I go to this mid level school, find my

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Speaker 3: I can handle their self selecting away from affirmative action

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Speaker 3: because they.

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Speaker 2: Know what a bad idea it is. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: the woke thing is just it's a disease. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, the woke thing is a lot of what the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court was hearing about yesterday and their oral arguments

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Speaker 1: around the whole trans athlete issue, which we'll get into

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