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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Jaccade.

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Speaker 2: And he.

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Speaker 1: Arm wrong, dy Okay, gotcha? So apparently you did not

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Speaker 1: communicate this properly live from my car, which I'll describe

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Speaker 1: in just a second. The Michael, you were not allowed

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Speaker 1: take it in and everything, so you probably didn't turn

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Speaker 1: on her microphone and gotcha. Hello, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: So here's what happened. I'm solo today because Joe, can

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Speaker 1: you do it off to music? It's annoying me. The

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Speaker 1: whole day is falling apart. So I'm solo because Joe's

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Speaker 1: on vacation. He's in Great Britain, and hopefully he'll be

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Speaker 1: able to call in a little later this morning. When

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Speaker 1: you have a whole bunch of great guests lined up,

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Speaker 1: I get up extra early to do all the extra

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Speaker 1: show by yourself, and I leave the house extra early,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, I'm on the road like fifteen

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Speaker 1: whole time, make sure there's no recks and road is

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Speaker 1: clear and free. I'm on the phone with Hanson and

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Speaker 1: Michaelangelo and Katie and we're doing our pre show meeting,

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Speaker 1: which we do surprisingly every morning, and while I'm on

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Speaker 1: the meeting, the GPS goes to all red and it

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Speaker 1: goes from saying I'm going to be to work fifteen

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes late. So all of a sudden, so

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Speaker 1: I said, I got to get off the phone. Well,

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Speaker 1: Katie looked it up. There's been a fatality with a motorcycle.

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Speaker 1: A semi truck hit a motorcycle, which is just horrifying.

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Speaker 1: Is that all the detail you have so far, Katie, Yeah, it.

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Speaker 3: Looked like it was.

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Speaker 4: It started with a motorcycle and a semi and then

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Speaker 3: So I mean, is it stopped?

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Speaker 1: And we're I realized we're on whatever seventy stations across

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Speaker 1: the country and this doesn't have anything to do with you.

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Speaker 1: But we motorcyclists, which I am, really our ears perk

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Speaker 1: up when we hear about a motorcycle in an a wreck,

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Speaker 1: because there's no such thing as a minor motorcycle wreck.

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Speaker 1: It's not like as a fender bender. You can't have

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Speaker 1: a fender bender on a motorcycle wreck. Every wreck on

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Speaker 1: sitting completely still, haven't moved a foot in a half

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Speaker 1: an hour, just now starting to move, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: And then I don't probably just zoom back home and

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Speaker 1: hopefully not too many minutes. Here's the story I'm trying

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Speaker 1: How closely have you been following this? Are you on

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Speaker 1: top of this? So I was surprised how many of

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Speaker 1: my favorite podcasts we're talking about the Cracker Barrel remodel.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm a rural Midwest guy. I've eat nick Cracker

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Speaker 1: Barrel one hundred times in my life, and the family

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Speaker 1: we regularly go to Cracker Brow. So when I found

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Speaker 1: As listened to all these different radio shows and podcasts

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Speaker 1: I was surprised. I didn't know as many people were

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Speaker 1: a completely different thing. It's gonna be. Well, it looks

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Speaker 1: It, right, the whole vibe they claim. They claim the

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Speaker 1: than the old time you look, which is fine. That's

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Speaker 1: a business decision. I don't think they're right, but but

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Speaker 1: I don't see how it's woke. But then I finally

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Speaker 1: heard today about some of the stuff they're doing apparently,

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Speaker 1: so you know the little triangle game where you have

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Speaker 1: to try to get it down to one peg. Is

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Speaker 1: there a name for that thing? I can't I remember,

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Speaker 1: and my brother, for some reason, could always get down

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Speaker 1: not once, but on the old Cracker Barrel, the on

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Speaker 1: the on the little wooden triangle, it says, if you

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Speaker 1: get it down to one peg, you're a genius. If

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Speaker 1: you get it down to two pegs, you're pretty good.

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Speaker 1: If you get it down to three pegs, you're not

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Speaker 1: I know at Cracker Barrel. Well, now the new ones apparently,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is in theirnet rumor

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Speaker 1: now say one year a genus, Two, pretty good, three,

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Speaker 1: keep trying four, Try even harder next time. You know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no reason to what this one says, no reason

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean that is a minor thing. But

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Speaker 1: do okay sport. In fact, maybe they bring out the

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Speaker 1: waitress brings out of participation, participating a certificate for the

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Speaker 1: fact that you played the little triangle game.

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Speaker 4: So triangle game has just called the peg game. Cracker

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Speaker 4: Barrel was opened in nineteen sixty nine.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's been around my whole life. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: Because they changed the logo and they took the little

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Speaker 4: white guy that's sitting next to the barrel off of it,

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Speaker 4: and they're claiming that they were trying to get a

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Speaker 1: See, I can't tell what is guessing commentary and what

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Speaker 1: is actually cracker barrel's attitude. Now I did hear on

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Speaker 1: I guess I was on Fox. There was some concern

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Speaker 1: then once again that would be reacting to something that

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Speaker 1: wasn't the problem in the first place. Again, there were

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Speaker 1: not marches in the streets. I don't remember anybody crying.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember any disruption in society over the fact

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Speaker 3: Because there wasn't jack.

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Speaker 1: So they lost a ton of money in the last

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Speaker 1: that's merely the pull back of a business, a tried

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Speaker 1: don't know if you know it's going to be successful

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Speaker 1: to actually, if they actually do go through with this

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Speaker 1: all get together for our big gathering because you can't

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Speaker 1: pull booths together and get a big crowd there. And

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Speaker 1: It's fun, fantastic, and the menu's broad enough. There's something

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Speaker 1: There's enough to look at on the walls, or enough

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Speaker 1: whatever minor problem in life. But if they thought they

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Speaker 1: pretty moronic. They cracker Bell released some sort of statement

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Speaker 1: you know, it was. It was the worst kind of

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Speaker 1: apology you can ever give somebody. Sorry, I hurt your feelings,

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Speaker 1: which is basically saying you're a snowflake and I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Up there with sorry you feel that way, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's just a different version of sorry you

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Speaker 1: I'm not sorry. I said what I said. You should

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Speaker 1: have reacted differently. That's what you're saying. You should have

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Speaker 1: hurt your feelings mean. Okay, so that minor thing is

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Speaker 1: looking forward to talking to our old friend Craig got

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Speaker 1: Walls a little bit later in the show. He and

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Speaker 1: I were actually texting in real life last night, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a bunch of stuff he's doing, including and

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Speaker 1: how he uses Ai he uses AI lot for his

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Speaker 1: But he came across some chart that shows you which

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Speaker 1: whether it's counseling questions, medical questions, imaging. Yeah, because there's

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Speaker 1: We've lined up a pretty good show today. We got

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Speaker 1: I think that story's dead. Well, the peace process is

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Speaker 4: All right, let's start with the Hill. Trump administration quote

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Speaker 1: I just I've never grasped this story as something I'm

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Speaker 4: Yeah. From USA today, US stock futures lower after Trump

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Speaker 4: From NBC. National Guard troops now carrying weapons in Washington.

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Speaker 4: From the Free Beacon, Columbia Law School tells students to

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Speaker 3: From Breitbart dot com.

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Speaker 1: I happen to think the whole Rushi Ukraine thing is

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Speaker 6: stay to themselves. Well, let's see how this plays out.

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Speaker 6: But in the meantime, fighting is serving our interests, so

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Speaker 6: we're going to keep paying.

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Speaker 1: Let's back up a second in terms of the importance

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Speaker 1: of this. How important do you super smart people at

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Speaker 1: CATO think this is? Because I definitely have been buying

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Speaker 1: into the idea of if Putin gets away with this,

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Speaker 1: I'm using my finger quotes. If Putin gets away with this,

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Speaker 1: it re establishes, you know, the great game as they

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Speaker 1: used to call it, where big countries get to take

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Speaker 1: small countries and China says, okay, it's on, we get

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Speaker 1: to take Taiwan. That it affects the way the whole

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Speaker 1: world works. Do you think it's that it has those

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Speaker 1: of consequences If Putin felt away with this.

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Speaker 6: This won't satisfy you. But cynical realists like me think

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Speaker 6: that that's always the way international politics has been. And

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Speaker 6: we had this little interlude, this sort of unipolar moment

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Speaker 6: after the Cold War, where we told ourselves we had

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Speaker 6: transcended history, we had broken out of this sort of

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Speaker 6: tragic nature of international politics. And you know, to some

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Speaker 6: extent that was true in the sense that you know,

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Speaker 6: if you only have one great power in the system,

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Speaker 6: you know, it has a dampening effect. But I think

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Speaker 6: that the system itself is changing, and therefore we're reverting

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Speaker 6: back to the normal order of international politics, which is

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Speaker 6: a brutal and competitive enterprise. The one thing I will

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Speaker 6: say is that and this has been just a horrific

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Speaker 6: humanitarian catastrophe for Ukraine and also for Russian conscripts, et cetera.

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Speaker 6: But the one sort of if you will, silver lining

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Speaker 6: to this very our cloud that it was a huge

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Speaker 6: opportunity to force the issue of the Europeans right. The

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Speaker 6: United States has been complaining about European free riding on

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Speaker 6: America's exertion since the Eisenhower administration, and this gought the

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Speaker 6: Europeans attention, right the largest war in Europe since World

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Speaker 6: War Two. So if we were serious, as Trump administration

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Speaker 6: said that it was about shifting the burden to the

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Speaker 6: Europeans for European defense, this was a useful opportunity. Now,

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Speaker 6: I think again to bring back the dark class. I

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Speaker 6: think that to a certain extent, they're missing this opportunity

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Speaker 6: by taking sort of paper commitments to spend more in

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Speaker 6: the future and by not moving around America's pieces in Europe,

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Speaker 6: which is the one tool that we have that could

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Speaker 6: get the Europeans not just to promise to spend more,

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Speaker 6: or even to spend more, but to spend well and

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Speaker 6: effectively in terms of translating a euro spent into more

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Speaker 6: units of military power.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if you read that piece that

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Speaker 1: Stephen Cottkin wrote for the Wall Street Journal. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was interesting his take on why are the Europeans

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Speaker 1: Peans coming to the Oval Office to beg Trump to

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Speaker 1: let them do something they could do on their own, well,

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Speaker 1: because they feel like they have to, right.

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Speaker 6: Mean, it was a quite striking visual and Trump is

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Speaker 6: a master of imagery and visuals and things, but he

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Speaker 6: was sitting on the other side of the resolute desk

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Speaker 6: with seven or eight European leaders a raid on the

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Speaker 6: other side like what they were, which is supplicants. Right,

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Speaker 6: they're coming to the United States to beg and plead

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Speaker 6: for the United States to take responsibility for Ukraine security

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Speaker 6: itself because the Europeans feel like they can't do it right.

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Speaker 6: The Europeans right now are pulling and begging and pleading

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Speaker 6: for the United States to commit to defend Ukraine from

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Speaker 6: Russia should Russia attack it again. In the same breath,

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Speaker 6: the Germans, the Italians, the Brits now are saying, but

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Speaker 6: we're not going to commit troops ourselves. And that is

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Speaker 6: the same bad deal that Americans have been getting out

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Speaker 6: of Europe for the past sixty five or seventy years.

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Speaker 6: And I think you know, the Trump administration is uniquely

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Speaker 6: positioned to push this issue and to hand off a

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Speaker 6: larger share, if not all, of the conventional deterreents in

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Speaker 6: Europe to Europeans, which after all, have an economy roughly

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Speaker 6: the size of the US economy iver six times Russia's population,

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Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera. But if they don't force this

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Speaker 6: isue now we may be left with a one hundred

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Speaker 6: and fifty billion dollars a year liability on the books

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Speaker 6: that we would have done well to sort of hand

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Speaker 6: back to the Europeans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the quote from Donald Tusca Poland that I

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Speaker 1: like so much. Why are we the five hundred million

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Speaker 1: expecting the three hundred million of the United States to

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Speaker 1: protect us from one hundred and forty million, Which is

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Speaker 1: a good question. It's a very good question, and coming

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Speaker 1: from the considering the source, it becomes an even better question. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: I was not disappointed in your answer. I love that.

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Speaker 1: So this it's just the way the world has always

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Speaker 1: been and always gonna be. Uh. The big and powerful

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Speaker 1: will take the week if they can, and uh, you

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Speaker 1: know that's that's just the way it is.

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Speaker 6: I think for better and worse ways of managing politics.

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Speaker 6: But to try to transcend the underlying reality of international

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Speaker 6: politics is where you run into trouble. Right you say,

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Speaker 6: you say to yourself, and this is you know, a

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Speaker 6: Kin says sort of you know, progressive capital p progressive

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Speaker 6: uh social programs you know inside the United States, which

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Speaker 6: is to say, if you're throwing up experts and regulations

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Speaker 6: and laws and a problem, you can transcend something that

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Speaker 6: is more fundamental about social life. And you know, the

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Speaker 6: unfortunate fact of international politics is that it's inherently competitive,

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Speaker 6: and I just think we need to get back to

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Speaker 6: sort of getting our heads around that the nature.

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Speaker 1: Of the problem. That's fantastic stuff, man, I really like

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Speaker 1: talking to you about these sorts of issues. You're really

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Speaker 1: good justin logan with Kato. Thanks for your time today,

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Speaker 1: my pleasure. Jack. Yeah, And that's that's a smart guy.

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Speaker 1: And maybe part of the reason I think he's so smart,

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Speaker 1: as I agree with what he's saying. But so Europe

539
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Speaker 1: is coming to the Oval Office to beg Trump to

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Speaker 1: do it because they don't want to or can't. That's

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Speaker 1: an interesting situation for the world, isn't it. That is

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Speaker 1: an interesting situation for the world. That story is obviously

543
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Speaker 1: a long way from over. Okay, Well, we got a

544
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Speaker 1: lot more to get to and Katie is going to

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Speaker 1: explain to us why Cracker Barrel is so woke, among

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Speaker 1: other things on the way. We've got a lot of

547
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Speaker 1: great guests today. I hope you can stay here on

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Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Show. Armstrong, Hey, put up to

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Speaker 1: do our best joke, Michael. I thought you're playing our

550
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Speaker 1: best joke. I want to hear our best joke.

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Speaker 8: An online video of former Saved by the Bell star

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Speaker 8: Tiffany Amber Theesen eating care cake while apparently naked, has

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Speaker 8: gone viral. What you are move, Chris Christy?

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Speaker 3: Please no, I need one more joke.

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Speaker 2: A new survey seventy percent of American dog owners say

556
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Speaker 2: that the dog overeats during the holidays. Then their dogs

557
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Speaker 2: are like, it's called seasonal depression and telling everyone is

558
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Speaker 2: not helping it. You know your dog overeats when he

559
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Speaker 2: drops an alca cels are in the toilet boat before drinking.

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Speaker 3: You know, dogs overeat during the holidays.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They It's kind of like we always talk about

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Speaker 1: if you don't like Generation Z, they didn't raise themselves.

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Speaker 1: Your dog didn't like go to the fridge in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night and grab a piece of cake

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Speaker 1: that it shouldn't eat.

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Speaker 3: All right, look at yourself and.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't just say no, I'd rather sit on the

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Speaker 4: couch all day and watch TV.

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Speaker 1: Mom, do you feed your dog from the table or

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Speaker 1: table scraps or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Mouth if she's being or if he's being really good,

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Speaker 4: I'll give him like a.

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Speaker 3: Piece of steak or something. Well, all right. You can

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Speaker 3: do it however you want, but in great shape. Thank

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Speaker 3: you very much. Don't be that shame my dog.

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Speaker 1: You start giving your pet your food from the table.

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Speaker 1: That is the only thing they think about the rest

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Speaker 1: of their lives, whenever you're at the table, and that's

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Speaker 1: just part of your life.

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Speaker 3: Which is fine if that's what you want.

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Speaker 1: A promise to our guests, writes Cracker Barrel, having not

582
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the blowback they've been getting for the remodel in

583
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Speaker 1: the last few days. If the last few days have

584
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Speaker 1: shown us anything it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel.

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Speaker 1: We're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices, they wrote. You've

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Speaker 1: also shown us that we could have done a better

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Speaker 1: job sharing who we are and what will always be.

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Speaker 1: What has not changed and what will never change are

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Speaker 1: the values this company was built on.

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. I don't eat values.

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Speaker 1: I eat food. When the Cracker Barrel first opened in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, hard work, family and scratch cooked food

593
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Speaker 1: made with care, a place where everyone feels at home,

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Speaker 1: no matter where you're from or where you're headed.

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Speaker 3: That's the Cracker Barrel you'll always find.

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Speaker 1: So basically, what they said, thanks for your input, We're

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Speaker 1: going to keep doing what we had planned.

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Speaker 3: Shut up. That is basically what that statement.

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Speaker 4: Is and how her tune has changed. In case, the

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Speaker 4: CEO was on Great Good Morning America last week and said.

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Speaker 7: This, Honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive, that people like

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Speaker 7: what we're doing. I'll give you another SoundBite. I actually

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Speaker 7: happened to be in Orlando last week with all of

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Speaker 7: our managers. We bring them together and once every other year,

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Speaker 7: and the number one question that I got asked Michael

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Speaker 7: was how can I get a remodel? When can I

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Speaker 7: get a remodel? How do I get on the list?

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Speaker 7: Real So, because the feedback and the buzz is so good,

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Speaker 7: not only from our customers but from our team members.

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Speaker 7: They want to work in a real restaurant. So okay,

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Speaker 7: so we're doing everything for our guests and our team members.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I'll never.

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Speaker 1: Understand how CEOs of big companies are so incredible out

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Speaker 1: of touch with their customers that I don't get. I

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Speaker 1: do understand how CEOs of big companies are out of

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Speaker 1: touch with their employees.

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Speaker 3: How do you not know this as a boss?

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Speaker 1: You think you roll out the big rammodel and explain

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Speaker 1: to people that any of your employees are gonna tell you,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a terrible idea.

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Speaker 3: I think the customers are gonna hate it. Do you

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Speaker 3: think anybody's gonna say that?

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Speaker 1: Or is every single person one wrung below you and

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Speaker 1: then wrung one wrung below them, all gonna say, great idea, Boss,

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Speaker 1: Another great idea?

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Speaker 3: Boss? You always have great ideas? How do you not

627
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Speaker 3: know that?

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Speaker 1: It's blown my mind my entire life since I was

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Speaker 1: a kid and I got into business, and I see

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Speaker 1: bosses misled by.

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Speaker 3: Ass kicking, ass kissing underlings.

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Speaker 1: The people beneath you always say it's a great idea.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean it's a good idea.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you break out of that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you convince your you know, your vice

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Speaker 1: presidents and then the regional managers and everybody. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you convince them to be honest. But of

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Speaker 1: course they told you it was a gonna The buzz

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Speaker 1: and the feedback people are saying, how do I get

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Speaker 1: a remodel? Yes, of course they are because they want

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Speaker 1: to move up from regional manager to you know, sectional

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Speaker 1: manager or whatever the hell is.

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Speaker 3: And the way you do that is you go along

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Speaker 3: with the boss's ideas. Mm hmm, oh that does change

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Speaker 3: the whole thing. Oh great idea, Yeah, exact idea. What

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Speaker 3: and what is going to happen to you?

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Speaker 1: Normally if you say I think that's a terrible idea,

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Speaker 1: I'm not on board, you get fired and replaced by

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Speaker 1: somebody else.

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Speaker 3: That's what happens.

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Speaker 1: People who survive in companies say yes to everything, and

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Speaker 3: Now, as far as being out of touch with the customers.

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Speaker 1: That I don't quite get, Man, did you did you

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Speaker 4: And by the way, the little old white guy sitting

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Speaker 1: If you've seen the inside of the new cracker barrels,

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