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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the

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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe, Getty Armstrong.

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Speaker 2: And Jettie I'm he Armstrong and Getty Strong.

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Speaker 3: So Kay brought us a story earlier that the United

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Speaker 3: States has dropped out of the twenty Happiest countries Every

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Speaker 3: year they put out this list.

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Speaker 2: Gallup does the polling.

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Speaker 3: I hate this sort of question because I don't even

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Speaker 3: know how I would answer it myself. I mean, if

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Speaker 3: you just walked up to me and said, are you

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Speaker 3: happy a lot of days?

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Speaker 2: I'd say no.

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Speaker 3: But if you put it in the context of being

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Speaker 3: an American, I'd say, well, yes, yes, all things being equal,

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Speaker 3: living in the United States, Yes, I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: Kind of annoyed right now. But do I have a

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Speaker 2: good life? Yes? I do? Right. Uh.

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Speaker 3: But here's the behind the numbers. This is the first

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Speaker 3: year ever they've broken it down by age, and something

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Speaker 3: interesting popped out and a gaping disparity. Americans over sixty

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Speaker 3: are some of the world's happiest. We place in the

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Speaker 3: top ten for the over sixty crowd. All those up

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Speaker 3: there yet, but I hope to be while those under

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Speaker 3: thirty are among the most miserable in the developed world

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Speaker 3: are under thirty crowd ranked sixty second.

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Speaker 2: Wow, in terms of a happiest people in the world.

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Speaker 3: And that's been and it's true for a lot of

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Speaker 3: your Western countries like Canada's very similar. They're young people

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Speaker 3: are ranked fifty eighth, so top ten for the over

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Speaker 3: sixty crowd. For the under thirty crowd sixty second, pulling

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Speaker 3: down the overall score where we've dropped out of the

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Speaker 3: top twenty for the first time ever. They don't have

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Speaker 3: a smoking gun for why young people are so unhappy,

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Speaker 3: They said, it's due to a combination manufacturs ranging from

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Speaker 3: political polarization to overuse of social media. Yeah, the resentment

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Speaker 3: maker social media, well, and trying to fill their emotional

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Speaker 3: nutrition needs with the crack cocaine.

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Speaker 2: Of likes and retweets. And well, nobody.

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Speaker 3: Said, well, then if you looked into a bunch of

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Speaker 3: other stuff that they're not coupling or having sex or

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Speaker 3: getting married or all these different things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fine.

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Speaker 3: But so you said you had your thoughts, some thoughts,

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Speaker 3: what are your thoughts?

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Speaker 4: And well, boomers and Gen X are also stealing their

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Speaker 4: money because all of the money we're spending right now.

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Speaker 2: Is going to have to be paid for through taxes

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Speaker 2: at some point.

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Speaker 3: That's very true, and they should be unhappy about that,

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Speaker 3: but I don't think it's on their mind.

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Speaker 2: I think you're probably right. Yeah, I just I am

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Speaker 2: so concerned with the disconnectedness of young people. And you're

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Speaker 2: not connected. If you're connected online, that's different.

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Speaker 4: It's it's like, uh, it's like the difference in gages

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Speaker 4: of wire or the thickness of a water pipe or

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Speaker 4: something like that.

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Speaker 2: You feel like you're in but you're not.

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Speaker 4: You're not getting the incredibly important neurological nourishment of actually

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Speaker 4: being with other human beings, whether friends, looking each other

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Speaker 4: in the eye, talking to them, having sex, holding somebody

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Speaker 4: in your arms.

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Speaker 2: All of this stuff matters.

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Speaker 4: And I swear to God, all the online stuff is

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Speaker 4: it's empty calories. It's the candy that makes you feel full,

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Speaker 4: and you have no appetite to take in your meat

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Speaker 4: and potatoes and vegetables. I will go to my premature

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Speaker 4: grave shout.

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Speaker 3: Even without the online stuff. Expectations is a big thing

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Speaker 3: in lifestyle and everything like that. And I think about

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Speaker 3: my own kids who are not online yet, and they do.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this last night.

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Speaker 3: My kids complain more about their lives and feel like

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Speaker 3: my life sucks more often than I did as a kid,

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Speaker 3: even though they've got easier lives with more stuff. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure that I complained more than my dad did, even

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Speaker 3: though I had an easier life with more stuff. He

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Speaker 3: grew up without electricity or plumbing and worked all the time.

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Speaker 3: But I'll bet I complained more and my kids complained

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Speaker 3: more than me.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, what does that whole dynamic?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's what you see around you,

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Speaker 3: what all your friends have.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's that's big and easy times make for

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Speaker 4: for soft people. But and I don't, you know, exclude

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Speaker 4: myself from that description. Also, and this is one of

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Speaker 4: the most powerful powerful forces in political systems that people

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Speaker 4: don't talk about. Expectations, Well, expectations are everything.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But I'm thinking about and part of it is

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Speaker 3: where I live. But like spring break is coming up

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Speaker 3: and several of my friends there, my kids have several

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Speaker 3: friends that are doing unbelievably cool things.

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Speaker 2: We're not, and so we're not going to Hawaii for

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Speaker 2: two weeks.

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Speaker 4: No, we're not right, And everybody knows only the coolest

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Speaker 4: thing anybody else is doing because of the nature of

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Speaker 4: you know, social media, the other aspect of this that

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Speaker 4: I find so interesting.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this at length.

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Speaker 4: I remember last year at some point when Finland again

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Speaker 4: topped the list, and I can't remember if it was

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Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. There's

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Speaker 4: somebody did a long in depth or it might have

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Speaker 4: been The Atlantic. Come to think of it, it doesn't

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Speaker 4: matter did an in depth study of why the Finns

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Speaker 4: are quote unquote the happiest people and they're not the cheeriest.

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Speaker 2: Or anything like that.

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Speaker 4: It's that the Finnish culture is if you have enough,

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Speaker 4: you should be satisfied, and to run around complaining that

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Speaker 4: you're not achieving some sort of financial dream is frowned

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Speaker 4: upon in Sweden.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: In Finland they just have a much more close to

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Speaker 4: the bone. If you have the basics, that's enough, you

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Speaker 4: should be great for culture.

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Speaker 3: The yearly Happiness List the Happiest countries in the world,

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Speaker 3: and the United States fell out of the top twenty

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Speaker 3: for the first time ever, falling to twenty third place.

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Speaker 3: We were fifteenth last year, driven by a large drop

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Speaker 3: in the happiness of Americans under thirty. For the over

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Speaker 3: sixty crowd, we're in the top ten. We're among the

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Speaker 3: happier countries on Earth. But for those under thirty, were

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Speaker 3: sixty second, pulling down the overall score. Wow, our young

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Speaker 3: people living in the land of opportunity and it still is,

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Speaker 3: are miserable.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking to see if I found the

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Speaker 4: right article about why people in Scandinavia are happier. I remember,

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Speaker 4: it's just about the fact that it's a marked down

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Speaker 2: It's a cultural thing. You're brought up to believe.

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Speaker 4: If you have what you need and you have people

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Speaker 4: in your life you care about, that's what happiness is

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Speaker 4: and that's all you'd need to aspire to. So are

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Speaker 4: they happier because they have quote unquote lower expectations better expectations?

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Speaker 4: I think that's part of it.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Some people would say, well, they've settled for.

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Speaker 2: Less than they should want out of life.

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Speaker 4: That is what some people's family and satisfaction. Yeah, stupid finds.

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Speaker 2: This has got to be something to be actually concerned about. Though.

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Speaker 3: From a political standpoint, don't you there will be not

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Speaker 3: a real revolution, but a revolution are politics if are

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Speaker 3: under thirty crowd. Is this dissatisfied with their country or

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Speaker 3: they're just their lives?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what occurred to me, and it should

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Speaker 4: have before, but I'm a bit of a slow wit,

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Speaker 4: is that the kids are being indoctrinated every day that

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Speaker 4: this country was built on systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia.

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Speaker 2: It's a rotten country.

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Speaker 4: Global warming is going to cook them alive, all sorts

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Speaker 4: of gloom and doom indoctrination as opposed to the much

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Speaker 4: more positive education of the past, even when maybe it

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Speaker 4: was overly rosy. But it gives you a different attitude.

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Speaker 2: Am I wrong? I'm not wrong. No, you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 4: And I'm reminded of another study that just came out,

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Speaker 4: quote unquote. Woke people are much more likely to be unhappy, anxious,

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Speaker 4: and depressed, according to a new study.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't shock me in the least. Not exactly sure why.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just my personal experience, but why is

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Speaker 4: The findings, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology suggest

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Speaker 4: other Western nations may see similar patterns among their socially

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Speaker 2: The author, the senior.

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Speaker 4: Researcher, remarked the woke discourse has worked its way into

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Speaker 4: of it. In the end, their final Critical Social Justice

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Speaker 4: Attitude Scale identified seven truisms of woke people. They asked him,

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Speaker 4: if white people have on average a higher level of

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Speaker 4: income than black people, it is because of racism.

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Speaker 2: If you answered yes to that, they give you woke points.

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Speaker 4: University reading list should include fewer white or European authors.

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Speaker 4: If you answered yes to that, they give you woke points.

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Speaker 4: And the woker people. Then they asked about mental health

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Speaker 4: statements that I made. More broadly, they found that those

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Speaker 3: So let's go to the bottom of the list of

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Speaker 3: happiest countries. See if we notice a trend here. First

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Speaker 3: of all, Haiti was the eleventh least happy country, but

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Speaker 3: that number is gone down since the poll was taken.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Who's under Haiti?

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Speaker 3: Yemen, South Sedan, Liberia, Guinea, Togo, Rwanda, Syria, tens and Tans, Tanza, Tanzania.

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Speaker 3: Burundi and the DFL as they say, the least happy

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Speaker 2: Are in Africa.

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Speaker 3: That's wyow I mean you go, you go up from

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Speaker 3: the bottom ten, you get a lot of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Chad, Niger.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of unhappy African countries. That is horrible.

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Speaker 2: That is a rough continent.

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Speaker 4: I haven't brought this up for a while, and I

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Speaker 4: don't recommend you do it because there's no point really

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Speaker 4: is being fought, and what is happening to civilians, including

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Speaker 4: children in those conflicts, it will haunt your dreams, perhaps for.

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Speaker 2: The rest of your days.

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Speaker 4: It makes like Western warfare seem civilized and not that bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's horrible.

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Speaker 3: And so you've got that entire continent that is almost

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Speaker 3: entirely very bottom of happiness and income and all kinds

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Speaker 3: of other things which you know, it's all tied together.

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Speaker 2: But here's your top countries. You notice anything in common

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Speaker 3: We'll count down the top ten and the actually count

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Speaker 3: of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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Speaker 3: Any list this long that's not numbered. How long would

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Speaker 3: it take you to number at gallop? Anyway, here's your

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Speaker 3: top ten happiest countries. Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, then Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway. Wow,

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Speaker 3: obviously cold weather makes people happier. No, but there's a

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Speaker 2: The other ones thrown in, that's something.

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Speaker 5: A lot of it printed winning a fifth presidential time

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Speaker 6: President journalist, Evan Gershkevich, spent this election in prison. Boris Ladishtin,

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Speaker 7: That's life? Putin said, and in his answer suggested he

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Speaker 4: Are you done with DEI try MEI merit excellence and intelligence.

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Speaker 3: You remember, we did that awful, awful on stage debate

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Speaker 3: But is that one of the reasons that DEI is

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Speaker 4: and they call everything racist so they can, you know,

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Speaker 4: But that's not what it means, though, and it's all

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Speaker 4: idea that you have it's mandatory. It's like their fire

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Speaker 4: introduced the dismantled DEI Act. It immediately attracted twenty co

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Speaker 4: sponsors in Congress, and as that's that, oh, the editors

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Speaker 4: The bill would bar school accreditation agencies from requiring DEI

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Speaker 4: It would also effectively rescind President Biden's June twenty five

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Speaker 4: ideas into quote, all parts of the federal workforce. What

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Speaker 4: shocks me is how something so openly overtly racist hasn't

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Speaker 2: Whether judicially or legislatively.

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Speaker 4: I mean the notion that, oh, only white people can

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Speaker 4: Define the term racism and I could find it. Some

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Speaker 4: which is again idiotic that they point out the Executive

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Speaker 4: How much is the government spent on DEI training? Keeping

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Speaker 4: in mind that if they spent it, somebody got it.

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Speaker 4: And the point is that they gave money to people

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Speaker 4: who will always support Democrats. But it's insidious. I'm going

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Speaker 4: I'd love to see that pass.

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Speaker 2: I don't think, like, what percentage of Americans know that.

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Speaker 3: It's still pretty low. Yeah, it'll take a long time

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Speaker 4: Well, right, yeah, workers of the world unite, you know,

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Speaker 2: All of that stuff is rhetorically great.

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Speaker 4: It's really good, you know, political rhetoric, propaganda, it's persuasive.

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Speaker 4: Marxists are good at that, Revolutionaries in general are good

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Speaker 3: It's really hard to quit a gym, as we all know.

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Speaker 3: out with a coach. The football players are working out,

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Speaker 3: and he's got to be there for an hour three

441
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Speaker 3: times a week, So good for me. I'll be there

442
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Speaker 3: for an hour three times a week. But I'm I

443
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 3: was always a freeway guy when I was younger, but

444
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Speaker 3: now I'm.

445
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Speaker 2: Doing the machines.

446
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 3: It takes me so long to figure out what each

447
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 3: machine is for. They got like a hundred machines, this

448
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 3: giant gym, and I walk around, I think, is that

449
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 3: for your feet?

450
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 2: For your hands, for your back? I don't know. That

451
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 2: thing looks like maybe you sit there.

452
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Speaker 3: Sometimes I think I get on and am I Am

453
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Speaker 3: I facing the wrong direction?

454
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Speaker 2: Or am I supposed to?

455
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Speaker 6: Oh?

456
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't They all have like instructions like right there

457
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: on them, some of them doing, some of them don't.

458
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Speaker 3: I think, I don't even know what part of my

459
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Speaker 3: body to put there and which.

460
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 2: Way I'm supposed to face. I supposed to be lying.

461
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 3: I have a feeling somebody's gonna come by and I'm

462
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Speaker 3: like working on my arms.

463
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Speaker 2: They say that's for your calves. I mean, I don't

464
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Speaker 2: know what you're doing there. I don't even know how

465
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Speaker 2: you got in that position, you know.

466
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Speaker 4: I've worked with a couple of trainers, physical therapists, and

467
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 4: they all say, they say, I don't want you on

468
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Speaker 4: that machine that just works on one muscle group. You

469
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 4: gotta work on that muscle group and all the muscle

470
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Speaker 4: groups that.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's why that's so integrated. Unless you got a

472
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Speaker 3: specific ysh. Why free weights are so much better is

473
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Speaker 3: in general.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm old and lazier. So machine.

475
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 3: There's a lot of swool guys on the machine, so

476
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 3: they must be doing something for them.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's better than nothing, for sure. Everything is

478
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 2: better than nothing. I want a Jack Armstrong workout video.

479
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 3: Oh well, a lot of it would be me walking

480
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Speaker 3: around the machine.

481
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Speaker 2: That's what I want. What the hell is this?

482
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 4: Exactly like Joe Biden Jim exactly are you working out

483
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Speaker 4: in jeans and cowboy boots or do you actually don

484
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Speaker 4: athletic wear for that?

485
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 3: I was wearing gymnasium shoes and some sort of khaki

486
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 3: pants and a T shirt. Well, you wear long pants.

487
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna wear shorts. Nobody, no grown up should

488
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 3: wear shorts. Nobody wants to see your old man legs.

489
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Speaker 2: I know.

490
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine, Katie, I've been working with this guy

491
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 4: for like thirty two years and it is still a wonder.

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Speaker 2: Tony, I'm you wear long pants that aren't what pants

493
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Speaker 2: to the gym. Yeah, khakis, can't you're wearing khakis.

494
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Speaker 4: You may be the only guy in America who works

495
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 4: out in khakis.

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Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, wait a second. With checking Europe, yep, same,

497
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Speaker 2: I would rather you in shorts than khakis. I don't know.

498
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Speaker 4: I don't think they wear a lot of shorts in

499
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: Europe because they have class. Oh I wear long pants

500
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 4: under protest only because it's cold.

501
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: Oh men, legs should not be shown to any Nobody

502
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 2: should have to look at that.

503
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Speaker 3: I'm not telling you to wear Daisy dukes, but throwing

504
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 3: some basketball shorts.

505
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Speaker 2: By the way, what is seen can't be seen. Ah,

506
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Speaker 2: I didn't know this.

507
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 3: My son got a pair of these really long shorts,

508
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 3: like they go down below the knees. They're really long

509
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 3: and wide, and that's like and he told me, he said, man,

510
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 3: I got so many compliments on these today. Wall Street

511
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 3: Journal had an article over the weekend that is the

512
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 3: super cool, forward thinking hipster shorts is the really long

513
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 3: wide shorts for like up and coming CEOs and all that.

514
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.

515
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: According to the Wall Street Journal, And whether you're like

516
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 3: a rapper or a you know, a go go. You know,

517
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 3: you're the guy who wears tennis shoes with your suit,

518
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: that kind of guy. Those are the shorts people are wearing.

519
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna let you know that ninety five

520
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: percent of the women that see those are calling them

521
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 2: caprice behind your back.

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Speaker 3: That's what I told my son, I said, how are

523
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 3: those not capri pants? He said, what are kok peepants?

524
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 3: I said, those those are preepants. Girls wear them, son, So.

525
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Speaker 2: I don't know, have you seen that out in public

526
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 2: among the shorts wearing crown? I have not.

527
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Speaker 3: I mean, the Wall Street Journal is not you know,

528
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Speaker 3: I can't even name a magazine that would be for

529
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: young super hit people. I mean, it's the Wall Street

530
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 3: freaking Journal saying you know, their crowd, and I guess

531
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Speaker 3: that's the shorts.

532
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Speaker 2: All right. I'm not part of that culture either.

533
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead wear shorts that the people

534
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 4: laugh at in a year.

535
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: Those shorts with the high socks, right, is that like

536
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: the thing right? So there's like no skin really in between. Boy, No,

537
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 2: I'm talking about your go go executives. Youngsters wear what

538
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: the other youngsters are wearing.

539
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Why wouldn't you that it's fine, yeah, but

540
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 4: the and you know, I see that stuff in the

541
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Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal or somehow we got on GQ's mailing list,

542
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 4: and man, all that stuff. Okay, go ahead, wear that.

543
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 4: It lasts for about a cup of coffee. But if

544
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 4: that gets you ahead in your Wall Street career, go ahead.

545
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 4: I would agree, you look like a dunce. If you're

546
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 4: a teenager, where what the other teenagers are wearing. It'll

547
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Speaker 4: make you more friends and get you a girlfriend or

548
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 4: a boyfriend or pick your subgroup. But past that point,

549
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 4: why are you paying any attention?

550
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: And then are you reading articles in the Wall Street

552
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: Journal to figure out what shorts to wear?

553
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: I found that interesting. Also, who's that for exactly?

554
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 3: I would think the people that care about that sort

555
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: of thing found out a different way than reading the

556
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 3: style section of the Wall Street Journal.

557
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 4: People who want fashion advice from the Wall Street Journal,

558
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Speaker 4: I can't imagine how your brain works.

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Speaker 1: Armstrong Andngey, the Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 3: They're talking about ratings on MSNBC this morning. I think

561
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Speaker 3: because CNN and MSNBC's ratings are so low. I'm looking

562
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: up at Fox right now and there's Karl Rove and

563
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 3: it reminded me so my brother loathes Karl Rove. And

564
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: it's because in twenty twelve, during the entire election cycle

565
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Karl Rove was going

566
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Speaker 3: on TV every day explaining how Mitt Romney is gonna

567
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: win and the mainstream media is misleading you, and it's

568
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: gonna be hilarious on election Day when everybody figures this out.

569
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: And then after it wasn't even close, my brother came

570
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 3: to the conclusion that he was being lied to by

571
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 3: Fox News. That's exactly what is going on with that

572
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 3: huge drop off on CNN and specifically MSNBC right now,

573
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 3: because after an entire election season of all those people

574
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 3: laughing at the idea that Donald Trump could possibly get

575
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: elected and here's why the polls are wrong, and here's

576
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 3: here's how crazy you would have to blah blah blah

577
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: blah blah. Then you wake up on election day or

578
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 3: the day after and finance, Oh, you were all lying

579
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 3: to me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was all a bunch of crap. I think

581
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 2: it is a kicking the gut mit.

582
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 4: I think you need to add the delicious icing of

583
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 4: this to that cake. And that would be the absolute

584
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 4: hair on fire, hyperbolic, He's Hitler fascist, There'll never be

585
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 4: another an election, blood running in the streets. And then

586
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 4: the next day there's Joe Biden, you know, shaking hands

587
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 4: with the guy.

588
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: Come on, and that's true. So you combine those things,

589
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 3: cut the crap. You can buy those two things, and

590
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 3: you would have to like reorient yourself as to what

591
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 3: you're gonna pay attention to or care about, because oh,

592
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 3: you guys didn't actually care and and you were lying.

593
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 3: So okay, now I need to find something else to

594
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 3: do with my time. So I'm still reading Bob Woodward's Wars,

595
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: and there's some those books are so clipping good. It's

596
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: a shame nobody reads them, because nobody does. But the

597
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 3: right into the part where the Ukrainian War is about

598
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 3: to start in this book, and Biden had just gotten

599
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: off a long phone call, the longest phone call he'd

600
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Speaker 3: ever had with Putin. They were on the phone for

601
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Speaker 3: an hour on a Sunday morning, and Biden was really

602
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 3: laying into him about how what a horrible idea it

603
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Speaker 3: would be to invade Ukraine.

604
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Speaker 2: And everything like that.

605
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 3: Putin was explaining why he had to do it, and

606
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 3: you're planning to put nuclear buns blah blah blah blah. Anyway,

607
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 3: Biden gets off the phone and says, he aft it up.

608
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 3: He affed the whole thing up.

609
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: And the people around him are like, what are you

610
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: talking about?

611
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 3: And he's like, Barack, he affed the whole thing up

612
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 3: by doing nothing. In twenty fourteen, when Putin went in Crimea,

613
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: all he did was signal to Putin that he can

614
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Speaker 3: get away with anything.

615
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: Barack aft this up?

616
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Speaker 3: And I thought, how is that not a headline out

617
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: of the book, the fact that Joe Biden lays at

618
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 3: Barack Obama's feet the responsibility for going into Ukraine.

619
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Speaker 4: Wow, you got one side of the media that's utterly

620
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 4: dishonest and nothing to see here. He said something mean

621
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 4: about Trump on page two hundred and thirty, and then

622
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Speaker 4: the other side of the media doesn't read what words, right.

623
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Speaker 4: I thought that was really interesting that that was Biden's response.

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Speaker 2: You know, he might be rewriting history in his own memory.

625
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Speaker 3: I have no idea, but he portrayed it as he

626
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 3: was pushing Barack Obama. We got to push back or

627
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: or or Putin will think he can get away with

628
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: anything and that doesn't sound like Joe Biden to me

629
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: and his and his response afterwards, So I don't know,

630
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 3: but I thought that was interesting.

631
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I realized the irony of it that the feckless,

632
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 4: gutlass Joe Biden is calling his boss very feckless and gutless.

633
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 4: But the man who is f andng if you will,

634
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 4: he's the last guy who wants a problem shoved down

635
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 4: the road to him.

636
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

637
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 4: So that's you know, if you were like a strong

638
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 4: and decisive guy, you would say, yeah, Barack Obama's a

639
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 4: coward and he f this up and now I've got

640
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 4: to deal with it.

641
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 2: I'm going to deal with it well. And the difference

642
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: being Biden says, yeah, I'm just gonna say don't, don't.

643
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Speaker 3: And to Joe Biden's credit, I mean compared to Barack Obama,

644
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 3: I mean he was Eisenhower in terms of supplying Ukraine

645
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 3: with an ability to push back. Because Barack Obama is correct,

646
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 3: Barack Obama did nothing. Got him into the chapter right

647
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 3: now where we sent over CIA director Burns to talk

648
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Speaker 3: to Zelensky. This is right before the invasion happens, and

649
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 3: sits down with him and says, look, it's gonna happen

650
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 3: like next week, and this is what they're gonna do,

651
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 3: and Zalinski doesn't believe it, and all the europe major

652
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: European leaders don't believe it. Part of it is because

653
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: we couldn't lay out all the information we had because

654
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 3: we actually had a human being in the Kremlin, so

655
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: that's where we're getting our info, So we couldn't like

656
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 3: lay out how we know how we knew this, but

657
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 3: we knew it was gonna happen, and Zilensky was like,

658
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Speaker 3: surely not, it can't or maybe you know his he

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Speaker 3: was hoping it couldn't be true because it's just horrifying.

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Speaker 3: Burne said, they're gonna roll in here and their first

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Speaker 3: job is going to be to try to kill you.

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Speaker 3: So what is your security situation like they've got They're

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Speaker 3: gonna come straight to Kiev. It's gonna take them like

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Speaker 3: six hours. They're gonna be setting out special forces throughout

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Speaker 3: the city hunting for you, trying to kill you.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine getting that.

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Speaker 3: Information from the Sea High director of the United States,

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Speaker 3: Holy crap.

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Speaker 2: I would say, just completely overwhelming.

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Speaker 3: As a former YouTube star who's now president of the country.

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Speaker 2: Good Lord, that would be some info. Togain, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: You might be the most seasoned sherman of the Joint

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