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Speaker 1: I'm Mary k I'm Carol Michael.

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Speaker 2: It's how are you, Mary Catherine.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. It's springtime. We're in almost full

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Speaker 1: bloom for the cherry blossoms, which is also the time

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Speaker 1: that my allergies go crazy. I prepared with two weeks

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm rooting for you. And you know, the

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Speaker 2: cherry blossoms they look so good. Maybe a little pain,

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Speaker 1: It's it is. The pain can be very real. And

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Speaker 1: it took me like ten years of getting flu like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I learn, I learn, Yep, yep. All right. Well,

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Speaker 2: the TSA remains largely affected by a lack of dates

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Speaker 2: DHS funding, and we keep getting asked what is this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's happening is that Democrats are using their

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Speaker 1: being affected by TSA agents who understandably are not excited

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Speaker 1: And though I am not always a great fan of

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Speaker 2: Right, that's the best part actually that there's nothing really

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Speaker 2: not up for debate. It's happening, it's happened, it's already done.

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Speaker 2: The timeline on this is it starts around January, where

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Speaker 2: so they continue to target DHS and only DHS and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's important to understand that this is a

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Speaker 3: Well, there may be a celebration here at the airport

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Also, Atlanta is a major Delta hub,

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Speaker 1: And frankly, a lot of those extra subsidies were fraud

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck, Schumer likes your waiting on a long, long

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Speaker 2: Right, not a bad idea. All right, We're going to

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Speaker 1: a tribute to the Norman ladies, our friends.

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Speaker 4: One of my favorite normies, Yeah, one of our favorites,

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Speaker 4: our friend Bridget Fetesi wrote a piece where she's given

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. My my middle son and I have promised each

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