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

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

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 3: President Trump tells NBC News that he is quote very

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Speaker 3: angry at Putin for criticizing Ukrainian President Vladimir z Lenski,

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Speaker 3: now threatening to impose additional tariffs.

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Speaker 2: He says, twenty five.

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Speaker 3: To fifty percent on Russian oil if Putin stands.

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Speaker 2: In the way of a deal. So we're going to

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Speaker 2: get the two wars we are kind of involved in

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Speaker 2: out of the way here this segment, at least for now,

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Speaker 2: first Russia Ukraine. Trump saying he's really pissed off at

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Speaker 2: Putin is the first negative ish thing he said about

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Speaker 2: Putin maybe ever, certainly in this attempt to brok her

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Speaker 2: apiece and.

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Speaker 4: Attack some pretty serious economic sanctions to is anger.

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Speaker 2: And we'll see where that goes. But I was surprised

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Speaker 2: how little talk as in. I didn't hear it anywhere.

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Speaker 2: The giant Sunday New York Times front page piece about

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Speaker 2: our involvement from the beginning of helping the Ukrainians being

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Speaker 2: so much more than it had ever been reported. Now.

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Speaker 2: The why that was in there at that time is

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Speaker 2: kind of interesting. I don't know if that's just when

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Speaker 2: they got the reporting together, or if this is some

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Speaker 2: sort of effort to let people know how involved we

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Speaker 2: are so we need to continue, or I don't know,

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Speaker 2: maybe there's no political thing to it at all. It

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Speaker 2: might it might just be journalism. But did you read that?

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Speaker 2: It is quite amazing? Yeah, I read of It's like

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Speaker 2: four parts. It's like one of those We're going to

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Speaker 2: win a Pulzerprize over this incredibly long pieces that they wrote.

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Speaker 2: But one of the lead paragraphs about it New York

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Speaker 2: Times reporting that Ukrainian in hi Mars when we gave

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Speaker 2: them those super fancy missiles and that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: The strikes on Russia were directly coordinated from a US

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Speaker 2: military base in Germany. We were in charge of the

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Speaker 2: coordinates and the we gave them this stuff, coordinate everything really,

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Speaker 2: really the whole thing, right, just we're across the border,

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Speaker 2: your fingers on the triggers. That's it. Revealing the Ukraine's

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Speaker 2: dependence on US support was far deeper than anyone had realized.

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Speaker 2: And they go into from the very beginning, like day two,

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Speaker 2: A truck pulls up in Kiev, picks up a couple

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Speaker 2: of Ukrainian generals, all under secret, you know, protected by

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Speaker 2: British secrets, so all this sort of stuff gets them

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Speaker 2: to the border. They go to our military base that

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Speaker 2: we've got in Germany, and we immediately start the instructing, planning,

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Speaker 2: coordinating at a very very deep level, like we're running

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Speaker 2: the war, right, which I always assumed. I've said many

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Speaker 2: times and I've always assumed that there's no way they're

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Speaker 2: doing this without our help. But right, that's funny.

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Speaker 4: I had the same reaction that it was very very

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Speaker 4: thorough and interesting but not surprising.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, a lot of folks on the.

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Speaker 4: What do you call it, the new right, the isolationist right,

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Speaker 4: is there a name, the woke right, the JD vance

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Speaker 4: Ish right, And I love JD in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 4: but not so much in others. If you're making the

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Speaker 4: argument that that was a bad policy and unjustified and

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Speaker 4: we provoked to Russia, that's fine, but you got to stop.

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Speaker 2: Just calling people neocons. That's not an argument. It's like

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Speaker 2: the left calls everybody fascists. You're just you're not advancing

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Speaker 2: the football, but maybe that's not what you want to

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Speaker 2: do ideologically, you're not convincing anybody of anything. There were

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Speaker 2: also the New York Times reports SMEs some months earlier,

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Speaker 2: at the very beginning of the war, and they mentioned

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Speaker 2: this general had been allowed to send a small team

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Speaker 2: sent to South Vietnam that ended up being because it

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Speaker 2: all through the Kennedy administration. Pretty soon you're in a

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Speaker 2: same thing, except this time instead of advisors, they called

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Speaker 2: them SMEs subject matter experts. Oh so we sent in

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Speaker 4: Ah, that's weird, the government using obscure terms to obscure

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Speaker 2: American military advisors that were right in Kiva, a dozen

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Speaker 2: coordinating all kinds of their respons This is what you

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you remember the very beginning of the war.

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Speaker 2: It was just stunning the way Ukraine was able to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And yet there was that very halting, incremental

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Speaker 4: increase in support by the Biden administration, right, which is interesting.

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Speaker 4: You know, the books will be written, I suppose, and

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Speaker 4: they'll disagree with each other, but the incoherence of his

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Speaker 4: my days. Well, according to both the Woodward and the

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Speaker 4: Sanger book, it was all about Biden really worrying that

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Speaker 4: he could trigger Putin wanting to use nuclear weapons, and

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Speaker 4: like Secretary of State Blincoln was further on the other

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Speaker 4: side of we got to push harder, we got to

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Speaker 2: We don't need to be so scared. But that was

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Speaker 2: Biden's decision, for better or worse. Yeah, those of you

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Speaker 2: who think, you know, we're close to World War three

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Speaker 2: and it's none of our business, you're probably happy about that,

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Speaker 2: right yeah. Okay, So the other war, I thought that

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Speaker 2: if you're interested in that stuff, from Ukraine. Read that

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Speaker 2: New York Times, so I thought it was interesting. The

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Speaker 2: other war we're involved in, it might be getting way

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Speaker 2: more involved in as Trump threatened a military strike on

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Speaker 2: Iran Sunday and I didn't get that much attention either.

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Speaker 2: It's funny how running for third term panel discussions We're

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Speaker 2: gonna bomb the but Jesus out of a major military

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Speaker 2: East with the biggest dog in the neighborhood barely makes

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Speaker 2: the news. Technically, we're gonna bomb the bi Allah out

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Speaker 2: of them. Excellent point, Thank you. I shouldn't use that term.

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Speaker 2: It makes no sense. This is from sixty minutes on

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Speaker 2: Sunday night. One of the hostages has that got released

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Speaker 2: by Hamas. He'll tell his story and what's not in here,

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Speaker 2: I'll fill in the rest ninety If you could say

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Speaker 2: something to President Trump, what would you say, Please stop

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Speaker 2: stop this wall and help bring all those back. And

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Speaker 2: you think he can help. I know he can help.

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Speaker 2: I'm here because of Pump. I'm here only because of him.

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Speaker 2: I think he's the only one who can stop this

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Speaker 2: roll again. So you think he can bring about another

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Speaker 2: cease fire, he has to Hamas, and I think he

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Speaker 2: I just thought it was interesting for the second week

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Speaker 2: that's pretty Trump friendly. But this guy's story, if you

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Speaker 2: didn't see it, is freaking brutal. I did not. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, it's it's you know, we'll ruin your day

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Speaker 2: already his wife and kids had already been killed, right

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Speaker 2: and and and him thinking every single day when they

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Speaker 2: came to get him, they would, you know, they would

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Speaker 4: They did to a number of He might not not

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Speaker 4: have been aware of it, but they did that plenty

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Speaker 4: of times. It was not an unrealistic expectation.

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Speaker 2: I am interested that he both thinks thanks Trump for

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Speaker 2: getting him out, but thinks that they need to stop

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Speaker 2: the war so Hamas can continue to exist. I don't

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Speaker 2: know that there's a presumption in the media, the mainstream,

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Speaker 2: which is to say, left to media, that somebody like

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Speaker 4: And a guy like me. I have full empathy for

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Speaker 4: the horrors he has endured. I can't even imagine it.

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Speaker 4: But I don't grant him any special intellectual or any

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Speaker 2: We had the news story that there were Hamas protests

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Speaker 2: up against AMAS had been killed. Well, more details came

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Speaker 2: his family's house, with the message that don't be protesting us, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: to send to everyone else. Yes, So you freaking moron

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Speaker 2: college kids? What what? What? How do you square that

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Speaker 2: with your opinion? This is a Palestinian dude who was

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Speaker 2: protesting with a number of other young Palestinian people against

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Speaker 4: Right, Yes, well, an organization that is against every single

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Speaker 4: principle you claimed to have.

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Speaker 2: He was against them too, but you know I was.

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Speaker 4: I'm rereading James and Helen Pluckrose's brilliant book Cynical Theories

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Speaker 4: about the origin of the postmodernist, neomarxist whatever you want

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Speaker 4: difficult to convince people that college students who've been thoroughly indoctrinated,

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Speaker 4: some of them since they're in kindergarten, but certainly once

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Speaker 4: could buy an argument that oversimplified and have that as

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Speaker 4: they perceive the Palestinians being oppressed, not see any fault

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Speaker 4: in Hamas, not see any sin or hatred or evil

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Speaker 4: in Hamas none because they are oppressed.

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Speaker 2: Simple, that's the end of it. Don't tell me anything.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear anything else. You think, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: An adult, even a very young adult, couldn't possibly be

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Speaker 2: that cultize, that indoctrinate. But it's true. You just have

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Speaker 2: to accept it. This is a brave young man twenty

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Speaker 2: against Amas. I mean, that is a true patriot right there,

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Speaker 2: and he knew this was coming. Good lord, Yeah, that's brutal.

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Speaker 4: I find myself wondering, will we have to as a

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Speaker 4: nation or as you know, parents and grandparents and aunts

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Speaker 4: number of pages from the dprogramming cultist's handbook for dealing

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Speaker 4: with our young people because they were stolen away by

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Speaker 4: a cult.

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Speaker 2: We just didn't know it. It was at your local schools.

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Speaker 2: The same guy didn't cover his face, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Oh my lord, he's there with his face showing his

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Speaker 2: name available, protesting Hamas because they're evil and he wants

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Speaker 2: his little strip of land have a shot a chance,

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Speaker 2: and he is tortured to death for it, and you

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Speaker 2: freaking more hunts and college can.

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Speaker 4: Getting your gender studies master's degree from freeing your faces, brave,

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Speaker 4: brave revolutionaries? Nutjobs? Yeah no, I'm telling you. It's it's sad,

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Speaker 4: all right.

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Speaker 2: That's enough of that. I want to get to that

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Speaker 2: Forbes billionaire list. We got a bunch of stuff to

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Speaker 2: get to today. Boy A Maria Shriver with a piece

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Speaker 2: about her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, one

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Speaker 2: of the new billionaires on the list, by the way,

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Speaker 2: all coming again. A bunch of stuff on the way.

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Speaker 2: circular profit racket.

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Speaker 4: And then you add in the fact that you're being

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Speaker 4: indoctrinated with truly perverse ideas. Yeah, that to the stew

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Speaker 4: of your decision making. Yeah, it's man, it's so off track.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm not anti college. I'm glad I

437
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Speaker 2: But I have known some people that one were not

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Speaker 2: interested in a bunch of the things that you was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's why I abandoned my original career plans

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Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it anymore.

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Speaker 4: AnyWho, those of you who can, including my beloved daughter,

449
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Speaker 4: I admire your pluck if you have, you know, specific

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, a lot of that, a lot

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They don't the thing I was talking about,

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Speaker 2: the kind of person that wants to get out there

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Speaker 2: There's people that are the opposite. The last thing I

458
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Speaker 2: want to do is get out there in the world

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Speaker 4: Yes, So many of the degrees, the advanced degrees these days,

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Speaker 2: My dad, when I was a kid, used to talk

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Speaker 4: You almost have to, because undergrad degrees are so meaningless

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Speaker 2: So the college keeps you around for another year with

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Speaker 2: How's their basketball team? That's what matters. Oh lord, college

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Speaker 4: I was chatting with some fellows who are very, very

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Speaker 2: Wow. Same in basketball. So in what sense none? Is

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Speaker 2: it amateur sports? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Or you're not you have to pafy you're on the

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Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting. Well, maybe some of them will end

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Speaker 2: up on the Billionaire's List, which Forbes is out with today,

540
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Speaker 2: which is kind of interesting. Look at, you know, how

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Speaker 2: people make their money in the world in a variety

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Speaker 2: Strong hey Gety.

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Speaker 6: A New Jersey resident who won more than a million

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Speaker 6: dollars in the lottery, said they were inspired to buy

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Speaker 6: New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: I thought that'd be a lead insiner. One way to

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Speaker 2: become a billionaire is win the lottery. Another way is

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Speaker 2: to well. Another way is to inherit it. But most

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Speaker 2: of the new billionaires on the Forbes list of billionaires

552
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Speaker 2: are self made, and I love that. Seventy percent of

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Speaker 2: the new billionaires that have showed up made their money themselves.

554
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Speaker 2: They did not inherit it. With a record three twenty

555
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Speaker 2: eight new billionaires on the Forbes list for twenty twenty five,

556
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Speaker 2: that's a lot. That's the total number of billionaires the

557
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Speaker 2: new ones. There are only two hundred and eighty eight newcomers,

558
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Speaker 2: but seventy percent of them did it themselves, which I love,

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Speaker 2: hailing from thirty three countries and territories collectively worth nearly

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Speaker 2: six hundred and eighty billion. And some communists will claim

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Speaker 2: that that's somehow taking money from you. I don't get

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Speaker 2: that check. No, I still have my money. The United

563
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Speaker 2: States has the most new billionaires once again, with one

564
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Speaker 2: hundred and three Americans added to the ranks this year.

565
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Speaker 2: Yes and again for you know, Bernie Sanders or that crowd.

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Speaker 2: That's just proof that we're an evil country that is

567
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Speaker 2: set up for billionaires or something or or were the

568
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Speaker 2: biggest economy in the world, and we have the most

569
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Speaker 2: innovative people. Right here's my favorite name on the list.

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Speaker 2: The youngest billionaire is a nineteen year old German named

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Speaker 2: Johann Vombomback. How would you like to be a billionaire?

572
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Speaker 2: You're ninety and your name is Johan Bomback. It's pretty good,

573
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Speaker 2: pretty good life. But he is he inherited his It's

574
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Speaker 2: actually split between him and fourteen other ears to the

575
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Speaker 2: boring Ecohm pharmaceutical fortunes. Oh, they do work, but I'm

576
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Speaker 2: not really that interested in the people that inherited their money. No,

577
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Speaker 2: Germany had the second most newcomers, behind the United States

578
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Speaker 2: with thirty seven. China and Hong Kong ranked third. It's

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Speaker 2: interesting countries like China and then Russia was India's fourth,

580
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Speaker 2: the Russia was fifth. Countries like China and Russia. What's

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Speaker 2: that mean becoming a billionaire? You must you must be

582
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Speaker 2: you know, a favored son. It's almost all men in

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Speaker 2: these countries of the communist party or the dictator or

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Speaker 2: they wouldn't allow you to, right.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I would love to know more about some

586
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Speaker 4: of those individual cases.

587
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Speaker 2: Again, about seventy percent of the world's newest billionaires are

588
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Speaker 2: self made, meaning they established their fours rather than inheriting them.

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Speaker 2: The richest self made newcomer seventy three year old dude

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Speaker 2: from Saudi Arabia. And I love this one. The youngest

591
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Speaker 2: self made billionaire Scale AI. I don't know that AI company,

592
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Speaker 2: Scale AI anyway, the co founder and CEO, Alexander Wang.

593
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Speaker 2: He's worth two billion dollars and he's the youngest self made.

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Speaker 2: Good for him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy from Saudi Arabia that falls under the

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Speaker 4: China and yeah, Russia rubric right.

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Speaker 2: Right, You wouldn't have unless they wanted to allow you to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've known a fair number of very

599
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Speaker 4: successful people, especially in the last decade or so of

600
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Speaker 4: my life. Build a business and sell it. If it

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Speaker 4: has something to do with tech, all the better. That's

602
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Speaker 4: how you get rich. You build a business and you

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Speaker 4: sell it. The most famous New billionaires he stupidly designed

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Speaker 4: a business.

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Speaker 2: We have to show up and work at every day,

606
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Speaker 2: can't so stupid? Stupid, stupid. The most famous New billionaires

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Speaker 2: became household names by finding success in the various art forms.

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Speaker 2: Blue collar worker Bruce Springsteen, who's never actually had a

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Speaker 2: real job, is now worth one point two billion dollars

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Speaker 2: and is on the billionaire list. Congratulations Bruce. His twenty

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Speaker 2: one studio albums, ten live albums, and seven EPs of

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Speaker 2: Solda combined one hundred and forty million copies across the

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Speaker 2: gold It would be interesting to me if he arrived

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Speaker 2: now where you make no money off of so you

615
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Speaker 2: can't sell albums, there's no money in that. How much

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Speaker 2: will will there be billionaire outside of Taylor Swift? Like

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Speaker 2: really rare occurrences your concert circuit favorites.

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Speaker 4: I happen to watch Saturday Night Live with Morgan Wallen

619
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Speaker 4: the other night, and I know he does really well.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to know, you know, what his financial situation is.

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Speaker 2: It'd be a lot less though. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: I look at bands of the eighties and nineties who

623
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Speaker 4: are like crazy rich, who now would be touring relentlessly

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Speaker 4: to make their mortgage right and thank boy, you know.

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Speaker 2: You're lucky you got in when you did. Yeah, oh yeah,

626
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Speaker 2: Springsteen the reason he showed up on the Billionaire At

627
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Speaker 2: least he sold his music catalog to Sony last year

628
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Speaker 2: for five hundred million, So that's a pretty big jump.

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Speaker 2: Movie Stars Swartzenegger now on the list one point one

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Speaker 2: billion dollars.

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Speaker 4: I'm willing to sell my song catalog for a five

632
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Speaker 4: million and that's a starting point.

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Speaker 2: I'm a reasonable man. So Schwarzenegger's a billionaire. Yes, his

634
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Speaker 2: ex wife is out with how devastating the divorce was

635
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Speaker 2: to or maybe we'll talk about that later. I thought

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Speaker 2: it was a comedian Jerry Wow. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is

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Speaker 2: on the list for the first time at one point

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Speaker 2: one billion dollars, benefiting from a five hundred million deal

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Speaker 2: for Netflix to show their sitcom for the next five years.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, So Seinfeld the TV show is now and

641
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Speaker 2: he sold it for what three hundred million? And he

642
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: s with Larry David that was not a limited time

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Speaker 2: and now he's getting a five hundred million dollars deal

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Speaker 2: from Netflix. Wow wow Wow. Yeah. Most of the billionaires

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Speaker 2: on the list are men, all practically all of them,

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Speaker 2: and about two thirds of them inherited their wealth. So

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Speaker 2: that's where you are. Yeah, we really need to do

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Speaker 2: a sitcom. Is that still a thing? Can you still?

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Speaker 2: It'll be a Netflix streaming special. It's I don't know,

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Speaker 2: a couple of guys with a wacky technical director and

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Speaker 2: a wisecracking newswoman.

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Speaker 4: Just off the top of my head. I haven't gotten

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Speaker 4: much further than that. Well, we could sell the show, no,

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Speaker 4: but we don't want to. So yeah, I have to

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Speaker 4: still show up and work with a point. We'll sell it,

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Speaker 4: but we won't be on it.

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Speaker 2: What is that worth? So then what are you buying?

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Speaker 2: The microphones?

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Speaker 4: I don't know the name, and you can have that

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Speaker 4: buy me a nice lunch? Coming up next hour, brand

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Speaker 4: new feature, The Fight is far from over.

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Speaker 2: It's woke watch.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of which, we have a a guest who's been

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Speaker 4: following the doings in the cal Unicorny a state house

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Speaker 4: to bring us the latest madness.

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Speaker 2: You've got a new feature called woke Watch.

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Speaker 4: Woke Watch, It's like Baywatch, but let's jiggle Armstrong and

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Speaker 4: Getty