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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 1: Israel is not stopping saying it's attacks have inflicted significant

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Speaker 1: damage to Ron's nuclear facilities, that they are just getting started.

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Speaker 1: We paved the way to Tehran.

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Speaker 3: At are pilots over the skies of Tehran will deal

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Speaker 3: blows to the Iteonal regime that they cannot even imagine.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: I'm hoping you can get Mike Lillions on the show today.

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Speaker 4: I think he'd be a great sounding board. And if

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Speaker 4: he is on, can you ask him or can the

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Speaker 4: guys ask him?

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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 4: Who in Iran is helping the masade? What internal factions

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Speaker 4: are there that are helping to work against the mullas?

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Speaker 1: Excellent suggesting getting Mike Lions on to discuss this, if

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Speaker 1: you weren't following. Over the weekend, Israel and Iran exchanged

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Speaker 1: strikes now for four days in a row where Israel

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Speaker 1: hits Iran hard, Iran hits Israel attempts to hit them

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Speaker 1: really hard, but about fifteen percent of the drones and

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Speaker 1: everything missiles do get through and there have been deaths

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Speaker 1: in Tehran for instance, I mean in Tel Aviv in

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Speaker 1: a way that we haven't seen in a long time.

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Speaker 1: True enough, I was going to say exchanging blows like

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Speaker 1: Mike Tyson and my daughter would exchange blows, though proportionately.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we did not need to be prompted. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: wait to talk to Mike Lions military analyst about this. Mike, welcome,

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Speaker 1: always good to talk. What are your initial impressions.

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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, great to be on. Look, this conflict is

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Speaker 5: long time coming. This was something that should have been

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Speaker 5: anticipated for years at this point, and Israel and I

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Speaker 5: was just taken advantage complete and gotten the Iranians out

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Speaker 5: of this gray zone of having proxies fight their war

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Speaker 5: against them. They've all been wiped out. Israel was not

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Speaker 5: going to stand by and watch anybody negotiate a deal

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Speaker 5: with the Iranians that would potentially take away their nuclear capability.

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Speaker 5: They were taking care of us. This starts back in

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Speaker 5: nineteen eighty one when they take out the Iraqi facility

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Speaker 5: in osuric in O seven, when they take out the

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Speaker 5: Syrian capability, and we had the stucksnet with the Americans

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Speaker 5: in the United States going after Scentifugiay. Israel's been at

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Speaker 5: war with Iron since then, and this is a generational

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Speaker 5: moment and I think we've got to take advantage of

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Speaker 5: it in the United States right now. And I understand

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Speaker 5: about America First policy, but it clearly, as the President

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Speaker 5: has now said, this isn't our best interest to make

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Speaker 5: sure the Iranians have nowhere near any kind of nuclear capability.

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Speaker 5: And Israel's just not satisfied with just kicking the can

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Speaker 5: down the road, which everything before this seemed to be

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Speaker 5: driving at.

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Speaker 1: What's your concerns with the forty thousand US Service people

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Speaker 1: we have in the area at like a dozen different bases.

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Speaker 5: Well, the limited capability that Iran has to strike would

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Speaker 5: be more lucky if they hit anything at this point.

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Speaker 5: I think they're you know, there's maybe some fiber attacks,

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Speaker 5: I guess, and you know, the sleeper cells and all

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Speaker 5: those kinds of things, but nothing from a strategic perspective.

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Speaker 5: Right now, you can see what they're launching at Israel

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Speaker 5: has has got tremendous circle era of probable airs. They're

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Speaker 5: not they're not even trying to you know, they can't

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Speaker 5: hit targets that they're like to hit their hitting civilian

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Speaker 5: built up areas and nothing the like. And right now

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Speaker 5: the focus that Israel is doing is going after their

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Speaker 5: capability to do that. So they're gonna They're gonna run

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Speaker 5: an animal pretty soon, run out of capability. And so

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Speaker 5: I'm not concerned, and I'm sure those American forces are

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Speaker 5: on high alert. But if the Iranians were dumb enough

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Speaker 5: now the President's got an open lane to bring in

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Speaker 5: B two bombers and F sixteen's and everything else. That would,

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Speaker 5: the end of this Iranian regime?

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Speaker 1: Mike? To what extent has Israel controlled the air over Iran?

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Speaker 1: And how important is that? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: One hundred percent of air of supremacy now at this point,

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Speaker 5: and look that some of these missiles are going to

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Speaker 5: glib and say commanders expect losses, but the amount of

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Speaker 5: So they're hunting for those missile sites and missile platforms

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Speaker 5: towards hitting those the nuclear facilities there. It's going to

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Speaker 1: So we're not directly involved right now, like like our

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Speaker 1: what I understand, we've got a lot of assets in

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Speaker 1: be ready for this. How how I don't want to

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Speaker 1: use bogged down as overstating, but how how much of

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Speaker 1: our attention is on this And for instance, if putin

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Speaker 1: I mean, how much of our attention is this Iran

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Speaker 1: Israel thing taken? Well, two different.

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Speaker 5: Combat commands, Sentcom is running this one here, so they're

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Speaker 5: you know, well leaning forward, making sure naval assets for example,

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Speaker 5: the Mediterranean, we've we've maintained assets. I think the concern

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Speaker 5: I think that's where there are some risk there. They're

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Speaker 5: going to eventually get desperate, as this regime is going

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Speaker 5: But I don't think the Israelis are going to let

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Speaker 5: stopping until around says we surrender, and they're not. They're

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Speaker 5: no longer looking for diplomatic solutions. And from my perspective,

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Speaker 5: and you have the Israeli's kind of as the bad

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Speaker 1: But that that's.

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Speaker 5: Really you know, this administration has been handed too tremendous

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Speaker 5: this has been a long time coming, and getting this

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Speaker 5: and I'm just glad it's coming because this was just

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Speaker 1: Talking to military analysts, Mike Lyons, Mike, speaking of alliances,

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Speaker 1: have you seen any signs that the I'm sorry for

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Speaker 1: the lighthearted characterization here, but the axes of a holes

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Speaker 1: in Russia, China, anybody rallying to her on support in

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Speaker 5: Way, not in the least and it speats. It's winners

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Speaker 5: and losers, right, I mean, there's side, there's no one

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Speaker 5: proxy defenses have been stripped away. In the past, Israel

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Speaker 5: This is war on war between two countries. I'm watching

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Speaker 5: It's not going to de escalate for a second. This

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Speaker 5: keep going until they find somebody that they can negotiate with.

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Speaker 1: So we played a collar asking the question, you know,

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Speaker 1: like that. Do you think there are people within Iranian

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Speaker 5: And the level of infiltration that MESAD has in the

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Speaker 5: You saw what happened in Uh in Syria, that that

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Speaker 5: is the time to go after the Iranians. They were

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Mike, you've you've partially answered this question. But

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Speaker 1: in the next several days.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to be concerned about civilians inside of

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Speaker 5: I'd like to see again more military targets uh be acquired,

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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. I'm glad they caught the guy

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Speaker 1: in the shooting that story for I suppose good reason

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Speaker 1: led a lot of the Sunday talk shows yesterday when

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Speaker 1: we do have the biggest war in the Middle East

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Speaker 1: in decades going on, which is clearly the lead story

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Speaker 1: for the planet. So getting back to the theme though,

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Speaker 1: of the whole Red versus Blue thing and people being

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Speaker 1: so crazy fired up, I thought this was so interesting.

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Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal Red versus Blue is dividing stock

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Speaker 1: portfolios like never before. Gallup poll this spring showed the

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Speaker 1: Democrats who expected stocks to tumble over the next six

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Speaker 1: months exceeded Republicans who thought the market was going to

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Speaker 1: decline by sixty points. Wow. Republicans expecting stocks to climb

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Speaker 1: over that period top Democrats by forty seven points. That

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Speaker 1: is by enormous, enormous ratios, the biggest such gap ever

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Speaker 1: observed by Wall Street. So that's not like specific I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna invest in Nike because they say black lives matter.

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Speaker 1: That's more of a I think the tariffs are going

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Speaker 1: to be so damaging I'm getting out as opposed to

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Speaker 1: I trust my sides thinking on this. That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Trump in general and tariffs and all the rest of it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be so disastrous we need to sell everything.

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Speaker 1: Or no, I think it'll go fine. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: invest in the market. It could say, the more I

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Speaker 1: think about it, I mean, I'm just I'm talking off

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Speaker 1: the top of my head. You could say one side's

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Speaker 1: more emotional and reacts quickly to big headlines, and the

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Speaker 1: other side is more steady as she goes, you know,

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Speaker 1: hold and wait. I think that's probably true as a personality. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely a factor in this. The party

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Speaker 1: affiliations of Americans have long shaped how they feel about

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Speaker 1: the economy or the price of eggs or milk at

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Speaker 1: the grocery stores. People give lower marks when their party

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Speaker 1: is out of power, of course, but the forty seven

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Speaker 1: point gap in part is an optimism is the largest

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Speaker 1: divide ever. For instance, during they just started measuring this.

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Speaker 1: In one that year, during George W. Bush's presidency, the

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Speaker 1: optimism gap between Republicans and Democrats was thirteen percent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's another thing that was now forty seven. It's another

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Speaker 1: thing we've just started measuring. Because you had, Nobody would

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Speaker 1: think of it. Prior to that, things weren't so flip

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Speaker 1: and political that you would look at I wonder how

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Speaker 1: democrats invest in the stock market versus Republican We didn't

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Speaker 1: make everything about this back then, right, Well, yeah, every

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Speaker 1: time he got to the end of year study, it'd

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Speaker 1: be like, well, the difference is really subtle and insignificant. Again, sir,

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Speaker 1: are you sure you want me to do this again

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Speaker 1: next year? Right? Ah? Bah blah blah blah blah. Where's

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Speaker 1: the part I wanted to get to. They make the

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Speaker 1: point that is, it's utterly disastrous to invest and sell

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Speaker 1: off emotionally like this. No way, she told me that's

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Speaker 1: not a good idea. All right, I know, it's just

484
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Speaker 1: but like disastrously bad ideas in terms of your ultimate return.

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Speaker 1: Where's that? Well, I just paraphrased it this close enough.

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Speaker 1: It's a horrible, horrible idea. Then, finally, on this note,

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Speaker 1: Beckett Adams with a really good piece of National Review

488
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Speaker 1: talking about how and we didn't talk much about this,

489
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Speaker 1: it's so Beltway self obsessed. But Trump showing up to

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Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center for the big opening night of the

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Speaker 1: season and Les miz and a bunch of cast members boycotted,

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Speaker 1: and there were cheers and booze as he walked into

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Speaker 1: the box with Milania. And according to the Peter Baker,

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Speaker 1: chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, for

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Speaker 1: those of us born and raised in Washington, the Kennedy

496
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Speaker 1: Center was always a place to escape politics. And Joy,

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Speaker 1: I can't let you get through the sentence. Give me

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Speaker 1: a freaking break. Do you want how many things I've

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Speaker 1: watched on PBS from the Kennedy Center where they give

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Speaker 1: some award to somebody as they give these lefty speeches

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Speaker 1: in the crowds fans and jeers in my lifetime, Give

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Speaker 1: me a freaking break. Continuing on, after my voluble partner

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Speaker 1: has done with his screed, Now I'm i gotta go

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Speaker 1: sell a bunch of stock. Now it's been turned on

505
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Speaker 1: bad idea. Oh idiot, that's a bad idea. Now it's

506
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Speaker 1: been turned into just one more venue for the polarization

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Speaker 1: of the current era, writes Peter Baker, with a tear

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Speaker 1: poised on the edge.

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Speaker 4: Of Oh it fell his dear fell down his.

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Speaker 1: Cheek Live team coverage, and Beckett makes the point many

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Speaker 1: of us on the right have been pleading, begging for

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Speaker 1: the politically obsessed to spare a few areas of modern life,

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Speaker 1: just one or two from the never ending politics.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So I guess in his mind he watched the Oscars

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Speaker 1: all those years and thought, it's nice to have a

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Speaker 1: non political awards show while we got lectured constantly. Right,

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Speaker 1: those of us who learned in early childhood how to

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Speaker 1: separate the art from the artists, that prayed for those

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Speaker 1: fixated on the life political to just once or maybe

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Speaker 1: twice take a break so the rest of us may

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Speaker 1: enjoy our entertainment and edification and relative peace. The political

523
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Speaker 1: elite responded with a resounding gleeful no. Over the past

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Speaker 1: twenty years, everything from knitting to birding, and he gives

525
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Speaker 1: examples to the Bachelorourette, have been swallowed up by the

526
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Speaker 1: insatiable monster, birthed then nursed to maturity by partisan psychotics.

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Speaker 1: Lady Gaga was condemned in twenty seventeen for not incorporating

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Speaker 1: an overtly anti Trump message into her Super Bowl performance.

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Speaker 1: The actress Sidney sweety us you did a defensive statement

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, rallying to her family support

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Speaker 1: after critics attacked them for showing up to her mother's

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Speaker 1: birthday party in magas style hats that read make sixty

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Speaker 1: great Again. The phrase Taylor Swift silence is deafening, which

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Speaker 1: arose from the songwriter's previous for life tends to weigh

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Speaker 1: in a hot button isshes is now a trope because

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Speaker 1: the act of bullying artists into supporting political causes has

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Speaker 1: become so predictable, And now Trump just shows up to

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Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center and oh, the right is politicizing entertainment

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Speaker 1: and what's next sports? Oh my lord, that pretty gough,

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Speaker 1: said Peter Baker. Are you are delusional?

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Speaker 2: Sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to explain to you why electric cars are

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Speaker 1: never going to catch on after my weekend, uh, at

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Speaker 1: least unless things change a lot with electric cars. Of course,

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Speaker 1: most of you knew that and don't buy an electric

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Speaker 1: car and hate the idea, so I don't need to

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Speaker 1: convince you. But among other things, we got to talk

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Speaker 1: about some developments. We've moved another giant aircraft carrier. It

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Speaker 1: looks like we're headed toward the Middle East to be ready,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking to Mike Glines about that earlier this hour.

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Speaker 1: How much of our attention is being taken by this

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Speaker 1: whole thing in the Middle East. Trump said a very

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Speaker 1: interesting thing to the Atlantic for the crowd in his

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Speaker 1: movement that Finks were supposed to be non interventionist, which

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Speaker 1: I really really liked. We'll get to that at some

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Speaker 1: point too. We do a lot of stuff. I hope

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Speaker 1: you can stick around.

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Speaker 3: ARMSTRAWI, an Italian museum, is calling for visitors to respect

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Speaker 3: art after a jeweled chair reached its breaking point, the

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Speaker 3: crystal covered seat collapsing after a man sat on it

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Speaker 3: out of Verna gallery. He and a companion then walking out.

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Speaker 3: Police still searching for the pair. The chair thankfully has

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Speaker 3: been fixed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an art display in the I thought

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Speaker 1: it was just a regular chair. And he sat down

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Speaker 1: on his wife like grabs his armor a and it breaks,

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Speaker 1: and he's a man of larger carriage. Also, it's an

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Speaker 1: embarrassing video.

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Speaker 3: You're making this seem like you're making it seem like

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Speaker 3: it was an accident, like he didn't know that the

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Speaker 3: chair was a piece of art.

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Speaker 1: You think, Oh, no, I think he was posing. I

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Speaker 1: watched the video. I thought he was posing for some

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Speaker 1: sort of funny Instagram pick, but lost his balance and

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Speaker 1: crushed it. Oh okay, yeah, okay, well that's not cool

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Speaker 1: neither people in their selfies. People in their selfies, Joe,

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Speaker 1: of course you're gonna build a bejeweled chair. Ought to

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Speaker 1: be able to support your average fat tourist. So electric

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Speaker 1: cars are never going to catch on unless they haven't.

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Speaker 1: And it's going the other direction. And now that Trump

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Speaker 1: has done away with the various mandates and tax breaks,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's really without the tax breaks. How many

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Speaker 1: people would have not purchased an electric vehicle if you

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Speaker 1: hadn't gotten the big tax break. I mean, it would

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Speaker 1: be it's a tiny dentis that it would even being

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Speaker 1: a tinier dent. But I, stupidly, and I can't believe

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Speaker 1: I did this. Chose to drive my cyber truck to

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Speaker 1: drop off my son at boy Scout Camp in Long

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Speaker 1: Beach over the weekend, and by doing that turns a

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Speaker 1: six hour drive in a gas powered car. If I

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Speaker 1: had driven my Ford F two to fifty diesel with

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Speaker 1: a thirty gallon tank, I could have driven all the

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Speaker 1: way to Los Angeles, dropped him off, and driven one

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Speaker 1: hundred miles back before I ever needed to stop for fuel.

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Speaker 1: In the Tesla cyber truck. You got to stop every

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty miles to charge, which takes you

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Speaker 1: half hour to forty five minutes to an hour, depending

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Speaker 1: on the charger and how many people are there, because

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Speaker 1: if there's a whole bunch of people there, it charges

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Speaker 1: really really slow. And I turned a six hour drive

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Speaker 1: into an eight hour drive each way, so instead of

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Speaker 1: twelve hours of driving, I did sixteen hours of driving.

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Speaker 1: Because I care about the planet so much and drove

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Speaker 1: an electric vehicle. It is never going to work. And

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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about buy an electric vehicle, everyone should

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Speaker 1: know this. Those are such exaggerations, you know, how about

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Speaker 1: what you buy a vehicle and it says on the

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Speaker 1: window it gets thirty five miles per gallon, but you

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Speaker 1: never quite get that because they exagger With electric vehicles,

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Speaker 1: it's like double you have to cut everything in half.

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Speaker 1: So if it says you got three hundred miles of range,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go one hundred and fifty miles before you

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Speaker 1: need to charge back up again. So it's completely misleading

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Speaker 1: to people and it just doesn't work. It's so amazingly

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Speaker 1: impractical that I can't believe Places like the state of

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Speaker 1: California have been pushing the idea that we're all going

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Speaker 1: to drive electric fields. Oh yeah, have you done it?

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Speaker 1: You know, I've sent myself for an article. I can't

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Speaker 1: find it. But the CEO of Toyota, I think it was,

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Speaker 1: just said, Hey, look throughout its lifetime, an electric vehicle

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Speaker 1: produces triple the pollution of a hybrid for instance. That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Stop it with this and I'm sure I can dig

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Speaker 1: it up again. Pollution being mean what the energy it

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Speaker 1: takes to make the electricity or top to bottom soup

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Speaker 1: to nuts as they say. I don't like that term.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. Yeah, not favor. Get your head

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Speaker 1: out of the gutter. That's just an old timey meal reference.

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Speaker 1: Hat to nuts. It's the whole thing, soup to nuts.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, what was I gonna say? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: just from the beginning of the production process to the

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Speaker 1: end of the vehicle's useful life, it will produce triple

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Speaker 1: the pollution is a hybrid, for instance, such a pain

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Speaker 1: in the ass. Every hour and a half you have

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Speaker 1: to find a station, pull in, sit there for an

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Speaker 1: hour before you get back on the road. People don't

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Speaker 1: want to do that. It sucks. Armstrong and Getty