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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, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to talk about Mother's Day yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I had a little exchange yesterday which made me realize

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Speaker 3: different people have different views of what Mother's Day should be,

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Speaker 3: how it should be celebrated or honored.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know. You know, you have a tendency to.

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Speaker 3: Think that the way you see things is the way

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Speaker 3: most people see them until you meet evidence to the contrary.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'm off base, and we'll throw that out to

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Speaker 3: you the listener later. Did you want to break from

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Speaker 3: your kids on Mother's Day or did you want to

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Speaker 3: spend time with your kids on Mother's Day?

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Speaker 2: It seems to be quite the diverging opinion on that

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Speaker 2: to me.

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Speaker 3: There are six to seven major news stories happening right

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Speaker 3: now with developments on like an hourly basis, which is

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Speaker 3: really quite extraordinary to me. Among the biggest things that

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Speaker 3: happened over the weekend was President she sitting next there

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Speaker 3: next to Vladimir Putin in Moscow watching the giant military

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Speaker 3: parade with tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers marching in

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Speaker 3: front of them there in Red Square to show the

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Speaker 3: solidarity between the Kami Chinese and the Kami slash Dictator Putin,

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Speaker 3: along with North Korea and all the other bad players

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Speaker 3: in the world. That is a frightening situation. Here's Martha

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Speaker 3: Rattot's reporting on it yesterday on ABC this week.

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Speaker 4: It was a massive display of military muscle. More than

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Speaker 4: eleven thousand Russian and foreign troops marching across Moscow's Red Square,

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Speaker 4: all under the gaze of Vladimir Putin and his special guest,

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Speaker 4: China's president. She tanks, artillery and missiles rolling before them,

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Speaker 4: and fighter jets soaring above. There are troops from all

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Speaker 4: over the world here in Red Square today, but the

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Speaker 4: largest contingent of foreign troops from.

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Speaker 3: China, the biggest chunk of the foreign troops from freaking

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Speaker 3: China sentem a top the Moscow so they could march

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Speaker 3: in the parade. And then this weirdness which escaped most people.

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Speaker 3: I think Vladimir giving some sort of speech where.

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Speaker 2: He completely rewar wrote.

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Speaker 3: History to credit the Chinese for taking the lead in

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Speaker 3: turning back Japan in World War two and winning that front,

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Speaker 3: just a completely made up where did that come from?

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Speaker 2: Different view of away World War two ended. So now

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Speaker 2: it was it.

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Speaker 3: Was Russia stopping the Nazis and it was China's stopping

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Speaker 3: the imperial Japanese.

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Speaker 2: That's the way Putin presented it to the cheering crowd.

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Speaker 5: It's so interesting to watch everything orwell tried to teach us,

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Speaker 5: just being played out. It is so important to own history.

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Speaker 5: He who owns the past owns the present. He owns

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Speaker 5: the present, owns the future.

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Speaker 3: And I always go back to that caught on Mike

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Speaker 3: or on purpose exchange between she and Putin last couple

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Speaker 3: of years, where she said to Putin the world is

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Speaker 3: about to.

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Speaker 2: Change, and we're going to drive those changes.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he believes they believe they can end this

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Speaker 3: whole US, Western Europe led global order thing and turn

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Speaker 3: the world around and be in.

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Speaker 5: Charge a totalitarian poll, if you will, in a bipolar world.

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Speaker 2: Here's a little more from that, Martha raddits report.

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Speaker 4: Russian officials will not talk about the number of Russian

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Speaker 4: soldiers who have been killed in this war. By some estimates,

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Speaker 4: some two hundred thousand Russian soldiers have been killed fighting

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Speaker 4: in Ukraine, numbers the Russians denied.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the lower estimates are two hundred thousand dead. We

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Speaker 3: lost seventy thousand in Vietnam over between sixty and seventy five,

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Speaker 3: a long.

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Speaker 2: Period of time.

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Speaker 3: We still talk about it. It wrecked our politics for decades.

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Speaker 3: We have a giant memorial toward it. They've lost three

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Speaker 3: to maybe four or five times that many, depending on

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Speaker 3: whose numbers you use, in three years, and many.

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Speaker 5: More than that, grievously injured and removed from the battlefield.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and just an astounding development there, and that

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Speaker 3: parade was just, Oh, it's disturbing.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 5: As we're discussing last week, it's a very very different

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Speaker 5: culture Russia. They venerate dying in battle and being a

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Speaker 5: martyr for the cause, and family is drenched in honor

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Speaker 5: if you lost somebody. And actually they're they're working very

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Speaker 5: hard to bring veterans back from the front and give

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Speaker 5: them cushy government jobs, get them in the legislatures, that

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Speaker 5: futility of a lot of their service could embitter them

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Speaker 2: They say in the stability business.

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Speaker 3: So Putin said he will not agree to a cease

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Speaker 3: fire unless they have a meeting. So Trump tried to

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Speaker 3: do a little Judo on that and say, okay, fine,

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Speaker 3: there's a meeting Thursday. Is dumbled Turkey. Zelensky immediately jumped

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Speaker 3: So Zelensky says he's going to be in Turkey and

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Speaker 3: is dumbul sitting at a boardroom table waiting for your putting.

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Speaker 2: The show up on Thursday. We'll see how it plays out.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, Zelensky said, look, there's no peace talks without

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Speaker 5: a truce. We got to stop kill on each other

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Speaker 5: before we talk. And uh and uh. Putin said no, now,

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Speaker 5: let's just get together and talk. Trump said yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: we gotta have talked before seas fire apparently, And so

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Speaker 5: Zelenski said, okay, that's great. I'll be in Turkey on Thursday.

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Speaker 5: Show up either I'm ready. So, uh, how this ends

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Speaker 5: nobody knows and how Trump interprets it and and how

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Speaker 5: he adjusts his policies because of it.

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Speaker 2: So you think.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why he I feel like he could

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Speaker 3: easily and understandably provoke Zelenski into uh an emotional outburst

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Speaker 3: that makes it look like, you know, so Putin can play. Look,

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Speaker 3: he's he's he's too he's too angry, he hates me

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Speaker 3: too much, he's too too much of a Nazi. Oh

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Speaker 3: that's the other thing they kept going on and on

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Speaker 3: about at the big celebration over the weekend was how

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Speaker 3: they're continuing to fight the Nazis, indeed, not sifying Ukraine

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Speaker 3: after having beaten the Nazis in World War Two?

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Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: Just he was to show you how idiotic the narrative,

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Speaker 5: the rhetoric can be around this sort of thing. Are

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Speaker 5: there some far rightists in Ukraine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah there are.

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Speaker 3: So, Well it's going to be interesting to see. So

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Speaker 3: you don't think it's going to happen the meeting. So

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Speaker 3: if the meeting doesn't happen on Thursday, what's the next step?

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Speaker 3: Trump and JD have both made it pretty clear. I

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Speaker 3: think that, Look, this is like your last chance, Putin

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Speaker 3: to show you have any interest in trying to negotiate

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Speaker 3: a peace. And that's why the European leaders got together

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Speaker 3: show up and shows no interest. There are gonna be

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Speaker 3: some hardcore sanctions coming toward Russia like this next weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, Putin has only made the most pathetic and inadequate

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Speaker 5: of gestures toward peace because he's not interested in peace.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't want to stop the killing. He wants to

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Speaker 5: keep killing and keep acquiring land. So no, I think

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Speaker 5: the sit down with Zelensky would expose him. He would

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Speaker 5: feel like he was maneuvered into that, and Putin doesn't

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Speaker 5: do Oh, I just got maneuvered.

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't do that.

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Speaker 3: Well. I think Trump and the European leaders are serious

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Speaker 3: about these sanctions and everything, so that'll be interesting to

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Speaker 3: see how that plays out. I want to get into

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Speaker 2: Run your game. So have you, Joe seen the.

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Speaker 3: with the leader of Germany and England and Poland.

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Speaker 2: They sit down at a little table in a train.

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Speaker 2: I think it is unexpectedly came in.

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Speaker 3: Somebody left a baggy of cocaine on the table and

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Speaker 2: Coke spoon too, right, Yeah, and I didn't see the

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Speaker 3: They say it's a spoon. Um, he grabs a little

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Speaker 3: baggy of white powder and I'll.

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Speaker 2: Just I'll read the retweeting of this.

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Speaker 3: This is from some doctor guy who's fairly well respected.

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Speaker 3: Guy's got over a million followers on Twitter who tweeted

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Speaker 3: this version of it out developing Macron's starmer and Mertz

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Speaker 3: Mertz hides the spoon. No explanation given Zolensky, known cocaine enthusiast,

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Speaker 3: had just hosted them connected the dots. I thought it

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Speaker 3: little herky jerky AI look that stuff has. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: to see that. But the number of people that responded

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, it's real.

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Speaker 5: A post truth world, man, we are, it's through the

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Speaker 5: looking glass. Yeah, yeah, I'm macronin Merits and Zelensky. You

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Speaker 5: are all coke monkeys.

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Speaker 2: That's right. That's why they're getting together, right to do

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Speaker 2: a little blow.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's why they get together with Zelensky was because

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Speaker 3: it's about their personal cocaine use.

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Speaker 2: I mean that just seems like such a ridiculous premise.

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Speaker 5: Yes, but if you're primed to believe that and desperate's

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Speaker 5: the wrong, enthusiastic about believing anything negative. You here because

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Speaker 5: Russian propaganda, which is highly skilled, it's like it's interesting.

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Speaker 5: A engineer buddy of mine, we've discussed at for length

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Speaker 5: the fact that Russia is technically very very adept in

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Speaker 5: the sciences, you know, the cosmonauts blah blah blah, but

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Speaker 5: they can't manufacture. They just, for whatever reason, they've never

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Speaker 5: been able to become a manufacturing power.

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Speaker 2: They are very, very very.

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Speaker 5: Good at propaganda, at psyops, how to design it, how

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Speaker 5: to seduce people, what constituencies within a country are most

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Speaker 5: They're very skilled at that, and they've found some pretty

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Speaker 5: eager ears in the West.

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Speaker 3: So this particular doctor with a million followers that retweeted

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Speaker 5: The twist shows the benefits and pitfalls of a fast

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Speaker 5: with various pungee sticks and flamethrowers, et cetera. About two

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Speaker 5: The insure offers a range of services, including bail and

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Speaker 3: I hope this is the last gasp then that pushes

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Speaker 2: We've gotta fix that. It just has to happen.

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Speaker 5: I feel about tort reform like I feel about losing

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Speaker 5: And I don't mean to sound like a quitter that

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Speaker 5: Touch on it and I ignore it. Sounds good to me,

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Speaker 7: I welcome that message completely because finally someone is actually

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Speaker 3: Thank god, sixty Minutes did this story last night, even

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Speaker 2: I was yelling out loud a couple of times. Thank God.

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Speaker 3: He's got the whooping cough, freaking whooping cough, which I'll

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Speaker 2: I don't want it.

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Speaker 3: But this story about fraud on sixty minutes, which we're

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Speaker 2: Coming up. I want to bring my whole self to work.

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Speaker 5: Has turned to the beatings will continue until the morale improves.

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Speaker 5: And boy, that didn't take long. Stay tuned for that.

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Speaker 5: But getting back to sixty minutes, I think I know

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Speaker 2: Tell you this.

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Speaker 5: They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant

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Speaker 5: Then a great story on unbelievable scientific advancements dealing with

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Speaker 2: With no very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: There, Michael, is this woman who has been screaming about

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Speaker 7: I believe the government is losing between five hundred and

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Speaker 3: A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a

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Speaker 5: I don't want to steal her thunder, but a lot

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Speaker 5: not a priority. Yeah, you bust your ass to pay

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Speaker 3: Not really, this is a both party problem too, I mean,

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Speaker 8: When most people think of government fraud, I imagine they're thinking,

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Speaker 3: So when COVID happened, and they were throwing around trillions

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Speaker 2: This well, this next little clip from her will make

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Speaker 9: In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog

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Speaker 7: We could tell right away, its like, oh, well, that's

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Speaker 2: You saw it coming.

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Speaker 2: Still in favor of tax increases? Are you let that

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Speaker 3: It's like they threw money up in the air and

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Speaker 3: with lefties? I do not understand the whole. I care

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Speaker 2: I believe this in my heart. There is a huge motivator.

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Speaker 2: Let me structure the sense like this.

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Speaker 5: Self congratulations may be the most important factor in good

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about we need to help the downtrodden. Let's

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Speaker 5: We have to have programs and plays, blah blah blah,

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Speaker 5: looking for, they don't bother with any follow up. They

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Speaker 5: don't care about any follow up. In fact, follow up

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Speaker 5: my god, there's waste, fraud and abuse in this program.

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Speaker 5: Holy cow. We got to roll up our sleeves, take

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Speaker 2: Because this is bad. No that kills their buzz.

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Speaker 5: God.

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Speaker 3: We always talk about the spending is the point because

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Speaker 3: Biden families or whatever. It's saying, hey, hey, hey, that

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Speaker 3: million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed

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Speaker 3: to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.

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Speaker 2: They're not drag of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't say that out loud, but

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Speaker 5: you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists, although they would.

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Speaker 2: Be caught in their own web.

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Speaker 5: I think so they can't a little more from Linda Miller,

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Speaker 5: righteous speaker of truth.

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Speaker 7: The most egregious part is that a lot of the

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Speaker 7: people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.

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Speaker 2: So who are they?

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Speaker 7: Who are you talking about We're talking about China, We're

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Speaker 7: talking about Russia, impersonating Americans in a lot of cases.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 5: We are enriching Shesi in Pang and vlad Putin and

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Speaker 5: his gutons and oligarchs even as we're opposing them.

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Speaker 2: This FBI guy roll on.

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Speaker 10: These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century

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Speaker 10: that are built off of having safe haven stass meaning

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Speaker 10: their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even

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Speaker 10: if it's illegal.

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Speaker 2: And then get a cut, the government's get a cut.

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Speaker 3: And then this I find this particularly fantastic because we.

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Speaker 2: All if we hold on, sorry about the ball.

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Speaker 3: If we have to give our social security number, we

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Speaker 3: look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we

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Speaker 3: have to kid into a pin we put our hand

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Speaker 3: over the pin pad so nobody possibly sees our social

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Speaker 3: security because the most important thing, you know, so make

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Speaker 3: sure nobody gets a hold of your social Security number.

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Speaker 2: That's from sixty minutes.

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Speaker 9: Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division. He says,

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Speaker 9: these digital gangs are armed with a very important weapon.

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Speaker 9: Is it true that the social security number of just

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Speaker 9: about every single American is available for sale on.

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Speaker 2: The dark web? That is a truth tape.

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Speaker 10: All of our person identifiable information named data, birth, former addresses,

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Speaker 10: social security number is available in the dark net and

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Speaker 10: can likely be purchased.

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Speaker 2: That's chilling.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's very much a way of our lives so

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Speaker 10: right now and purchased.

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Speaker 2: I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,

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Speaker 2: very affordable. What the hell?

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Speaker 5: If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or

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Speaker 5: more likely has been hacked.

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Speaker 2: What the hell?

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Speaker 3: And they had an example of an old couple and

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Speaker 3: who lost their home in the Palisades area of Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles and went to apply for their FEMA money, and

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Speaker 3: somebody had already grabbed it using their address, name, social

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Speaker 3: security number, all their data had already grabbed their money,

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Speaker 3: so they grabbed their money. Now they're going through the

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten that

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Speaker 3: out and get the money that they're owed by these

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Speaker 3: various programs that we support because some you know, Chinese, Russian,

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Speaker 3: whoever actors stole it.

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't mean to drive everybody to murderous rage.

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Speaker 5: But what's especially frustrating about all of this and all

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Speaker 5: of these dollar figures is that, remember, you got to

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Speaker 5: tack on interest because we're borrowing that money.

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Speaker 2: We didn't have it. It wasn't in our wallets. We've

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Speaker 2: got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,

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Speaker 2: one more clippon, then we'll fill in some dots on

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Speaker 2: this story.

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Speaker 9: Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital

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Speaker 9: fraud cases in US history, in which cyber criminals from

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Speaker 9: around the world use stolen identities to pocket six billion

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Speaker 9: dollars in pandemic unemployment funds.

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Speaker 10: Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.

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Speaker 2: Why is the government a target for this type of.

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Speaker 10: Fraud because of the massive amount of money that exists

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Speaker 10: in the federal government and in the state government, and.

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Speaker 5: The utter lack of interest in protecting it in a

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Speaker 5: significant way, especially if it gets in the way of

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Speaker 5: handing out scads of money and thereby winning votes.

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Speaker 3: So, just so you have this takeaway, this Linda Miller

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Speaker 3: person who's been doing this for her career and is

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Speaker 3: so frustrated that nobody's been paying any attention, says, we're

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Speaker 3: approaching three quarters of a trillion per year that gets stolen,

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Speaker 3: mostly by foreign countries, and just from the COVID relief money.

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Speaker 3: When that was just flying around, like she said, it's

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Speaker 3: like they threw it up in the air and anybody

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Speaker 3: could run and grab it, she says, is probably about

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Speaker 3: a trillion of it was stolen, a trillion dollars, and

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Speaker 3: as the FBI guy said, we're never going to get

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Speaker 3: it back. There's no recovering this money, a trillion dollars.

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Speaker 5: If we had a king, the prisons would be full

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Speaker 5: of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen monarchy now.

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Speaker 2: Story, let's just call it good.

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Speaker 3: How's this not like a big enough story for an

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Speaker 3: entire party to emerge around.

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Speaker 5: I just think the other side of the coin is

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Speaker 5: so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're going

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Speaker 5: to give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,

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Speaker 5: that guy.

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Speaker 3: Said, he do you stuff my media nitpicking just to

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Speaker 3: get it out of my system?

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Speaker 2: Is that.

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Speaker 3: Cecilia Vega woman right at the very beginning of the

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Speaker 3: story had to throw in Elon Musk over states how

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Speaker 3: much waste there is, doesn't he and the woman said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he does. So they had to throw out this red

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Speaker 3: herring for their lefty viewer. Elon Musk isn't for the

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Speaker 3: We're not saying he's perfect or everything.

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Speaker 2: He did was good.

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Speaker 3: Before we get to the biggest story you're gonna hear

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Speaker 3: this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from the

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Speaker 3: gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.

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Speaker 3: Nice red herring, you had to throw in there for

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Speaker 3: some reason to satisfy your.

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Speaker 2: Lefty view I mean, what the hell was that that

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Speaker 2: makes me so angry.

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Speaker 5: I wonder if they like edited the story together and

556
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Speaker 5: somebody said, hey, this really comes off as supporting road

557
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Speaker 5: and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. We probably ought to

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Speaker 5: throw in something for our soft headed again self congratulate

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Speaker 5: Tory dumb ass viewers.

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Speaker 2: That was uncharitable, and I apologize for it. That's what

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Speaker 2: it was I got.

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Speaker 3: I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in

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Speaker 3: the crosswalk in my university town.

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Speaker 2: I was in my cyberbeast. She's walking in front of me,

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Speaker 2: and she looks at me and she gives me the

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Speaker 2: two thumbs down as she walks across. No disapproval.

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Speaker 3: This privileged college girl at an expensive university in an

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Speaker 3: expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what Minutes had to do. They had

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Speaker 2: to throw in a little Elon's not perfect.

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Speaker 3: But now back to a very very big important story

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Speaker 3: that everybody should know.

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Speaker 2: A trillion dollars got stolen, right right.

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Speaker 5: I like how they sand I'm sorry, I'm hung up

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Speaker 5: on the cars. I like how the same people who

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Speaker 5: are keying SUVs five years ago are now keying electric vehicles.

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Speaker 5: Just the important part is they're an angry activist and

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Speaker 5: a revolutionary and they're gonna fight the power, and it'll

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Speaker 5: be a different power, completely opposite in.

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Speaker 2: Five more years. Because all I want to do is

581
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Speaker 2: be angry and self francious. I can't think I'm stupid.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to roll down my window and say, you know,

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Speaker 3: I have no opinion on what you drive your whole life.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you drive, doesn't make any difference to me whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, honest, fine, make you right, I tell you what.

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Speaker 5: All right, here's a little, uh, here's a little I

587
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Speaker 5: had a slice of key lime pie last night, and

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00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 5: I love key lime pie.

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Speaker 2: Here's a little dessert for you. Michael. We're gonna go

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Speaker 2: up to the uh, the rando section. Oh, this is

591
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Speaker 2: this is great.

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Speaker 5: Here is a dad who does a great Joe Biden

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Speaker 5: and he's he's literally working on the meat on the grill.

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Speaker 5: This is a clip fifteen Michael and his daughter comes

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Speaker 5: up to him and says.

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Speaker 2: He does do an impression of Joe Biden. Explaining the

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Speaker 2: plot to Star Wars.

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Speaker 11: So there's a there's a galic galaxy Kirk on the

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Speaker 11: side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,

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Speaker 11: back back back when I I was working full time. Anyway,

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Speaker 11: I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter long

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Speaker 11: far far away. It was galaxy and there were robots.

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Speaker 11: The robots, they were not the droids. You were really

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Speaker 11: good for me.

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Speaker 2: Come on, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Boy.

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Speaker 5: So the whole bringing your whole south to work is

608
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Speaker 5: turned into shut up and get to work.

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Speaker 2: In the blink of an eye. That story next.

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Speaker 1: He yetie classes that years ago were pushed to the

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Speaker 1: side in favor of coursework, prioritizing test scores and stem

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Speaker 1: now seen as a huge opportunity. According to one survey,

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Speaker 1: sixty six percent of all high schools now off for

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Speaker 1: career education, and it's being driven by economic demand. I

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Speaker 1: have construction companies and I have other employers coming to

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Speaker 1: me wanting students right out of high school to be

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Speaker 1: career ready.

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Speaker 2: We need employees.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a story last week about kids being

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Speaker 5: recruited straight out of high school for like, you know,

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Speaker 5: seventy five thousand dollars a year jobs in welding and

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Speaker 5: that sort of thing. Interesting how that's turned culturally, speaking

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Speaker 5: of which, you know, it's it's partly the change, the

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Speaker 5: amount of change.

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Speaker 2: It's making everybody crazy these days. It's also the pace

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Speaker 2: of change.

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Speaker 5: Like I remember, it wasn't very long ago that we

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Speaker 5: were telling the youngsters who were like bringing their whole

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Speaker 5: selves to work and taking spirit days and the rest

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Speaker 5: of it. I mean, because it seemed like employees had

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Speaker 5: all the power and.

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Speaker 3: There was that employees get to it Monday and I'll

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Speaker 3: work half a day Tuesday and take Fridays off.

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Speaker 2: I demand fury.

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Speaker 5: Past two on Friday. Yeah, and we're trying to tell you,

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Speaker 5: trust us, this will not last. Well, it has not,

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Speaker 5: not long ago. Everybody's replaceable. As the headline the story

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Speaker 5: the new way bosses talk about workers not long ago,

639
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Speaker 5: bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset.

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Speaker 2: Today with a giant.

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Speaker 5: Question mark hanging over the economy less today after the

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Speaker 5: temporary maybe you trade deal with China, But executives are

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Speaker 5: pulling punches, pulling no punches and saying employees need to

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Speaker 5: work harder, complain lesson, be glad they.

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Speaker 2: Have a job.

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Speaker 5: How work life balance is your problem, said Emma is

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Speaker 5: it's greed or Gridae or something. Emma Greed is not

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Speaker 5: a good name for this article, but she's the co

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Speaker 5: founder of the Skims shapewear company.

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Speaker 3: I should ask my dad how many times in employers

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Speaker 3: seemed concerned about his work life balance when he was

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Speaker 3: a young man out there starting his.

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Speaker 5: Work life balance is your problem, she said. Starbucks, after

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Speaker 5: cutting in more than a thousand jobs, there's a new CEO,

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Speaker 5: Brian Nichols said, remaining corporate staff need to step it

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Speaker 5: up her own and own whether or not this place grows.

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Speaker 5: Jamie Diamond, in a profanity laced internal meeting, told employees

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Speaker 5: lamenting a return to work mandate that he didn't care.

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Speaker 5: I've had it with this kind of stuff. I've been

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Speaker 5: working seven days a week since COVID.

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Speaker 2: I come in. Where is everybody else? Man?

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Speaker 3: If you can concern yourself with work life balance, you

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Speaker 3: should consider yourself among the more privileged workers in the

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Speaker 3: history of work on planets Earth. If it is even

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Speaker 3: an option, that means you've got shelter and enough food,

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Speaker 3: and you can start to decide, you know how much

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Speaker 3: do I need?

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Speaker 2: Right right?

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Speaker 5: And that's not to say it's a bad idea or

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Speaker 5: you shouldn't. You just have to keep it in perspective.

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Speaker 5: The shift in tone marks a shift in power. Now

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Speaker 5: the companies are shrinking their white collar staff with jobs

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Speaker 5: harder to find, many workers are seeing pricks disappear and

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Speaker 5: their grievance is ignored, or.

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Speaker 3: That if you don't have the luxury of being concerned

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Speaker 3: about work life balance, that you're somehow unique in the

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Speaker 3: history of working.

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Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, Oh, let's see again.

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Speaker 3: How many of our parents ever had the ever had

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Speaker 3: it crossed their mind?

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Speaker 5: And and interestingly, they mentioned a twenty twenty three episode

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Speaker 5: where this one company told staffers leave pitty City. Well,

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Speaker 5: that comment, made in a video call, immediately went viral,

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Speaker 5: sparking days of headlines and worker backlash. The CEO quickly

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Speaker 5: apologized set her comments were insensitive.

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Speaker 2: Now it's like they're all saying it. Wow, huh. See

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Speaker 2: how long this lasts?

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