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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 Jack Katie and He Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: Dinfigure skating the USA gliding to gold in the team event,

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Speaker 3: tied with the Japanese team going into the final skate.

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Speaker 3: It was all up to the US's superstar Ilia Malanin,

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Speaker 3: known as the quad God and the only skater to

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Speaker 3: have ever landed a quadruple axle in international competition. And

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Speaker 3: if you're wondering how does Ilia do it, well, he

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Speaker 3: told us that before every skate he eats chocolate, all right.

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Speaker 2: So it's basically tied with japan. Quad God's first Olympic

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Speaker 2: performance is going to make the difference in whether or

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Speaker 2: not we win the team gold medal or not. He

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Speaker 2: goes out there, nobody's ever landed a he does six

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Speaker 2: or seven. There seems to be some difference. But six or.

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Speaker 1: Seven of those, oh many quads and a backflip which.

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Speaker 2: He lands on one foot, which nobody'd ever done before.

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Speaker 2: Used to be illegal for one thing, But aren't very

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Speaker 2: many people that can do it legal or not? Just

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Speaker 2: like it's too bad that it happened after the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: when I think a lot of people were sported out

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Speaker 2: because it's one of the most amazing performances in Winter

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Speaker 2: Olympics history and just really really something. I can't even

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Speaker 2: imagine how you skate and do a backflip and land

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Speaker 2: on want to skate and skate off. It's just amazing.

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Speaker 2: But you know this is.

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Speaker 1: I honestly am not trying to be controversial or or

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Speaker 1: certainly bash anybody, because I love everybody. The consistency which

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Speaker 1: with the male's figure skaters appeared to be fellows who said,

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Speaker 1: I'm an effeminate gay man a spectacular athlete, right, I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: mind bogglingly skillful athlete.

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Speaker 2: What shall I do? Right?

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Speaker 1: I go to figure skating because it's like incredibly athletic dancing,

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Speaker 1: and you get to wear a lot of sequence.

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Speaker 2: In fact, your sequence are like part of it.

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Speaker 1: So seriously, just just culturally psychologically.

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Speaker 2: I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: It. Guy's a fabulous athlete. God bless him, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for representing the country. I don't want to come off

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Speaker 2: It, no, but you'd have to assume that he has

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Speaker 2: the sort of skills that could make him a world

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he goes skating headis like a fiend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you get to wear a sequence. I don't want

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Speaker 2: But yeah, more or less, we're going to talk a

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Speaker 2: little more Super Bowl uh later this hour, we'll get

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Speaker 2: into some more halftime showing your thoughts on it and

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Speaker 2: people's comments on it and cheered jerking ads for potato

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Speaker 2: chips and all kinds of different stuff. That was among

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Speaker 2: after after maybe the most exciting playoffs in NFL history,

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Speaker 2: that was one boring game. This is what I was

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Speaker 2: talking about a week or so ago when I said,

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Speaker 2: Joe and I are old. Those of you who are

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Speaker 2: younger don't know, this is what the NFL used to

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Speaker 2: be like. Well, that game yesterday is what, like every

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Speaker 2: NFL game used to be like, a lot of run,

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Speaker 2: low scoring, not a lot happening. That's what all NFL

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Speaker 2: games pretty much used to be like. And then we

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Speaker 2: all get used to the constant scoring, lots of passing,

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Speaker 2: I mean a running back one the MVP. When's the

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Speaker 2: last time that happened? AnyWho, that was not exciting to watch,

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Speaker 2: and neither one of my kids had any interest. So

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Speaker 2: dipped for Michaelangelo's recipe, feeling sick to my stomach watching

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Speaker 2: a boring game. Yeah, another field goal, Oh, another sack. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's exciting. Wanted to get this story on for you though.

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Speaker 2: This is important. LA's homeless spending a case study and

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Speaker 2: epic failure. This should matter to you no matter where

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Speaker 2: you live in the country because is an example of

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Speaker 2: when do gooders take tax payer money and start throwing

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Speaker 2: it around, pretending they're trying to accomplish something when I'm

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Speaker 2: not even sure they have any interest in that at all.

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Speaker 2: Sprawling homelessness is one of the most chronic frustrations in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. This is from the New California Post editorial board.

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Speaker 2: New York Post now has a California Post based in LA.

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Speaker 2: Now I find out that the LA City Council spend

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Speaker 2: an eye popping four hundred and eighteen million dollars on

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Speaker 2: homeless services in twenty twenty five alone, almost half a

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Speaker 2: billion dollars year, almost half a billion dollars in one

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Speaker 2: city in one year on homelessness. Wow, and it only

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Speaker 2: got worse. Mayor Karen Bass and council members need to

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Speaker 2: account for this, says the editorial Board, and take responsibility

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Speaker 2: for charting an effective course that centers on mental health

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Speaker 2: and addiction treatment for those on the streets. Note that

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Speaker 2: we can't say a more effective course because the current

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Speaker 2: course isn't effective at all. A report this week from

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Speaker 2: the city administration officer found that la Is pumped hundreds

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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars into the homeless program black hole

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Speaker 2: with nothing to show for it. Of the more than

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Speaker 2: of the more than four hundred million dollars spent last

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Speaker 2: year in homelessness, just ten percent went toward actually getting

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Speaker 2: people off the streets for good. According to the California Post, Uh,

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Speaker 2: there's a variety of reasons for that that we can

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Speaker 2: get into in just a second. Well, yeah, and I

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Speaker 2: would point out we're a year and three months from

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Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four, barely so what does

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Speaker 2: for good mean? Surely, Oh, that's a good point. Wow,

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Speaker 2: the vast boat. So the number should be inflated on

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Speaker 2: the high end, since for good could mean you've been

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Speaker 2: off the streets for a month and a half, year

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Speaker 2: and a half whatever. Yeah. Uh. The vast bulk of

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Speaker 2: money LA shoveled into homeless program simply made it easier

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Speaker 2: for people to be and stay homeless. That LA is

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Speaker 2: an epic failure, according to the Edatorial Board, it's a

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Speaker 2: failure to meaningfully help nine out of ten of those

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Speaker 2: that were on the street, cycling people through temporary programs,

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Speaker 2: rolling out laundry trucks for those on the street. Did

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Speaker 2: you know that that's one of the programs. They'll take

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Speaker 2: in your laundry, your dirty clothes, wash them and give

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Speaker 2: them back to you in LA. That's part of the

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Speaker 2: homeless program to help people out. So they well, you couldn't.

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Speaker 2: How are you going to go to a job interview

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Speaker 2: in dirty clothes? You know it would be the sort

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Speaker 2: of tear jerking car appeal you'd mainke. That's how they're going.

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Speaker 2: Junkies supervising areas where people sleep in the car, so

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Speaker 2: they have law enforcement or people acting as law enforcement

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Speaker 2: walking the streets where people sleep in the car so

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Speaker 2: that they can stay safe, to obviously make it easier

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Speaker 2: to stay a drug addict and live in your car.

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Speaker 2: It's all a behemoth money pit that offers no light

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Speaker 2: and no end of the tunnel. And that's before we

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Speaker 2: even get to the mayor's pet homeless initiative Inside Safe,

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Speaker 2: which provides temporary motel rooms that cost taxpayers two hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty six dollars per night apiece, while solving little

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Speaker 2: does again make it easier to stay a drug addict.

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Speaker 2: Half a billion dollars in one year with the homeless

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Speaker 2: problem getting worse is really quite extraordinary. And people who

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Speaker 2: think that doing the laundry of the you know, let's

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Speaker 2: always do. It's a bunch of drug addicts almost entirely,

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Speaker 2: until we still start calling it a drug problem as

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Speaker 2: opposed to a housing problem. We'll never get anywhere the end.

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Speaker 1: Because those who are not junkies can be helped by specific,

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Speaker 1: carefully regulated programs. But then, so here's here's the world's

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Speaker 1: simplest to understand formula doing people's laundry for them, I know,

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Speaker 1: simple to understand formula above government if they can sell

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Speaker 1: and that government can help solve that crisis that gives

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Speaker 1: them an unlimited platform to hand out money to their cronies. Now,

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Speaker 1: like most things, it reminds me the whole I've got

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Speaker 1: some great evidence that it is hardcore Marxist groups who

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Speaker 1: are really pushing the demonstrations in Minneapolis. But in the

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Speaker 1: same way, you've got the cynics or the activists who

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Speaker 1: are doing precisely what I suggested. They're exploiting this because

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Speaker 1: it's a way to hand out tax beyer cash because

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Speaker 1: nobody knows how it's spent, nobody tracks it. And then

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Speaker 1: people who think we really do need to help these

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Speaker 1: people that are unfortunate, and that government official just said

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Speaker 2: So I'm in favor of it. For I'm in favor

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you've got the two layers, the cynics

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Speaker 2: But at the core of it, it's.

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Speaker 1: People who understand that government exists from their point of view,

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Speaker 1: as a way to take money from the treasury. After

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Speaker 1: identifying a problem. It's the fact that people don't recognize

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Speaker 2: Is makes me insane. But it is something I must accept,

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Speaker 2: So get them out drugs in some cases, booze needles,

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Speaker 2: all kinds of your drug paraphernalia, policing the streets so

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Speaker 1: Send the laundry truck by my place. I spill some

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Speaker 2: What's the motivation for the drug addict to stop when

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Speaker 1: I'm staying in a free hotel room with free laundry, food, needles,

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Speaker 1: other services. This hit and bottom thing I keep hearing about.

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Speaker 2: That is amazing, And that's a tremendous amount of money. Wow,

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Speaker 2: half a billion dollars in a year in LA. I'm

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Speaker 2: looking up at the TV. They're showing the Mister Beast

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Speaker 2: because they don't watch him on YouTube. Now, I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: few AI ads of various levels of troubling that really

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Speaker 2: it was set in a dunkin Donuts and it had

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Speaker 2: was that the actors with AI or what was that?

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Speaker 1: You can't generate Georgeica Jason Alexander's face and body and

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Speaker 1: use it to sell dunkin Donuts.

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Speaker 2: So somebody had enough money to get everybody, including Rachel

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Speaker 2: As somebody who's in the advertising business, I don't remember

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Speaker 2: But was it for Duncin Donuts? Yeah, they ad was

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Speaker 2: It wasn't for me. I guess I'm not annoyed by

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Speaker 1: I mean the America's yeah, open the border, yeah yeah,

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Speaker 2: applying in unwieldy political literalism, that little kid who looked

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Speaker 2: just like the kid from the big news story. I'm

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Speaker 2: forcing that on this.

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Speaker 1: That's not what you meant and gave that little kid

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Speaker 1: the Grammy ord at which he referenced ice out.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, that's well, I'm ready. I'm reading way

438
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Speaker 2: too much into this. Bad Bunny did not go to

439
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Speaker 2: great lengths to do that. It's me and my weird racist.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's your imagination. You're your paranoid imagination. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: isn't that something is?

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Speaker 2: And the New York Times guy reading it some online speculated, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: well all right.

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Speaker 1: Everybody at the party said, was that that little kid

445
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Speaker 1: with the floppy hat? Wow, So everybody foisted their racist

446
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Speaker 1: political opinions on that event. And the word I would

447
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Speaker 1: choose is unwieldy. Yes, I said, hey, stop that, it's unwieldy.

448
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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny did something quite novel with his Super Bowl

449
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Speaker 2: sixty performance, turning into an extended presentation on how to

450
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Speaker 2: make a global opportunity intimate, personal, and historically specific. Well,

451
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Speaker 2: I'd have to take I'd have to take your word

452
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Speaker 2: for it because I don't speak Spanish. And again, so

453
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Speaker 2: I don't have any idea what was going on the

454
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Speaker 2: stuff about that, So I wondered at one point, I

455
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Speaker 2: did wonder, what's the deal? I think one of my

456
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Speaker 2: kids said, what's the deal with the telephone poles? So

457
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Speaker 2: I guess during the hurricane back in twenty seventeen, lots

458
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Speaker 2: of the people up on the telephone poles trying to

459
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Speaker 2: restore telephones and power and everything like that got knocked

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Speaker 2: down by the hurricane and drowned or something like that,

461
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Speaker 2: and somehow that's the fault of us not sending enough

462
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Speaker 2: money to help with the blackout. Colonialism or something. According

463
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Speaker 2: to the New Yorkers, yes, colonialism always. I'm not somebody.

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Speaker 1: If I was somebody and not nobody, when I was

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Speaker 1: in a meeting with Roger Goodell, I would work for

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Speaker 1: weeks to learn Spanish everything that needed to be said,

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Speaker 1: and I would just say it all to him in Spanish,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, what are we doing here? I don't

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Speaker 1: speak Spanish. I'd say, I'd give him the middle finger

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Speaker 1: and walk out.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting how people go into camps on this stuff,

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Speaker 2: and maybe that's exactly what I'm doing. Although I feel

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Speaker 2: like my camp is pretty easily defended, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I would like to hear somebody in the other camp

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Speaker 1: address some of the arguments we've made. I would listen

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Speaker 1: to just the very simple effect of this is the

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Speaker 1: biggest TV sh show of the year. It's entertainment. I

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Speaker 1: don't speak Spanish, and you.

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Speaker 2: Made no effort to bring me along for the ride,

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Speaker 2: even if you want to inject another culture into the

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Speaker 2: show and think it'd be good for me. Fine, but

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Speaker 2: God makes some effort to bring me along for the

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Speaker 2: ride and tell me what's going on. But nope, not

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Speaker 2: a word. And then the other crowd is going with

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Speaker 2: If you aren't automatically wowed by this and saying historic

486
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Speaker 2: and amazing, then you're some sort of caveman scared of

487
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Speaker 2: brown people, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, racist nativists to whatever. Yeah, all right, probably

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Speaker 1: a Christian nationalist whatever that is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then people have always complained about the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl halftime shows. I mean, it's it's a practically a

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Speaker 2: tired act. But I've seen some clips of various halftime

493
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Speaker 2: shows from the past, and they had one from the

494
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Speaker 2: must have been the early two thousands. Probably it was

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Speaker 2: Brittany with Aerosmith, some big time rapper. I remember. It

496
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Speaker 2: wasn't the singing walk this way, and I thought, that

497
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Speaker 2: is an attempt to appeal to the widest, not whitest,

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Speaker 2: the whitest audience you possibly can with whitest, you know,

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Speaker 2: the young sex pot for the younger people. The ancient

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Speaker 2: even then ancient Aerosmith and rapper and different people. Look, yesterday,

501
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Speaker 2: you made no effort, not even the tiniest effort to

502
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Speaker 2: appeal to to me and my family. Yeah, what you

503
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Speaker 2: get to do?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, musically speaking, yes, but I get it. I

505
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Speaker 1: mean substandard Rabbit has been the number one streamed pop star.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna use artist, although I don't know, number

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Speaker 1: one streaming artist for four of the last six years.

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Speaker 2: A buddy of mine texted me. He said, if you

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Speaker 2: have the chance to get the number two artist in

510
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Speaker 2: the world for your halftime show, you do it, period,

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Speaker 2: right right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that's absolutely correct. But the utter

513
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Speaker 1: lack of any effort to bring the English speaking world along,

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Speaker 1: that is inexplicable. Yeah, that is not justified by any

515
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Speaker 1: of the arguments I've heard made. It was creatively wonderful,

516
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Speaker 1: and you know it brought forward the Hispanic point of

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Speaker 1: view and the history of blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but why would you abandon the English speaking audience.

519
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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, like you just said, I get

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Speaker 2: so one of the So Taylor Swift, the number one

522
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Speaker 2: artist in the world, wasn't available. You got the number

523
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Speaker 2: two artists. You know why wouldn't you have that person?

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Speaker 2: Come on, But if you're gonna tell this tale about

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Speaker 2: your homeland and why we should find it as magical

526
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Speaker 2: as you do, and here's the ways that you think

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Speaker 2: it was wronged by whoever, and you want us to

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Speaker 2: know that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't learn any single thing. I can only

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Speaker 1: come to one conclusion. The messages. Learn Spanish, bitches, that's

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Speaker 1: the way I took it.

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Speaker 2: You don't.

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Speaker 1: I could learn Spanish, Dee say one way like Jill

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Speaker 1: Biden has.

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Speaker 2: Perfect Michael, it's perfect. No, boy, on those of you

536
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Speaker 2: are going with And there are some people who are

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Speaker 2: in the radio station I'm hearing out there are going

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Speaker 2: with that. Oh it was magical.

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Speaker 3: Why what?

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Speaker 1: What did what did you get out of that?

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Speaker 2: You don't speak Spanish? I know you don't. What did

542
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Speaker 2: you get out of that? You went and wanting to

543
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Speaker 2: love it? You loved it.

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Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. Human beings are ridiculous creatures.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a fan. I actually would kind of like

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Speaker 2: to know about the history of Puerto Rico over the

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Speaker 2: last several decades. I'd probably be interested. I'd read an

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Speaker 2: article about it in Spanish. No, not right, right? Would

549
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Speaker 2: that'd be funny. Somebody hand me in here's the history

550
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Speaker 2: of Puerto Rico since nineteen seventy that he was telling

551
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Speaker 2: me about in Spanish. Okay, once again, this is of

552
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Speaker 2: no use to.

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Speaker 1: Be low quality hair did not impress me in mind

554
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Speaker 1: that text line for one KFTC.

555
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Speaker 2: My sister's name was Denise. She died of obecity at

556
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Speaker 2: twenty five. He had a heart attack. I was so fat, nasty,

557
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Speaker 2: I will eat anything. I was like three hundred and

558
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Speaker 2: forty five pounds a quart of ice cream every hour. Okay,

559
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Speaker 2: you can end U there. That's Mike Tyson during his

560
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl commercial yester day. I didn't know Mike Tyson

561
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Speaker 2: was ever three hundred and forty five pounds and of

562
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Speaker 2: ice cream every hour.

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Speaker 1: That's a hell wow. And it was we need to

564
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Speaker 1: eat healthier ad from fah from the government. When was

565
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Speaker 1: he that fat? I don't know, post retirement for boxing.

566
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't we have known that? Wouldn't that have made the news?

567
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Speaker 2: Or I got no opinions on Mike Tyson. He had

568
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Speaker 2: his Broadway play, he'd had all these different things that

569
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Speaker 2: he had. I don't remember remember being that fat.

570
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Speaker 1: Apparently it was started in the original Hamilton, Right, he

571
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Speaker 1: was in hangover.

572
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Speaker 2: He was thin. What apparently it was from two thousand

573
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Speaker 2: and nine to twenty ten that he was eating a

574
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Speaker 2: court ice cream an hour or whatever. He said, Yeah,

575
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Speaker 2: that he ballooned to over three hundred and fifty pounds. Wow,

576
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Speaker 2: chip cookie dough.

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Speaker 1: It's a fine ice cream, all right, blame him, all right,

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Speaker 1: Fat Mike Tyson add to the end of that. Okay, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting that the government paid for a Super Bowl

580
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Speaker 1: ad eat better.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's surprising. Starring Fat Mike Tyson.

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Speaker 1: Yes, quick roundup of stories that are probably much more

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Speaker 1: significant than the Super Bowl. Although the idea of a

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Speaker 1: country so steeped its young people anyway in self loathing

585
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Speaker 1: that it would do what we just did is that's

586
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Speaker 1: a big story. But the new exciting Prime Minister Japan

587
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Speaker 1: called for a snap election, which is the thing you

588
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Speaker 1: can do in a parliamentary system, and got the biggest

589
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Speaker 1: majority of seats since that government existed post World War Two.

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Speaker 1: Huge mandate to bring Japan into the modern world and

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Speaker 1: to stand up to China.

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Speaker 2: Huge mandate.

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Speaker 1: And interestingly, her support among the young is between low

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Speaker 1: eighties to ninety percent.

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Speaker 2: Among young voters. Wow, that's interesting. So this is where

596
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Speaker 2: it gets complicated. If Japan is all in on, you

597
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Speaker 2: ain't taken Taiwan and we're kind of eh, if China

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Speaker 2: really wants it, they're going to get it. What are

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Speaker 2: we going to watch Japan and China fight it out

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Speaker 2: and not come to Japan's eight when we do have

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Speaker 2: a treaty? Right? Where treaties are worth you know, anything

602
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Speaker 2: on paper? Right? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It depends when it happens to and who's in office, obviously,

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Speaker 1: as the president has.

605
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Speaker 2: Near cartilanche for foreign policy.

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Speaker 1: Moving along, a terrorist killed at least thirty one people

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Speaker 1: in Islamabad, Pakistan, after entering a Shiite Muslim mosque opening

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Speaker 1: and fire than debtening a suicide bomb, deadliest attack in

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Speaker 1: the capital since two thousand and eight. The Sunni Muslims

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Speaker 1: believed that that mosque in general, Pakistani Shiites are a

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Speaker 1: human reservoir for potential recruits into Shiite militia groups fighting

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Speaker 1: the Islamic State in Syria. But don't worry, Islam is

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Speaker 1: just another religion like Christianity. The Iran negotiations have continued.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's saying they've been very positive, although the US still

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Speaker 1: and demands a complete dismantlement of its nuclear enrichment. An

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Speaker 1: Iran says that zero enrichment will never be accepted by US,

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Speaker 1: and in the Ukraine negotiations, Vladimir Zelenski says there is

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Speaker 1: zero chance we will give up the entire don boss,

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Speaker 1: and Putin says, unless you give up the entire down, boss,

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Speaker 1: we have nothing to talk about. But everybody described those

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Speaker 1: negotiations in positive ways as well.

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Speaker 2: Putin bomb does some more apartment complexes yesterday, and maybe

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about this.

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Speaker 1: In the first of his kind decision, a federal jury

625
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Speaker 1: in Arizona found Uber responsible for a woman's rape and

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Speaker 1: ordered them to pay her eight point five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, how are they supposed to control every driver

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Speaker 2: in the country.

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