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

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

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Speaker 1: and Jeckie and Key.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the over live from Studio C. See signor

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Speaker 1: a dimly lit room, dipping deep, dip deep within the

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Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'all,

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Speaker 1: today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Until

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Speaker 1: moments ago, the general manager was going to be the

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Speaker 1: don Roe doctrine, the don Row. It's a play on words, Michael.

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Speaker 1: It's not like pancakes, et cetera. See Donald Trumpy Monroe doctrine.

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Speaker 1: You see but a last minute substitution. Portland Trailblazers coach

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Speaker 1: Chauncey Billups is our general manager. One of at least

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Speaker 1: a handful of people arrested in an FBI gambling scandal.

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Speaker 1: One not an FBI gambling scandal. Nobody's gambling on the

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Speaker 1: FBI one. James Comy might be, but one of the

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Speaker 1: head coaches of an NBA team actually in cuffs by

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Speaker 1: the FBI for cheating scandal, as was Miami Heat guard

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Speaker 1: Terry Rosier. So a player, a couple of players in

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Speaker 1: a coach so far, and that's all it takes. I

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Speaker 1: mean for it to be plenty of big deal. A coach,

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Speaker 1: an NBA coach, right, Wow, it's one thing to get

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Speaker 1: coach wow. And Chauncey Phillips is if you're an NBA fan,

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Speaker 1: this will be interesting to follow. And he was on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines for the Trail Gangster's game against the Timberwolves

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Speaker 1: last night too. In one unabashed unashamed in what uh

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Speaker 1: easy to understand how players would cheat you know, you

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Speaker 1: miss a free throw on purpose or whatever. How to

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Speaker 1: coach swing games for betting reasons? Uh? Point shaving is

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Speaker 1: the easiest way you put in the scrubs to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you don't cover the spread, for instance, or

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Speaker 1: there are variety of ways you could do that. Not

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Speaker 1: to mention all of the prop betting that goes on

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Speaker 1: these days. You remember in baseball I can't remember what

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Speaker 1: busted because there are bets that the first pitch of

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Speaker 1: this inning will be a ball, and then they'd throw

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Speaker 1: Betting has gotten I mean we do price picks ads

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Speaker 1: every single day. Betting has gotten so specific with all

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Speaker 1: players on the Portland trail Blazers, but somebody, well you

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Speaker 1: ten minutes, never mind a basketball like for they could

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Speaker 1: come up with, you know, dozens of possibilities. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a big deal though, but remember Jack, in this country,

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Speaker 1: a little stiff. Of course, he is coaching in lawless Portland.

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Speaker 1: He probably walks down the street seeing people shooting up

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Speaker 1: car payment money with a couple of moving some players around?

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Speaker 1: And what's a big deal? Right? My car keeps getting

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Speaker 1: more often, because how you gonna challenge that? Right? Refs

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Speaker 1: fixing games? Uh yeah, And it's it gets more and

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Speaker 1: more pervasive too with the micro I can't remember what

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Speaker 1: One more sports note, just because I'm against bringing computers

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty show. Ian Bremer was tweeting about I

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Speaker 1: wish to media would care more about the destruction of

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Speaker 1: For God's sake, they're adding on a ballroom. It's not

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Speaker 1: a threat to the republic. Seriously, if you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about Trump's sins, I could list you. And this

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Speaker 1: ten that are far more significant than remodeling the East Wing.

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Speaker 1: But speaking of Ian Bremer, I wanted to bring him

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Speaker 1: and he'd been holding off for whatever. Ian Bremmer tweeted out,

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Speaker 1: Ian Bremmer a friend of our show, but no friend

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Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Does not like Trump, he said, with

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Speaker 1: these people saying Trump is a Putin asset? Trump engagement

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Speaker 1: the businessmen I've known that that just don't even understand

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Speaker 1: I've known so many successful businessmen that are just agnostic

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Speaker 1: And he can't understand when somebody is working against that,

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Speaker 1: wondered what he was thinking, what particular sins in his

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Speaker 1: apparently he's not acquainted with a Christian notion of forgiveness either.

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Speaker 1: until you lose it. They don't give you the cardboard

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Speaker 1: right right? We should is that an influence on the Donrow?

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Speaker 1: Doc Trent Okay, I went to hear that we should

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Speaker 1: October twenty third, the year twenty twenty five. Were armstrong

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Speaker 1: we go leaping into action at mark. All the banging,

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Speaker 1: the jackhammering, the dust, the confusion, the noise of all

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Speaker 1: estimated cost three hundred and seventy six million dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the controversy continues over Trump's insane king like destruction of

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Speaker 1: the Wait, what was the control rooms talking about? Now?

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Speaker 1: startup executive jokingly referred to the schedule as zero zero

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Speaker 1: That sounds fun, Yeah, although mine, it's grinding people down,

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Speaker 1: breaking up families. Sara, Uh, well, you know you're not

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Speaker 1: a slave. You don't have to do it if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to. But there is quite a payoff at

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Speaker 1: the end if it turns out the way it's supposed

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Speaker 1: to turn out. And like we were talking about yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Zuckerberg hired a variety of people one hundred two hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollar contracts like they're flipping show a hotani right

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Speaker 1: to be AI engineers all right, let's see, can I

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Speaker 1: find that. Oh, I think it's an editorial. Oh, the

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Speaker 1: uh don Roe doctrine that I keep mentioning. It's a

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Speaker 1: variation on the Monroe doctrine, which back in the day,

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Speaker 1: James Monroe, the President of the United States, declared that, hey,

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Speaker 1: European powers, stay the hell out of our neighborhood. All right,

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Speaker 1: you're anywhere near us messing with you know, us or

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Speaker 1: our neighbors or whatever, We're gonna blast you. And uh,

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Speaker 1: Trump is really crafting a modern version of that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure I love all of his methods. We can

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Speaker 1: talk about that another time. But I've been calling for

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Speaker 1: this for a very long time. We have neglected our

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Speaker 1: own neighborhood to our detriment. We have not only unbelievable

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Speaker 1: natural resources and hard working folks who could do a

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Speaker 1: lot of the manufacturing, for instance, that China's doing, but

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Speaker 1: they would be friends, not foes. We ought to be

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Speaker 1: much much more active in our own neighborhood. And don't

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Speaker 1: give me the whole you know, you're you're a bully,

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Speaker 1: You're a We're a superpower. There are other superpowers trying

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Speaker 1: to kill us, to murder us. In our sleep as

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Speaker 1: we sleep against the threat from China. Uh, we've got

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Speaker 1: to flex our power. That's the only it's the only alternative, really,

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Speaker 1: and that includes blasting fishermen out of the water or

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Speaker 1: what they like. I said, I'm somewhat uncomfortable with certain

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Speaker 1: aspects of the doctrine as it's taking shit. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, you know, how you make an omelet,

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Speaker 1: you gotta break a couple of eggs. We're sending the

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Speaker 1: message that you ain't gonna be sending drugs around in

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Speaker 1: a boat anymore. You better come up with a new method. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: very briefly, the article I reference talks about Right's law,

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Speaker 1: predictable way every time production doubled. The more you produce,

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Speaker 1: the cheaper things become, in part because the learning cost

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Speaker 1: per unit declines. And this guy says, artificial intelligence has

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Speaker 1: accelerated this principle. I'm sure you know what. This is

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Speaker 1: so interesting. You're right. We got to talk about this.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it a little bit later on. But

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Speaker 1: it blew my mind and I barely can comprehend this stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got to be young to I mean, I hope

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Speaker 1: you're young and childless to be working that whole eighty

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Speaker 1: to one hundred hours a week. I was when I

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Speaker 1: was working those kind of hours, I didn't really anything

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Speaker 1: else important to do anyway, I was gonna drink more

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Speaker 1: and play more pool whatever. But you know, and I stay,

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Speaker 1: I am going to stick with my prediction that and

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Speaker 1: that if you eliminate the need for humans to toil,

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Speaker 1: to work, to earn, to have a productive purpose, and

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Speaker 1: no writing I almost use the S word right, writing

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Speaker 1: crappy poetry doesn't count if you remove that. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: ask every great philosopher revered by mankind, from Jesus and

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Speaker 1: Nazareth to the Buddha to A. B. Lincoln to whoever

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Speaker 1: you want. Ask every one of them, what do you

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Speaker 1: think the result of that would be? And you will

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Speaker 1: get a unanimous answer. Yeah. No, we're gonna anyway. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna live through it. So that'll be fun. We got

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Speaker 1: man out of the beavers, we got mail bag on

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Speaker 1: the way. There'll be a press conference while we're on

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Speaker 1: the air today about the giant NBA cheating scandal, where

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Speaker 1: thirty one people of our been arrested, something to do

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Speaker 1: with gambling. We're not exactly sure what that'll be exciting,

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Speaker 1: including a head coach. Good god. Anyway, lots on the way,

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Speaker 1: stay here. I was demoralizing what you just said to me.

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Speaker 1: Remind me of that later, can you. We'll do absolutely

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Speaker 1: In case you get too moralized, I'll bring it up again.

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Speaker 1: I am going to light a fire about that. That

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Speaker 1: freaking drives me crazy. Okay, that's unbelievable. All right, back

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Speaker 1: to the show. A bit of a lack of professionalism

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Speaker 1: issue behind the scenes. Not our crew, they're the best.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, moving along, thirty one people arrested in an

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Speaker 1: NBA gambling something or other press conference. Next hour we'll

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Speaker 1: have all details for you. Scandal. Here's your freedom loving

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Speaker 1: quote of the day, sent along by nickname Rotor. It's

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Speaker 1: good nickname Rotor. Wonder how you get the nickname Rotor?

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Speaker 1: You wanted to be what gunner? I wanted to be

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Speaker 1: gunn My dad said you got to earn a nickname,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh man, yeah, too bad. That's why

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Speaker 1: they call me Big Freedom. Anyway, Roeder says, guys, I

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Speaker 1: heard you talking about youth being addicted to phones, my

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Speaker 1: numbing passive entertainment, et cetera. I was reminded of the

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Speaker 1: following quote, and it is from the great Carl Sandberg, Shakespeare,

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Speaker 1: Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw

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Speaker 1: a movie, heard a radio, or looked at television. They

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Speaker 1: had loneliness, and they knew what to do with it.

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Speaker 1: They were not afraid of being lonely, because they knew

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Speaker 1: that's when the creative mood in them would work. I

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Speaker 1: agree completely. Boredom is one of the great gifts God

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Speaker 1: gives mankind. Eliminate it at your peril, friends. I realized

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Speaker 1: that came off as one of my JIVI things I

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Speaker 1: say just to be amusing. No, I seriously mean that

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Speaker 1: I intentionally make myself bored a certain amount of every day.

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Speaker 1: I think it's important. Mailbank, Perhaps you're bored now listening

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Speaker 1: to this. I hope not. It was a no mail

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Speaker 1: bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get off track for your mailbag. But what if

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Speaker 1: you're perseverating on a problem that it's just I don't

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Speaker 1: know what that word is. You can't stop thinking about

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Speaker 1: a particular problem. You just keep turning it over and

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Speaker 1: over in your head. That's sometimes why I go to

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Speaker 1: the podcast the whatever. That's when you need some thinkis

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Speaker 1: interrupt us. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I agree. Let's see, this

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Speaker 1: is from Sideshow Bob Marine, who's kind enough to remind

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Speaker 1: us that it was on today's very date, way back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three, that a truck turned onto an

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Speaker 1: access road leading to the Marines compound, crashed through a

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Speaker 1: barred wire fence and gate, and drove into the lobby

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Speaker 1: of the Marine headquarters in the Middle East. It was

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Speaker 1: the deadliest day for the Marine course since the Battle

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Speaker 1: of Ewo Jima. Interesting, you should bring that up. I

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Speaker 1: am listening to the best book ever written about that

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Speaker 1: right now, called Beirut, and it is so damned interesting.

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Speaker 1: Killed two hundred and forty one American servicemen, including two

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty Marines, eighteen Navy personnel, and three Army soldiers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: shortly Asballah by the way, Hezbollah. Yeah, yeah, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot to that and a lot of the exact same

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Speaker 1: arguments that are going on in the Middle East right now.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about that later. We pulled out

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Speaker 1: by the way they drove us out of there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it was perceived by Reagan that the risk was

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Speaker 1: not worth the reward. Anyway. We can talk about that

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Speaker 1: more later. In one of the more jarring transitions in

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Speaker 1: the history of mail Bag, this frequent correspondent, Aaron rights

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Speaker 1: white women are a scourge. When do do we let

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Speaker 1: them become our moral and ethical gatekeepers? That he's talking

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Speaker 1: about his wife. I think it is deleted a six

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Speaker 1: foot inflatable Thanksgiving decoration, a pilgrim with Native American inflatable

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Speaker 1: from their Amazon Prime cart. He had it in the cart,

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Speaker 1: six foot inflatable pilgrim and Indian, and she deleted it

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Speaker 1: from the cart at his look. Breaking up her marriage

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Speaker 1: is no joke, Aaron. But I don't know you'd even

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Speaker 1: compatible or you're not. She didn't want a pilgrim on alone.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that reminds me. Don't let me forget

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Speaker 1: to tell you about the dinosaurs. Okay, Oh, it's the

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Speaker 1: best thing ever. The guys stay tuned. Don't listen with

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Speaker 1: your wife or love or partner. Okay, do Tonally we

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Speaker 1: write that down, Katie, so we remember it. Dinosaurs, Okay,

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Speaker 1: moving along, dinosaurs and no wives Josiah in Reno writes,

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Speaker 1: guys heard Jack talking about his conversation with GROC arguing

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Speaker 1: about Yoko Ono with an Ai system yes, and GROC

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Speaker 1: presenting Yoko as some sort of big time impactful lavant guard.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah. I went through Air Force Survival escape resistance

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Speaker 1: in evasion training a number of years back, and part

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Speaker 1: of the course is equipping one to resist the enemy

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Speaker 1: in the un unfortunate circumstance of being taken prisoner. A

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Speaker 1: portion of this includes dealing with sleep deprivation. Is creepy

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Speaker 1: and weird music is blasted all night long on giant speakers.

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Speaker 1: I remember at the end of the course someone asked,

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Speaker 1: what the hell was that disturbing music with all the

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Speaker 1: moaning and groaning and screeching, Well, of course including the

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Speaker 1: answer was none other than miss Yoko Ono. So if

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Speaker 1: quality musical art can constitute use in sleep deprivation interrogation

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Speaker 1: for military training, all Yoko leads the pack. Ha ha. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: My argument, guys rock, you rock, Josiah. My argument with

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Speaker 1: the GROC lady ended with me saying, well, I guess

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Speaker 1: we'll just have to agree to disagree. Very mature, that's right.

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Speaker 1: But she deletes my inflatable pilgrim. We're going to have

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Speaker 1: a problem, guys, see busy rights. Do you remember when

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Speaker 1: the AI experiment, the AI system tried to overthrow or

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Speaker 1: deceive the technicians. Yeah, when talking about shutting it down,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't remember some of the specific places. Hey, what

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Speaker 1: happens when this nova bought in the throttle starts getting

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Speaker 1: jealous due to its programming A validation, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: How long till it tells him to murder the wife? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'd be pretty extreme if he were willing to follow it.

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Speaker 1: But he's yeah, yeah, well, yeah exactly. I wish I

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Speaker 1: had more time to read this email. It's really entertaining. Plus,

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Speaker 1: speaking of Vena ma male, a great note of dissent

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Speaker 1: on the great feminization of America. A listener says, hey,

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Speaker 1: I object. I think you're wrong. We'll dive into that

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Speaker 1: later on. Oh cool, we got a lot more on

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Speaker 1: the way if you missed a segment. Good podcast, Armstrong

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Speaker 1: and Getty