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Speaker 1: Show. So I just popped into my head to day

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Speaker 1: about and think, man, that must have been something to

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Speaker 1: to compare it to contrast, and to just say hello, please,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the Armstrong any show. Are esteemed a newsman,

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Speaker 1: Marshall Phillips, Marshally, you were with us for a cup

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Speaker 1: of coffee? What was it fifteen years? It was about

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Speaker 1: fifteen years, Yeah, a little more than a cup of coffee.

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Speaker 1: By the way, guys, I have not left my house

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Speaker 1: since January one. I've had to deal with things like

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Speaker 1: raccoons in the chimney, and you know, the the neighbors

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Speaker 1: complaints about my growing pyramid of chardonnay bottles out in front,

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Speaker 1: that growing pyramid of chardonnay bottle. I was actually thinking

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Speaker 1: because I remember before you retired from this program, discussion

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Speaker 1: and I could see checking out completely. So it just

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Speaker 1: occurred to me. We could get you on the phone.

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Speaker 1: You could say that what now the protest about what

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a disease. You're not following news? No, no,

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Speaker 1: my friends, I h a. I have been following the news,

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Speaker 1: probably even too much. In fact, you get to a point,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're talking talking about the pandemic and and

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Speaker 1: similar to what was happening in nineteen sixty eight, except

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Speaker 1: it's not being played out against the background of a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: It is being fueled by a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: are just really chicked off with what they see as

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Speaker 1: the current state of affairs. Back in the sixties, it

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Speaker 1: was the Vietnam War, which a lot of people felt

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Speaker 1: was illegal, hadn't really been explained to them. They had

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Speaker 1: It's actually, you know, spread worldwide, fueled in large part

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Speaker 1: by young people who have just gotten out in the

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Speaker 1: streets and said we've had enough. Well was it? Was

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Speaker 1: it the same way in it's the way it seems

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Speaker 1: from eating about it. But I wasn't old muff to

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Speaker 1: Back then? This, of course a lot of its social media.

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Speaker 1: Maybe without social media you couldn't do that, do you

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Speaker 1: getting on social media and trying to dog somebody. Well,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the race that go ahead and Marshall. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: for your retirement, I realized, And you know, I will

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Speaker 1: against this panopally or what's going on. Hey Marshall, I'm

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Speaker 1: a beautiful point. We got about twenty seconds left, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well, I we'll tell you this. I am

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Speaker 1: living in an undisclosed location five months. It took five months,

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Speaker 1: but my house, my other house, is up for sale. Excellent, excellent,

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Speaker 1: And I assume you're continuing the stockpile gold and weaponry. Everybody. Marshall,

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Speaker 1: Phillips are esteam News. Went always great to talk. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for your Marshall, Armstrong and Getty