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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 3: Welcome to you had another fine hour of the Armstrong

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Speaker 2: Now back to the A and G replay. Oh you

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Speaker 2: have no interest in getting in. You know, podcasting conflicts

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Speaker 2: with anybody. I number one, I don't care, and you

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Speaker 2: know number two is just unproductive. But I've got to

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Speaker 2: admit I am fascinated by a couple of different media

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Speaker 2: twist offs. Tucker number one, because I thought so highly

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Speaker 2: of Tucker as a writer. Everybody did a thinker. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: my goodness, so so good. But he's turned toward this

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Speaker 2: Groyd Ferry anti semitism that I find very, very troubling.

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Speaker 2: And it's a shame.

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Speaker 3: And why because he was already ungodly wealthy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he actually believes what he's pitching.

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Speaker 3: Now did he always believe that? And he was keeping quiet?

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Speaker 3: Certain didn't seem like it, no idea, No, no, it didn't.

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Speaker 3: This seems to be some sort of change.

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Speaker 2: The idea of fawning over Vladimir Putin and what a

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Speaker 2: wonderful place Rush is is just that is so looney tunes.

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Speaker 2: It's difficult to explain by. I mean, it's either mental

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Speaker 2: illness or an ideological capture of some sort. But the

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Speaker 2: other character that fascinates me in a weird way is

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Speaker 2: Candace Owens, who we met once. We did an event

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Speaker 2: with her, extremely articulate and confident. I think it was

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Speaker 2: Rich International Review and we'll touch on this in a minute.

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Speaker 2: Points out that confidence to the point of just being way, way,

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Speaker 2: way over the top.

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Speaker 3: Well, we were in a green room with her for

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Speaker 3: forty five minutes quite a while, and it was just Joe,

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Speaker 2: I think it's like four of us in the room.

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Speaker 3: She was incredibly stand offish, like just not willing to

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Speaker 3: But now I know she's a complete weirdo. I mean,

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Speaker 3: she's a very strange person. So here are a couple

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Speaker 2: I don't remember what's in the audio that we're about

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Speaker 2: to play you, which is entitled all the Questions Candice

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Speaker 2: owns is just asking, which if you're not hip to

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Speaker 2: this is a way that people can say things that

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Speaker 2: it's transparent once you become aware of it, whether it's

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Speaker 2: guy and didn't mean for a few Jews to die

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Speaker 2: or whatever. But like Kansas lately, if you're not familiar

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Speaker 2: with her act is said, and I quote, I'm starting

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Speaker 2: to think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was something

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Speaker 2: akin to a regi aside, right, the assassination of a

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Speaker 2: king to install a new ruler who the king would

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Speaker 2: never have approved of. And the new ruler of Turning

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Speaker 2: Point USA turns out to be Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk,

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Speaker 2: and Owens has argued the Turning Point is covering up

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Speaker 2: its involvement in Kirk's assassination and that Erica Kirk knows everything.

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Speaker 2: She also then she says, but it's a vile smear

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Speaker 2: to suggest she's implicated Erica Kirk and her husband's assassination.

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Speaker 2: But she's just asking questions. Why don't we go ahead

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Speaker 2: and play this audio and then we'll follow up? Go ahead,

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Speaker 2: Michael twelve.

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Speaker 4: They and other influencers will invoke Erica as the reason

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Speaker 4: that it's not appropriate to ask questions. It's just not

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Speaker 4: Every day that goes on, it feels to me like

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Speaker 4: Turning Point is engaged in a cover up, So criticism

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Speaker 4: is pertaining to anything at Turning Point USA that are being.

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Speaker 2: Directed at Erica are fair. Obviously they are fair.

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Speaker 4: You are recognizing that the people around Charlie are not

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Speaker 2: Nothing and Charlie's life is real.

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Speaker 4: It's just something that keeps me up at night.

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Speaker 4: Was real, And it just so happened that Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 4: that succession plan outside of like a diary, But no,

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Speaker 4: the plan was to guilt us, I think, to try

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Speaker 4: to haunt us with the ghost of Charlie's notebooks that

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Speaker 4: I am looking around and wondering whether Charlie's entire life

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Speaker 4: the assassination of Charlie Kirk was something akin to a regicide, right,

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Speaker 4: the assassination of a king to install a new ruler who.

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Speaker 2: The king would have never approved of. Right.

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Speaker 3: So she suggesting that these diaries journals that he kept

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Speaker 3: So see he wrote it down here, You wanted me

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Speaker 3: to be in charge if something happened to him, exactly.

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Speaker 3: That she was involved in having him killed because.

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Speaker 2: She wanted When you say, wait a minute, are you

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Speaker 2: hinting that she was involved in having him killed? You say,

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Speaker 2: that's despicable? How dare you question me? Yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: As Rich Lowry writes, when Alex Jones was at his

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Speaker 2: all the time. True, I would agree he was despicable,

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Speaker 2: but that was the vibe. Owens is different to be

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Speaker 2: hostile to israel, Jews and Judaism. Now it is true

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Speaker 2: that Owens is ignorant of basic things and makes him

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Speaker 2: the moon landings being faked is characteristic. She kind of

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Speaker 2: knows something about the Van Allen radiation belt, which is

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Speaker 2: more than most people can say, but overstates its potential

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Speaker 2: among other things. Or her contention that dinosaurs are fake

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Speaker 2: must be conspiracy among them to fabricate fossils to undermine

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Speaker 2: faith in God, clearly true, and that Jews have a

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Speaker 2: which Rich writes highly convenient. One assumes if Israel wanted

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Speaker 2: was involved in the September eleventh the tacks the Holocaust

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Speaker 2: The Jews killed jfk And for some reason, also Michael

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Speaker 2: a Turk. Jeffrey Epstein, of course, was doing Israel's bidding.

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Speaker 2: She hasn't accused the Jews of poisoning the wells, but

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Speaker 3: And she's portraying. I'm reading her Twitter posts from today.

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Speaker 3: She's portraying it is like she and Charlie were really close.

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Speaker 3: She and Charlie Kirk heartbreaking. They really killed my friend.

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Speaker 3: But justice will be served, and that she's being attacked

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Speaker 3: for trying to get the truth out about who killed

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Speaker 3: her friend. Right today, on the show We Go Max,

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Speaker 3: we find irrefutable proof that turning point knows more than

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Speaker 3: they're telling us. Charlie was right, he knew I would

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Speaker 3: be the one to defend him after death. Join us Live,

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. She's got seven point four million followers

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Speaker 3: on I don't know how much money that makes you

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Speaker 2: Quite a bit money. Yeah, I got a bunch of

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Speaker 2: Robinson is bewildered by the idea that he carved messages

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Speaker 2: point in sleuth mode. She says that police bodycam footage

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Speaker 3: Pretty slim no matter what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: And this goes on for a long time about the Jews,

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of pages of this, but that's enough

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Speaker 2: of that. So the broader point that I find really

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Speaker 2: interesting and compelling is how these conspiracy theories work and

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Speaker 2: how do they get people? And I remember when QAnon

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Speaker 2: that works. What are the various triggers that the perpetrator

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Speaker 3: I got. I gotta admit, if my conscience would allow me,

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Speaker 3: it'd be pretty fun to do the canvas thing where

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Speaker 3: and come up with new wacky ideas. It'd be pretty fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, It's great mental exercise. You get to know

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Speaker 2: the four or five tools of your craft, and then

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Speaker 2: It's it's almost like a creative writing exercise in a way.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, I came across this by Claire Layman, and

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Speaker 2: New Medievals. The bones of conspiracy theories haven't changed through

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Speaker 2: the centuries, though the details are different. How conspiracy theories

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Speaker 2: are right out of the Middle Ages. Thought this was intriguing.

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Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: And then there's also the other end of it is

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Speaker 3: that certain people that really, really really want these I

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Speaker 3: don't want them, but some people do. It makes them

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Speaker 3: feel better. That's its own interesting.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty the Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Getty Show.

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Speaker 2: And listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Well, especially if you have had the misfortune to be

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Speaker 6: I mean, effectively, what you have is they're up against

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Speaker 6: So what we've literally done, Bill is unwittingly built an

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Speaker 2: I've been trying to say that for years, but not

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Speaker 3: Well, i'd never heard that before, though. I didn't know,

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Speaker 2: WHOA, Well, yeah, it's thrill seeking. That's that's what thrill

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Speaker 3: Be a hero, a real hero, Call of Warfare three

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Speaker 3: Oh, you wouldn't think there'd be anything at the beginning

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Speaker 2: Yeah, unless your project is oxygen, it's gonna fail.

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Speaker 3: But they came up with this whole dopamine clicks thingy

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Speaker 6: Okay, Forty five percent of men eighteen to twenty four

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Speaker 2: And if you think of.

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Speaker 6: Pecking order of trying to establish friendships? And you got

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Speaker 6: you will eventually feel in your basement sequestered from other

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Speaker 6: mammals is far greater than the fear of anything that

439
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Speaker 6: lays outside of that room for you.

440
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure that argument's gonna work, but that stat

441
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Speaker 3: I'm glad he brought up the p word porn.

442
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Speaker 2: I was wondering, is he be going to bring that up?

443
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 2: He did.

444
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 3: Two thirds of men under thirty are not pursuing a relationship,

445
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 3: completely unheard of when I was a young man. Just

446
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 3: absolutely impossible that there would have been one person I

447
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 3: would have ever run into a guy my age who

448
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 3: wasn't pursuing a relationship.

449
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Speaker 2: And just under half of eighteen to twenty four year

450
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 2: olds had never asked a woman to go do anything.

451
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Speaker 2: That's stunning. What's this? Galloway's first name, Mike Scott, that

452
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 2: is Scott Galloway. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna follow him. And

453
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: I like the cut of his jim. He's talking, he's

454
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: spitting truth as they say. Wow, this is how many

455
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 2: times have we said this? If this was a different

456
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 2: species than Homo sapiens, the scientific world would be on

457
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: fire talking about it. Right, half of half.

458
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Speaker 3: Of all alligators no longer want to be in swamps.

459
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Speaker 2: What right, man, They're walking wrong along on hind legs

460
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Speaker 2: and trying to mate with beavers. I mean, this is

461
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Speaker 2: an astonishing change in the natural most deeply embedded behaviors

462
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Speaker 2: in a species happens to be humans.

463
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Speaker 3: Maybe the flip side to look at it is the

464
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Speaker 3: only thing that was getting us out of the house.

465
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Speaker 3: Was this needing a little and we wanted it so

466
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Speaker 3: much we freaking threw on a tie. We left our home.

467
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 3: We went out there got an edgemacation if we did

468
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Speaker 3: all these different things just because we needed it so bad,

469
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 3: and once you eliminate that need, ah, I'm just gonna

470
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Speaker 3: stay in my parents' basement in sweats for the rest

471
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Speaker 3: of my life.

472
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Speaker 2: That's sad, though it's.

473
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Speaker 3: Of course it's sad, And obviously he's right, at the

474
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Speaker 3: end of the road, you'll be much sadder than you

475
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 3: would be with the pursuit and failure and all the

476
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 3: ups and downs of life. But I don't think that

477
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 3: your argument's going to work on young people. Just to

478
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 3: see your time horizon when you're young just doesn't work well.

479
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: Back to the impulsiveness of young people, particularly young men,

480
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: although let's not let the crazy angry militancy of young

481
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Speaker 2: women go without being remarked on in this discussion as well.

482
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Speaker 2: That's but I've got a couple of teens that.

483
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Speaker 3: Aloys different syndrome, but still a significant one. But like

484
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Speaker 3: my high schooler, we spent a lot of time together

485
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Speaker 3: over the weekend because his brother was on a camping

486
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Speaker 3: trip and he's going to be sixteen here in a

487
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Speaker 3: couple of months, and he has the same attitude every

488
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Speaker 3: sixteen year old has or I had.

489
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Speaker 2: He talks about when I talk about you.

490
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Speaker 3: When you're thirty. When I'm thirty, I don't mean, I

491
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 3: don't even care if I'm alive. When I'm thirty, who

492
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Speaker 3: cares about being thirty? I mean, thirty is so far

493
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Speaker 3: off when you're sixteen you can't even imagine it. You know,

494
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Speaker 3: we'll be flying around in cars and all kinds of

495
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Speaker 3: stuff by the time you're thirty. So so pitching to

496
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Speaker 3: young people the idea, I mean, I do this. I've

497
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Speaker 3: done this with my own kids, and it seems to

498
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 3: be working so far. But pitching the you know by

499
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Speaker 3: the time you're forty, ultimately you'll be sad.

500
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Speaker 2: If you do this. I hope that works. Yeah, you know,

501
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: it's funny. I was reminiscing with a couple of buddies

502
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Speaker 2: that it had been eleven years since we played our

503
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Speaker 2: last show as a rock and roll band, and I thought,

504
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: good lord, eleven years. Then I thought, that's all of

505
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Speaker 2: high school, all of college in the first three years

506
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 2: of your career, which is enormously impactful and is forever

507
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Speaker 2: in youthful years, you know, to your point, when I'm

508
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Speaker 2: thirty telling a sixteen year old that please right, no, right, no, yeah, yeah.

509
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 3: If you if you continue down this path when you're thirty,

510
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 3: you're going to be unhappy with your choices.

511
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: I've done a lot of people. There will soon be.

512
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 3: A religion, a philosophy, and it will be popular.

513
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 2: It will be very, very popular. It might be a

514
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: smallish minority of humans, but it will be an anti

515
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: tech religion slash ethos that people will latch onto. I

516
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 2: think it is building. How widespread it is, I don't know.

517
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: I am prepared to be your leader. I will not

518
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 2: be sexing up your younger women, at least at first

519
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: that appeas to you, because every one of these like

520
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 2: insular cult like organizations ends up with the leaders sexing

521
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: up the young women. So I just figured.

522
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Speaker 3: So to the point that half of young adult men

523
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: have never asked a girl out, and two thirds of

524
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 3: men under thirty are not looking for a relationship at all.

525
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 2: Imagine being a young woman.

526
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 3: Good lord, You're a twenty six year old getting your

527
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 3: act together, thinking of having a family someday, woman, and

528
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: two thirds of dudes out there are not even thinking

529
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 3: about looking for a relationship. Holy crap, No wonder you're

530
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: holding hands with a girl you got no choice and this.

531
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Speaker 2: Wow, and this came out of nowhere. Okay, this came

532
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 2: on so quickly societally. But there's so much money being made.

533
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: It's propping up the stock market, for instance, tech in general.

534
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: This sort of thing is not being said nearly as

535
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Speaker 2: much as it should be.

536
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Speaker 3: Man, Michael, you promised our minds would be blown by

537
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 3: those stats. You were successful. That is some troubling, troubling stuff.

538
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Speaker 3: You did not lie the Armstrong and Getty show.

539
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Speaker 1: Yeah, your show, podcasts and our hot lakes.

540
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: Here, what is that you're wondering. That's a bunch of idiots.

541
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 3: It's a bunch of hurlds off cliffs, A bunch of

542
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: idiots that should be hurled off cliffs and make those noises.

543
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: That's a bunch of idiots in Portland who get together

544
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: every week and scream it out how much they hate Trump.

545
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 3: Have some kids, and you won't have time for this crap.

546
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 2: I don't even have the energy to respond to that.

547
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: How Portland does that? Oh? And look how enlightened you are.

548
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: You're screaming about Trump? Why because you don't like him?

549
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 2: And you probably think what he's the new hitler. That's intriguing,

550
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: good Lord, I don't even have the energy.

551
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Speaker 3: So Elon Musk did an interview yesterday and he was

552
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: asked about DOGE. He gets asked about lots of things,

553
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 3: because he does lots of things as a world's richest man.

554
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: He's no longer convinced his crusade to clean up government

555
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,479
Speaker 3: waste through the Apartment of Government Efficiency better known as DOGE,

556
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 3: was worth the chaos at unleashed. I can see why

557
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: he would think that. He's deeply unsure whether his high

558
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 3: profile stint running Washington's most memorable agency actually worked, says

559
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 3: a New York Post. In a wide ranging and at

560
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 3: times philosophical interview on some podcast I had never heard of,

561
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 3: he said there was like probably one hundred maybe two

562
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Speaker 3: hundred billion dollars worth of zombie payments per year, he said,

563
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: noting DOGE shut down only a fraction of it. Those

564
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Speaker 3: are their payments that are go out for things that

565
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 3: either don't exist or shouldn't exist, and everybody knows they

566
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 3: shouldn't exist, haven't been closed down officially yet or whatever,

567
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 3: And they got about a a tiny percentage of it

568
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 3: shut down, he said. Cutting off even that much cash

569
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 3: came with serious blowback. If you stop money going to

570
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 3: political corruption, they will lash out big time.

571
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Speaker 2: They really want to keep the money flowing, he said.

572
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Speaker 3: He said, I wouldn't say I was super illusioned to

573
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 3: begin with. He was asking if he was disillusion I

574
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: wouldn't say I was super illusioned to begin with, he shrugged,

575
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: before launching into a blistering critique of government spending. Despite

576
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 3: the heavy political talk, the X owner frequently veered into

577
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 3: the personal. He confessed that AI nightmares still jolt him

578
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: awake many days in a row.

579
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: Wow.

580
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 3: Well, if you're twenty percent convinced that something you're building

581
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: is going to destroy humankind, which he is, I could

582
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: see why maybe you'd wake up worried about that. I

583
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 3: have not had an AI nightmare as yet. I had

584
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: a radio nightmare last night. What was it was, Oh,

585
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 3: trying to hook up some equipment or something like that,

586
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 3: trying to get the microphones work on the show and

587
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:43,479
Speaker 3: I couldn't or whatever.

588
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: What does that mean? I've got a lot of loose

589
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 2: ends in my life right now.

590
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 3: I'm having trouble getting to work the way I want

591
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: them to work, family, structuring, all these different sort of things.

592
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 3: It was clearly that I just couldn't get a task accomplished.

593
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 3: The frustration of this is not coming together with the

594
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 3: way I wanted to. I think that was kind of it. Yeah,

595
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 3: or I ate spicy food. There's more of gravy than

596
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: the grave about you.

597
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: That's a quote from a Christmas carol. And the nature

598
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: of diet versus bad dreams.

599
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Speaker 3: There's two things interesting I thought in that Elon Musk interview.

600
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Speaker 3: One the fact that he like lots of people, like

601
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: lots of normal people who touch Washington, d C. And

602
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 3: have other things to do in their lives. They realize

603
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 3: there's no fixing this swamp. You know, there are other

604
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 3: people that go there and think I need to be

605
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 3: part of this. That's how I'm going to become rich,

606
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 3: And they do lots and lots of people.

607
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 2: But he's already rich, so he doesn't need to do that.

608
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: He just gave it a world thought.

609
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 3: Man, people go nuts when you try to cut anything,

610
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 3: including things that are completely worthless.

611
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 2: He talks about.

612
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 3: How, you know, if I hadn't done that, people wouldn't

613
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 3: be setting my cars on fire. So I kind of

614
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 3: wish I hadn't gotten involved.

615
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what's I think it's way more interesting

616
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: than it seems, way more significant than it seems on

617
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: the surface. That if I'm part of the swamp, profiting

618
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: from it mightily and spreading out money and enhancing my

619
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: own wealth and power, fiscal responsibility even over there doesn't

620
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: affect me directly. It's a zombie program, you know, whatever

621
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: you're gonna fight. It reminds me the Omni cause where

622
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 2: you got you know, Native American lesbians standing up for

623
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: Palestinian terrorists and whatever. You can't let anybody cut anything. Ever, Well,

624
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: it's a call for fiscal responsibility. I mean, that is

625
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: the penicillin that would end your you know, infection in DC. Sure,

626
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: it's an example of they came for the payouts to

627
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: dead people social Security checks and I said nothing, right.

628
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: And the next thing, you came for the Department of

629
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: the Interior, whatever that does, and I said nothing exactly, yeah,

630
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: And it.

631
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 3: Came for my scam, and there was no one left

632
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 3: to fight for me.

633
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: It's profoundly discouraging too, Yes, it is. And I forgot

634
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: to mention this.

635
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 3: So I saw this portrayed in a couple of different

636
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 3: mainstream organizations.

637
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: Is kind of like a huh huh. He got his

638
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 2: kind of showed him exactly. We showed him.

639
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 3: Dare try to step in and cut anything out of

640
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 3: the government. What is wrong with you?

641
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another interesting question. When tribalism leads people to

642
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: defend the indefensible, I mean literally indefensible. You cannot with

643
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 2: a straight face in favor of government waste.

644
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 3: I don't understand how being a progressive fits in with

645
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 3: making sure dead people get their Social Security checks.

646
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 2: I don't get it, this knee jerk tribalism like I

647
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 2: was talking about. You know, I've got a really really good, thorough, interesting,

648
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 2: thought provoking description of what's going on with the whole

649
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 2: Obamacare subsidy debate right now, and it's the sort of

650
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 2: coverage you won't get anywhere else. And part of me

651
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 2: doesn't want to even bother.

652
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: Once again, Michael, it's number two cry for help, second

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Speaker 3: cry for help in one show. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: cry for I'm through with this crap. I think we

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Speaker 3: got to do a wellness check.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call someone during the break, call anybody you

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Speaker 2: all be dead soon.

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