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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, Ketty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and He Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 1: I miss when my kids were younger in Saint Patrick's

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Speaker 1: Day was a big deal and they'd wake up in

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Speaker 1: the morning and a leprechaun had snuck into our home

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Speaker 1: and your native green in the toilet and left a

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Speaker 1: trail of glitter.

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Speaker 2: Behind for some reason.

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Speaker 3: I'm not exactly sure what went on there, but they

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Speaker 3: loved it. It was really, really fun.

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Speaker 1: We had leprechaun traps, which is cruel, yes, and really brutal. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they'll always get away. They would always get away. They

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Speaker 1: would take the gold chocolate coins and get away, the

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Speaker 1: clever little bastards. We caught one once. He still works

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Speaker 1: for us. I work it the green. Did you read

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Speaker 1: about that? You an official who's just prosecuted for slavery? No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: later on in the show or in the hour. We

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Speaker 1: don't have time now, but yeah, but the green urine

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Speaker 1: was a real Armstrong innovation.

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Speaker 2: We did not do that at my house.

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Speaker 3: We heard it from some babysitter or whatever. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: he got that glitter like in footprints somehow, and disgusting

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Speaker 3: all the way around. But anyway, happy to see Patrick's day.

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Speaker 1: Oh I should keep moving, but me incontinence is bothering me.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just stop and relieve myself. Oh boy.

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Speaker 1: So this is one of the most fascinating things I've

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Speaker 1: read in the last several years. It is shockingly from

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Speaker 1: the Atlantic, which is just suffocatingly lefty these days. It

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Speaker 1: was written by a fellow by the name of Yannie

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Speaker 1: apple Bomb why Americans stopped moving houses and why that's

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Speaker 1: a very big problem. Actually Yannie might be a woman.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, probably is. But the subtitle of it

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Speaker 1: is how Progressives Froze the American Dream, And I was

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Speaker 1: surprised to see that on the cover, but I dove in.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you with parts of it. Jack comment

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Speaker 1: like as much as you like, obviously. So the lead

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Speaker 1: is the idea that people should be able to choose

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Speaker 1: their own communities instead of being stuck where they are born.

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Speaker 1: Is a distinctly American innovation. It is the foundation for

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Speaker 1: the country's prosperity and democracy, and it just may be

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Speaker 1: America's most profound contribution.

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Speaker 2: To the world. I have been saying this for years.

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Speaker 1: You have in California, the Midwest, all kinds of places

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Speaker 1: I've lived, was settled by people who thought they could

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Speaker 1: get a better deal here. No society has ever been

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Speaker 1: as mobile as the United States once was. No society

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Speaker 1: has even come close. In the nineteenth century, friends, the

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Speaker 1: heyday of American mobility. Roughly a third of all Americans

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Speaker 1: changed addresses each year.

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Speaker 2: Wow a third each year.

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Speaker 1: They quote a couple of commentators of the day, the

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Speaker 1: American is devoured with a passion for locomotions.

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Speaker 2: At one French, he cannot stay in one place.

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Speaker 1: Americans moved far more often, over longer distances, and to

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Speaker 1: greater advantage than did people in the lands from which

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Speaker 1: they had come. They described how in Europe that you

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Speaker 1: just you stayed on the land, you stayed in the town.

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Speaker 1: People were very suspicious of outsiders.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: But over the past fifty years, this engine of American

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Speaker 1: opportunity has stopped working. Americans become less likely to move

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Speaker 1: from one state to another, to move within a state,

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Speaker 1: or even to switch residences within a city. In the

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, now remember it was about one in three

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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds. The nineteen sixties, about one out

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Speaker 1: of every five Americans moved in any given year, down

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Speaker 1: Americans moved. That's unbelievable, the sharp decline in geog You

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Speaker 1: go ahead, sorry. Joe and I both moved a lot

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Speaker 1: for our radio career, and I don't think it's shocking

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Speaker 2: Depended on it.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't it have never happened without the willingness to like

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Speaker 3: move to that town, than to that town, to then

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Speaker 1: And probably it's a good time for a disclaimer. We

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Speaker 1: both were also raised by people who saw their fortune

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Speaker 1: in various ways and moved as necessary for career. My

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Speaker 1: can feel and appreciate that side of the argument, not

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Speaker 1: that it's an argument for see somebody who's lived, you know, hometown,

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Speaker 1: wonderful that would be. But like I've said many times,

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Speaker 1: from Applebaum's piece, the sharp decline in geographic mobility is

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Speaker 1: the single most important social change in the past half century,

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Speaker 1: although other shifts have attracted far more attention. In that

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Speaker 1: same span, fewer Americans have started new businesses and fewer

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Speaker 1: Americans have switched jobs. From nineteen eighty five to twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: the share of people who have become entrepreneurs fell by half.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is seriously troubling.

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Speaker 1: And then he gets into more Americans end up worse

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Speaker 1: But then he gets into how church membership is down

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Speaker 1: Americans who socialized several times a week. Membership in any

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the earth rates keep falling.

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Speaker 3: One interesting aspect of the not being tied to your

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Speaker 3: local church and not socializing, seems like that would make

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Speaker 3: you more mobile as opposed to less mobile. If you're

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Speaker 3: socializing and have a social network, that would be hard

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Speaker 3: to leave behind. If you don't socialize, what the hell

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Speaker 3: do you care? Go to the next down? They got

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Speaker 3: a better job.

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Speaker 1: The other side of that coin is really interesting, and

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Speaker 2: And indeed that's what they found sociologically. That's interesting. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of counterintuitive.

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Speaker 1: It made people more sociable the fact that we moved

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Speaker 1: all the time. And then there's an interesting political aspect

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Speaker 2: This is about. I will just say that people who.

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Speaker 1: Felt anger and frustration at their financial situation tended to

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Speaker 1: vote more for Trump than Hillary, for instance, But the

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Speaker 1: number of those people who lived within a two hour

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Speaker 2: It's a huge gap.

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Speaker 1: The number of people who said I'm unhappy with my

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Speaker 3: No, I don't want to make this partisan at all,

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Speaker 3: because I don't think it needs to be. But we

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Speaker 3: have been saying on this show for years, you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, then move some place cheaper. That's what I always did.

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Speaker 3: If I couldn't afford to live somewhere, I moved some

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Speaker 2: Why why do.

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Speaker 3: Other taxpayers owe you the ability to stay in a

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Speaker 1: Nuts, right, right, And just you know, you live your

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Speaker 2: With heart at tax money and I'll tell you to

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were very, very successful our first job

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Speaker 1: topped out and needed to go, you know, seek our

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Speaker 2: But a lot of people do that.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, this I wanted to get to this part and

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Speaker 1: then there's more on the general topic.

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Speaker 2: To come and trust me. It's so interesting.

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Speaker 1: You've heard the expression moving day, right, I mean people

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Speaker 2: It's funny.

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Speaker 1: It's a term in golf. It's like the midway point

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Speaker 1: The great holiday of America, when it was so nomadic,

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Speaker 3: I as much as I read history, have never come

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Speaker 1: It was primarily an urban thing, although many rural communities

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Speaker 1: For months before moving day, Americans prepared for the occasion.

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Speaker 1: they want some convenience not heretofore enjoyed. The Topeka Daily

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Speaker 3: And the point of putting that in the article, obviously

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Speaker 3: moving was so much different. And as we've said, every

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Speaker 3: like Joe said, I fully understand why it'd be awesome

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 3: Well until somebody emerges. That is the problem that if

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Speaker 3: I were a Democrat, I'd want somebody to emerge who's

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Speaker 3: closer to the center.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's an interesting conundrum they're in, though, because his

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Speaker 1: previous puts it so charmingly. The only people who can

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Speaker 1: get more than twenty people to show up, or a

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Speaker 1: couple of socialist crackpots, one as old as the hills

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Speaker 1: and the other one quite attractive but doesn't have two

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Speaker 1: thoughts to ro up together. And so if you're on

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Speaker 1: the energized Vocal fundraising Instagram follower left of the left,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, wait a minute, you're telling me to defer

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Speaker 1: to these these people in the center.

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Speaker 2: They're nobody's they've got no energy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Republicans are going to win until the

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Speaker 3: Democratic Party understands, finally, completely understands that Twitter is not

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Speaker 3: real life and they're.

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Speaker 2: Not there yet.

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Speaker 1: And it's just it's absolutely amazing to me. I was

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Speaker 1: listening to the National Review podcast over the weekend and

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Speaker 1: they were making the point of.

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Speaker 2: How Trump sucks.

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Speaker 3: So many of these you know, vocal get so much

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Speaker 3: attention activists into doing what he wants them to do.

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Speaker 3: So the Trump administration arresting that Columbia student, whether that's

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Speaker 3: legal or illegal, or right or wrong free speech wise,

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Speaker 3: you got your the AOC crowd trying to raise this

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Speaker 3: guy up like he's some sort of hero, and that

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Speaker 3: ain't gonna.

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Speaker 2: Work with more most of the country style.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got most of the Country saying he

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Speaker 1: ain't no hero to me, sounds like he's Prohomas.

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Speaker 2: So once again the Democrats just taking the bait.

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Speaker 1: And one more thought a frequent correspondent, Paolo Rights and

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Speaker 1: if you have want to drop us an email, feel

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Speaker 1: free mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com. It's

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Speaker 1: a number of examples of what I was talking about before,

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Speaker 1: how the left, part of the left is just kicking

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Speaker 1: the hell out of anybody who tries to be even

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Speaker 1: moderately moderate, and it's He quotes Michelle Goldberg, who's just

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Speaker 1: a wildly left columnist for the New York Times and obnoxious.

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Speaker 1: But it has the columns about Gavin Newsom saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: dudes in women's sports is not cool, it's unfair, And

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 2: You all heard about that, I'm sure, on that podcast

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Speaker 2: a while back.

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Speaker 1: But then she says it was especially he'll advise for

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Speaker 1: Newsom to roll out as pivot on trans women in sports,

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Speaker 1: it's dudes. In a conversation with Kirk, a man once

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Speaker 1: described trans people as blah blah blah. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of both political expediency and simple honesty, Democrats should be

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Speaker 1: able to acknowledge that it's unfair to expect elite female

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Speaker 1: athletes to compete against trans women who've gone through male puberty. Okay, wow,

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Speaker 1: all right, I appreciate hearing that from Michelle Goldberg.

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Speaker 2: But here's where it gets interesting.

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Speaker 1: But at the time when the Trump administration is single

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Speaker 1: trans people out for persecution, what now?

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Speaker 2: Right? That's why Rose moved to Ireland.

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Speaker 1: Partially, Democrats need to couple the recognition of physical difference

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Speaker 1: with a broader defense of trans rights. And as Powell

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Speaker 1: points out, she's saying Trump is so horrible, we mustn't

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Speaker 1: agree with him even when he's right, and we should

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Speaker 1: continue letting men beat up on women, on the girls

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Speaker 1: on the sports field, lest we agree with Trump on

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Speaker 1: anything that is Trump derangement Sentrome. Right.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think Gavin Newsom recognizes that the John Fetterman

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Speaker 3: Bill Maher party could win elections. The AOC Elizabeth Warren

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Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders party cannot.

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Speaker 2: Right, in spite of their energy and fundraising ability and

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Speaker 2: the rest of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ad a, uh got to do a cherish I

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Speaker 3: guess it doesn't have to be father.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say father tradition, but I suppose

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Speaker 2: moms do it too.

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Speaker 3: Working on teaching my son to drive as he turned

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Speaker 3: fifteen a couple of weeks ago, and at fifteen and

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Speaker 3: a half. Go at fifteen and a half you can

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Speaker 3: start driving. So we were out driving around on County

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Speaker 3: Road yesterday, which I'm sure is highly illegal. But a story,

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Speaker 3: like all.

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Speaker 1: Stories told on the Armstrong e Getty Show, is entirely fictional.

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Speaker 2: I don't even have kids, but he was out driving around.

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Speaker 2: But I gotta I gotta come up with a reasonable

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Speaker 2: vehicle for him to drive. We don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't own anything that's like a regular car, so

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Speaker 3: it's not going to do any good to learn how

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Speaker 3: to drive like ridiculous Tesla's because Elon doesn't like various things.

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Speaker 3: There's no turn signal stick, for instance, so you don't

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Speaker 3: learn how to do that, and I don't know if

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Speaker 3: what happens to you just.

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Speaker 2: Turn the wheel in the signal.

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Speaker 3: There's a button you press, which is very unhandy. I

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Speaker 3: much rather have the stick. Yeah, it's annoying. Don't mess

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Speaker 3: with stuff that works.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, I.

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Speaker 3: Know Elon, but anyway, but he's really really excited about it.

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Speaker 3: And you know, as you do, as most people do,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can still remember.

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Speaker 2: Drivers in and learning to drive myself. It's just I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know if it's.

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Speaker 1: The freedom or the fact that you're you know, in

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Speaker 1: control of a big, giant machine, or it makes you

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Speaker 1: feel like an adult.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, it's just intoxicating or what's for me?

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Speaker 1: Well, right, And I'm not the least bit surprised by

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Speaker 1: this because we're talking about your kid. But I think

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Speaker 1: it's notable that your kid likes girls, wants to date them,

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Speaker 1: and wants a driver's license, because that is.

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Speaker 2: Far from universal.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the modern day, nobody couples and kids

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Speaker 1: don't bother getting their license until years later.

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Speaker 3: If I don't, I don't think I've done anything culturally

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Speaker 3: in my home.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. But he's had a couple of girlfriends

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Speaker 2: and he can't wait to drive.

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Speaker 1: So well, you're at least way for toward the free

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Speaker 1: range parents ideal than a lot of folks are these days.

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Speaker 1: But do you think those two things are very tied

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Speaker 1: very closely?

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, you think those are tied together.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's a love of adventure, tolerance for risk, all

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Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. You've let him make mistakes and

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Speaker 1: you know, get lost and find his way, find himself back.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Michael, I just remember scaring the hell out of

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Speaker 4: my dad the first couple of times I went by

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Speaker 4: the way.

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Speaker 3: Well, it depends what you're driving. I learned to drive

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Speaker 3: in my parents station wagging. I was trying to tell

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Speaker 3: my son this, that one when I was fourteen, which

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Speaker 3: is when you learned to drive. I was like four

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Speaker 3: foot eleven for one thing, and they didn't You didn't

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Speaker 3: have seats you could raise up back then. So I'm

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Speaker 3: sitting down low and I can see nothing but a giant,

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Speaker 3: giant hood. Had no idea where I was on the road,

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Speaker 3: just wow, hood and sky was all I could see.

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Speaker 2: I need a phone book for you to sit down. Oh,

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Speaker 2: how emasculating? Is that?

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Speaker 1: The phone book the booster seat of the sixties and seventies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh, it's insane that I was driving at fourteen or

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Speaker 1: anyone was just insane.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's insane. Well every parent knows this. It seems

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Speaker 2: insane your.

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Speaker 3: Sixteen year old is driving because they still seem like

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Speaker 3: little kids do It's like what and.

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Speaker 2: Or idiots not speaking about your kids.

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Speaker 1: Certainly, On the other hand, you've got the if I

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Speaker 1: have to drive you back and forth to school one

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Speaker 1: more time this week, I'm gonna go crazy for band

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Speaker 1: or sports or whatever the heck it is.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the astronauts are coming home.

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Speaker 3: Finally we got a little We got some news on that,

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Speaker 3: which is that's because of you on right.

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Speaker 1: Uh well, yeah, he successfully got to rocket up and

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Speaker 1: soon back.

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Speaker 3: We hope we bombed the crap out of some people. Also,

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Speaker 3: we could give you the update on that, among other things.

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Speaker 2: Stay here, Army Strong.

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Speaker 5: A twenty eight hour journey through space and a reunion

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Speaker 5: months in the Make It NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and

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Speaker 5: Sanita Williams and the rest of Crew nine hugged their relief.

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Speaker 5: It comes after a picture perfect launch Friday night from

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Speaker 5: the Candid Center in Florida, SpaceX Crew ten climbing through

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Speaker 5: the skies above a Falcon nine rocket, traveling it over

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Speaker 5: seventeen thousand miles per hour to the ISS. Among those

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Speaker 5: waiting for them Briche and Sunny, the two test pilots

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Speaker 5: for Boeing Starliner Or, whose mission aboard the ISS turned

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Speaker 5: from ten days to over nine months. But Sonny and

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Speaker 5: the rest of Crew nine one step closer to their

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Speaker 5: return to Earth.

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Speaker 3: A ten day space mission that turned into nine months.

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Speaker 3: That's something, Well, I don't care if it's a golf

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Speaker 3: trip or a fishing trip or a European river cruise.

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Speaker 3: If I sign up for ten days and it turns

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Speaker 3: into nine months, I'm probably a little annoyed. Yeah, although

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Speaker 3: they've been quoted many times as saying, you know what,

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Speaker 3: We're sorry, our families have had to adjust, but this

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Speaker 3: is fun and interesting for us.

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Speaker 2: You know, I believe them. Yeah, I'd be upsides and downsides.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, heck of a deal. Hope they get home,

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Speaker 1: though certainly I expect they will. So we were talking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the left kicking anybody, any Democrat who comes

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Speaker 1: up is even reasonably moderate, And I found this on

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Speaker 1: I just came across this seconds after we and in

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Speaker 1: last segment. The feedback from Gaviy Newsom's podcast is disastrous.

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Speaker 1: His favorability amongst liberals has declined from forty six percent

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Speaker 1: to thirty percent. Republicans, on the other hand, having listened

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, overwhelmingly viewed him as insincere, calling him

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Speaker 1: fake and pandering, and his letter.

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Speaker 3: Favorite because he was fake and pandering that might have

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Speaker 3: led people to that conclusion.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that analysis. I agree with it completely.

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Speaker 1: His net favorability favorability rating dropped from plus four to

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Speaker 1: minus six, a ten point swing in the wrong direction. Wow,

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Speaker 1: almost instantaneously.

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Speaker 3: First of all, uh, that's got to be an interesting

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Speaker 3: warning shot to anybuddy who wants to raise their head

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Speaker 3: up as a moderate Democrat out there, get it lopped

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Speaker 3: off by the woke side. Apparently, he also might have

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Speaker 3: the problem. He might be like a Hillary Clinton, where

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Speaker 3: the more people are exposed to him, the more they

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Speaker 3: don't like him.

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Speaker 2: Just yes for some reason, yes, well yes, not like yes.

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Speaker 1: Right, And like a variety of Republican governors who I

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Speaker 1: liked very much through the years who decided to run

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Speaker 1: for president, it turned out, especially in a heavily Republican state,

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Speaker 1: you felt like they had the chops to run from

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Speaker 1: president for president. That's because they never really had to

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Speaker 1: show their chops. Gavin Newsom has risen up as a rich, powerful,

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Speaker 1: connected guy in a one party state.

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Speaker 2: And indeed, you know, as he indicated, the more you

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Speaker 2: hear from him, the less you like him. So keep talking.

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Speaker 3: Gavy isn't making a bracket anywhere Michael.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet our boss does. I'll bet the boss Boss does. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: not that I'm aware of, but I would check there

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Speaker 2: the Big Boss. Yeah. I'm going to gamble heavily. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna get involved. Fill up the bike. I know.

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Speaker 3: I didn't follow hardly at all this year college basketball,

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Speaker 3: which probably makes it more likely that I would win

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Speaker 3: than any other year when I watch lots of games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with players switching teams every single year, and lots

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Speaker 1: of freshmen playing, and lots of grad students who just

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Speaker 1: just play well into their late twenties.

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Speaker 3: And plus just in general, the guy at the workplace

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Speaker 3: usually the guy that doesn't win well.

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Speaker 2: And it's more true than ever.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be wild upsets every single day this year.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, close your eyes and fill in your bracket.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of news stations that joined us today

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Speaker 3: five News station, Thanks, we appreciate it, Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: Hope you like it.

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Speaker 1: Truly do I think you will try to bring you

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Speaker 1: No, I don't care when traffic is but without left

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Speaker 1: wing spin, and we try to bring you the truth

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Speaker 1: own side too. You might have to get used to that,

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Speaker 1: but that's the way we roll. Man a lot of

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Speaker 1: time and temperature checks.

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Speaker 3: Oh if you need an umbrella today, If you missed

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