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Speaker 1: Welcome in Wednesday edition, Clay and Buck. We appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you, and we have got breaking news across a

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Speaker 1: series of locations around the world. In particular, President Trump

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Speaker 1: is in Davos, and he spoke earlier today and set

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Speaker 1: a great deal about a huge variety of topics at

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Speaker 1: that event. Also last night, Buck, as I was getting

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Speaker 1: ready to go to bed, they had to turn around

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Speaker 1: to fly to Davos. I know that it doesn't get

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Speaker 1: talked about very much, but it is pretty extraordinary that

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Speaker 1: President Trump flew all night to Switzerland, landed, and now

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Speaker 1: is going to spend a full day doing a ton

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Speaker 1: of serious and intense representation of the United States on

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Speaker 1: the global stage. For those of you who have taken

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Speaker 1: overnight flight, and people say, oh, well, he's got a

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Speaker 1: he's got a bed, he can just I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: working most of the time. And no, he's not actually

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Speaker 1: sleeping very much. And he's rolling straight in and nailing

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Speaker 1: all of these things. So let's start with this. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it's probably the most significant aspect of all the things

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Speaker 1: that he said. He has said, I will not use

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Speaker 1: force to take Greenland, as we told you was the case,

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Speaker 1: but the media had been losing their mind over Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, Trump's gonna invade Greenland and we're going to

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Speaker 1: have a war. And here's cut five.

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Speaker 2: We never asked for anything, and we never got anything.

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Speaker 2: We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use

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Speaker 2: excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable.

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Speaker 3: But I won't do that. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Now everyone's saying, oh good, that's probably the biggest statement

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Speaker 2: a man, because people thought I would use force.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to use force. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: use force. I won't use force.

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Speaker 2: All the United States is asked King for is a

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Speaker 2: place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee,

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Speaker 2: but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago

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Speaker 2: after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians and others.

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Speaker 3: In World War Two. We gave it back to.

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Speaker 1: Them, okay, buck. Last night I was doing reading on

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Speaker 1: the history of of you know, American expansion, as one does,

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Speaker 1: and a buddy of mine, who was also a Virgin

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Speaker 1: interesting about the acquisition.

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Speaker 4: Yes, as gonna say two Virgin Islands lawyers walk into

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Speaker 4: a bar.

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Speaker 5: It sounds like a start of a great joke.

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Speaker 6: There.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of US. But he sent me

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Speaker 1: an article and it was a good read. And I've

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Speaker 1: been talking about the fact that we acquired the US

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Speaker 1: Virgin Islands in nineteen seventeen, paid twenty five million dollars

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Speaker 1: in gold, and bought it from the Dutch. Here is

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Speaker 1: an article about that negotiation. Lancing. This is highlighted. Insinuated.

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Speaker 1: This is the I believe the Secretary of State back

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Speaker 1: in the day. Lancing in nineteen seventeen insinuated that if

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Speaker 1: Denmark didn't sell the US the islands, it just might

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Speaker 1: go and seize them to prevent Germany from getting to them.

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Speaker 1: It was a bullying tactic and it worked eager to

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Speaker 1: prevent a US military attack. Denmark was currently a neutral

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Speaker 1: party in World War One. Denmark negotiated a treaty with

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Speaker 1: the US that President Wilson signed in nineteen seventeen. On

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Speaker 1: March thirty first, nineteen seventeen, Denmark formerly transferred governance over

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Speaker 1: the islands to the US, and the US reciprocated by

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Speaker 1: paying Denmark twenty five million dollars in gold coin. What

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Speaker 1: is old can be new again. Now we're going to

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Speaker 1: get into a bunch of what Trump said, But I

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Speaker 1: did think it was intriguing that one hundred years ago,

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Speaker 1: one of the negotiation tactics involved in the United States

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Speaker 1: taking control of the Virgin Islands was, if you don't

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Speaker 1: sell it, we're just gonna take it, Mike. Throughout history,

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Speaker 1: buck has often made right. Trump understands this, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's a sign of how significant his pursuit of

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Speaker 1: Greenland has become that of all the things that he said,

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Speaker 1: I think it is receiving the most consequential attention surrounding

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Speaker 1: the Greenland decision. Did that stand out to you the

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Speaker 1: you or was there other things that stood out in particular?

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Speaker 4: Few funny aspects of this. One is you could really

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Speaker 4: feel the exhale from so many of the assembled Eurocrats

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's not actually going to just seize it by force.

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Speaker 4: No, dude, He's not going to seize your island with

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Speaker 4: the marines. We're not going to be sending F thirty

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Speaker 4: five's in the sky and blowing up Greenland air defenses.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to make them throw harpoons at our

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Speaker 4: And it's just the fact that there was real, apparently

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Speaker 5: So that's that's one aspect of it.

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Speaker 4: There's also clay something else because I've been looking into

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Speaker 4: this as well. Now I am not licensed to practice

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Speaker 4: law in the US Virgin Islands, but I am good

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Speaker 4: at deep dive internet research.

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Speaker 5: So I was wondering.

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Speaker 4: I was like, where else does the United States have

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Speaker 4: something that is a analogous arrangement or territory?

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Speaker 1: A territory, I mean, there's the official legal term.

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Speaker 4: Well, but there's something else actually you jump in and yes,

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Speaker 4: that's part one, part two.

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Speaker 5: We have territories like the Virgin Islands.

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Speaker 4: We also have something that I I on it had

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Speaker 4: not heard of before, which is a voluntary compact essentially,

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Speaker 4: and now we have this with Micronesia, so that is

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Speaker 4: a situation that is similar here. It's called a compact

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Speaker 4: of free association, and we have this with a number

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Speaker 4: of islands in the Pacific. Now it gives us defense,

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Speaker 4: but basically it gives us the right to provide their defense,

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Speaker 4: but we get basing rights. We also have total control

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Speaker 4: over their waterways for strategic military purposes and their air

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Speaker 4: but we totally defend them visa free migration to the US.

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Speaker 4: A lot of US federal assistants given to them economic

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Speaker 4: assistance for education, health, infrastructure. But if they decide they

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Speaker 4: don't like the situation, they can end it. This requires

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Speaker 4: just vote of This is not a two third Senate

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Speaker 4: treaty situation. A compact or free association would just be

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Speaker 4: a majority in the Congress, a majority in the House

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Speaker 4: lot easier to do Now, it's not as it's not

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Speaker 4: as enduring. But I'm just saying we already have this

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Speaker 4: some stuff. But if we need to like build an

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, some of the Danes would argue, based on

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Speaker 1: that we have access to Greenland to protect for purposes

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Speaker 1: need Greenland for military reasons, and I do think there's

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Speaker 1: So I think he's trying and again a lot of

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Speaker 1: times this happens with any of you who've dealt with

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Speaker 1: real estate developers. There can be a mutuality of goal,

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Speaker 1: and so the lead is, oh, we need this for

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Speaker 1: if we have the ability to defend Greenland in a

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Speaker 1: in many ways aspect of this buck is I really

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Speaker 1: do think that he wants to have complete title to

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Speaker 1: is why I think the territory example, like the US

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Speaker 4: And also though, wouldn't be Trump if he didn't take

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Speaker 4: this opportunity, like the right wing uncle at Thanksgiving, to

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Speaker 4: just lay down the facts of life a little bit

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Speaker 4: of the whiny libs, the snowflakes as we used to

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Speaker 4: call them a decade or so ago. Here he is

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Speaker 4: telling all those Europeans, you know it's coming. Well at us,

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Speaker 4: you'd be speaking German and Japanese.

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Speaker 5: Play four.

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Speaker 2: We saw this in World War Two when Denmark fell

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Speaker 2: totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland.

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Speaker 3: So the United States was then compelled. We did it.

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Speaker 2: We felt an obligation to do it, to send our

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Speaker 3: At great courts and expense.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have a chance of getting on it, and

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Speaker 2: they tried. Denmark knows that we literally set up bases

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Speaker 2: on Greenland for Denmark.

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Speaker 3: We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else.

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Speaker 3: We were fighting to save it.

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Speaker 2: For Denmark, big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to

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Speaker 2: we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining

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Speaker 3: So we did it for ourselves also.

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Speaker 2: And then after the war, which we won, we won

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Speaker 2: it big without us. Right now, you'd all be speaking

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Speaker 2: German and little Japanese. Perhaps after the wager. We gave

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Speaker 3: How stupid were we to do that? But we did it.

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Speaker 3: But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?

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Speaker 4: Okay, So, by the way, there's a great podcast opportunity,

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Speaker 4: Trump does History. So then we crushed the Nazis, huge

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Speaker 4: crushing of the evil, evil, bad Nazi. And the Japanese

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Speaker 4: very bad too, the Japanese good cars in the eighties,

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Speaker 4: bad World War two Japanese. Would you not listen to

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Speaker 4: Trump Does History as a podcast would be amazingly extemporaneus

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Speaker 4: allowed though.

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Speaker 1: It is great too for him to go in front

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Speaker 1: of that entire European community and remind them that the

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Speaker 1: only reason they have freedom and the only reason that

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Speaker 1: they're not speaking German and perhaps a little Japanese, which

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Speaker 1: is a just a great aside the way to the

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Speaker 1: way that Trump delivered it. I do think when you

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Speaker 1: break all of this down, I'm gonna make a prediction, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get Greenland. I just I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what the timeframe is going to be, but

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to fit some form of territorial

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Speaker 1: like the Virgin Islands, like Guom, some form of construct

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Speaker 1: like that. I think it'll be more substantial than the

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Speaker 1: agreement you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: Buck.

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Speaker 1: Now, they may argue for purposes of trying to look

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Speaker 1: like they are just completely relenting to Trump. They may say, well,

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Speaker 1: this is just a mutual He's not getting anything that

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Speaker 1: he wants, right Like, there could be an element of

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Speaker 1: the way the media plays it, But I think Trump wants,

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Speaker 1: you know, free and clear title of Greenland and the

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Speaker 1: ability to develop its resources for the next hundreds of

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Speaker 1: years for the United States. I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: get it, and I think it may lead to us

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Speaker 1: having to pay off all of the fifty seven thousand

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Speaker 1: of the people who live in Greenland. Right It's not

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Speaker 1: going to be cheap and we're not going to seize

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Speaker 1: it to your point. With boots on the ground, there's

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Speaker 4: Good morning listening to Trump's comments at Davos, and we're

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Speaker 3: So what I called up Emmanuel Macrone? I watched him

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Speaker 4: There were a lot of comments about Brigitte Macron having

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Speaker 5: But I'm just putting out there that there are people that.

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Speaker 1: It has to be so egregious to wear sunglasses indoors

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Speaker 1: Back in Play Travis buck Sexton Show. President Trump is

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Speaker 1: in Davos. He made a great deal of news earlier

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Speaker 1: Clearly the most newsworthy aspect of his address. But his

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Speaker 1: top of the third hour. But the protests in Minneapolis continue,

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Speaker 6: Cut one, the situation in Minnesota remind us that the

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a.

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Speaker 3: How to run America. Not going to get.

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Speaker 1: Away with it much longer, let me tell you, okay, buck.

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Speaker 1: So the older I get, as I move into squarely

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Speaker 1: The culture you create in your family, the culture you

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Speaker 4: It also, though Clay, it goes right into a much

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Speaker 4: At least that was the plan, so that they would

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Speaker 1: who have expanded organizations. One of the hardest things to

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Speaker 1: do when you're maintaining a culture is grow because the

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Speaker 1: people who are there that have established the culture suddenly

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Speaker 1: have a less significant impact in the culture going forward,

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Speaker 1: and you lose touch with what made you successful in

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Speaker 1: the past. To me, that's what we did with immigration

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Speaker 1: and the immigration that I've always bought into.

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Speaker 5: Buck.

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Speaker 1: I like your analogy of Cubans Venezuelan's people who have

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Speaker 1: truly experienced awfulness in their countries and come here and

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Speaker 1: are so immensely grateful for the fabric of this nation.

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Speaker 1: But what I've always wanted is us to take the

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Speaker 1: intellectual first round draft picks of the world, people who

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Speaker 1: are highly skilled and are going to be able to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of the frameworks that we have created to

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Speaker 1: build better businesses, to build better companies to build a

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Speaker 1: better America. The numbers on Somalis that stand out to

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Speaker 1: me is eighty percent of the welfare and multi generational welfare.

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Speaker 1: Why in the world, and you talked about this, it's

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Speaker 1: technically illegal to do this, but we keep doing it.

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Speaker 1: How in the world are we able to justify to

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Speaker 1: American taxpayers bringing in people from foreign countries and immediately

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Speaker 1: giving them American taxpayer dollars. It should be a non starter, period.

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Speaker 4: Well, think about the attitude you had from Kars Swisher.

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Speaker 4: We played the clip a few days ago on the

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Speaker 4: show of You Know you billionaires in California. You're ungrateful

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Speaker 4: pieces of bleep because you don't want to go from

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Speaker 4: having the highest taxes in the country to even higher

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Speaker 4: taxes in the form of really a wealth confiscation act,

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Speaker 4: which is what it is. Does anyone think that there

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Speaker 4: isn't a lot of fraud going on in California too,

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Speaker 4: but they don't want to deal with that. Does anyone

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Speaker 4: think the dollars being spent in California are efficient and

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Speaker 4: are going to things that make the lives of Californians better?

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Speaker 4: But they never want to deal with that clib They

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Speaker 4: don't want to deal with fraud. Democrats don't want to

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Speaker 4: deal with efficiency. They don't want to deal with because

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Speaker 4: they like people getting paid by the state because it's

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Speaker 4: other people's money, at least that's what you're led to believe.

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Speaker 5: And then they distributed to their friends. Then they distributed.

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Speaker 4: You know, this is why the teachers' unions and public

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Speaker 4: school teachers all across the country in these blue states

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Speaker 4: in particular, are rock solid for Democrats. Why bureaucrats are

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Speaker 4: rock solid for Democrats. I mean, if you look up

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Speaker 4: the city of Chicago and how it's paying for well,

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Speaker 4: the percentage of its budget that goes to paying six

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Speaker 4: figure retirement packages for former city employees, it would blow

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Speaker 4: your mind.

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Speaker 5: This stuff is unsustainable.

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Speaker 1: It would be one thing if our government was fantastically

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Speaker 1: well run. I actually will give credit. Probably didn't expect

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Speaker 1: for me to give a shout out to him. I

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Speaker 1: think I've mentioned it on the show once or twice before.

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Speaker 1: Phil Micholson, who lives in California now said the government

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Speaker 1: in California basically takes half my money and and we

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Speaker 1: get back really poor resources as a result. He compared

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Speaker 1: it with Elon Musk because there's been a fight with billionaires, said,

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Speaker 1: every time I get a dollar to Elon Musk, I

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Speaker 1: get back fifteen dollars. Who better uses the capital of

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Speaker 1: Phil Nicholson, who is fortunate former golfer or still golfer

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Speaker 1: but successful. I've made a lot of money the state

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Speaker 1: of California or investors in California. Who would you rather

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Speaker 1: give your money too? It's just a no brainer. It's

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Speaker 1: one thing. If they were super efficient, maybe you would

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Speaker 1: feel better about it. Our government weighs so much money.

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Speaker 1: I can spend it better. You can spend it better,

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Speaker 1: all of you can. Okay, So I got I've got

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Speaker 1: some great numbers for you here.

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Speaker 4: I know we don't talk about Chicago except in the

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Speaker 4: context of crime usually on this show, and how it

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Speaker 4: has a terrible mayor. Among give credit where it's due.

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Speaker 4: Chicago in the Worst Mayor sweepstakes, I think it's a

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Speaker 4: top five, which is pretty impressive. I think they have

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Speaker 4: a top five worst mayor in the country. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think he's certainly up there and is only doing

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Speaker 4: things to make it worse. But I look this up.

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Speaker 4: Gotta love groc Man. Grock is like such a little

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Speaker 4: assistant all the time. I look this up, and the

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Speaker 4: City of Chicago has eighty percent, eighty percent of property

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Speaker 4: tax revenue going toward city pensions. Forty percent of all appropriations.

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Speaker 4: Of all the money that the City of Chicago takes in,

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Speaker 4: forty percent goes to pensions.

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Speaker 5: It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: That is completely outrageous. And they keep what do you

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Speaker 4: think they keep doing in Chicago? Just like they doing this,

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Speaker 4: They keep raising property taxes, gotta get more money, gotta

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Speaker 4: get because the Democrats get elected by getting these public

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Speaker 4: sector unions to show up and vote for them.

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Speaker 1: And here is the problem with that, buck, It's harder

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Speaker 1: and harder to raise money because more and more people

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Speaker 1: are leaving Chicago because they're charging more and more money,

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Speaker 1: and the harder the most money. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: a neighbor now down in Miami. Ken Griffin will probably

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Speaker 1: the most successful private equity guy in all of Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Finally just said I can't deal with this anymore. It's

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Speaker 1: And now he's building what's like a billion dollar complex.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a crazy amount that he is building

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Speaker 1: for his new headquarters Citadel. I believe I'm not mistaken

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Speaker 1: in Miami. This is a direct tangible result of failed

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Speaker 1: economic choices. President Trump, by the way, speaking again at

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Speaker 5: Welcome back in here too, Play and Buck.

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Speaker 4: So we've got Trump now speaking at the CEO reception

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Speaker 4: and dinner down at the Down at.

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Speaker 5: Hey just down the street at Davos.

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Speaker 4: But uh, you know, he's doing his Trump thing, and

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Speaker 4: he's talking to everybody about the situation of well what

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Speaker 4: he hopes will be the very changed situation of Greenland.

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Speaker 4: Let's get a couple of talkbacks here. AA Bill in

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Speaker 4: New Jersey A wo r listener, Let's hear.

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Speaker 7: It very first, lang chief shots come cruising. So we

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Speaker 7: formed ourselves into tight groups, you know, kind of like

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Speaker 7: old Squaze in the Battle leg and you see in

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Speaker 7: the calendar and the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea

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Speaker 7: was shot comes the nearest man.

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Speaker 5: Then then he's.

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Speaker 7: Start bounding, holler and screaming. Sometimes the shark galay, patsy

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Speaker 7: lingoi inspite of all the pounding the hull. And they

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Speaker 7: all come in repeated pieces. So eleven hundred men went in.

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Speaker 7: There were so one hundred and sixty men come out

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Speaker 7: of the sharks took the rest. During the twenty ninth,

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Speaker 7: nineteen forty five.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, exact we mixed I think we mixed up.

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Speaker 1: We wanted AA first, so I think we stepped on

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Speaker 1: the back end joke there. The joke was Bill in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey yesterday, as we finished the show, I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm increasingly afraid that I would get eaten by a shark.

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Speaker 1: And there and I said, usually people swimming in big

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Speaker 1: groups are safe. And Bill in New Jersey AA said

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Speaker 1: this play But.

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Speaker 2: Bill in New Jersey, people swimming in big groups, huh

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Speaker 2: yeah safe, huh yeah.

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Speaker 3: Tell that to the guys from the Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: All right, And then we had Quinn from Jaws who

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Speaker 1: told this one which we just heard, yes, which is

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Speaker 1: I think one of the best parts, maybe the most

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Speaker 1: memorable part in some ways, of the whole movie.

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Speaker 5: That movie.

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Speaker 4: He absolutely crushes it. You know, he's talking about the

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Speaker 4: He's like when delivered the bomb. You know, he gets

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Speaker 4: into all that stuff. How was an amazing, amazing story.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it turns out that swimming in a big group, well,

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Speaker 4: to be fair, I think you probably are safer than

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Speaker 4: a solo because sharks are always opportunistic hunters, correct, So

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Speaker 4: you know, it's it's like you're probably in better shape.

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Speaker 4: But you see, there's been a few more. Just recently,

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Speaker 4: some kids jumped in the water in Sydney Harbor. Unfortunately

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Speaker 4: he's basically he's brain dead now. A bull shark, a

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Speaker 4: bull shark took off both of his legs, like almost

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Speaker 4: on impact in the water. So he must have there

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Speaker 4: must have been a big bull shark right there. He

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Speaker 4: jumped in the water with a splash. So anyway, I

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Speaker 4: know there's only you know, seven shark attacks in the world.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I mean, there's sharks out there. I'm

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Speaker 4: just saying, there's sharks out there. It could be very

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Speaker 4: very tragic situation if they go wrong. Yeah, right after.

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Speaker 1: We got back from the Virgin Islands, A it doesn't

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Speaker 1: ever happen in the Virgin Islands. A woman got attacked

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Speaker 1: and this all started with My take on My concern

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Speaker 1: is that I'm like the wounded seal. You have all

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Speaker 1: these excellent swimmers on escape from Alcatraz and they're way

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Speaker 1: out into the future, and then I am left behind

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Speaker 1: looking like the easy prey. And that's my.

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Speaker 4: Concern, right if it's you and Riley Gaines and those

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Speaker 4: outswim the Great White. They just have to outswim clay.

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Speaker 4: That's right, pretty easy, which I don't think it'd be

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Speaker 4: too hard for them, So personally, I think that's the

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Speaker 4: danger here.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for top of the next hour, buck,

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Speaker 1: We got a bunch of stuff going on out there

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Speaker 1: in addition to Davos. As we said, President Trump continues

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Speaker 1: to speak live right now there.

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Speaker 4: I also want to get into Minneapolis and talk about

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Speaker 4: the latest from the front lines of that insanity, because there's.

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Speaker 5: Still an effort by the.

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Speaker 4: Leftist shock troops to create this as some kind of

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Speaker 4: a natural thing. I do think it's losing some ground.

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Speaker 4: It is very cold up there. I mean it's not

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Speaker 4: as snowy as Nashville is going to be this weekend, clay,

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Speaker 4: but Minneapolis is a tough place to be parked outside

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Speaker 4: for hours on the street, just hoping and hoping that

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Speaker 4: you're going to stop ice from doing their jobs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, I am terrified of the white death sweeping closer

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Speaker 1: and closer to my city. Nashville is done.

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Speaker 5: Pray for us. We'll be back next