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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 arms Strong

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Speaker 1: and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: It's very complicated. There'll be some swapping of territories.

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Speaker 3: It's not clear which territories would be swapped. Russia currently

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Speaker 3: occupies twenty percent of Ukraine, and Ukraine only controls about

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Speaker 3: thirty square miles of Russia. Wow, after it launched an

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Speaker 3: offensive last year. Some Europeans think this summit is heading

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Speaker 3: towards Munich like appeasement before World War Two. Former CIA

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Speaker 3: station chief in Moscow, Dan Hoffman says Russia's goal remains unchanged.

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Speaker 4: Putin wants to be able to re arm and potentially

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Speaker 4: attack again down the road in the future, because what

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Speaker 4: Putin wants is to destroy Ukraine and install a puppet

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Speaker 4: regime in Kiev.

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Speaker 5: I didn't realize it was that little Ukraine has thirty

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Speaker 5: insignificant square miles of Russia. Yeah, here's the entire quote

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Speaker 5: from Trump over the weekend about the possible peace deal

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Speaker 5: they're going to put together. When Trump and Boot and

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Speaker 5: Meat this Friday in Alaska.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're looking at territory that's been fought over for

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Speaker 2: three and a half years with you know, a lot

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Speaker 2: of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died.

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Speaker 1: So we're looking at that.

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Speaker 2: But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.

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Speaker 2: It's complicated, it's actually nothing easy.

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Speaker 1: It's very complicated.

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Speaker 2: But we're going to get some back, We're going to

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Speaker 2: get some some switched. There'll be some swapping of territories

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Speaker 2: to the betterment of both. And but we'll be talking

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Speaker 2: about that either later.

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Speaker 1: Or tomorrow or whatever.

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Speaker 5: He's being vague, and I hope he's being vague to

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Speaker 5: try to not throw out the really difficult stuff right

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Speaker 5: there in that sound bite. But the fact that he's

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Speaker 5: only mentioning land, there's no win in Ukraine. Well, let's

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Speaker 5: hear from Zelensky first and then we can discuss this.

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Speaker 1: I suppose.

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Speaker 6: Of course, our team is working with the United States.

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Speaker 6: Not a single day goes by without communication on how

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Speaker 6: to ensure real peace. We understand Russia's intention to deceive America.

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Speaker 1: We will not allow this.

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Speaker 6: I greatly value the determination with which President Trump is

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Speaker 6: committed to bring an end to the killings in this war.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it seems Zelensky's eyes are open. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: The one thing that troubled me about what Trump said

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Speaker 7: was he kept phrasing it that we're looking at swapping

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Speaker 7: this land for this land, and we're looking at blah

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Speaker 7: blah blah, and the Ukrainians are not in on that

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Speaker 7: deal Northern Europeans at this point, which we'll get into

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Speaker 7: in a second, but it sounds less like a broke

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Speaker 7: er helping to reach two parties find an agreement then

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Speaker 7: a guy just finding an agreement on his own well.

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Speaker 1: And nobody knows where he really is. On Putin, if he's.

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Speaker 5: Actually woken up to what a scumbag, murderous, lying, evil, villain,

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Speaker 5: devil person Putin is, if.

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Speaker 1: He always us, if he always.

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Speaker 5: If he always knew that and was pretending, or if

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Speaker 5: he's just woken up to it, or if he hasn't completely.

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Speaker 5: But in that statement there he said a lot of

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Speaker 5: people have died, a lot of Russians, a lot of Ukraines. See,

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Speaker 5: the problem is one of the brokers does not care.

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Speaker 5: Putin does not care at all how many of his

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Speaker 5: own people die. It makes no difference. It's not part

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Speaker 5: of the calculation. So you say that is meaningless.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So, the European powers in the Ukraine responded to vlad

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Speaker 7: Putin's ceasefire plan with a counter proposal that they are

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Speaker 7: making clear Trump must serve as a framework so that

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Speaker 7: the coming talks can gain any traction. They rejected the

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Speaker 7: Russian proposal to trade Ukrainian held parts of the Dunetsk

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Speaker 7: region for a ceasefire. They put forth their plan the

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Speaker 7: meeting with tip US officials in England on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: JD.

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Speaker 5: Vance was out there running around talking everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Interesting, Russia has not made steps toward peace despite its

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Speaker 7: talks with the US, say the Ukrainians. US officials said

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Speaker 7: the meetings on Saturday made progress toward Trump's goal of

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Speaker 7: ending the war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see that. I must have missed that paragraph.

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Speaker 5: Because Russia is saying no NATO membership, Ukraine needs to disarm,

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Speaker 5: not have a military there. We get to keep all

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Speaker 5: the land and a couple other things. I mean, it's

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Speaker 5: a complete non starter as far as I can tell.

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Speaker 7: European leaders said in a joint statement after the meeting

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Speaker 7: that a diplomatic end of the war must protect Ukraine's

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Speaker 7: and Europe's security interests. So what it looks like to

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Speaker 7: me is you have a handful of proposals which have

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Speaker 7: practically no overlap and a very different verbiage coming out

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Speaker 7: of everybody involved. Yeah, Europe, how promising the whole thing is,

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Speaker 7: or whether there is any overlap.

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Speaker 5: Europe's proposal at least the last one I saw over

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Speaker 5: the weekend was absolutely NATO membership on the way for

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Speaker 5: Ukraine and European troops in Ukraine until then to make

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Speaker 5: sure Putin doesn't go back an again. I don't think

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Speaker 5: there's a chance Putin signs on to that, do you No, No,

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Speaker 5: I don't. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 7: I was deep in thought about one of one fear

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Speaker 7: I know we both share is that Trump is just

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Speaker 7: going to go for peace, no matter what it costs Ukraine,

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Speaker 7: whatever you can get Putin to agree to, which will

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Speaker 7: not bring any sort of lasting piece of Well, it

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Speaker 7: seems that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it seems that I don't know where Zelensky

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Speaker 5: is on this, but even Lindsey Graham yesterday on the

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Speaker 5: talk shows was saying, Ukraine's not gonna boot all the

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Speaker 5: Russians out. That's just not gonna happen. So they're going

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Speaker 5: to have to give a planned, maybe even all the

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Speaker 5: land that they lost. But I mean, I think I

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Speaker 5: would you agree to this? I think if I'm Zelensky,

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Speaker 5: as awful and unfair as it is, life's unfair, I

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Speaker 5: would give up the twenty percent of my country if

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Speaker 5: I get European troops in Ukraine and a path to

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Speaker 5: NATO membership, because that might be the best you can do. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I would agree, that's pretty awful. It's damned awful. And

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Speaker 5: I might include some sort of we got to get

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Speaker 5: those kids back. There needs to be some sort of process.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, but unless I am really really missing some aspect

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Speaker 7: of the way Putin is looking at this, he would never.

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Speaker 1: Agree to that.

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Speaker 5: No, no, because that would be the end of his

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna restore the Soviet Union or be the next

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Speaker 5: Peter the Great or whatever. That'd be the end of it,

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Speaker 5: unless he's willing to go to fight NATO.

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Speaker 7: Well, it reminds me a great deal of the unfortunate

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Speaker 7: situation in Gaza with Hamas and Israel. People keep talking

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Speaker 7: about these peace talks. There's no overlap, or there is.

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Speaker 7: There are such incredibly important areas of non overlap, the

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Speaker 7: areas of overlap are irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: There's just this.

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Speaker 7: Giant, fundamental, like one hundred and eighty degree opposition on

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Speaker 7: certain questions. I don't see how it ends well.

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Speaker 5: So, like Lindsay Graham kept saying, look, two things are true.

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Speaker 5: Ukraine can't boot out every Russian and Putin's not going

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Speaker 5: to Kiev. And I thought that second one's not completely

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Speaker 5: off the table as far as I can tell. If

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Speaker 5: Putin decides, you know, I'm gonna keep fighting. I don't

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Speaker 5: care how many million soldiers I lose. China and India

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Speaker 5: are still gonna buy oil from me, and I'm just

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Speaker 5: gonna keep going.

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Speaker 1: And why wouldn't he.

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Speaker 7: I don't know what his reserve of young men is

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Speaker 7: looking like at this point. I mean, he might arouse

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Speaker 7: so much domestic you know, turmoil that that limits him.

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Speaker 7: But he's got a pretty good police state in uh right,

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Speaker 7: you know, in place right now. Yeah, I don't I

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Speaker 7: don't know, honestly.

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Speaker 1: I don't think.

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Speaker 5: My guess would be he has no intention of stopping

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Speaker 5: prosecuting the war. He thinks at some point Ukraine will

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Speaker 5: break and he will go to Kiev, and this is

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Speaker 5: just an opportunity to you know, drag things out as

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Speaker 5: he always does to keep the sanctions off. Like I

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Speaker 5: said earlier, he's already drug out the sanctions. What another

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Speaker 5: week and he'll go to the meeting and the productive talks.

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Speaker 5: You know, we need to take a look at this.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna get together with my people. We're gonna have

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Speaker 5: a meeting. We've scheduled a meeting for September first, when

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Speaker 5: we'll sit down. I mean, you just keep dragging it

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Speaker 5: out and the next thing you know, it's November and

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Speaker 5: nothing has happened.

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Speaker 5: What are the stakes if Putin gets away with this?

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Speaker 5: Here's Lindsey Graham yesterday.

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Speaker 8: I think everybody knows that how this war ends, it

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Speaker 8: can be a good thing or bad thing. If it

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Speaker 8: ends in a way it looks like that Putin's overly rewarded.

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Speaker 1: There goes Taiwan.

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Speaker 8: You can't end a war without talking. I do hope

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Speaker 8: that Zelenski can be part of the process. I'll leave

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Speaker 8: it up to the White House, but I come on

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Speaker 8: your show a good bit. I want to be honest

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Speaker 8: with you. Your train's not gonna evict of your Russia

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Speaker 8: Russian and Russia's not going to keep so there'll be

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Speaker 8: some land swaps at the end.

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Speaker 7: So here's the thought I wanted to add to your thought.

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Speaker 7: While Putin is stringing Trump along, he is aggressively, semi

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Speaker 7: frantically making deals with India and his big brother China

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Speaker 7: to assure countries that continue to buy oil and are

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Speaker 7: sanctioned by the United States high tariffs, et cetera, that

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Speaker 7: we will do A B and C to help you

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Speaker 7: out economically to soften the blow, and we'll keep the

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Speaker 7: cheap oil flowing into your economies. So you know, he's

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Speaker 7: not just idly or he's not merely stringing Trump along

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Speaker 7: to continue to make battlefield gains. So he can, you know,

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Speaker 7: work behind the scenes diplomatically to defang whatever the US

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Speaker 7: is hoping to implement. And by the way, it also

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Speaker 7: occurred to me, anytime we say Ukraine, we should say

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Speaker 7: Ukraine and Europe, because they seem to have a pretty

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Speaker 7: united front at this point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.

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Speaker 5: It is interesting watching the NATO General Secretary on all

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Speaker 5: the shows yesterday.

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Speaker 5: There is a craze going on. It's the lea boo

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Speaker 10: Hong Kong based artist created a series called The Monsters,

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Speaker 5: And the creepy but cute, mischievous dolls could be its

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Speaker 1: Well at the same time.

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Speaker 5: I don't hang around people like that, and it's just somebody.

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Speaker 5: I bet they don't know what that is. Oh, that'd

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Speaker 7: Well, if you know anything about the NFL, generally they

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Speaker 5: So I'm looking up at the TV. Katie, look this

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Speaker 5: Not a Labuba scam. God, is nothing sacred?

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Speaker 7: Then the backlash to the scam, to the graze of

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Speaker 7: Inside the recent Democratic Socialists of America convention m those

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Speaker 7: Just trying to catch up to your Illinois and your

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Speaker 7: America is fracturing into red and blue nations, and some

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Speaker 7: That leaves less than twenty percent of Americans living in

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Speaker 5: Which is why you might give up and leave that

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Speaker 7: which is an absolute badge that you are a far

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Speaker 7: left progressive.

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Speaker 1: If you ever use that.

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Speaker 5: Fox News, are you listening, well it either it either

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Speaker 5: means you're progressive or you've been tricked by the progressives

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Speaker 5: and you haven't caught on to there exactly. They've convinced

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Speaker 5: you that that's the language you're supposed to use.

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Speaker 1: Is yours again? I went too far and I regret it.

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Speaker 5: Does your article include this or is your feeling that

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Speaker 5: we're moving more toward this direction than like we're at

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Speaker 5: peak this. I feel like we're still moving more toward

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Speaker 5: the great sort.

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Speaker 7: That's a really good question. Just from my gut, I'd say, yeah,

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Speaker 7: I agree with you completely.

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Speaker 5: That ain't good. I don't think it good. It can't

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Speaker 5: be good. Gun it civil war and whatnot? Well, right, yeah,

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Speaker 5: and whatnot? YadA YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And they mentioned that red and blue states have moved

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Speaker 7: into sharply in sharply different directions on employment law, gun regulation,

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Speaker 7: immigration enforcement, sex change, experiments on poor confused little kids.

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Speaker 7: I mentioned Aborsche, And you know, it's obviously bad in

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Speaker 7: that unity is our greatest strength, and that if the

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Speaker 7: president is of the other party, when China invades roughly

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Speaker 7: half the country is going to be tempted to say, oh,

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Speaker 7: that's his fault. You know what, I'm not supporting him

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Speaker 7: fighting the Chinese COMMI herds. He got us into this

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Speaker 7: with his damned you know, fascist or consider or progressive policy,

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Speaker 7: you know, would be disastrous.

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Speaker 5: I've been saying this for years, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: getting worse. If we had a nine to eleven again,

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Speaker 5: when I think who was ever president, George W. Bush

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Speaker 5: or Al Gore, whoever was president, we would have had

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Speaker 5: a ninety percent approval rating for that president, because that's

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Speaker 5: the way we responded to nine to eleven. I don't

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Speaker 5: think that would happen today.

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Speaker 7: So to your point, they quote this fellow, Michael Podhortzer,

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Speaker 7: who is a former political director of the AFLCIO. I

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Speaker 7: have a feeling I know which way he leans, but

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Speaker 7: I thought it's an interesting point. He says, it's an

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Speaker 7: essential error to think of America as a single nation. Rather,

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Speaker 7: the US is a bi national republic, two nations, one red,

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Speaker 7: one blue. He said, there aren't canons, and this isn't

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Speaker 7: bull run. This is not a shooting civil war. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: but it's very much a battle of how people are

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Speaker 7: going to live in this country. In almost every way,

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Speaker 7: life in Blue America is different than in Red America, which,

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Speaker 7: putting aside the whole Chinese Horde scenario, the upside to this,

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Speaker 7: maybe that we've been calling for half seriously for a

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Speaker 7: long time, is all right, y'all get half the country,

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Speaker 7: we get the other half of the country. Let's meet

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Speaker 7: back in a decade and see who's doing better.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but with federalism and such, is the red side

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Speaker 5: going to be paying for a lot of the blue

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Speaker 5: side's ridiculousness.

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Speaker 7: Until it collapses in the style of Illinois Californian more

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Speaker 7: specifically Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, d C. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 7: actually yeah, Well that's the downside of being right about

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Speaker 7: policy is we will not be just decimated with crime

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Speaker 7: and junkieism and overspending in the rest of it.

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Speaker 5: I would like to ask an historian, has this ever

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Speaker 5: been successfully tried before with an empire, country, nation something.

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Speaker 1: Where you have whatever the guy called that, a by.

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Speaker 7: A a bi national republic?

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Speaker 5: Has there ever been a bi national republic or even

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Speaker 5: not a republic, but just you had two completely different

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Speaker 5: ways of living that don't really intermingle within one border

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Speaker 5: in theory, rowing the same direction in the.

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Speaker 7: World, not without some conflict, none that I can think of,

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Speaker 7: having studied political systems since I was a wee lad.

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Speaker 5: And of course the problem with that is whoever's president,

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Speaker 5: it will go back and forth between complete support for

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Speaker 5: that president and practically no support for that president. Right,

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Speaker 5: we'll swing back and forth with that. That'll be fun.

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Speaker 5: It's fun already, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Kids.

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Speaker 7: So on that topic, the Democratic Socialists of America held

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Speaker 7: their conference recently, and wow, they are all excited. We're

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Speaker 7: in charge now, was their message. Zoronami's surprise when was

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Speaker 7: not an anomaly, they said, but rather the start of

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Speaker 7: the dssay's rise to power over.

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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party. I think they are the heir apparent.

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Speaker 1: I hope they're right, because then they're going to lose

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Speaker 1: every election.

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Speaker 7: I think right, because their policies are idiotic and practically suicidal.

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Speaker 7: A couple of facts here that are just too good

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Speaker 7: to pass up. Attendees were required to submit and everybody,

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Speaker 7: stop doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this.

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Speaker 7: And think about this. This just happened in Chicago. Of course,

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Speaker 7: Attendees were required to submit proof of a negative COVID

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Speaker 7: test prior to arrival.

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Speaker 1: In summer of twenty twenty five. This just happened, Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, what is the tie in there?

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Speaker 5: We played the it was a coat like when we

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Speaker 5: played the what was the clip we had last week

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Speaker 5: of these people at their socialist meeting?

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Speaker 1: But we pointed out the video of it was.

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Speaker 5: They were all wearing masks, and we were trying to

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Speaker 5: figure out what how does that fit together. You're still

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Speaker 5: scared of COVID in the middle of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 5: and you're a socialist, they obviously go together. That's not

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Speaker 5: one of those where there's no correlation between the two things.

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Speaker 5: There's clearly some sort of correlation.

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Speaker 1: It might just be.

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Speaker 7: In fact, I'm pretty sure it is a barely coherent

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Speaker 7: tribal signaling mechanism that during COVID people of the left

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Speaker 7: were extremely obedient, shut everything down, wore masks to the

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Speaker 7: point of, you know, I almost said absurdity, but it's

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Speaker 7: horror forcing a toddler to wear a mask in preschool,

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Speaker 7: Oh my god, with it hanging down around their chin

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Speaker 7: and the rest of it. I mean, to the point

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Speaker 7: of like surrealism. They adhered to every limitation and now

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Speaker 7: that you know, please, who's worried about this were in

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Speaker 7: the middle of twenty twenty five, they still wear the

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Speaker 7: masks to show that they're people of the left.

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Speaker 1: Now they're so crazy.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, it is, It absolutely is. Let's see,

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Speaker 7: said one prominent speaker. The Democratic Party is dying. They

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Speaker 7: have less support than the Republican party. The Democratic is

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Speaker 7: stabu blishment is coming our way, they pointed out, and

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Speaker 7: they're right. Mamdani earned an endorsement from foe Indian Elizabeth Warren,

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Speaker 7: praise from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, no soul, and

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Speaker 7: a meeting with House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. DSA delegates

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Speaker 7: past a number of resolutions to amend the party's platform,

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Speaker 7: well periodically waiving Communist party flags. Literally they are hardcore

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Speaker 7: pro Hamas among other things. In fact, they spent a

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Speaker 7: lot of time on that. Oh and they made speeches

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Speaker 7: about how that's clearly a winning issue and they need

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Speaker 7: to double down on that.

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Speaker 1: That has to be a main part of their identity.

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Speaker 5: So every Sunday show yesterday led with Russia, Ukraine putin

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Speaker 5: Trump meeting on Friday, because it's a huge, huge story.

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Speaker 5: I think it was who was it? Somebody led with

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Speaker 5: the redistricting thing, which I thought was little. But we

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Speaker 5: got a great guest on that, our old friend Lan

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Speaker 5: he Chen, who's run for office in California knows a

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Speaker 5: lot about California politics, on how misleading it is that

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Speaker 5: Texas is doing something incredibly aberrant and unfair. Let's to democracy,

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Speaker 5: and we're going to have him in the third hour,

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Speaker 5: So if you don't have that planned or whatever, you

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Speaker 5: want to get the podcast. We can take a break

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Speaker 5: from politics for a little while and take a look

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Speaker 5: at that first female umpire in Major League Baseball and

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Speaker 5: how that went. I've read some really really snarky responses

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Speaker 5: that I don't Oh, no, I know no, I know

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Speaker 5: what on the internet and the Internet of all places. Anyway,

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Speaker 5: stay tuned.

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Speaker 9: This weekend, major League Baseball will have its first female umpire. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: but the game won't start until you hear about her day.

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Speaker 5: So it's unful believable the kind of jokes that have

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Speaker 5: been going on or out around it. But partially because

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Speaker 5: unless maybe Jo cans strike me out on this, I

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Speaker 5: don't see why I'm surprised there hasn't already been a

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Speaker 5: female Major leagueumpire.

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Speaker 1: Is there any reason why a one couldn't do it

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Speaker 1: the same as a.

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Speaker 5: Man When when you get to stuff where it's all

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Speaker 5: about strength and speed, there is a difference between men

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Speaker 5: and women.

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Speaker 1: But is there here.

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Speaker 5: I'll let you talk about that in a second, But

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Speaker 5: we talked last week lots of jokes online about it.

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Speaker 1: The most I asked Groc about them.

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Speaker 5: The most common one is something along the lines of,

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Speaker 5: you know, she throws a guy out of the game,

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Speaker 5: he says, what do I do?

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Speaker 1: And she says, you know what you did?

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Speaker 5: Or she'll call someone out for a play three years ago.

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Speaker 5: As Groc says, poking fun and outdated gender tropes. Is

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Speaker 5: everybody laughing because that's not somewhat true. I mean, give

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Speaker 5: me a break, AnyWho, and then the whole well, there's

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Speaker 5: other jokes.

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Speaker 1: But she actually debuted over the weekend. How did it go?

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Speaker 12: Street today?

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Speaker 1: Wait, Joey, wait, wait, wait, wait, Joe's going to set

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Speaker 1: this up like, yeah, she did.

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Speaker 7: She worked her way toward home plate, as is the

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Speaker 7: umpire's tradition.

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Speaker 1: You go third to second or first to home.

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Speaker 7: And there's a great deal of attention being paid to

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Speaker 7: her plate debut, particularly the first pitch.

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Speaker 12: Some more history today. Joey Wentz is ready. We hope

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Speaker 12: you're ready. Here we go. Joey Wentz likes that first

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Speaker 12: call for Jim Powell. He'll take it, and I wonder

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Speaker 12: if they're going to take the baseball.

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Speaker 1: I guess not.

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Speaker 12: I thought that maybe that would be kind of a

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Speaker 12: big one.

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Speaker 1: There we go, now we got to figure it out.

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Speaker 12: Yep, they are going to authenticate it and Jim Powell

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Speaker 12: will forever get to keep that.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 5: So if I was just listening to that, I would

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Speaker 5: have thought nothing. But you're saying there's something to that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you remark that the pitcher really liked that call.

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Speaker 7: It's because it was at least four inches off the plate.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it was clearly a ball and she called

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Speaker 7: it a strike. Surprise twist. According to my impeachable baseball sources,

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Speaker 7: of course, they haven't been impeached yet, she actually was

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Speaker 7: pretty solid well, as a source close to the major

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Speaker 7: leagues says, she was fine, just like all of us.

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Speaker 7: Umpiring is pain. She'll be subject to the same as

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Speaker 7: the rest of us. Was the first call like egregiously wrong?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was terrible.

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Speaker 5: Does that happen? How often does that happen with umpires

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Speaker 5: in their first ever?

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Speaker 7: You'd be nervous, Yeah, yeah that, Yeah, you shouldn't make

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Speaker 7: a call that bad, but it happens. It's harder than

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Speaker 7: it looks. She will call, you know, one hundred plus

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Speaker 7: pitches in the game and probably actually like miss miss

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Speaker 7: a few.

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Speaker 1: Is there any reason?

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Speaker 5: Is there any reason a woman couldn't do this job

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Speaker 5: as well as a man, like I don't see why

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Speaker 5: they're I'm surprised that there hasn't been a female empire.

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Speaker 7: The only argument would be because they're on the field

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Speaker 7: with a lot of very manly men with very high stakes,

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Speaker 7: and they're the It's not like arguing vociferously and angrily

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Speaker 7: with baseball umpires is unknown, And it just seemed like

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Speaker 7: a better thing for a dude to take on a

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Speaker 7: dude and not a woman.

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Speaker 1: To get in the face of a man.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and tradition, although you know, there have been

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Speaker 7: psychological studies that show that angry dudes, when confronted with

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Speaker 7: a dude, will say, oh yeah, come on. Confronted with

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Speaker 7: a woman, they'll say, all right, all right, okay.

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Speaker 5: Well the first time that happens, that'll be interesting and

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Speaker 5: get tremendous amount of talk, I guarantee you. But to

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Speaker 5: the whole being nervous thing, I was watching a little

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Speaker 5: bit of preseason NFL football yesterday when my kids were

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Speaker 5: eating a haircut in the forty nine Ers game was on,

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Speaker 5: and this guy who really wants to make the team

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Speaker 5: in his NFL debut, perfect pass right in the hands

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Speaker 5: dropped it, and the announcers were talking, boy, you got

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Speaker 5: to catch that ball. And here you are trying to

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Speaker 5: make the team. And I thought, this guy has been

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Speaker 5: the star of his junior high team, his high school team,

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Speaker 5: a star in college. Here he is and he dropped that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's just yeah, probably nerves. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 5: you dropped something no matter what. But yeah, that's I

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Speaker 5: guess it happens anyway. Trump just made a big announcement

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Speaker 5: about DC Police, among other things.

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Speaker 1: We'll get through Armstrong and Getty