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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, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jettie

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Speaker 1: and no Hee Armstrong. And yet.

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Speaker 2: The Big Beautiful Show is back live from Studio c

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Speaker 2: Armstrong Ingetty compounds surrounded by razor wire and barking dogs

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Speaker 2: to keep us protected. And today we're under the tutelage

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Speaker 2: of our general manager.

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Speaker 3: Ah C and Gee tanned, rested and ready back from

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Speaker 3: vacation also well theoretically, And the poor people of Texas,

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Speaker 3: good God.

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Speaker 2: The flooding, what a horror. I'm tan, I'm way too tan.

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Speaker 2: Probably be paying the price for that with skin doctors

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Speaker 2: years from now. Uh ready, yes, very ready rested? No,

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Speaker 2: definitely not rested.

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Speaker 3: You are dark enough to get away with railing against

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Speaker 3: white people in a public place and people thinking.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I bet he's what is he on his pannica?

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Speaker 1: You're very dark. I couldn't pull that off exactly. All

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Speaker 1: you care about is white people. We white people. One

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Speaker 1: people are thinking, hmm, I wonder what is he? I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 2: Uh he has no accent, I don't Uh. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: went too hard on vacation, as I usually do I

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Speaker 2: go hard on vacations. I always have always, well it's

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Speaker 2: this way I'm built. But I wore me and the

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Speaker 2: kids out. We probably vacationed one to two days too long.

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Speaker 2: Probably should have ended it just a dad earlier. It

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Speaker 2: uh moment of three people being together, you know, all

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Speaker 2: the time? Uh forty eight hours before we finished, I'd say,

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Speaker 2: oh boy, you know, it sets a long time to

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go, where we were gonna eat, you know,

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Speaker 2: blah blah, just everything you do on vacation.

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Speaker 1: It was enough. It was enough by the end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, have you thought about like scheduling it? Well, of

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Speaker 3: course scheduling and take some of the fun out of him,

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Speaker 3: but scheduling in you know, solo times. Isn't people go

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Speaker 3: off and do their own thing for a while. Did

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Speaker 2: One kid? I can, with the other kid I can't.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, yeah, so that's not really an

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Speaker 2: go with one kid and then the other one would

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Speaker 2: take a break and I would go with the other kid.

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Speaker 2: The one the person that never took a break was

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Speaker 2: the oldest person, although I didn't notice. They can't keep

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Speaker 2: up with me. I kept saying to him, I'm sixty.

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Speaker 2: Why can't you guys keep up? My legs are tired. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well why why?

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's because there's not in school anymore. There's no

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Speaker 1: p in school anymore. Michael, You're right, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's because there's no pe in school anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Michael's shaming your own children.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, we left the met where we probably stayed

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Speaker 2: for too long in New York City. Ended up going

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Speaker 1: Me, that's not in the South Florida pulled.

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Speaker 2: A complete audible in the middle of vacation when we

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Speaker 2: decided we were tired of being hot, and I booked

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Speaker 2: flights to.

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Speaker 1: New York and then we went to New York and

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Speaker 1: did stuff there for a couple of days.

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Speaker 2: But because that's the way I roll on vacation, everything's

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Speaker 2: completely random in the seat of the pants, and I

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Speaker 2: love it that way. But we are at the museum

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Speaker 2: for probably too long. My sophomore in high school said,

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Speaker 2: when I get older, I'm never going to a museum.

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Speaker 3: Wow, it's like digging a ditch in the mid Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: It was like I was punishing them for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Glad he had a good time, never going to a

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Speaker 1: museum again. AnyWho are you rested?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, more or less? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And and and fed, good Lord of my fed, and watered,

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Speaker 1: There was no shortage of excess over the week.

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Speaker 3: It was big fun, very laid back by your standards,

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Speaker 3: as we had folks in visiting, a folk and my daughter,

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Speaker 3: so it was a lot of good family time, played golf,

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Speaker 1: That's what it was. I came back lighter than I left.

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Speaker 2: That's how much walking we did, so I'm happy about that,

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Speaker 2: even though there was a tremendous amount of eating. It

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Speaker 2: I know it was going to be in and kind

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Speaker 2: of went down here on purpose because it's not near

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Speaker 2: as crowded, but it was hot. We were in the Everglades, like,

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Speaker 2: not very far from where Trump was for the whole

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Speaker 2: unveiling of the Alligator Alcatraz, Like I was just not

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Speaker 2: We did a fifteen mile bike ride through the Everglades

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Speaker 2: in the heat, and that was that was pretty grueling.

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Speaker 2: That was pretty grueling because it was ninety with seventy

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Speaker 2: Henry wanted to turn around. I called him weak, He

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Speaker 2: got angry, and then he finished. So I consider that

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Speaker 2: a win. I'm sure he'll be talking to therapist about

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Speaker 2: that the rest of his life. But he went ahead

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Speaker 2: and finished the fifteen mile ride. And he's not dead.

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Speaker 3: He'll become some sort of superachieving navy seal type and

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Speaker 3: he'll never stop hating you. All Right.

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Speaker 2: We finished the fifteen miles, and I mean we were gassed,

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Speaker 2: I mean just beat red and so tired, and there

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Speaker 2: was no water on it. You could only the water

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Speaker 2: he took, which we ran through very quickly. And but

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Speaker 2: I got back and I was talking to the what

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Speaker 2: are you a park ranger? Park rangers? And he said

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Speaker 2: to one of the girls, I said, man, has anybody

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Speaker 2: ever died on that? She said, yeah, last week a

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Speaker 2: guy he had a heart attack and died. Okay, I

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Speaker 2: just kind of kidding. But anyway, what are you gonna do.

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Speaker 2: It's all lots of alligators. That alligator alcatraze. That's a

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Speaker 2: good idea. They escaped from prison or I guess they're

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants. That's where housing illegal immigrant in the Everglades.

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Speaker 2: And the idea is that if you try to escape,

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Speaker 2: cruel and unusual. I usually that unsad. It seems like

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Speaker 2: it seems rude to actually say that out loud.

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Speaker 3: We are going to accommodate you here while the paperwork

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Speaker 3: is being processed, and we suggest you stay on campus.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your stay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would present it this way. People come from

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Speaker 2: all over the world to vacation here the Everglades. I

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Speaker 2: mean people a to come here. That's how desirable a

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Speaker 3: The place is surrounded by fifteen foot lizards will rip

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Speaker 3: your head off. Just thought you'd want to know. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Bugs that are like from the prehistoric era, just like

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Speaker 2: the size of a baseball, Like, what the hell is

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Speaker 3: Cocker you could ride to town. I don't even know

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Speaker 3: what the bugs were. I couldn't test saddle on that thing.

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Speaker 2: Grasshoppers that should have you know, individual names and be

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Speaker 1: I mean they were like.

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Speaker 3: Gee, you should have numbers on the back so the

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Speaker 3: FAA can identify that exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yes, AnyWho.

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Speaker 2: I feel really bad that we missed out on a

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Speaker 2: week of talking about the big, beautiful bills that passed,

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Speaker 2: although we will get to talk about tariff switch kick

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Speaker 2: in on Wednesday, so lucky us. Let's start the show

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Speaker 2: officially before we get to some of the news of

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Speaker 2: the day, some of it awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's

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Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this that it is Monday, July seventh,

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Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong and getting We

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Speaker 2: approve of this program.

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Speaker 3: Let's leap into action then officially now, according to FCC rules,

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Speaker 3: Regg's show starts at mark.

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Speaker 4: The American Revolution is the most important event since the

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Speaker 4: birth of Christ in all of world history.

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Speaker 1: Love it. How was your fourth of July?

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Speaker 2: Did you spend a little time thinking about the whole

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Speaker 2: independence from Great Britain forming a new nation in a

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Speaker 2: way that had never been done before. As ken Burns

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Speaker 2: the documentarian, Just to point it out there, I just

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Speaker 2: watched that whole interview that Ken Burns. He's got a

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Speaker 2: documentary coming out in November about the revolution and the

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Speaker 2: importance of it, and it was refreshingly old school boosterism

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Speaker 2: for the idea of the United States of America and

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Speaker 2: our creation and what we're trying to accomplish in a

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Speaker 2: way that I haven't seen in twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Color me slightly surprised.

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Speaker 3: I know Ken has been a bit of a liberal,

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Speaker 3: what an annoying one in recent years, but good for him.

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Speaker 2: I've always loved his documentaries though, and I think I'm

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Speaker 2: I really really think that whole moment, that weird period

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Speaker 1: There's some cleaning up to.

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Speaker 2: Do, plenty plenty of cleaning up to do, but it

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Speaker 2: is over the fact that CBS had a fifteen minute

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Speaker 2: interview with ken Burns about the founding of the country

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Speaker 2: and that they talked about it.

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Speaker 1: In all positive terms.

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Speaker 2: Wow, as opposed to the sixteen nineteen project, which looked

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's refreshing. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My concern is an obvious one, the generation of kids

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Speaker 3: who were indoctrinated into this evil, awful idea that America

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Speaker 3: is a force for badness and not goodness. They're going

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Speaker 3: to have to work their way through the system, the

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Speaker 3: system of governance and culture and the rest of it.

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping we can sand off some of those edges

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Speaker 3: because it's not their fault. It really isn't. The people

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Speaker 2: It is still just so incredibly annoying going to a

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Speaker 2: you read has got to include some sort of displaced

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Speaker 2: people used to live here, or because of climate change,

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Speaker 2: or Europeans came and wiped out the just every plaque

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Speaker 2: has to have some sort of woke Western civilization is

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Speaker 2: bad statement in it, and it's so flipping annoying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I read that months and months ago that one of

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Speaker 3: the top priorities Trump and company have to pursue to

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Speaker 3: turn the culture around, or to continue to help it

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Speaker 3: turn around, is to root out that sort of stuff

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Speaker 3: at museums. Specifically, they were talking about the Smithsonian, which

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Speaker 1: And my final note on that.

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Speaker 2: We were at the Museum of American Natural History, The

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Speaker 2: American Museum of Natural History, one of the most famous

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Speaker 2: a lot of kids, including my kids, liked, The Night

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Speaker 2: those are great movies, but of course it included Robin

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Speaker 1: it really is. We've got so much to get to.

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Speaker 4: Show, Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: Not one Democrat voted for Trump as a big, beautiful bill.

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Speaker 1: May two Republicans broke ranks.

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Speaker 2: The top House Democrat delayed its passage by speaking.

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Speaker 1: All right, whatever directed at the American people, shut up.

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Speaker 2: Yes, as a result of this one ugly bill.

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Speaker 3: Got it so how we're going to get over the

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Speaker 1: They'll never see it coming.

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Speaker 3: So the whole it helps the rich much more than

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Speaker 1: Of course, a tax cut helps people who pay more taxes.

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Speaker 2: But doesn't that seem reasonable if it's been the rate

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Speaker 1: As long as it helps your partisan a jadas.

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Speaker 2: But only on Fox yesterday, excuse me, only on Fox

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Speaker 2: it's just a lie that it's for the rich, so.

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Speaker 3: A very very brief digest of what's in this thing.

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Speaker 2: as I heard described.

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Speaker 1: And this is the left is the crying. You know,

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Speaker 1: millions of people will die in.

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Speaker 2: The streets and all that sort of stuff because of this,

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Speaker 2: even though it's a classic example of you start a

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Speaker 2: program to help a certain group of people and then

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Speaker 2: it grows over time and it's so far away from

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Speaker 2: its initial what it was supposed to do you can't

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Speaker 2: even recognize it. But you try to carve it back

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Speaker 2: a little bit to what it was originally supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: And you know, people scream and yell people that you

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Speaker 2: know they're going to be dying in the streets, but

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Speaker 2: it's not.

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Speaker 1: I loved how the mainstream media.

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Speaker 3: They in describing that, they would talk about the reform

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Speaker 3: saying able bodied men, for instance, able bodied adults who

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Speaker 3: are getting Medicaid, which was originally intended for something very different.

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Speaker 3: They now have to work at least a little bit

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Speaker 3: before they get other people's tax money. Right, But they

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Speaker 3: would always say cuts to Medicaid, the program to provide

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Speaker 3: medical care for the poor and helpless. Well, the poor

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Speaker 3: and helpless are untouched by this reform, so we know

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Speaker 3: what you're doing describing it that way. It was originally that, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it's grown, So that's an absolutely dishonest description of

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Speaker 3: what Medicaid is.

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Speaker 2: And the fact that it's gonna make able bodied men

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Speaker 2: work now to get their benefit is a bit of

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Speaker 2: a stretch, and it becomes just a are you willing

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Speaker 2: to do the paperwork to pretend that you're looking for

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Speaker 2: a job. If you are, you get to keep getting

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Speaker 2: your benefits while you don't work. If you're too lazy

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Speaker 2: to even go about filling out the paperwork where it

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Speaker 2: makes it look like you're getting work and you don't.

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Speaker 2: First of all, if your kids are under fourteen, you

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Speaker 2: don't even have to try to get work. And if

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Speaker 2: you volunteering counts as a work, so you can either

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Speaker 2: work or be volunteering. So all you got to do

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Speaker 2: is find any organization or person who's willing to sign

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Speaker 2: a piece of paper that claims you're volunteering.

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Speaker 1: So so much for the you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're running our neighborhood watch. Takes a lot of time,

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Speaker 3: forty hours a week. I'm always not and I'm always watching, right.

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Speaker 3: A few more details of this the reform of SNAP

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Speaker 3: that's your food stamps, in an unholy deal with Satan

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Speaker 3: who signed the deal in the blood of the innocent

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Speaker 3: GOP Lawmakers from New York and California held out until

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Speaker 3: they got the increase in the state and local tax deductions.

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Speaker 1: The salt deductions up.

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Speaker 3: To forty grand for the next five years, with some

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Speaker 3: phaseouts if you're in more than half a million bucks.

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Speaker 3: Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year, which is lovely. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna sue Planned parenthoods suing. Phases out green energy

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Speaker 3: tax credits in spite of Republicans who enjoy that delicious

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Speaker 3: pork screaming about it. Also slightly increases the child tax Credit,

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Speaker 3: which you know, there's a history of that too. That's

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Speaker 3: pretty interesting. It's a perfect example. We'll get into this later,

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Speaker 3: but there's a plan for this new savings thing, the

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Speaker 3: Mega Savings Plan for kids. The government will put in

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Speaker 3: some seed money you can contribute to your kid's private

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Speaker 3: investment account. It's not a bad idea at all, and

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Speaker 3: it's a fairly you know, limited expenditure by the taxpayers

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Speaker 3: at this point, but it is guaranteed to metastasize, guaranteed,

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Speaker 3: and this lovely little idea for getting kids some seed

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Speaker 3: money when they're born is going to become another giant

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Speaker 3: entitlement program.

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Speaker 2: So sure, And again, the overarching thing is probably the

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Speaker 2: most important, that we're just continuing down the road of

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Speaker 2: these giant bills that spend insane amounts of money, and

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Speaker 2: they throw all this stuff together and the party that's

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Speaker 2: in power enough people vote for it to push it through.

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody describe it this way, and it's perfect.

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Speaker 2: Coming off of vacation, you know, how you go on vacation.

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Speaker 2: For some reason, you trick your brain into believing that

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Speaker 2: money and calories don't count while you're on vacation, so

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Speaker 2: you eat like you wouldn't normally eat, and you spend

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Speaker 2: like you wouldn't normally spend. Then you get back home

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Speaker 2: and it's like, all of a sudden, you're not going

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Speaker 2: to just ninety bucks for this or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Sure, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody explain, and I think it's what's happened.

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Speaker 2: It started with Obama during the financial crisis of two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eight, and that what seems tiny bill now

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Speaker 2: seven hundred sum billion dollars that we all freaked out

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Speaker 2: about and formed the tea party around. It's tiny compared

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Speaker 2: to what we do now, but anyway, we started acting

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Speaker 2: like that's normal.

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Speaker 1: We started spending after that, all through the.

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Speaker 2: COVID so Financial then COVID and then we just spend

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Speaker 2: like you we're on vacation. It's like you come home

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Speaker 2: for vacation and you lock in your vacation spending and

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Speaker 2: just continue to spend like you're on vacation from that

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Speaker 2: point forward. That's what we're doing. Is a federal government

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter which party is in power. That's a great

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Speaker 2: way to put it. I love that we've got to

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Speaker 2: keep selling that idea. Speaking of you know, spending, eating

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Speaker 2: and drinking on vacation. At one point on vacation, just

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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. We had homemade apple crisp

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Speaker 2: lemon meringue pie and Judy's Banana split cake, which is

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Speaker 2: a layer of Graham cracker crust with sugar and all

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Speaker 2: cream cheese, then a pineapple, bananas, strawberries.

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Speaker 1: Cool whip, etc. Top of just spectacular.

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Speaker 3: We had all three of those desserts in the fridge

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Speaker 3: at one time to be eaten morning, noon, and night.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's awesome iak.

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Speaker 3: For breakfast, never mind cake by the Ocean cake at

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Speaker 3: eight am.

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Speaker 2: I was in the Florida Keys for three four days.

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Speaker 2: I had keelime pie four days in a row. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and I actually got to the point where I just

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Speaker 2: couldn't stomach the idea of it.

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Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'm gonna vomit. And that's our country,

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Speaker 1: he says, winding back to the main point of the segment.

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Speaker 2: But fiscal conservatism, as we have been saying for quite

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Speaker 2: a while, is completely dead.

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Speaker 1: It does not exist as a concept in.

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Speaker 2: Either party, which is why Elon claims he's going to

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Speaker 2: start something called the America Party to resc us from

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Speaker 2: rescue us from going bankrupt, which we are going to do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's not like, that is not harm. SCAREM

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Speaker 2: just trying to get people scared. Whatever, No, we are

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Speaker 2: going to You can't spend more than you take in forever.

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Speaker 2: It ends at some point.

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Speaker 1: Right, agreed. I'm intrigued.

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Speaker 3: And when Trump vanishes from the scene, what is the

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Speaker 3: Republican Party?

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Speaker 1: I think this idea is a non starter at all. Interesting.

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Speaker 2: We got mailbag on the way, lots of stuff stay here.

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Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite thing on vacation.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the video I tweeted out of the

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Speaker 2: guy balance and the tire on his head as he

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Speaker 2: rode his bike around Washington Square Park.

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Speaker 1: Missed it, but it sounds delightful. It is all. Have

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Speaker 1: to talk about that later. It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: You don't see that sort of thing. No every day, No,

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Speaker 2: you don't. Right, here's your.

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Speaker 1: Freedom loving quote of the day, in honor of.

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Speaker 3: His ninety fifth birthday while we were on vacation, the

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Speaker 3: great Thomas Sowell this week, maybe every day this month

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Speaker 3: from my.

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Speaker 1: Favorite thinkers of all time.

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Speaker 3: Thomas could have been one of the founding Fathers except

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Speaker 3: for the unfortunate state of race relations in the seventh

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Speaker 3: but one of the wisest men who's ever strode the earth.

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, here's today's free will having quote of

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Speaker 3: the day. Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true,

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Speaker 3: but many other things are believed simply because they have

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Speaker 3: been asserted repeatedly, and repetition has been accepted as a

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Speaker 3: substitute for evidence. People will just repeat the lie over

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Speaker 3: and over and over again until you think it must

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Speaker 3: be true. A man can decide he's a woman, for instance,

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Speaker 3: what a ridiculous notion?

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Speaker 1: Mailbag?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can decide that which certainly can't become

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Speaker 3: one mail bag drops a note mail bag at Armstrong

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Speaker 3: e Geeddy dot com. Kevin the Texas Marine welcoming us back.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Kevin very much. He says that the very

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Speaker 3: last show before vacation, when Jack is alright on vacation,

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Speaker 3: thank you.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. That's why I'm so tired.

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Speaker 1: That's fine.

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Speaker 3: That may have been the best dowry of radio Oh.

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Speaker 3: I have ever listened to a full hour with Tim

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Speaker 3: Sandeffer talking about the revolution and the declaration of independence. Fantastic.

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Speaker 3: I have listened three times to catch all the details.

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Speaker 1: I will listen to that. I will listen to it again.

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Speaker 3: That would be the twenty seventh June twenty seventh, Armstrong

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Speaker 3: getting on demand the interview of Tim Sanderfforth terrific, just enjoyable.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the kind words, Kevin, And you know,

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Speaker 3: part of the reason I'm enthusiastic about recommending that it's

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Speaker 3: not just self aggrandizement to get our numbers up, but

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Speaker 3: because I am firmly, practically, religiously convinced that we need

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Speaker 3: to all go on the war path for liberty, for

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Speaker 3: the United States, for the founding principles and the great,

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Speaker 3: great nation that we're so privileged to be citizens of,

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Speaker 3: with all of its flaws. Of course, we need to

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Speaker 3: be positive about that, because we've let the forces of

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Speaker 3: negativity own the battlefield for a very long time. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: Having said that, Ryan from Houston points out that everything

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Speaker 3: is political these days, including oh, what's That's the other one,

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Speaker 3: isn't it? The for instance, the parliamentarian. Oh I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: it's funny I conflated two emails in my head. Powell's

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Speaker 3: talking about how everything is political these days, including the

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Speaker 3: Senate parliamentarian what the hell is that? Nobody heard? Nobody

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Speaker 3: knew there was one, and now she's in the crosshairs.

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Speaker 3: And also in the Scotis. You got Katanji Brown Jackson

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Speaker 3: calling the Conservatives monsters, and Amy Cony Barrett yelling back

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Speaker 3: her shame you don't know anything about the law of

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Speaker 3: the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into the.

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Speaker 3: Details of that high level cat fight later on in

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you're up on that. I just saw

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Speaker 2: some of the headlines that thought. Man, that's a Armstrong

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Speaker 2: and Getty story right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it. Here's Ryan

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Speaker 3: from Houston. He points out's a shame our country is doomed.

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Speaker 3: First off, you got a vocal minority. You believes we're

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Speaker 3: installing in cinegret incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, taking immigrants into

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Speaker 3: cargo planes and throwing them shackled into the oceans.

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Speaker 1: They've alleged that online.

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Speaker 3: Luckily, in the face of that most haymous war crime,

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Speaker 3: all they want to do is TikTok about it. But

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Speaker 3: with the massive spending bill once again causing the death

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Speaker 3: of untold millions, we will not survive every news story

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Speaker 3: being a def con one. Every day we had a

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Speaker 3: decent run, he says. He's right, the never ending deaf

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Speaker 3: con one. Let's see another Jay in San Jose has

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Speaker 3: a couple of points to make. He says, what's a

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Speaker 3: democratic socialist? Aren't these two different political ideologies? Are these

651
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Speaker 3: people by political Do we need to add a letter?

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Speaker 3: If we had time, I could get into death. You

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Speaker 3: know what democratic socialism is. It's pretending to reject socialism, sure,

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Speaker 3: but saying the heretofore recognized limits on government interference, taxation

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Speaker 3: at all. We're going to wipe those away and just

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Speaker 3: creep a little bit further and further and further and

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Speaker 3: further and further. It's just to go up, you know,

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Speaker 3: beyond the bounds that we all used to accept. And

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Speaker 3: then the other point he makes is Trump's second term

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Speaker 3: already seems too good to be true for him and

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Speaker 3: his supporters, too consequential, too unique, especially for a second term,

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Speaker 3: probably too transformational not to end in his tragic demise.

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Speaker 3: I'm not in the business of wishing death on anyone

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Speaker 3: except mosquitoes. But in history, the immense power Trump seems

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Speaker 3: to be wielding has often been the beginning of the end.

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Speaker 3: This doesn't seem like the kind of story that ends

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Speaker 3: with Trump doing the YMCA from a wheelchair after he retires. Wow,

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Speaker 3: it's a lighthearted way to say. Trump is so consequential

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Speaker 3: they'll never stop coming for him.

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Speaker 2: There is a long way to go in the second

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Speaker 2: Trump term, though long while you got three and a

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Speaker 2: Let me check those. It just gets started. What anyway,

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