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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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<v Speaker 1>Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.

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<v Speaker 2>And Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong

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<v Speaker 2>and Yetty. I am Cole Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>A thirty year old white man from the DC Suburbs,

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<v Speaker 1>is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce

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<v Speaker 1>and with malicious destruction. Now, if you follow the story

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<v Speaker 1>throughout today, it was not a white man white. Jake

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<v Speaker 1>Tapper went with he was a white guy. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>got to admit I was expecting a white guy. The

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<v Speaker 1>whole pipe.

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<v Speaker 2>Kind of felt like a white dude to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Pipe bombs left at the rn C and the d

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<v Speaker 1>NC is a bearded, fat white guy in a Carhart

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<v Speaker 1>jacket crime or a skinny Seattle.

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<v Speaker 3>You're right hoodie guy and tefa hoodie right radical Marxist

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<v Speaker 3>politics baba.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way, Yeah a has a master's degree in something

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<v Speaker 1>that doesn't matter. But yeah, that's a white guy crime.

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<v Speaker 1>So I wasn't expecting a black guy. So so Jake did.

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<v Speaker 3>Jake ed live that because he wanted everyone to make

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<v Speaker 3>sure that they knew that he knows that white people

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<v Speaker 3>are bad. Or was that on his teleprompter for his

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<v Speaker 3>talking Eric had to repeat, or why.

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<v Speaker 1>Mention the race at all if you're not sure, or

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<v Speaker 1>even if you are sure, I'm not sure why it

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<v Speaker 1>makes any difference whatsoever.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it actually might for reasons that we can

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<v Speaker 2>get into.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, let's listen to the ABC report on the finally

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<v Speaker 1>catching the guy five years later, and then we'll talk

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<v Speaker 1>about it.

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<v Speaker 4>Brian Cole Junior was arrested and charged with placing the

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<v Speaker 4>pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC.

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<v Speaker 5>Law enforcement swarming the home where he lives with his parents.

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<v Speaker 5>Authority said the arrest came not from a new tip,

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<v Speaker 5>but coming back through mill pieces of evidence, including cell

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<v Speaker 5>phone data that allegedly places a phone used by Cole

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<v Speaker 5>along the route the day the bombs were planted, a

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<v Speaker 5>photo that allegedly places his vehicle near the crime scene,

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<v Speaker 5>and financial transactions they say show Cole bought materials from

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<v Speaker 5>an area home depot that could be used to make bombs.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's a thirty year old dude that lives at

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<v Speaker 1>home and is described as he works for the family

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<v Speaker 1>business but only a couple hours a day, doesn't really

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<v Speaker 1>have any friends, walks around with headphones a lot picks

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<v Speaker 1>a dog.

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<v Speaker 2>Boats on his jiwawa jack.

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<v Speaker 1>According to one report, I'm wondering if maybe he's, for

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<v Speaker 1>whatever reason, a youngster that's not cut out to go

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<v Speaker 1>out into the world to make a living, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they'd let him work at the family business a couple

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<v Speaker 1>hours a day.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this guy.

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<v Speaker 3>Look, he was twenty five when he allegedly committed a crime.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, it sure looks to me like it's going

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<v Speaker 3>to be a disaffected, alienated young man with no attachment,

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<v Speaker 3>no partner, isolated, decided to get into radical politics. He

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<v Speaker 3>was and we've talked about this in the context of

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<v Speaker 3>the Charlie Kirk thing. Experts in the sort of thing

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<v Speaker 3>will tell you these people often they're angry and they

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<v Speaker 3>want to hurt somebody. Then they latch onto an ideology

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<v Speaker 3>quite late in the game and then commit an act

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<v Speaker 3>of violence almost immediately. They don't spend years campaigning for

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<v Speaker 3>that cause or whatever, sacrificing and thinking.

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<v Speaker 2>In Oregon.

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<v Speaker 3>No, they just think I would have hurt somebody. Here's

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<v Speaker 3>a cause. Yeah, I'm into that, let's hurt somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>It's quite possible that at this point five years later,

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<v Speaker 1>he wishes he hadn't or has a completely different view

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<v Speaker 1>of the world or who knows.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Yeah, sure, the growth from twenty five to thirty

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<v Speaker 3>is a lot, you know, the case by case obviously,

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<v Speaker 3>but that's a lot of insuring. So and I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>defending the guy. He did something abhorrent and terrible. Here's

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<v Speaker 3>a question for you. Because he was trying to bomb,

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<v Speaker 3>allegedly both the RNC and the dance twenty five year

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<v Speaker 3>old black man seven months after George Floyd got killed.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm thinking he was a Swede by the Neo Marxist

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<v Speaker 3>systemic racism. This country's corrupted needs to be brought down.

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<v Speaker 2>Guy.

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<v Speaker 1>And the fact that it happened so close to the

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<v Speaker 1>January sixth ride is just a coincidence.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, except that he might have known there was going

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<v Speaker 3>to be a big gathering in d C. Because he lived,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, in the suburbs. He might have thought, oh, hey,

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<v Speaker 3>this is perfect, this is perfect timing.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think he was hoping those bombs would go

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<v Speaker 1>off and hurt her kill people.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>That's one of the great questions to this case, because

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<v Speaker 3>it is said by the authorities they were both capable

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<v Speaker 3>of going off and causing terrible damage.

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<v Speaker 2>But didn't. Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's not a coincidence.

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<v Speaker 3>It was the January sixth, because there's a big rally

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<v Speaker 3>that day, but it had nothing to do with Stop

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<v Speaker 3>to Steal or the rally itself, I suspect, So I

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<v Speaker 3>think it's interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>So my my taking in of this information throughout the

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<v Speaker 1>day yesterday through mainstream media led me to believe that

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<v Speaker 1>it was a whole There was no new information that

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<v Speaker 1>was found. They took information that had already been gathered

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<v Speaker 1>and pieced it together and figured out who the guy was.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that's the way it was presented to me. It

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<v Speaker 1>was like, you know, it's not super easy if you

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<v Speaker 1>got a million different things to bring them all together

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<v Speaker 1>in a way that aha, you figure out who it is,

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<v Speaker 1>and that they just threw reopening the case and relooking

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<v Speaker 1>at it, figured it out. But you're saying cash Ptel says, no,

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<v Speaker 1>that's not what happened.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, do we have that audio ready, I've got the

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<v Speaker 2>quote in front of me, but yeah, we do. Go ahead. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>As to this specific case, the pipe bomber, you're right,

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<v Speaker 6>the prior administration sat on the evidence for four years.

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<v Speaker 6>There wasn't any production of new evidence from five years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's what we did.

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<v Speaker 6>We went out to the country, brought in our experts,

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<v Speaker 6>and Deputy Director Bongino led the charge and said, we're

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<v Speaker 6>going to look at every single piece of evidence again trace.

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<v Speaker 6>We looked at three million lines of evidence. We went

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<v Speaker 6>back and looked at the cell phone tower data dumps.

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<v Speaker 6>We went back and looked at the providers and what

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<v Speaker 6>information they provided, pursued to search warrant at the time

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<v Speaker 6>and asked questions such as why weren't all the phone

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<v Speaker 6>numbers scrubbed, and why weren't they connected? And why wasn't

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<v Speaker 6>there any geolocational data done? Now, that is either sheering

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<v Speaker 6>competence or complete intentional negligence, and neither of which is

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<v Speaker 6>acceptable for this FBI.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a heck of a thing to say.

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<v Speaker 3>That is really, really strong and presuming he was beaten

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<v Speaker 3>truthful with the they didn't scrub the phone numbers go

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<v Speaker 3>through them, you know anyway, why wasn't there any geolocational

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<v Speaker 3>data done? That's how they got the butcher of Idaho,

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<v Speaker 3>the killer of those poor college kids.

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<v Speaker 1>So hard to imagine why the Biden administration wouldn't have

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<v Speaker 1>been really hot to try to figure out who this was,

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<v Speaker 1>because I think they would have assumed it was a

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<v Speaker 1>Maga person that they could have you know, piled on

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<v Speaker 1>to that whole story.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 3>So well, either Cash Mattel is wrong about what he

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<v Speaker 3>just said, or if he's right, this is an enormous

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<v Speaker 3>scandal slash question because sometimes, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, when we all watch crime shows, we do, everybody does, movies, whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes a new detective can come along and look at

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<v Speaker 1>the same evidence and figure out something. It doesn't mean

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<v Speaker 1>that people before them were incompetent or corrupt, they just

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<v Speaker 1>didn't see it for whatever reason.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but although he's just absolutely unequivocal, Yeah, no, he is.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that was a scathing accusation. But like I said,

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't make sense to me. I doubt that they

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<v Speaker 1>assumed that this would protect them in some way.

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<v Speaker 3>One possible explanation, and I don't think this is true.

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<v Speaker 3>Probably it was that they figured out that it was

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<v Speaker 3>not a Maga person, that it was you know, a

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<v Speaker 3>young black democrat, but then covered it up.

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<v Speaker 2>That's that's a stretch. Yeah, that is really a stretch.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, you'd have somebody in the FBI who would

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<v Speaker 3>leak the truth because most the vast majority of the

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<v Speaker 3>people in the FBI are serious patriotic Americans who are

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<v Speaker 3>trying to enforce the law and protect everybody. There are

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<v Speaker 3>some bad, bad apples back in the day in Washington,

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<v Speaker 3>d C. At headquarters, no doubt, but yes, this is

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<v Speaker 3>it's troubling. There's got to be an explanation to that question.

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<v Speaker 3>What happened in the last five years, So he didn't

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<v Speaker 3>he didn't have much of a footprint computer, social media wise,

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<v Speaker 3>or anything like that, so it's hard to know what

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<v Speaker 3>he was thinking, right this pipe bomber.

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<v Speaker 2>Dude, Mm hmm, yeah, huh, yeah, I would miss.

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<v Speaker 1>The biggest question to me is did he intend to

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<v Speaker 1>have those go off and hurt a bunch of people?

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<v Speaker 1>trumpet play and I haven't done it since high school?

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<v Speaker 2>Would it be pretty hard? But thank you? Pretty hard

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<v Speaker 2>to do?

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<v Speaker 3>You're umba, sure is it's it's getting your your lips

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<v Speaker 3>back in shape and your the muscles of your mouth

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<v Speaker 3>and face.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it's a challenge, is it? So it sound insurmountable.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean you you play the piano every day. That's

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<v Speaker 1>that's harder than blowing into But I don't play it

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<v Speaker 1>with my lips. I gotta admit good. Yeah, So we

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<v Speaker 1>got other news we got to catch you up on. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I do want to get to the Josh Shapiro getting

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<v Speaker 1>so angry at Kamala Harris for lying about him in

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<v Speaker 1>her book. We have to get to that at some point.

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<v Speaker 1>But lots of other stuff on the way, stay here.

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<v Speaker 2>Armstrong, Heyyetty you Brook The Hunters.

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<v Speaker 4>That is a clip from the most popular movie in

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<v Speaker 4>the world this year, K Pop Demon Hunters. It is

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<v Speaker 4>the most watched film ever on Netflix, with more than

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<v Speaker 4>three hundred million views. It's the second most searched term

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<v Speaker 4>on Google the entire year. The soundtrack nominated for five Grammys.

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<v Speaker 4>There have been four top ten hits on Billboard's Hot

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<v Speaker 4>one hundred.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow nominated for Grammys. I didn't know that. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know anything about it. I just have heard about it,

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<v Speaker 1>and I've heard my kids, who are teenage boys, so

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<v Speaker 1>they particularly hate this sort of thing excellent and the

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<v Speaker 1>that it ever even gets brought up makes them angry.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did not realize that K Pop Demon Hunters

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<v Speaker 1>was the most streamed movie in Netflix history. That's something

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like I got to at least watch the

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<v Speaker 1>first fifteen minutes to have an idea of what the

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<v Speaker 1>hell it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Go ahead, tell me how you like it. You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I was just thinking about movie reviews because I read

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<v Speaker 3>a long review by a pretentious bastard who writes about

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<v Speaker 3>movies that got sucked in just because the movie and

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<v Speaker 3>the premise of the movie and all were really interesting

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<v Speaker 3>to me. And then I went and watched the trailer,

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<v Speaker 3>and the trailer that the review was long, like in

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<v Speaker 3>pretentious and negative, and then I watched the trailer and

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<v Speaker 3>I thought I'd watch that.

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<v Speaker 2>That looks enjoyable to me.

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<v Speaker 3>Movie reviews should not be more than say, fifty words long,

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<v Speaker 3>and they shouldn't be about the reviewer, you know, pleasuring

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<v Speaker 3>himself or herself and showing how smart they are, and

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<v Speaker 3>oh man, that annoys me.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, And as you always point, it should be through

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<v Speaker 1>the lens of for people who like this sort of thing. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>If you like that sort of thing, you're gonna love

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<v Speaker 1>this movie. I don't like that sort of thing, so

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't like it, but you would love this because

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<v Speaker 1>it's a really good one.

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<v Speaker 2>Of these, right, exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't have the classical music writer review the latest punk album,

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<v Speaker 3>just don't anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>In news about Netflix, they're trying to acquire Warner Brothers

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<v Speaker 1>Film Studio and the stream service HBO Max would make,

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<v Speaker 1>which would make them even more of a behemoth than

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<v Speaker 1>they are. They're looking to just dominate that whole space

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<v Speaker 1>Netflix is and they're always already a five hundred pound

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<v Speaker 1>gorilla for whatever reason in the last hour that Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has come out and said he's very got heavy

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<v Speaker 1>skepticism about whether or not this deal should happen. And

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it gets into the world of

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<v Speaker 1>monopolies or what they're I haven't seen there, gets into

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<v Speaker 1>the world of the Trump administration is way too willing

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<v Speaker 1>to interfere with commerce in my opinion.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I've got another hot take about Trump screwing

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<v Speaker 3>something up, and you know, here's here's the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you for Trump or against him? I'm for you,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm for taxpayers. He's for the America. Kil Getty's for you. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Speaking of Kamala Harris, some great Kamala Harris stuff coming up,

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<v Speaker 3>stay with us, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I just you know what it is.

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<v Speaker 3>It's about the Somali thing in Minneapolis. This is an enormous, shining,

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<v Speaker 3>bipartisan admission that our welfare systems are utterly corrupt and

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<v Speaker 3>waste money. There's rampant fraud. It's absolutely disgusting, and it

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<v Speaker 3>is a horrific betrayal of the American taxpayer. And Trump

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<v Speaker 3>is making it about immigration.

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<v Speaker 1>You're right, Yeah, the Republicans should hammer this all the

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<v Speaker 1>way up to the election. Make it their issue welfare

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<v Speaker 1>fraud or all kinds of fraud, and but making it

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<v Speaker 1>specifically about the somalies is just only about the somomy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just too easy to refute it as racism or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, right, yeah, and I'm not saying there's no issue.

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<v Speaker 3>There absolutely is an issue with you know, allowing a

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<v Speaker 3>hostile culture to come in their tens of thousands. They

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<v Speaker 3>hate us, they hate our cultor they hate our world.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's one hundred percent an.

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<v Speaker 3>Issue, but it's not like the most useful issue here,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's not the core issue.

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<v Speaker 1>So Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers following that blah blah

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<v Speaker 1>blah blah blah value of eighty two point seven billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, these are some really big, giant companies that

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<v Speaker 1>are coming together. As a lot of people have pointed out,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a certain amount of bundling that's going on with

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<v Speaker 1>all these companies into one thing that's very similar to

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<v Speaker 1>what Cable used to be or you know, you got

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<v Speaker 1>it through dish or or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's funny.

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<v Speaker 3>Although media is changing so fast, the idea that this

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<v Speaker 3>is a monopoly or that that is it's just no

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<v Speaker 3>it'll change so quickly. What's true today won't be true tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like calling my Space a monopoly. You know, a

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<v Speaker 3>week later, nobody it's gone.

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<v Speaker 1>I tried to wean myself off a bunch of subscriptions

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<v Speaker 1>Hulu and Netflix and HBO, Max and Peacock and all

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<v Speaker 1>these other I've canceled liked them all six months, nine

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<v Speaker 1>months ago, and I've slowly added them back in as

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<v Speaker 1>a show comes along or a movie that you know,

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<v Speaker 1>me and my kids want to see, and it's only

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<v Speaker 1>on this one, so I sign up next thing. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I got them all again. They got you, they got me, woof,

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<v Speaker 1>they got me. It's hard to get away. So Kamala

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<v Speaker 1>Harris wrote a really stupid book and went on a

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<v Speaker 1>stupid tour, and it got heavy reviews of how stupid

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<v Speaker 1>the whole thing was. She apparently lied about Governor Josh

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<v Speaker 1>Shapiro Pennsylvania. He did not dig that at all. We

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<v Speaker 1>have some quotes from him we can get to coming up.

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<v Speaker 3>The famously measured Josh Shapiro lost his s and was

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<v Speaker 3>immediately regretful for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Hilarious.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's probably running for president. I don't know that

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<v Speaker 1>she is. Gavin definitely is.

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<v Speaker 3>And the idea that that half what would run again,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's that's too good to be true.

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<v Speaker 2>Christmas President. So we've got all that on the way.

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<v Speaker 1>Stay with us if you missed a second to get

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast, Armstrong and Getty. It is time for us

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<v Speaker 1>to do what we have been doing in that time

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<v Speaker 1>as every day there.

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<v Speaker 2>You go, her greatest hit. That's her, uh, that's her, her.

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<v Speaker 1>Emmy, her Oscar, her everything for Kamala Harris. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>what we're going to talk about here.

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<v Speaker 3>To call Kamala Harris a mediocrity is to pay her

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<v Speaker 3>a compliment.

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<v Speaker 2>She does not deserve.

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<v Speaker 3>You think about it, You think about Kamala Halfwit Harris

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<v Speaker 3>and Tim open Wallet Waltz. If that is not the

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<v Speaker 3>weakest ticket in American history, it is in the top five.

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<v Speaker 2>Eh.

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<v Speaker 1>She is the most qualified person to ever run for

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<v Speaker 1>president and America wasn't ready for a black female president.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are both absolutely hilarious.

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<v Speaker 3>So the Atlantic in the person of this Chap's named

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<v Speaker 3>Tim Alberta.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a cool name.

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<v Speaker 1>He sounds like he ought to be some sort of

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<v Speaker 1>Americana singer, you know, acoustic guitar cowboy hat.

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<v Speaker 2>Tim Alberta. Yeah. Anyway, So he goes to.

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<v Speaker 3>Talk to Josh Shapiro about a couple of things, and

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<v Speaker 3>he says, I knew, from speaking to people close to

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<v Speaker 3>Josh Shapiro, the governor of Minister of Pennsylvania off the

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<v Speaker 3>rumored presidential candidate. He was looked at very seriously to

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<v Speaker 3>be Kamala Harris's running mate.

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<v Speaker 2>But he's a Jew. It's a good point anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>That was the view of a lot of the left

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<v Speaker 3>wing of the Democratic Party who are flaming anti Semite. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>the guy writes, from speaking to people close to Shapiro,

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<v Speaker 3>I knew that he'd lost some respect for the former

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<v Speaker 3>vice president during the campaign, not simply because she shows

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<v Speaker 3>someone else as a running mate. In Shapiro's view, given

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<v Speaker 3>the near existential stakes for both the Democratic Party and

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<v Speaker 3>America Democracy, please, Harris's lapses during the election, in particularly

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<v Speaker 3>ignoring Joe Biden's obviously decline, were unforgivable, but he had

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<v Speaker 3>been careful not to say so publicly. Shapiro's kind of

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<v Speaker 3>the anti Trump, and that he's very measured and very strategic,

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<v Speaker 3>and he only plays his cards when he thinks it's

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<v Speaker 3>best to play them. Anyway, Uh, Shapiro knew I was

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<v Speaker 3>gonna ask him about Harris. What he didn't know is

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<v Speaker 3>that early copies of her book were then making the

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<v Speaker 3>rounds among reporters, having obtained the relevant sections of one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and seven Days. And that morning I asked Shapiro

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<v Speaker 3>if Harris had given him and he heads up about

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<v Speaker 3>her books. She had not, he said, And I told him,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Harris took some shots at you. Shapiro furred

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<v Speaker 3>his brow and crossed his arms. Okay, he said, I

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<v Speaker 3>love that.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't have crossed my arms because that's just too

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<v Speaker 1>much of a giveaway.

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<v Speaker 3>The man I observed over the next several minutes was unrecognizable.

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<v Speaker 2>Gone was his equilibrium.

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<v Speaker 3>He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relaid the excerpts.

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<v Speaker 1>You know why Harris, You know why he's so angry

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<v Speaker 1>before we even get into him. He has so little

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<v Speaker 1>respect for her. That's what makes him so mad. So

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<v Speaker 1>this dunderpate is coming at me. Oh, give me a break.

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<v Speaker 3>This intellectual, lightweight, single party state slept her way to

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<v Speaker 3>the top.

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<v Speaker 2>Half wit who is coming at me? Ouch? Hey, if

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<v Speaker 2>the panties fit wear them?

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's right, another misogyny Friday the armstrong again.

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<v Speaker 3>No, no, it's an accuracy. Truth is an absolute defense

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<v Speaker 3>against misogyny. Anyway, let's see, all right, the man I

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<v Speaker 3>observed unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage

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<v Speaker 3>and exasperation as that relayed the excerpts Harris had accused

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<v Speaker 3>him in essence of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about

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<v Speaker 3>featuring Pennsylvania artists and the vice presidential residence, of insisting

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<v Speaker 3>quote that he would want to be in the room

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<v Speaker 3>for every decision Harris might make, and more generally, of

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<v Speaker 3>hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job,

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<v Speaker 3>to the point where she reminded them that you will

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<v Speaker 3>not be a co president.

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<v Speaker 2>She wrote that in her book, he said, in response

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<v Speaker 2>to the claim, blah blah.

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<v Speaker 3>Blah, that's complete and utter a bulls fed, using the

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<v Speaker 3>actual word, obviously, I can tell you that her accounts

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<v Speaker 3>are just blatant lies.

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<v Speaker 4>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's not measured. Yeah. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>After reading Harris's book, talking with people from both camps,

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<v Speaker 3>I found descriptions of the meeting could be mostly consistent.

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<v Speaker 3>Shapiro arrived in an edgy mood, chafing at efforts among

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<v Speaker 3>fellow Democrats to Sabotagees tryout Shapiro is Jewish, was specially

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<v Speaker 3>irked by anti Semitic innuendo from the left. The two

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<v Speaker 3>skip past any semblance of small talk in Shapiro proceeded

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<v Speaker 3>to interview Harris rather than the other way around. I

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<v Speaker 3>did ask a bunch of questions, Shapiro told me, sounding exasperated.

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<v Speaker 3>Wouldn't you ask questions if someone was talking to you

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<v Speaker 3>about forming a partnership and working together?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, wait, you kind of YadA YadA, YadA this so

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<v Speaker 1>you're saying the interviewer from the Atlantic. The writer from

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<v Speaker 1>the Atlantic says, other people have told them that her

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<v Speaker 1>account is pretty consistent with what happened. Yes, okay, that's interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Well that he was, he interviewed her. Yeah, well, I've

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<v Speaker 1>been in that sort of situation before. It really turns

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<v Speaker 1>me off. No, no, no, no, you've got this backwards.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>And then he was annoyed because Harris was portraying him

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<v Speaker 3>in ways consistent with the whispers that had dogged him

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<v Speaker 3>throughout the vetting process and throughout his career that he

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<v Speaker 3>was selfish, petty, and monomoniacally ambitious given the fact that

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<v Speaker 3>they'd known each other for twenty years, Shapiro said with

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<v Speaker 3>a groan. I asked whether he felt betrayed. I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>she's trying to sell books and cover her ass, Shapiro snapped.

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<v Speaker 3>So Mitt stared past me, now shaking his head, blah

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<v Speaker 3>blah blah. Then quickly, I shouldn't say cover her ass.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that's not appropriate. She's trying to sell books, period.

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<v Speaker 3>He collected it too late.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, you just said to a reporter in an interview

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<v Speaker 1>on the record. At that point, there's no fixing. So

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<v Speaker 1>I was about to say, is he angry because she

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<v Speaker 1>let out what actually happened or angry? But no, he

0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.159
<v Speaker 1>says blatant lies. So he's claiming that that's not the

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<v Speaker 1>way I went down. Uh yeah, the blatant lies part.

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<v Speaker 2>What was that?

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<v Speaker 3>Referring to well, complete and utter bull spit that he

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<v Speaker 3>was practically measuring the drapes and inquired about featuring Pennsylvania

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<v Speaker 3>artists and the vice presidential residence and the rest of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Who knows, who knows? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>Did he actually say I need to be in the

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<v Speaker 1>room for every decision.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I wasn't there.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I have nothing more to say about Josh Shapiro

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<v Speaker 3>and his prospects.

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<v Speaker 2>Honestly, I didn't care.

0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:57.800
<v Speaker 3>I just thought it was funny that he caught out

0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:01.000
<v Speaker 3>Kamala Harris so forcefully and interview on the record.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, I'd like to know what actually happened there.

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<v Speaker 2>I could see him going led it though you nailed it.

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<v Speaker 2>He has no respect.

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<v Speaker 1>He went in with that attitude with no respect for her,

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<v Speaker 1>so he probably was a little over the top. He

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<v Speaker 1>went in with the you're kind of an accidental You're

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<v Speaker 1>like a gerald Ford style president, just like the all

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<v Speaker 1>these dominoes fell in such a way that you might

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<v Speaker 1>end up president.

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<v Speaker 3>I would be doing you a favor by lending you

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<v Speaker 3>my gravitas, right, and you're too stupid to understand.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how I feel. Well, as it.

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<v Speaker 3>Turns out, she's not quite that stupid, and in her

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<v Speaker 3>book she calls him out for coming in with some tude.

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<v Speaker 3>So now we know precisely how stupid she is and

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<v Speaker 3>how stupid she's not.

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<v Speaker 2>She noticed that.

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<v Speaker 1>Hmm. Well, remember, and this is getting into the weeds

0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:53.359
<v Speaker 1>a little bit on this sort of thing, but remember

0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:57.600
<v Speaker 1>the way she ended up being the running mate was

0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:02.000
<v Speaker 1>a couple of different things. But when Biden was looking

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<v Speaker 1>for his vice presidential running mate, a lot of the

0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.880
<v Speaker 1>names that floated up all of a sudden appo research

0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:10.119
<v Speaker 1>would get dumped on these people, and Biden knew it

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.359
<v Speaker 1>was coming from Kamala, and he liked the fact that, Okay,

0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.399
<v Speaker 1>she understands how this game is played, and she and

0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.879
<v Speaker 1>she is ready to throw elbows to get what she wants.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what he liked about her.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's possible that she is incompetent in all kinds

0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:26.359
<v Speaker 1>of different ways, and she clearly is, but not in

0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:29.760
<v Speaker 1>the ways of fighting dirty in politics to get ahead,

0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:31.919
<v Speaker 1>which is how she rose to the you know that,

0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:34.280
<v Speaker 1>and maybe being a little hot and a little willing

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<v Speaker 1>to be friends to certain people.

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<v Speaker 2>Billy Brown was charming. I met Willie Brown, I was.

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<v Speaker 3>Charmed or uh, yeah, oh, she's unquestionably a skilled climber.

0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:46.800
<v Speaker 3>I mean, look at what she's you know, the jobs

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<v Speaker 3>she's held and done very badly at.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, skilled climber. You got to give her that.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the reasons I'd never make it in politics,

0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.040
<v Speaker 1>and there's like a million reasons, is uh, you've got

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<v Speaker 1>to be willing to just realize it's part of the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody screws everybody. Nobody's friends with anybody. You're friendly to

0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.320
<v Speaker 1>somebody on a moment by moment basis, if it helps you,

0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:10.359
<v Speaker 1>you'll turn on them a second later, and then you

0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:12.439
<v Speaker 1>go back to being friends five minutes later. If you've

0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:14.440
<v Speaker 1>switched to a different topic. And I couldn't. I would

0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:16.720
<v Speaker 1>never be able to live like that. We're we're either

0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:17.359
<v Speaker 1>friends or we're not.

0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.600
<v Speaker 3>But plus, Michael and I have been compiling a catalog

0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:23.080
<v Speaker 3>of your you know, your missteps for years.

0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:26.720
<v Speaker 2>In fact, we had to start a second volume, so yeah,

0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:27.639
<v Speaker 2>there might be a third.

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<v Speaker 3>Give it a while anyway, Thank god, we don't have

0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:36.320
<v Speaker 3>to worry about presidential politics for a Oh, Gavin Newsom

0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:40.520
<v Speaker 3>just gave a speech in South Carolina. Yeah what, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I know. I mean I need to pay attention to it.

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<v Speaker 1>I am paying attention to this because I get them

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0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:51.720
<v Speaker 1>emails in the morning, that are fake PayPal, fake ups,

0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:55.440
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<v Speaker 1>Remember when I was interacting with that woman who was

0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:54.280
<v Speaker 1>claiming we were in a relationship, and I was just

0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:56.120
<v Speaker 1>trying to see how far the scam would go or

0:28:56.120 --> 0:28:57.720
<v Speaker 1>when she would ask me for money or whatever.

0:28:57.800 --> 0:28:59.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the email thing. Yeah, where was she was?

0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.960
<v Speaker 1>She was were Ukrainian or Russian or something like that anyway,

0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:05.680
<v Speaker 1>And I still don't know how she I got my

0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:08.800
<v Speaker 1>email address originally, but at some point I don't know.

0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:10.480
<v Speaker 1>It's just the mood I was in that day. I

0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:12.719
<v Speaker 1>just was tired of dealing with it because I had

0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:14.920
<v Speaker 1>played along for quite some time, and she'd send me

0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:19.520
<v Speaker 1>these pictures and talk about how in love we were beautiful.

0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:21.280
<v Speaker 1>I finally sent her I said, hey, you know, I

0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:22.840
<v Speaker 1>just have gotten busy and I don't have time to

0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:24.960
<v Speaker 1>go along with this anymore. So I've been playing along

0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 1>with this just to see when you were going to

0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:27.400
<v Speaker 1>finally ask for money.

0:29:27.400 --> 0:29:29.400
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I'm just curious, like it.

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<v Speaker 1>Doesn't bother you at all, that you play upon people's

0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:36.720
<v Speaker 1>emotions and like lonely desperate people think you actually like them,

0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:38.200
<v Speaker 1>and then you make some money off of it, that

0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:40.320
<v Speaker 1>you sleep okay at night with that act.

0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.160
<v Speaker 2>And then I just never heard anything back from her.

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<v Speaker 3>Of course, what do you think they might have replied,

0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:49.360
<v Speaker 3>as I've brought this story to you that look, I'm

0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:52.480
<v Speaker 3>an Indonesian fisherman. I was snatched up by the Chinese.

0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:55.360
<v Speaker 3>I'm being held against my will. Hmmm, they make me

0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:56.560
<v Speaker 3>do this all day long?

0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:00.400
<v Speaker 2>How do you feel about that? Huh, that's what I think. Thought. Now,

0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:02.680
<v Speaker 2>if you'll excuse me, I'm off to scam somebody else.

0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:05.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh so, no, I'm supposed to feel bad.

0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:09.040
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yes, should think about somebody other thane of yourself

0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:11.760
<v Speaker 1>for once, fisherman, how about that?

0:30:12.440 --> 0:30:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Oh boy.

0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:19.520
<v Speaker 3>So the whole multi zillion dollar climate scam is on

0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:22.760
<v Speaker 3>the rocks and for a good reason, but the climate

0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:26.400
<v Speaker 3>activists seem to have no concept of why that is.

0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:29.520
<v Speaker 3>It's not that people have woken up to the giant

0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:32.240
<v Speaker 3>scam and how it's crippled economies without doing any good.

0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:37.680
<v Speaker 3>It's misinformation and disinformation by evildoers has swayed the minds

0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:38.160
<v Speaker 3>of people.

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully that ruse is over, we'll talk about that. No

0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:41.480
<v Speaker 1>stuff on the way.

0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:43.320
<v Speaker 2>Stay here.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, guys, we've eventually kicked off the holiday season, and

0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:50.440
<v Speaker 7>they're always filled with little highs and lows. The high

0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:53.880
<v Speaker 7>when your child enjoys a candy cane, and a low

0:30:53.960 --> 0:30:55.880
<v Speaker 7>when they suck it down to a ship and say.

0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:57.520
<v Speaker 2>Get me a little boo boo. Or else.

0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:03.520
<v Speaker 7>There's a high when opening an advent calendar and a

0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.920
<v Speaker 7>low when realizing all the chocolate expired during.

0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:10.200
<v Speaker 2>The Reagan administration. So it be great, I said.

0:31:10.240 --> 0:31:14.920
<v Speaker 7>There's a high wind seeing Santa at the mall, and

0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:17.760
<v Speaker 7>the low when the whiskey and Santa's breast singes.

0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:21.760
<v Speaker 2>Your nose hair. And finally there's a high.

0:31:21.560 --> 0:31:25.760
<v Speaker 7>When attending your office Christmas party, and then there's a

0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:27.640
<v Speaker 7>low when attending a private party the next day.

0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:31.320
<v Speaker 2>In hr it all evens out. Do we have any

0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:33.800
<v Speaker 2>kind of Christmas party? Yeah?

0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:34.040
<v Speaker 7>We do.

0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:37.640
<v Speaker 2>We have some sort of lunch. When is that next week?

0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:40.800
<v Speaker 2>That's a check that's jack to date. But yeah, okay,

0:31:40.840 --> 0:31:45.720
<v Speaker 2>I should go to that a Christmas lunch. Nothing says

0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:49.400
<v Speaker 2>festivities more than lunch. Is in the building? Is it

0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:50.160
<v Speaker 2>here in the building?

0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:51.200
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:53.280
<v Speaker 1>I remember back in the old days when you had

0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 1>real Christmas parties and people bring their spouses and get

0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:56.800
<v Speaker 1>dressed up.

0:31:57.600 --> 0:32:03.200
<v Speaker 2>Those are awesome good times. Yeah.

0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.560
<v Speaker 1>I have no interest in the who's a better basketball player,

0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 1>Lebron James or Michael Jordan. You can't drag me into

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:12.280
<v Speaker 1>that conversation. But an interesting record came to an end

0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:15.280
<v Speaker 1>last night for Lebron James, who might finally be old

0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:18.440
<v Speaker 1>at age forty. He had a Hall of Fame level

0:32:18.520 --> 0:32:21.680
<v Speaker 1>season last year. If he'd averaged what he averaged last

0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:23.520
<v Speaker 1>year his whole career, he'd be in the Hall of

0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Fame at age thirty nine. This year, he's dropped off

0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:28.080
<v Speaker 1>quite a bit, and last night, for the first time

0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:31.240
<v Speaker 1>in many, many years, he scored less than ten points

0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:35.080
<v Speaker 1>in a game, ending his record streak of almost thirteen

0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:39.320
<v Speaker 1>hundred consecutive games of scoring at least ten points in

0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:39.800
<v Speaker 1>a game.

0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:41.360
<v Speaker 2>He scored eight last night.

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<v Speaker 1>He did, to his credit, by the way, have a

0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:46.360
<v Speaker 1>chance to make ten points at the Veria in the game,

0:32:46.360 --> 0:32:48.080
<v Speaker 1>but he passed the ball to somebody else. They scored

0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:50.719
<v Speaker 1>the winning basket. He was asked afterwards, you have any regrets,

0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:51.400
<v Speaker 1>He said, no, we won.

0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:52.160
<v Speaker 2>That's the whole goal.

0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.920
<v Speaker 1>Twelve hundred and ninety seven consecutive games. Second place by

0:32:57.920 --> 0:33:00.920
<v Speaker 1>Michael Jordan is eight sixty six, four.

0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:04.560
<v Speaker 2>Hundred games shorter. I mean, that's stunning.

0:33:04.760 --> 0:33:08.880
<v Speaker 1>Some of the numbers that Lebron has are just amazing,

0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:10.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, for how long he's played at such a

0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.400
<v Speaker 1>high level. But he might finally be old, So this

0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:15.160
<v Speaker 1>has got to be his last season. I would assume,

0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:18.680
<v Speaker 1>although time is undefeated, but it sure had to fight hard.

0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:20.760
<v Speaker 1>In his case, God, I would say, so had to

0:33:20.760 --> 0:33:24.640
<v Speaker 1>hang in there. I don't know why this story didn't

0:33:24.680 --> 0:33:25.600
<v Speaker 1>get more attention.

0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:27.720
<v Speaker 2>I just became aware of it myself.

0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:34.560
<v Speaker 1>There was an effort, it looks like, to assassinate President

0:33:34.640 --> 0:33:42.000
<v Speaker 1>Zelensky on his trip to Dublin the other day, as

0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:48.880
<v Speaker 1>four drones converged in his flight path after he had

0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:53.760
<v Speaker 1>flown through so his plane arrived early, and it really

0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:56.360
<v Speaker 1>looks like that four drones and nobody's exactly sure where

0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:03.240
<v Speaker 1>they came from, please converted right where his plane was

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:07.120
<v Speaker 1>going to be coming into the landing strip there, and

0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:10.120
<v Speaker 1>they're still trying to figure that all that out plane

0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:11.480
<v Speaker 1>got there earlier, and it was supposed to him the

0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:13.760
<v Speaker 1>drones would would have gotten there right when his plane

0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.240
<v Speaker 1>had gotten there and shot.

0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:17.240
<v Speaker 2>Him out of this guy possibly.

0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.920
<v Speaker 1>And I was reading one of my favorite thinkers saying,

0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:25.040
<v Speaker 1>this is where we are, that there's just so much

0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:30.560
<v Speaker 1>stuff going on all the time that a close call

0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:33.239
<v Speaker 1>assassination attempt on a world leader in the middle of

0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:36.880
<v Speaker 1>a war with all these peace negotiations happening doesn't even really.

0:34:36.680 --> 0:34:39.799
<v Speaker 3>Make the news right right, Well, there are a lot

0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:41.520
<v Speaker 3>of examples of that. It's just got to kind of

0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:45.759
<v Speaker 3>catch on, like this Somali ripoff in Minnesota story. Yeah,

0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.920
<v Speaker 3>that story's a couple of years old. Hell, we had

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<v Speaker 3>it eighteen months ago, I think. But now all of

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<v Speaker 3>a sudden it's the biggest thing in politics, partly because

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<v Speaker 3>Trump latched onto it and is talking about it, and

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<v Speaker 3>all of a sudden, like the New York Times has decided, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>we probably ought to write about this. So's just too

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<v Speaker 3>much going on, it's too wild.

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<v Speaker 1>I mentioned yesterday that one of the great AI thinkers

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<v Speaker 1>predicting what it's going to be like in the future,

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<v Speaker 1>the way AI is gonna destroy civilization, if not destroy

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<v Speaker 1>you know, all human beings, is everything is just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>become so confusing. We're just gonna be so inundated with

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<v Speaker 1>crap all the time that you don't know what's true

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<v Speaker 1>and what's not and what's really happening, and just there's

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<v Speaker 1>just so much blah constantly, And I, like Joe said,

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<v Speaker 1>it feels like we're halfway there already.

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<v Speaker 2>Right. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I have two completely contradictory thoughts on that. The first

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<v Speaker 3>one is the becoming zen or confusion or praying ceaselessly

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<v Speaker 3>or whatever. A lot more people are gonna embrace that,

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<v Speaker 3>they're gonna check out completely from the information economy and

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<v Speaker 3>try to live simple lives. My completely oppositional thought to

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<v Speaker 3>that is that the evil doers will have enormous powers

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<v Speaker 3>and we all need to be on our guard. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it's definitely a fever pitch confusing age we're moving into.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, so you mean, like checking out individually really good

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<v Speaker 1>for you, but not is not going to help society

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<v Speaker 1>if people that checked out can't really be motivated to

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<v Speaker 1>get in to do anything.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm not sure they could do anything anyway, depending

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<v Speaker 3>on which way the AI thing goes and who gets

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<v Speaker 3>it and how they use it. I realized this is

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<v Speaker 3>all kind of terrifying and dislocating. I would concentrate on

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<v Speaker 3>the world close to you.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I do.

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<v Speaker 3>There's nothing much I can do about this stuff, so

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<v Speaker 3>I don't worry about it?

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<v Speaker 2>Or is there?

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<v Speaker 3>It creeps into my dream sometimes and I wake up

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<v Speaker 3>screaming and weeping.

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<v Speaker 2>But what are you gonna do?

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<v Speaker 1>Could we get regulations in place to slow down this train?

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<v Speaker 1>Or is it just impossible? No? No, okay, well then

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<v Speaker 1>you have any other question in sports and weather exactly?

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<v Speaker 2>No, what about the Chinese.

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