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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.

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Speaker 2: And Jetty and he.

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Speaker 3: Arms drawn.

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Speaker 2: Room deep in the bowels of.

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Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey, y'all, today

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Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

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Speaker 2: Pump Freezing Executor. What pump freezing Executor? Is that a.

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court case that could be fundamental in the developing

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Speaker 1: news in this early part of the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Interesting, that's something I've never even heard of. So here

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Speaker 1: I have a chance to learn something today. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you don't mess with Humphreys executor. He will break you

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Speaker 1: in half. Boy, of course, I got a mix of

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Speaker 1: bird flu and what's that three letter one that's going

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Speaker 1: around RSV RSV? What's that stand for respiratory sinkial virus

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Speaker 1: something like that. I don't think I am not a doctor, Jack,

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Speaker 1: I think I got bird flu and monkey pucks.

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Speaker 2: Wow, oh wow, that had to be quite a party.

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Speaker 2: It was. We had fun.

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Speaker 1: We all knew it was risky, but we had a

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Speaker 1: good time. The memories will last forever. The videos will

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Speaker 1: never be disclosed. No, we're all working from home now though,

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Speaker 1: So it didn't go well, so you're ailing, huh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? So midnight last night was

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Speaker 1: the deadline for you lazy government workers to put in

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Speaker 1: your list of the five things that you did last week.

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Speaker 1: And the deadline kind of came and went, and a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of different department said, Hey, I don't worry

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to over.

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Speaker 1: React to anything, because that's kind of what you do

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Speaker 1: when Trump is in the White House. But I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's a good look to issue spurious orders that

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Speaker 1: people kind of snicker at and ignore. Ere Elon Moskin all,

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Speaker 1: you got the ear of the President. I love the

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Speaker 1: doge thing. It's just don't do that. Why would you?

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Speaker 1: It does water down the next directive, doesn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know it's funny the counter arguments of burbling up.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, Elon would probably say, no, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted everybody to be talking about government workers having to

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Speaker 1: prove what they do.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's why you're on SpaceX and I

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Speaker 1: don't run anything. Well, we probably have the clip, but

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump explained, any estates is just to see if

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Speaker 1: there's anybody there. I mean, if we don't get any response,

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Speaker 1: will assume that there's nobody even doing that. We've got

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Speaker 1: all kinds of people out there that don't even go

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Speaker 1: to work that we're paying, and we're just trying to

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Speaker 1: figure that out step one. So that's the way Trump

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Speaker 1: explained it yesterday. But the fact that so many departments,

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Speaker 1: including CHRISTINEO DHS Patel at FBI, his reasoning was, we

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Speaker 1: got way too many security issues to do this sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. But s and then another of other departments

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Speaker 1: you wonder if it doesn't just like take a little

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Speaker 1: the air out of the whole doge thing and like

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Speaker 1: the next big directive to come down the line, people

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Speaker 1: have before. So we'll see, right, And just more generally,

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Speaker 1: it matters in a system like ours whether you have

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Speaker 1: But just cultural speaking, if the country were to be

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Speaker 1: swept up in doge mania and just be thrilled at

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Speaker 1: the idea of waste and fraud being eliminated and no

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Speaker 1: That would matter fundamentally.

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Speaker 2: To how successful it is.

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Speaker 1: So I just I can't decide if this one was

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Speaker 1: about government workers.

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Speaker 2: What do they do? I'm sure we'll have to say.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but Manny, never ending mass media attention

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Speaker 1: to here's someone who thought they could work in the

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Speaker 1: I just don't think that's landing the way they think

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Speaker 2: I moved here for this job. Yes, I moved for

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Speaker 2: It just it happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a headline in the New York Times today

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they do. And what else?

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Speaker 1: Joe Jones worked for the Department of Labor for twenty

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Speaker 1: three years doing something and now wonders, Yeah, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: employment is as sacrosanct, it's permanent. It's like being some

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Speaker 1: sort of high priest. Just stop it, America. What the

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Speaker 1: what the hell? What? What?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: How?

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Speaker 2: Did well?

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Speaker 1: This attitude is crept upon us. Now it's infected the

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Speaker 1: national psyche. Everybody has weird assumptions.

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Speaker 2: I got a question for you.

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Speaker 1: Since we're in the middle of a quadramic or maybe

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Speaker 1: Often do you feel like when you feel kind of

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Speaker 2: We're a waste of time.

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Speaker 1: I feel like most of the time it's a waste

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Speaker 1: of time in my life experience. Yeah, yeah, I would say,

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Speaker 2: There's nothing there.

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Speaker 1: There's no medicine that you can't get over the counter,

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Speaker 1: When the doctor says rests, always want to say, sir,

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Speaker 2: Or how's this gonna work?

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Speaker 1: Could you get that lady up in the front office.

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Speaker 1: you know what, It's funny. I'm in a very cheery

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Speaker 1: My friend's doing my job, and I don't want to

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Speaker 2: I want to hear that.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear that it's well see, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe you feel good and happy, but we

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Speaker 1: But anyway, they used to say every cigarette shortens your

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Speaker 2: If they could do that, every time you.

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Speaker 1: Get pissed off it shortens your life by ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: that'd be funny.

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Speaker 2: We definitely would happen inside of dob okay, deepress, deep press.

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Speaker 1: Every time you get cussing angry, it shortens your life

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Speaker 1: the discussion will take a cheerier turn, I promise. But

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Speaker 1: it exists. What could be more my choice. There's also

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of money changes hands in those

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Speaker 1: Anywhow, that's an interesting topic we should start to show

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Speaker 1: them for their language. That was one of those there,

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, February the twenty fifty or twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: where Armstrong and getting we approved of this program. Let's

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Speaker 2: Here we go at Mark Jender the set of preface

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Speaker 2: we have. Woman is a social construct that we've agreed upon.

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Speaker 1: That's an educator who has declared that woman is whatever

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Speaker 1: if that was a good idea, right, speaking of popular consciousness,

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Speaker 1: and if the society gets behind something, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: like who was it? There's a great Supreme Court Lincoln

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Speaker 1: Mark Twain, John Wayne, and somebody said essentially that if

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Speaker 1: the John Wayne, if the people, if the culture values

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Speaker 1: the Constitution, nobody can threaten it, really and if the

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Speaker 1: We have to believe in what we're doing. Anyway, It's

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Speaker 1: I think it's really important to have people aware of

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Speaker 1: We voted with Russia and some of the other awful

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Speaker 1: And it was a dopey, in my opinion, nineteen thirty

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Speaker 2: No, no, that's that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they can do that, and it really hasn't been

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that among other things to come.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's figure out who's reporting what it's sorry,

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Speaker 2: Pots, monkey pomps. Katie Greek Katie from the Washington Post.

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Speaker 2: So who said that, Trump said?

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Speaker 4: Trump Administration telling agencies Okay. From Newsweek, Putin says Zelenski

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Speaker 4: has quote no chance in fair election as Ukrainians grow

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Speaker 2: That's just not true.

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Speaker 1: I don't he's trying to posture himself for the negotiations

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Speaker 4: From Fox News, Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release over Hamas

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Speaker 1: But Hamas doesn't want peace for a second. They want war.

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Speaker 2: I say give it to them.

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Speaker 2: The bureau worried. And we'll see how it goes. He's

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Speaker 1: It's an unconventional choice.

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Speaker 4: Shocking NBC fake video of Trump kissing Musk's feet displayed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the HUD Headquarters Housing and Urban Development from They

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Speaker 4: Married couple forced to sit next to woman's dead body

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Speaker 2: To Elon's email. Yeah, i'd be.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was great because we have people that

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Speaker 2: They work for the government.

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Speaker 5: Seem like these guys are doing all of this chaos

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Speaker 1: Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch, There, you got to remember

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Speaker 1: And there are a couple of disputes going on right

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Speaker 1: marginalized the far right, Denmark. Why And then he goes

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Speaker 1: into some detail about Denmark's center left party is way left.

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Speaker 1: Part of that is because of oil money. Denmark lives

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Speaker 1: in a fan tannessy Land. It's a small, homogeneous country

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Speaker 1: that you know, everybody's ordained pretty much, that has humongous

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Speaker 1: amounts of oil revenue, and so they don't have to

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Speaker 1: behave like a normal economy and government behave.

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Speaker 2: So they're not a great example of much.

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Speaker 1: But he points out that the key difference between Denmark's

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Speaker 1: center left and the center left in the US and

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Speaker 1: much of Europe is that Danish progressives listen to working

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Speaker 1: class voters on immigration and reduced immigration levels. As Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Unpronounceable told me, immigration is the number one reason

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Speaker 1: that the Danish left still governs even when the left

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Speaker 1: is in retreat most everywhere else. Consider this around the world.

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Speaker 1: There is not one clear example of a country that

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Speaker 1: has accepted large numbers of newcomers in recent decades. I

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Speaker 1: would point out, like completely willy nilly too, there is

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Speaker 1: not one clear example of a country that's accepted large

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Speaker 1: numbers of newcomers in recent decades while marginalizing the far

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Speaker 1: and reducing inequality. Immigrations and is now roiling politics in

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Speaker 1: the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Europe, and the Left's

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Speaker 1: recent strategy lecturing working class voters and ignoring the burdens

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Speaker 1: on their communities has not worked. And of course not

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's no doubt that if Biden had cracked

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Speaker 1: down on the border, he wouldn't have stated in office

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Speaker 1: because of actuary tables, but a Kamala or someone could

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Speaker 1: have won, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and what a

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Speaker 1: nightmare that would have been. So I don't want to

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Speaker 1: have like Stockholm syndrome where I'm trying to please my kidnappers.

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Speaker 1: So he won't beat me anymore or whatever with the

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Speaker 1: mainstream media. But because I love my country more than

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Speaker 1: you know, kicking the left.

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Speaker 2: The fact that.

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Speaker 1: The New York Times is saying, hey, immigration policy has

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Speaker 1: been abusive of the working class and they're not taking it.

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Speaker 1: And you know what else they're right is crazy over

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad to see it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool. And then that whole thing with uh Humphreys

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Speaker 2: what you might call it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Humphrey's executor, don't mess with him and scrotum

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Speaker 1: watchers are going to be seen if the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: takes that up. Scotis Scotus is the generally usedttus acronym.

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Speaker 2: I get that mixed up all the time. Oh that's

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Speaker 2: that's got to be uncomfortable. You have to file an appeal.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I've had some funny exchanges in the bedroom.

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Speaker 2: We've got mail bag on the way.

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Speaker 1: Our text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.

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Speaker 2: Four drinking songs. I've been drinking nightwith. That's what I'm drinking.

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Speaker 2: He is feeling a bit festive last night? Oh really?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? It got a little Thursday night ish on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Got Thursday on a Monday gotcha. Yeah, I'm reminded of

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Speaker 1: the great old ninety seven song Every night is Friday

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Speaker 1: Night Without You. Anyway, it was lovely and I was

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Speaker 1: just feeling festive and perhaps tip the glass once more than.

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Speaker 2: I needed to. But what are you gonna do? How

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Speaker 2: many time you're gonna do? How many times do you live? Once? Once?

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Speaker 3: Ish?

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Speaker 2: Right, no offense to our Buddhist friends, yolo.

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Speaker 1: Their belief in reincarnation sounds like, I don't know, an

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Speaker 1: opportunity and a punishment. Well, it depends what kind of

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Speaker 1: life you live, right, You want to come back as

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Speaker 1: a human or a bug?

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Speaker 2: Could being a jerk. You're gonna come back as a bug.

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Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, continuing on

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Speaker 1: our series from George Washington.

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Speaker 2: A couple of them because they're short.

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Speaker 1: Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Patriotism isn't always the last refuge of a scoundrel,

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Speaker 1: but it is sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then finally this, this is.

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Speaker 1: A hundreds of year old version of one of your

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Speaker 1: favorite sayings, Jack, that the truth bats last. Well, Washington,

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Speaker 1: not a baseball fan, according to the historical record, didn't

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Speaker 1: get that reference. He said truth will ultimately prevail where

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Speaker 1: there are pains to bring it to light.

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Speaker 2: Reality bats last.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a long damn time, though the liars

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Speaker 1: are good at their jobs. Mailbag drops no mailbag at

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot Com will begin with a bonus

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Speaker 1: quote set along by Scott from Bordeaux, France. Wow, that's

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Speaker 1: a humble brag again, no kidding, legendary wine growing region,

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Speaker 1: speaking of tipping the glass. I'd like to get there

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Speaker 1: sometime myself. I tried and the trip was canceled by

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Speaker 1: the damn COVID. Anyway, he quotes Margaret Thatcher, who said

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Speaker 1: power is like being a lady.

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Speaker 2: If you have to tell people you are, you aren't

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Speaker 2: good one. I love that. Maggie Thatcher, and.

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Speaker 1: Scott points out this one inadvertently also hits on Joe's

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Speaker 1: gender bending madness. If you have to say I'm a woman,

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Speaker 1: you know, speaking of hubble brags. I know someone that

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Speaker 1: every story they tell has to include when I was

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Speaker 1: in law school, just to make sure everybody.

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Speaker 2: Knows they went to law school.

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Speaker 1: You can't say when I was in college. You gotta

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Speaker 1: always say when I was in law school or when

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Speaker 1: I was younger. You don't even need to say when

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Speaker 1: you were in college.

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Speaker 2: We're back in school. Yeah, how about I go with

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Speaker 2: this one?

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Speaker 1: Just before I got my PhD, and it's still before

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Speaker 1: I got my PhD. Right now, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: There you go right any minute though, I was working

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Speaker 1: on my PhD. When which is more or less it

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Speaker 1: will be the day I croak. Anyway, let's see Ted Wrights, guys,

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Speaker 1: the left wants to call mothers inseminated persons.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Proposed law in Wisconsin, Tony Evers. The communist governors in

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Speaker 1: favor of this garbage inseminated persons. Really, they want to

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Speaker 1: reduce pregnant women to something out of the Handmaid's Tale.

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Speaker 2: Irony.

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Speaker 1: Michael Savage always claimed that liberalism was a mental disorder.

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Speaker 1: I always assumed he was just being hyperbolic. But when

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Speaker 1: you look at what the left has become and what

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Speaker 1: they support, mmmm, Well, in Wisconsin, of all places, you

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Speaker 1: can't get more regular person salt of the earth the Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: And then you got the government in charges wack of doodles.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's the problem with our system, which is

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Speaker 1: a wonderful system. But you got a handful of giant

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Speaker 1: college towns, and then they enter the big cities in

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and they dominate what is geographically a very big,

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Speaker 1: very red state. Moving along, rest in peace, ROBERTA. Flack Right,

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Speaker 1: Zabo I dismissed her as a fine, you know, soft

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Speaker 1: pop singer, not realizing what a jazz genius she was.

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Speaker 1: My ignorance on display, I apologize for it, he writes,

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Speaker 1: Those squealing corn pigs today couldn't order a pizza over

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Speaker 1: the phone without auto tune, let alone to be worthy

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Speaker 1: to even be a Roady carrying ROBERTA Flax microphones squealing

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Speaker 1: corn pigs.

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Speaker 2: I just like this sentence.

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Speaker 1: Wow, couldn't order a pizza on the phone without auto tune.

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Speaker 1: That's a great blast. Sabbo jt and Livermore are always

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Speaker 1: good for a great email, says I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Trump is playing seven dimensional chess or if he's utilizing

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Speaker 1: utilizing the art tactics from the Art of war, if

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Speaker 1: he's secretly a tai Chi master. But Trump a derangement syndrome,

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Speaker 1: and Trump's first term showed pretty clearly that the left

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Speaker 1: would oppose anything Trump stood for. Trump wanted secure borders,

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Speaker 1: low crime, kids back in school during COVID, Then the

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Speaker 1: left felt they must take the opposite positions. So what

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Speaker 1: does Trump do in his second term? He picks dozens

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Speaker 1: of policies that have eighty plus percent support and dares

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Speaker 1: the left to take the opposite stance, and they do

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Speaker 1: just that. They step on every rake that Trump leaves around.

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Speaker 1: They want massive illegal immigration, high crime, massive wasteful government spending,

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Speaker 1: green energy, doggles, poorn in elementary school libraries. They want

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Speaker 1: to protect convicted murders, rapists, and pedophiles from being deported.

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Speaker 1: They want to spend billions of dollars on trans plays

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Speaker 1: in foreign countries. Want to continue their racist d I programs.

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Speaker 1: They want men to play in women's sports and be

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Speaker 1: in women's locker rooms. They want to continue to sexualize

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Speaker 1: grade school kids and to perform irreversible experimental surgeries on

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Speaker 1: preprebescent kids against the wishes of their parents. How dumb

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Speaker 1: can one party be? Well, I'm saying just just let's

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Speaker 1: be smart, let's be strategic, not give them an opening.

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Speaker 1: Let's see a grant.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, maybe I'm giving Trump too much credit, But what

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Speaker 1: if he's using this mineral rights issue with Ukraine to

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Speaker 1: strong arm Russia. Once the US owns those minerals, couldn't

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Speaker 1: we defend them from Russia? Well, yeah, that is many

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Speaker 1: people's take. Not this way, but more of the good

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Speaker 1: news in this would be we would have a real

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Speaker 1: interest in making sure Russia doesn't take over Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: That would be the security guarantee.

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Speaker 1: You probably you're definitely onto something grant and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that more later. Love this from Matt Land, surveyor,

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Speaker 1: longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Helped me

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Speaker 1: out personally once or twice. Dear a g read the

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Speaker 1: California bull s train. You're discussing that a majority Californians

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Speaker 1: are still in favor of it. Effing kill me right.

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Speaker 1: Your explanation of why was a good one makes sense.

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Speaker 1: The polling question was worded intentionally and could easily mislead

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Speaker 1: the average Californian who's not really paying attention. Classic polling technique.

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Speaker 1: He said, there may be even more to that. Back

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Speaker 1: to Trump derangement syndrome, Trump said he was against the

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Speaker 1: bullet train. Therefore the blue voters in California are for it.

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the day that Trump comes out pro

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Speaker 1: abortion even up to the third trimester, and that it's

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Speaker 1: permissible in all fifty states and that the federal government

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Speaker 1: will pay for it, because I'm convinced that liberals will

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Speaker 1: then start talking about baby killing and the sanctity of life,

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Speaker 1: while Republicans will begin reciting whatever reason Trump gives being

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Speaker 1: pro abortion.

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Speaker 2: Does anyone think for themselves anymore? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Trump should say every girl's volleyball team has to have

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Speaker 1: at least one dude on it, and the mainstream medium,

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Speaker 1: the left would go opposite women's rights.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we protect wemen's faces. This is the misogyny

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Speaker 2: of the Trumpet ministration.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he may be right that that that

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Speaker 1: Ukraine issue with the mineral rights and stuff, that's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: So we if we were getting like fifty percent of

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Speaker 1: the revenue or whatever they're going to work out, then

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Speaker 1: Trump would say to putin or the agreement would be hey,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a lot of money for us.

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Speaker 2: So don't be going to mess in with our with

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Speaker 2: our with our hustle, and I will steal man, as

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Speaker 2: we say these days.

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Speaker 1: The Trump administration foreign policy philosophy that seems to be

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Speaker 1: taking shape of a great powers world as opposed to

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Speaker 1: an international order, laws and traditions world. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I agree with it, but at least we can understand

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Speaker 1: what he is trying to do it. I think so

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Speaker 1: or on that to come coming up next hour. Kicking

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Speaker 1: off next hour, Tom McClintock, Congressman, fiscal conservative, who wants

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Speaker 1: to talk about Doge, how it's going, some of the

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Speaker 1: idiotic coverage it's getting in the media.

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Speaker 2: I think this will gratify yee. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to him about where he thinks

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Speaker 1: we are on the big tax bill, because the Trump

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Speaker 1: tax cuts expire and they got to get to work

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Speaker 1: on that real soon, like in the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: and that's going to be quite the political battle.

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Speaker 2: And I haven't paid my taxes in like ten years,

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Speaker 2: so I'd like to know what the future looks like.

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Speaker 1: Oh jeez, if you miss podcast Armstrong and Getty on

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Speaker 1: demand Armstrong and Getty