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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the

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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Arms

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Speaker 2: live from studio. CE say, it's priy, Well, I got

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Speaker 2: what two fridays left before Christmas? As today is the

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Speaker 2: fifth Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Deeper than

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Speaker 2: the Bowels, et cetera, et cetera. And today we're under

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Speaker 2: the tutelage of our general manager. Dump boy. Eh m,

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Speaker 2: I don't know you got a nominee. Yeah, I gotta

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Speaker 2: get a tree. That's my general manager. I don't have

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Speaker 2: a tree up yet. We don't have a tree up yet.

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Speaker 2: How tree was that?

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Speaker 3: It's terrible.

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Speaker 2: It's the fifth of December and we don't have a

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Speaker 2: tree up yet. That makes me a bad parent. You'd

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Speaker 2: have showed up at the manger and and and then

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Speaker 2: spit on the baby. Jesus, you know what. I'd have

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Speaker 2: had a little Strong No Franklinson, no gold Mumura gift card.

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Speaker 2: I showed up with a gift card for the baby,

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Speaker 2: Gee's Starbucks gift card. Yeah, picked this up as a

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Speaker 2: village station. An infant can't go to Starbucks. They had

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Speaker 2: that at the convenience store. I got this gift card

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Speaker 2: for you. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Three wise men would

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Speaker 2: have whooped up on you. So I didn't plan ahead.

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Speaker 2: Got to get a tree this weekend, had vacation, been sick,

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Speaker 2: my son's been sick, so yeah, we gotta get a

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Speaker 2: tree this weekend, get decorated. Here's my big mistake. Well

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Speaker 2: it's not a mistake. I was donating to the high

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Speaker 2: school band. But my son's band had their big Christmas

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Speaker 2: winter concert last night, Loveless. I know you've attended many

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Speaker 2: of those, and everybody's all dressed up everything like that

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Speaker 2: and playing their music and it was very, very nice.

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Speaker 2: But they also do a bake sale where they raise

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Speaker 2: money for the band and parents bake stuff and then

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Speaker 2: people bid win, win, People bid ridiculous amounts of money

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Speaker 2: because it's not about the bag good. It's about donating

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Speaker 2: to the band, right right. So I paid one hundred

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Speaker 2: bucks for this toffee, homemade toffee. It's like a ten

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Speaker 2: on the way home. It's like, this is the best

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Speaker 2: thing I've ever had in my life? What am I

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Speaker 2: going to do with ten pounds of the best candy

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Speaker 2: I've ever had in my life? It's soul. And as

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Speaker 2: you're eating for two, Katie, you can probably I'm pretending

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Speaker 2: I'm eating. They're really good job of putting in them

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Speaker 2: in small enough pieces that you can think one, one

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Speaker 2: little piece, one little more. You're back in the kitchen

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Speaker 2: because you forgot something. I'll want one moral piece for

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Speaker 2: I go to bed. I call those drive bytes. Drive bytes.

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Speaker 2: That's good. You got to get that clever, you should

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Speaker 2: get that patented. That is a good there is There

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Speaker 2: is when food gets to a certain size. Because some

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Speaker 2: sizes are too big. You're not gonna grab one of those, yeah,

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Speaker 2: just on a whim at that size. But there's some

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Speaker 2: size that mentally you think it doesn't really even count.

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Speaker 2: At this size, that's not hurting anything. And then you

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Speaker 2: take in five of them, which, of course, if you

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Speaker 2: understand the community properties of something or other, they add

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Speaker 2: it up to a bigger size. Yeah, there is some

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Speaker 2: sort of principle here, an important one incrementalist something or other.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, the insignificant incrementalist principle. Drive bites. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I meant to bring it into work, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: I'll bring it into work and people will eat it

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Speaker 2: really fast. And in this morning, when I was looking

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Speaker 2: to work people. Oh no, thanks a lot, Jack, Oh stop, Jack, Wow,

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Speaker 2: mine mine, I'm exactly. I'm daffy doc by my mine

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Speaker 2: standing on the pile of gold. I'm not good enough

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Speaker 2: for you. I wasn't thinking of you a Michael, wouldn't

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Speaker 2: think of our little crowd. I mean those people out there.

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Speaker 2: I don't want them eat in disc food. It's too

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Speaker 2: good for that. I guess you're right, the peasants exactly.

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Speaker 2: So we have occasionally gone with the only in the

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Speaker 2: That would work if I put it in out the

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Speaker 2: word that the chosen few. Heypes on a piece of this.

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Speaker 2: I would do. Don't tell anybody, Okay, So we're going

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Speaker 2: to start to show officially a little earlier than we

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Speaker 2: usually do because we got a couple of interesting clips

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Speaker 2: that I think are worth talking about. It's a said

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Speaker 2: that they played the video of the second strike yesterday

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Speaker 2: in front of a bunch of people in Congress, and

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Speaker 2: they came out with completely different partisan views of what

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Speaker 2: they saw, which you're about to hear. So let's start

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Speaker 2: to show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.

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Speaker 2: It is Friday, December, fifth year, twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: you're getting, we approve of this program. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: begin officially now according to FCC rules and rags, here

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Speaker 4: Mark, what I saw in that room was one of

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Speaker 4: the most troubling things I've seen in my time in

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it. Which disturbing

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Speaker 2: to me is that millions of Americans have died from

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Speaker 2: drugs being run to America by these cartels. There you

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Speaker 2: go consensus. So you got the chair, the Democratic chair

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Speaker 2: of the committee, who says it's the most disturbing thing

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Speaker 2: he's ever seen in public life. He said, you saw

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Speaker 2: two people with no means of going anywhere, clinging to debris,

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Speaker 2: no way to be part of Tom Cotton the longer

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Speaker 2: versions of these clips, saying you saw exactly what was described.

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Speaker 2: You saw two people that were still clearly combatants. This

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Speaker 2: is absolutely righteous. I would have ordered the same thing

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Speaker 2: myself in my military career. How do you possibly have

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Speaker 2: two people see the same video and come away with

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Speaker 2: have I although certainly from fairly neutral accounts I've read.

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Speaker 2: It's not as was described by Hines. Two helpless men

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Speaker 2: clinging only to one. There was a cork on the boat,

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Speaker 2: and both men were clean to the same cork and

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Speaker 2: praying for mercy. No, they're trying to flip the boat

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Speaker 2: over and keep going. I would say that the New

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Speaker 2: real quick. New York Times coverage does not quote Hines.

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Speaker 2: It quotes Cotton and a couple other people. So they

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Speaker 2: don't they Their big headline is not Tom Cotton lies about. No,

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Speaker 2: they're they're they're they're getting into other angles of the story,

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Speaker 2: but they're not they're not disputing what had leaked out

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Speaker 2: But many many people were briefed and saw the videos,

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Speaker 2: NOW last night formerly MSNBC soon to be called Twitter

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Speaker 2: then x MSNBC last night went with their panel discussion

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Speaker 2: as if what the Hindz guy said was one hundred

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Speaker 2: it's interesting that the New York Times is not taking

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Speaker 2: isn't a real war, we shouldn't be doing this, this

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Speaker 2: is this is not cool. They're they're fair enough backing

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Speaker 2: up a step. But the New York Times says, and

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Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting. The focus on the second

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Speaker 2: strike and the nuances of the law of armed conflict

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Speaker 2: could end up being a favor to the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: The idea that some was bad about that particular strike

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Speaker 2: and its premise reinforces at the idea that, yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: at war with these people, and now we're arguing over

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Speaker 2: whether or not that second strike in a war was okay,

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Speaker 2: kind of jumping past the first conversation. What point I've

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Speaker 2: made repeatedly right? For what it's worth. The News Nation

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Speaker 2: Lawmakers come on News Nation and then they quote Hines.

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Speaker 2: Goodness sakes, they quote anybody. They quote Tom Cotton down

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Speaker 2: saying the mission was lawful and the strikes are justified

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Speaker 2: comfortable that we didn't commit a war crime there, So

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Speaker 2: that's good. That would be good for anybody. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: much more interested in the bigger question that the editorial

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Speaker 2: matter what they're doing. And that's one interesting aspect of this.

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Speaker 2: It's indisputable that if you're in a war, you can

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Speaker 2: their war effort. Are we all comfortable with the idea that, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we're going to take out these drug boats because that's

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Speaker 2: how they finance their nefarious operations. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: you know, with our own you know, assent in a

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Speaker 2: If you're on the wrong end of the war, on

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Speaker 2: poverty when we go there. Yeah, that's kind of a

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Speaker 2: funny thing to say, start striking hungry people. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: that is a funny thing to say. That's one way

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Speaker 2: know either. You finished your Christmas shopping? How long ago?

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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago. Actually, I just finished wrapping

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Speaker 2: my presence yesterday. They're all under the tree. God, I

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Speaker 2: don't even have a tree up yet. I'm a bad person. Well,

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Speaker 2: no doubt, but yeah, we're we're tardy on that ourselves.

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Speaker 2: But that's because we got a remodel going on and

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Speaker 2: Jesus birth. Okay, fine, Oh, speaking of sniping, this is

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Speaker 2: ready for the show. So The Atlantic was doing this

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Speaker 2: interview with Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, frequently mentioned presidential

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Speaker 2: hopeful and he interviewed for the VEEP slot with Kamala Harris. Well,

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Speaker 2: they were interviewing him like the day or the week

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Speaker 2: the book came out and he hadn't seen it yet,

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Speaker 2: and this reporter was hitting him with some of the

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Speaker 2: quotes from the book, and Shapiro, who is famously very measured,

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Speaker 2: very even keeled, very strategic, kind of lost his ass

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Speaker 2: and then immediately felt bad about it. We'll hit you

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Speaker 2: with some of those delightful excerpts coming up. It's a

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Speaker 2: good Kamala kicking, so you know that'll be enjoying that.

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Speaker 2: So it always feels good on a Friday. Come on, now,

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Speaker 3: From NBC, parents say school issued iPads are causing chaos

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Speaker 2: But first, it's the Friday tradition. Time to take fond

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Speaker 3: An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday,

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Speaker 1: How Republicans launch an investigation into widespread COVID era fraud

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Speaker 2: The President's obsession with me is really unhealthy. It's creepy.

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Speaker 2: You could be if you want to be like a

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Speaker 2: real boomer, you can just well, they need to learn

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Speaker 2: to sit there and pay attention. But that ain't gonna work.

433
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Speaker 2: It just is not going to work. I think we're

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Speaker 2: going to have to restructure all teaching in like video

435
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Speaker 2: form and little snippets. I think if you taught like

436
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Speaker 2: both of my kids, if you were teaching them in

437
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Speaker 2: the style that TikTok videos are, where the information comes

438
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Speaker 2: fast and in little snippets, much more likely to hold

439
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Speaker 2: their attention and have them walk away after an hour

440
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Speaker 2: of that having learned something than a teacher standing in

441
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Speaker 2: that they're drowning on not even close. And then when

442
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Speaker 2: I I was talking a couple of weeks ago about

443
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Speaker 2: how we may have ended the era of literacy, literacy

444
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Speaker 2: didn't really start in the world until around seventeen hundred,

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Speaker 2: when the printing press had been around long enough and

446
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Speaker 2: enough people had learned to read, and people got into

447
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Speaker 2: books and reading. It may be over now. In fact,

448
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 2: all indications are it is over. Book sales, long form

449
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 2: reading is down so much that it's over. It was

450
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Speaker 2: about three hundred years of people reading and it's just over. Yeah,

451
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Speaker 2: and it ain't coming back too and it ain't really

452
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Speaker 2: coming back. So you can either claim that you can

453
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Speaker 2: yell at the world and they'll get back on board

454
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Speaker 2: with reading or something, or to adjust to it. I

455
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: think those are your two choices. I think it's possible, unlikely,

456
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: but possible, that we as a society could decide in

457
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Speaker 2: the same way we did with drunk driving and cigarette smoking,

458
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Speaker 2: that kids addicted to the endorphin just shot after shot

459
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Speaker 2: after shot after shot of the smartphone is a terrible

460
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Speaker 2: thing to do to a child. Again, it's possible we

461
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Speaker 2: could do that it's unlikely. I really hate to admit

462
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: that you're probably right with your zingbang poo educational model,

463
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Speaker 2: but that may be the only choice. Well. One of

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Speaker 2: the problems with your plan, and this is one of

465
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Speaker 2: my biggest beliefs in the world. The generation that remembers

466
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Speaker 2: any other way is going to be dead before you

467
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Speaker 2: know it, and there won't be anybody left who remembers

468
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Speaker 2: what a brain felt like before smartphones came along. There

469
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Speaker 2: won't be many people. Pretty soon, there won't be anybody left.

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Speaker 4: Right.

471
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Speaker 2: I barely remember myself when I could just sit there

472
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Speaker 2: in quiet with a book for long periods of time,

473
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Speaker 2: and there was my brain screaming for more entertainment. Well, yeah,

474
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Speaker 2: I think it's more profound than that. Just because they

475
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 2: don't have real friends. Some of a lot of kids,

476
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Speaker 2: and they never get together with anybody of the opposite sex,

477
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Speaker 2: and they have no interest in family or children or

478
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Speaker 2: anything like that will die out and it'll be a

479
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Speaker 2: planet of the ants. Oh. I just fatalists on some

480
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 2: of these things. But for today, to try to fix today,

481
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, definitely, the education is gonna have to

482
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Speaker 2: go the direction of bingpoo zoom TikTok style. That's the

483
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Speaker 2: way you spread information. I think that's your only hope,

484
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Speaker 2: which would be a lot of work of the teacher. Well, yeah,

485
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to have you know, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to have to hire TikTok to design

487
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Speaker 2: you your curriculum. Then the Chinese just have a direct

488
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Speaker 2: bit of media. I don't hear this conversation come up

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Speaker 2: really anywhere else. This whole nobody reads anymore. They need

516
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Speaker 2: a different way of teaching, et cetera, et cetera. I

517
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Speaker 2: don't really hear the conversation anywhere. No, I think the

518
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Speaker 2: American educational system and this is a great failing of

519
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Speaker 2: boomers and Gen X in particular. Whatever to millennials, whatever,

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00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: you people are a little younger than me. Actually, that'd

521
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 2: be most gen x. Our great failing is that we

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Speaker 2: saw education as a set it and forget it part

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524
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Speaker 2: growing up. There were some issues and tweaks that were needed,

525
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Speaker 2: you know, we could go into those, but it was

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Speaker 2: mostly a really solid institution that functioned at a high level.

527
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Speaker 2: Witnessed the fact that the American university system, and hilariously

528
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,200
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529
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Speaker 2: of the world, and rightfully so. Now they're crap. Wow,

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00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: Joe dropped a sea bomb on our university. Damn right,

531
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: wake up and smell it. Smell the iguano just disappointing.

532
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: In our two, we're going to talk a little bit

533
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Speaker 2: about that pipe bomber that they caught and what the

534
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: deal is with him. There's not that much known. Surprisingly

535
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: little about the guys known to twenty four hours after

536
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: this story broke, but we do know something about the investigation.

537
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,719
Speaker 2: Kind of interesting. We've got mail bag on the way.

538
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here. Totally crap. How have

539
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: I missed the attempted drone attack on Zelensky's plane in

540
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: Dublin the other day? There's so much going on in

541
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: the world that nobody can keep track of everything too much.

542
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: Stop it, stop creating news. Here's your freedom loving quote

543
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: of the day. This is so good from Hilaire Belleck,

544
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: paraphrasing Great George Orwell. A people that has forgotten its traditions,

545
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Speaker 2: its ancestors, and the sacrifices that brought its freedom is

546
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 2: a people already conquered. For the man without memory is

547
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.

548
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 2: That's why they're trying to completely obliterate the history of

549
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: the country in schools. The postmodernists, the neo Marxists, they

550
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: know this. I know it's true. Well send then two

551
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: thumbs up to Ken Burns for reaching a lot of

552
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: America with pretty much the traditional story of our founding them.

553
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: Happy to hear that, Yeah, I would agree. Mailbag taught

554
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: us a note. Mailbag and Armstrong and Geddy dot Com. Joe,

555
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 2: you're not doing James Garfield quote today. You're saying to yourselves,

556
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: let's write because we've got a fascinating James Garfield fact

557
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: to kick off Mailbag. Garfield was ambidextrous and had the

558
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: rare ability to write in two languages simultaneously. What to

559
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: impress his guests at White House dinners, Garfield would often

560
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other,

561
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 2: all while holding a casual conversation. That is some crazyss.

562
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: Most people can't write in their native language at all. Now, wow,

563
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: So he and Da Vinci are the only people I've

564
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: ever heard of that could do that. That's crazy. Yeah,

565
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 2: I know, it's it's absolute madness. Moving along, Kellen from

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00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: Rohnert Park, CA. Hey, A G and crew. Had a

567
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Speaker 2: conversation with my boys in the car the other day,

568
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: my eldest sophomore in high school, talking about interesting professions

569
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: like how actors are professional pretenders, politicians, professional talkers? Had

570
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: you guys playing on the podcast at the time. My

571
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: six creator added, yeah, and these guys are professional complainers.

572
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 2: I had laugh. You get a yuke too? Yeah, thanks

573
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: for your thoughtful and educational complaining for helping us all

574
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Speaker 2: age a little faster. I believe that to be sarcasm, Kellen.

575
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Speaker 2: If I complained for a living, I was born to

576
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 2: this job, no doubt about it. Well. Being a critic

577
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: of you know, the overreach and abuse and just threats

578
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 2: to the country I'm happy to accept that critic of

579
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 2: modern society sounds much better than professional coplain. Yeah. Anyway,

580
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: let's say this is from PJ. I hadn't heard this.

581
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 2: The Minnesota Vikings have changed their name. Here's the new

582
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: new logo. Can you see that? To the Somali pirates.

583
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard that. That's funny. Uh, let's see oh

584
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: in our sarcastic email of the day from a forest. Hey, guys,

585
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: to follow the back and forth around the strikes on

586
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: the Venezuelan drug votes, what's who's allowed to do what?

587
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: And why is it what law or law enforcement or

588
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: war and the rest of it. I was getting confused,

589
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: But then I had an idea. I think it's brilliant.

590
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: But since Joe almost went to law school, I'd like

591
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Speaker 2: your take. What if there was some way the president

592
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: could request some sort of authorization for the use of

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Speaker 2: military force. This we'll call it an AUMF, could outline

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Speaker 2: which assets are involved, what the objectives are. Now, we

595
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to just hand these out willy nilly, So

596
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: maybe you ought to have a group of like five

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five people who have to vote yes

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Speaker 2: or no, approving it or maybe do it in two votes,

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Speaker 2: one with a group of four hundred and thirty five

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Speaker 2: and the other with one hundred. I don't know. I

601
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Speaker 2: haven't worked out all the details yet, but I feel

602
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: like I'm onto something here anyway, ohing too to be

603
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: fair to Trump several presidents in a row, including Barack Obama,

604
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Speaker 2: I have done all kinds of things without going out

605
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 2: and getting what you just described, But in general I

606
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Speaker 2: agree on a completely different topic. Brian from Santa Rose rights,

607
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 2: I drive six hundred to one thousand miles a week.

608
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: The number of idiots on their phones is staggering. And

609
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: then he introduces this brilliant idea, required self driving vehicles

610
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Speaker 2: for people who proved themselves to be jackasses behind the wheel.

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00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 2: If you need to text and use social media, blah blah,

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00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: you're in a cell driving vehicle. Same with slow drivers

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Speaker 2: in the fast lane, people that cannot get up to

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Speaker 2: freeway speed when entering said freeway when I'm sure you

615
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: have plenty to add yourself. H muttering in the dark.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the note. Ony has a great,

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Speaker 2: great Dwight Eisenhower quote. Will use that next week. Yes,

618
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Speaker 2: we were riding with an uber driver the other day

619
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Speaker 2: on vacation and he is getting onto the Interstate and

620
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Speaker 2: he's coming down the ramp and I'm thinking, are you

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Speaker 2: gonna go any faster than this before you get on

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Speaker 2: the Interstate? And we were going forty eight miles an

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Speaker 2: hour when he joined the eighty mile an hour traffic

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Speaker 2: on the Interstate. He's being safe, I know, And I

625
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 2: wanted to say him, you think you're being safe? Don't

626
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: you think you're the safest person out here? And then

627
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Speaker 2: back to the question of the double tap, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: JT And Livermore writes to me, there's a bigger scandal.

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Speaker 2: That's the scandal of the same old dem playbook, in

630
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Speaker 2: which a lefty paper starts terrible and probably false accusations

631
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: by another, single anonymous source. How many times can the

632
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 2: Dems hurt our country based on the lives of a

633
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 2: single unnamed source. How many times can a WAPPO or

634
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Speaker 2: other paper fail to get corroboration before running their garbage story.

635
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Speaker 2: Who are the Democrats serving if not themselves? As certainly

636
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 2: isn't the country they've sworn to protect and defend. I

637
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Speaker 2: think they had two sources for this allegedly, And you know,

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Speaker 2: you're right in your greater statement. I agree with But

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Speaker 2: as we've seen, people will watch the video this Heinz character,

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Speaker 2: for instance, the Senator and come out and say, it's

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Speaker 2: the most troubling thing I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 2: It's just terrible, terrible, And so it's you know, you

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Speaker 2: horrified that well, Admiral Dude testified yesterday no, there was

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Speaker 2: part of the reporting from the Washington Post on Monday

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Speaker 2: that had everybody all stirred up. Right, it's over. You

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Speaker 2: hope you're right. We got a lot more an hour two,

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Speaker 2: like the pipe bomber and other stuff. If you miss

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Speaker 2: a segment, gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty