WEBVTT - Smell The Guano

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

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<v Speaker 1>George Washington Broadcast Center.

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<v Speaker 2>Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he Arms

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

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<v Speaker 2>what two fridays left before Christmas? As today is the

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<v Speaker 2>fifth Welcome to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Deeper than

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<v Speaker 2>the Bowels, et cetera, et cetera. And today we're under

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<v Speaker 2>the tutelage of our general manager. Dump boy. Eh m,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know you got a nominee. Yeah, I gotta

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

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<v Speaker 2>a tree up yet. We don't have a tree up yet.

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<v Speaker 2>How tree was that?

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<v Speaker 3>It's terrible.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the fifth of December and we don't have a

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<v Speaker 2>tree up yet. That makes me a bad parent. You'd

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<v Speaker 2>have showed up at the manger and and and then

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

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<v Speaker 2>had a little Strong No Franklinson, no gold Mumura gift card.

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<v Speaker 2>I showed up with a gift card for the baby,

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

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<v Speaker 2>village station. An infant can't go to Starbucks. They had

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<v Speaker 2>that at the convenience store. I got this gift card

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

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<v Speaker 2>have whooped up on you. So I didn't plan ahead.

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<v Speaker 2>Got to get a tree this weekend, had vacation, been sick,

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<v Speaker 2>my son's been sick, so yeah, we gotta get a

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

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<v Speaker 2>it's not a mistake. I was donating to the high

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<v Speaker 2>school band. But my son's band had their big Christmas

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

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<v Speaker 2>of those, and everybody's all dressed up everything like that

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<v Speaker 2>and playing their music and it was very, very nice.

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<v Speaker 2>But they also do a bake sale where they raise

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<v Speaker 2>money for the band and parents bake stuff and then

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<v Speaker 2>people bid win, win, People bid ridiculous amounts of money

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<v Speaker 2>because it's not about the bag good. It's about donating

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<v Speaker 2>to the band, right right. So I paid one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>bucks for this toffee, homemade toffee. It's like a ten

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<v Speaker 2>pound box of toffee, and I thought, I'll bet this

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be pretty good. I had a piece

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<v Speaker 2>on the way home. It's like, this is the best

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<v Speaker 2>thing I've ever had in my life? What am I

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<v Speaker 2>going to do with ten pounds of the best candy

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

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<v Speaker 2>you're eating for two, Katie, you can probably I'm pretending

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

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<v Speaker 2>in small enough pieces that you can think one, one

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<v Speaker 2>little piece, one little more. You're back in the kitchen

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<v Speaker 2>because you forgot something. I'll want one moral piece for

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<v Speaker 2>I go to bed. I call those drive bytes. Drive bytes.

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

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<v Speaker 2>get that patented. That is a good there is There

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<v Speaker 2>is when food gets to a certain size. Because some

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

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<v Speaker 2>just on a whim at that size. But there's some

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<v Speaker 2>size that mentally you think it doesn't really even count.

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

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<v Speaker 2>take in five of them, which, of course, if you

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<v Speaker 2>understand the community properties of something or other, they add

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<v Speaker 2>it up to a bigger size. Yeah, there is some

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<v Speaker 2>sort of principle here, an important one incrementalist something or other.

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

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<v Speaker 2>so I meant to bring it into work, and I thought,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll bring it into work and people will eat it

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<v Speaker 2>really fast. And in this morning, when I was looking

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<v Speaker 2>at it, I thought, this is too good to take

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<v Speaker 2>to work people. Oh no, thanks a lot, Jack, Oh stop, Jack, Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>mine mine, I'm exactly. I'm daffy doc by my mine

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<v Speaker 2>standing on the pile of gold. I'm not good enough

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<v Speaker 2>for you. I wasn't thinking of you a Michael, wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>think of our little crowd. I mean those people out there.

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>So we have occasionally gone with the only in the

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<v Speaker 2>control room. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know distribution center.

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<v Speaker 2>That would work if I put it in out the

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<v Speaker 2>word that the chosen few. Heypes on a piece of this.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a right next to the mic. Yeah, that that

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

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<v Speaker 2>to start to show officially a little earlier than we

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<v Speaker 2>usually do because we got a couple of interesting clips

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<v Speaker 2>that I think are worth talking about. It's a said

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<v Speaker 2>that they played the video of the second strike yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>in front of a bunch of people in Congress, and

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<v Speaker 2>they came out with completely different partisan views of what

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>It is Friday, December, fifth year, twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong,

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

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<v Speaker 2>begin officially now according to FCC rules and rags, here

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<v Speaker 2>we go at.

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<v Speaker 4>Mark, what I saw in that room was one of

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<v Speaker 4>the most troubling things I've seen in my time in

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<v Speaker 4>public service.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I didn't see anything disturbing about it. Which disturbing

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<v Speaker 2>to me is that millions of Americans have died from

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<v Speaker 2>drugs being run to America by these cartels. There you

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<v Speaker 2>go consensus. So you got the chair, the Democratic chair

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<v Speaker 2>of the committee, who says it's the most disturbing thing

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

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<v Speaker 2>two people with no means of going anywhere, clinging to debris,

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<v Speaker 2>no way to be part of Tom Cotton the longer

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<v Speaker 2>versions of these clips, saying you saw exactly what was described.

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<v Speaker 2>You saw two people that were still clearly combatants. This

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<v Speaker 2>is absolutely righteous. I would have ordered the same thing

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<v Speaker 2>myself in my military career. How do you possibly have

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<v Speaker 2>two people see the same video and come away with

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<v Speaker 2>such different views dishonesty? Well, okay, so which one of

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<v Speaker 2>them is being dishonest? I haven't seen the video, nor

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<v Speaker 2>have I although certainly from fairly neutral accounts I've read.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not as was described by Hines. Two helpless men

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<v Speaker 2>clinging only to one. There was a cork on the boat,

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<v Speaker 2>and both men were clean to the same cork and

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

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<v Speaker 2>over and keep going. I would say that the New

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<v Speaker 2>York Times coverage of it, let me look it over

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<v Speaker 2>real quick. New York Times coverage does not quote Hines.

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<v Speaker 2>It quotes Cotton and a couple other people. So they

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

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<v Speaker 2>they're they're they're they're getting into other angles of the story,

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<v Speaker 2>but they're not they're not disputing what had leaked out

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<v Speaker 2>previously that you got a couple of people on a

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<v Speaker 2>boat that's still body and uh, you know, radioing for

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<v Speaker 2>help and blah blah blah. I don't know hinz act.

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<v Speaker 2>But many many people were briefed and saw the videos,

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<v Speaker 2>and he's the only guy coming up with coming out

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<v Speaker 2>with the sobsystract, right. And well, as you pointed out,

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<v Speaker 2>you heard on one of our radio stations, they they

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<v Speaker 2>played his clip as if that was just the sum

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<v Speaker 2>total of the views of things. That's the news of

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<v Speaker 2>the day. Here. Congress saw the video and this is

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<v Speaker 2>what they thought. Well, this is what one guy thought,

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<v Speaker 2>and maybe nobody else. I know. I was watching ms

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<v Speaker 2>NOW last night formerly MSNBC soon to be called Twitter

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<v Speaker 2>then x MSNBC last night went with their panel discussion

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<v Speaker 2>as if what the Hindz guy said was one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>percent true. Yeah, and the war crimes and what needs

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<v Speaker 2>to be done and everything like that. I do think

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<v Speaker 2>it's interesting that the New York Times is not taking

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<v Speaker 2>that angle. They still have enough integrity that they're not

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<v Speaker 2>going to cloud at that much. One point the New

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<v Speaker 2>York Times makes today, Well, first of all, the Wall

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<v Speaker 2>Street Journal editorial board is pretty big on the this

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<v Speaker 2>isn't a real war, we shouldn't be doing this, this

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<v Speaker 2>is this is not cool. They're they're fair enough backing

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<v Speaker 2>up a step. But the New York Times says, and

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<v Speaker 2>I thought this was interesting. The focus on the second

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<v Speaker 2>strike and the nuances of the law of armed conflict

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<v Speaker 2>could end up being a favor to the Trump administration.

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<v Speaker 2>The idea that some was bad about that particular strike

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<v Speaker 2>implicitly suggests that the first one on the boat and

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<v Speaker 2>all the other attacks on the other boats were fine,

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<v Speaker 2>and its premise reinforces at the idea that, yeah, we're

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<v Speaker 2>at war with these people, and now we're arguing over

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<v Speaker 2>whether or not that second strike in a war was okay,

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<v Speaker 2>kind of jumping past the first conversation. What point I've

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

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<v Speaker 2>headline video shows survivors killed and follow up strike alarming.

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<v Speaker 2>Lawmakers come on News Nation and then they quote Hines.

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<v Speaker 2>Goodness sakes, they quote anybody. They quote Tom Cotton down

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<v Speaker 2>saying the mission was lawful and the strikes are justified

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<v Speaker 2>and righteous. But come on, I don't know. I'm pretty

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<v Speaker 2>comfortable that we didn't commit a war crime there, So

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

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<v Speaker 2>much more interested in the bigger question that the editorial

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<v Speaker 2>board was bringing up there from the journal, are we

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<v Speaker 2>at war with Venezuz? Wela or Venezuela cartels are narco

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<v Speaker 2>terrorists or whatever we're gonna call them. The idea that

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<v Speaker 2>war has morphed into armed conflict with terrorist groups, which

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<v Speaker 2>has morphed into terrorist groups, can include admittedly armed drug cartels,

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<v Speaker 2>and therefore we can be at war with them no

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

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<v Speaker 2>It's indisputable that if you're in a war, you can

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<v Speaker 2>take out their you know, the rail lines, your your

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<v Speaker 2>enemy's rail lines or manufacturing centers or whatever to weaken

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

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to take out these drug boats because that's

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<v Speaker 2>how they finance their nefarious operations. And by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>they're poisoning Americans and killing us by the tens of thousands,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, with our own you know, assent in a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of cases. But is that all appropriate for the military.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what's funny is I just laid it out there.

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<v Speaker 2>I was starting to think, yeah, that makes sense. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>as a National Review wrote the other day, if this

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<v Speaker 2>is how the war on drugs is morphed, bad news.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're on the wrong end of the war, on

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

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<v Speaker 2>funny thing to say, start striking hungry people. Yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>that is a funny thing to say. That's one way

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<v Speaker 2>to end hunger. Huh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know either. You finished your Christmas shopping? How long ago?

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<v Speaker 2>A couple of weeks ago. Actually, I just finished wrapping

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>no doubt, but yeah, we're we're tardy on that ourselves.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's because we got a remodel going on and

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<v Speaker 2>it's case. Oh you got an excuse for not honoring

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<v Speaker 2>Jesus birth. Okay, fine, Oh, speaking of sniping, this is

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<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite things I've come across. And getting

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<v Speaker 2>ready for the show. So The Atlantic was doing this

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<v Speaker 2>interview with Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, frequently mentioned presidential

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

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<v Speaker 2>they were interviewing him like the day or the week

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<v Speaker 2>the book came out and he hadn't seen it yet,

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<v Speaker 2>and this reporter was hitting him with some of the

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<v Speaker 2>quotes from the book, and Shapiro, who is famously very measured,

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<v Speaker 2>very even keeled, very strategic, kind of lost his ass

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<v Speaker 2>and then immediately felt bad about it. We'll hit you

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<v Speaker 2>with some of those delightful excerpts coming up. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>good Kamala kicking, so you know that'll be enjoying that.

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<v Speaker 2>So it always feels good on a Friday. Come on, now,

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<v Speaker 2>it's Friday. Let's enjoy ourselves. I haven't bought a prison yet, Michael,

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<v Speaker 2>not a single one. So everybody's can get gift cards

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<v Speaker 2>this year? Huh No, I can't do that. Can't do

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<v Speaker 2>that with kids. That'd be horrible the look on their

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<v Speaker 2>face when they get a gift card. I can't do that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>the whole buying gifts thing is in my rearview mirror mostly. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>when I look at my to do list for the weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>So can I just stay at work? How about I

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<v Speaker 2>do a show on Saturday and Sunday and tell everybody

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta work. Oh, we got Katie's headlines on the way,

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<v Speaker 2>clips of the week pretty soon and more news of

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<v Speaker 2>the day. I hope you can stay here. Somebody just

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<v Speaker 2>hit me with a list of things you can get

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<v Speaker 2>at the seven eleven for Christmas if you want to.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like stocked up for like people who really fumble

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<v Speaker 2>the ball and aren't ready to go in terms of

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, quickie gifts or ornaments or that sort

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<v Speaker 2>of thing, like kind of the shop of shame. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>what does that mean about society that the seven eleven

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<v Speaker 2>knows there's a big enough crowd of people like that

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<v Speaker 2>just to screwed up. So here we got we got

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<v Speaker 2>your back with some really cheap crap and something scratchers,

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<v Speaker 2>some small and teddy bear holding the heart. Here's something

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<v Speaker 2>that looks like an ornament. If you're supposed to show

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<v Speaker 2>up to your party with an ornament, you know that

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<v Speaker 2>sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 3>One of those rolling hot dogs, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Rotissery dog. All right, let's figure out who's reporting what.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the lead story with Katie Green.

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<v Speaker 3>Katie all right, the lead headline.

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<v Speaker 2>Leave this. This joke is similarly. This joke is similarly

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<v Speaker 2>yesterday's my Grandpa had the heart of a lion and

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<v Speaker 2>a lifetime ban from the zoo. That is, yeah, cut

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<v Speaker 2>from the same cloth as yesterday's disturbing dolphin DNA joke. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>back to Katie, All right.

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<v Speaker 3>Of course, the boat story is the top headline. So

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<v Speaker 3>here's a few sources from CNN. Survivors clinging to capsized

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<v Speaker 3>boat didn't radio for backup. CBS lawmakers see video of

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<v Speaker 3>second strike on boat. Survivors say Admiral testified that there

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<v Speaker 3>was no kill order. And the Guardian video shows US

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<v Speaker 3>air strike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour

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<v Speaker 3>before second deadly attack.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's interesting. As the testimony said it was minutes. Yesterday,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what Tom Tom Cotton came out saying, yeah, it

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<v Speaker 2>was just minutes between the first strike and the second strike.

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<v Speaker 2>Having watched the video, now that does go against Pete

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<v Speaker 2>heggsath what he said, like earlier in the week, he said, look,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a very busy man. I don't have hours to

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<v Speaker 2>sit there and watch how this plays out. And Tom

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<v Speaker 2>Cotton said it happened. All happened within a couple of minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>But all right, goodness sakes, can we get the facts.

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<v Speaker 2>Please show everybody the video so we can watch. Then

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<v Speaker 2>we'll mo from bright.

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<v Speaker 3>Bart, Tom Bondy says evidence leading to j six pipe

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<v Speaker 3>bomber bomber arrest was collecting dust at Biden's FBI.

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<v Speaker 2>For four years. I do want to talk about this

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<v Speaker 2>more later. Fascinating and I wonder if AI can play

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<v Speaker 2>a role in this in the future where you just

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<v Speaker 2>plug in everything at AAI and they can connect it

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<v Speaker 2>can connect the dots. Well. I think that the the

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<v Speaker 2>what's being claimed is that the FI FBI, the Biden

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<v Speaker 2>Justice Department neglected this intentionally, and I haven't heard any

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<v Speaker 2>serious pushback on that yet. That is interesting that they

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<v Speaker 2>cracked it this, you know, early in their term. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>it's coincidence, maybe not.

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<v Speaker 3>From the Washington Post, Supreme Court hands Trump victory and

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<v Speaker 3>fight over Texas congressional map.

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<v Speaker 2>Some I missed this story. So that court that came

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<v Speaker 2>out the other day and said now Texas can't do that.

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<v Speaker 2>The Supreme Court six y three said you're wrong. Correct. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it happened yesterday evening last Stephen. Wow, that's a big deal.

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<v Speaker 3>From New York Times, Putin basks in praise from Modi

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<v Speaker 3>on India visit. Yeah, apparently, Putin also saying he's going

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<v Speaker 3>to share some of their military tech with India.

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<v Speaker 2>Not quite the pariah we were hoping he'd be, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you were hoping, but not Trump the Trump administration, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'll give you the very short version of this is

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<v Speaker 2>out with their official old foreign policy statement, and it is, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>we're making nice with Russia and will negotiate between Russia

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<v Speaker 2>and Europe. NATO's already too big, it's not going to

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<v Speaker 2>get any bigger. It's a mark difference than his first term.

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<v Speaker 3>From NBC, parents say school issued iPads are causing chaos

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<v Speaker 3>with their kids. How come behavioral problems because they want

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<v Speaker 3>to use one at home?

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<v Speaker 2>Hm?

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<v Speaker 3>All right, study fines week long social media detox actually

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<v Speaker 3>leads young adults to spending even more time on their phones.

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<v Speaker 2>So you get away from social media, but you spend

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<v Speaker 2>more time looking at other.

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<v Speaker 3>Stuff, all right, And then you spend a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>time on social media when you come back to it,

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<v Speaker 3>trying to catch up.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh boy.

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<v Speaker 3>And finally the Babylon b Minnesota added to Trump's third

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<v Speaker 3>World travel them, Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>We got to catch you up on a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>different news stories. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what.

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<v Speaker 2>Why don't they release the video that second strike? Then

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<v Speaker 2>we'll all just know we can all watch it and

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<v Speaker 2>make our own determination. Right, are there two people clinging

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<v Speaker 2>to barely alive or they look like they're active participants.

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<v Speaker 2>We'd all know right away Armstrong and Getty. Oh good

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<v Speaker 2>news for me. I just saw our friend Tim Sanderver's

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<v Speaker 2>review of the Revolutionary War documentary from Ken Burns, in

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<v Speaker 2>which Tim says finished watching the Ken Burns Revolutionary Documentary,

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<v Speaker 2>I liked it exclamation point. A few of my friends

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<v Speaker 2>on here were complaining about it, but I thought it

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<v Speaker 2>was great. Yeah. There were a few howlers we played one,

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<v Speaker 2>but there always is in a Burns documentary, and they

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<v Speaker 2>were outweighed by the good stuff. Well, that'll get me

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<v Speaker 2>back into it, because in the first three minutes there

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<v Speaker 2>were a couple of things where I was like, oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god. But if and Tim is as anti woke

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<v Speaker 2>around the revolutionary crowds anybody in America, if he overall

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<v Speaker 2>liked it, I'm gonna give it a watch. Then Okay. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the question, especially if it leads with that sort

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<v Speaker 2>of thing. Is this going to be a drum beat

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<v Speaker 2>of woke crap or is it just the occasional oh boy,

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<v Speaker 2>eyes and stuff, right right right, So so much to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about today. Oh my gosh, the giant climate scam

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<v Speaker 2>is really on the rocks really really struggling, and they're

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<v Speaker 2>floundering to try to keep the magic going as economies

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<v Speaker 2>ruined themselves, et cetera. Among other things to talk about.

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

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<v Speaker 2>look back at the week that was. It's cow clips

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<v Speaker 2>of the week. Now, what is an example of rage bait?

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<v Speaker 5>It might be I'll offer this sentence for you.

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<v Speaker 2>I hate Santa. Everybody talks about this place. Man, a

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<v Speaker 2>dad gum swamp on a swamp. This is a sewer.

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<v Speaker 2>This is created by man. You burnt my house down.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't say anything crazy man. As I have said before,

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<v Speaker 2>if the judge picks through all of that hair and

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<v Speaker 2>finds only one eye, he's got the wrong end of

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<v Speaker 2>the dark.

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<v Speaker 3>An animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday,

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<v Speaker 3>passed out next to the store's toilet.

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<v Speaker 5>Because the man slides down, the lioness begins to claw,

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<v Speaker 5>and when the man is close enough, the animal pounces,

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<v Speaker 5>dragging him to the ground.

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<v Speaker 2>Most T shirts worn for half marathon previous wrecked one

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<v Speaker 2>twenty seven. I've got one hundred thirty seven shirts on

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<v Speaker 2>forty seven yards ry now by Young Way courity stumbled

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<v Speaker 2>two years. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, what is that way thout doing? Because they're

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<v Speaker 2>in a constant state of dopamine. With Jerald School, they

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<v Speaker 2>behave like addicts.

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<v Speaker 1>They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them off.

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<v Speaker 4>Last night, President Trump posted over one hundred and sixty

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<v Speaker 4>times on Truth's social averaging more than one post a minute.

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<v Speaker 4>Who well, I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine is

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<v Speaker 4>been going.

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<v Speaker 1>Peg sat saying the military acted in compliance with the

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<v Speaker 1>law of armed conflict, and Pete.

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<v Speaker 2>Said he did not want them. He didn't even know

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<v Speaker 2>what people were talking about.

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<v Speaker 5>And by the way, had mulready made the correct decision

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<v Speaker 5>to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.

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<v Speaker 1>The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the

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<v Speaker 1>initial strike.

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<v Speaker 2>When people want to surrender, you don't kill off.

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<v Speaker 3>As I've said, I'll say again, we've only just begun

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<v Speaker 3>striking darko votes.

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<v Speaker 1>How Republicans launch an investigation into widespread COVID era fraud

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<v Speaker 1>involving some members of Minnesota's large Somali community.

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<v Speaker 4>These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.

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<v Speaker 2>The President's obsession with me is really unhealthy. It's creepy.

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<v Speaker 2>Your omar is garbage, Jesus garbage once again got erect arrested,

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<v Speaker 2>not the first time. You almost said a woman got erected,

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<v Speaker 2>which in these cases can happen. No, I said a teacher,

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<v Speaker 2>which you assumed was a woman, because you're sexist. Moving along,

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<v Speaker 2>it's clips of the week. Here is the question before us.

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<v Speaker 2>Since the double tap story is about over over over over,

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<v Speaker 2>except for a few individuals attempts to flog it further.

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<v Speaker 2>When the Democrats stopped pretending to care about this, will

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<v Speaker 2>they go back to pretending to care about Epstein? Good question.

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<v Speaker 2>The list using my finger quotes is supposed to come

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<v Speaker 2>out within two weeks a week ago, so we got

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<v Speaker 2>a week to go for all the Epstein stuff to

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<v Speaker 2>come out. So that'll be the story next week. I

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<v Speaker 2>believe what a Christmas present?

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<v Speaker 4>That is.

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<v Speaker 2>Two things from clips of the week. One reminded me

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<v Speaker 2>of so Martha Raddits had information what two days ago

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<v Speaker 2>that was the lead on the EBC evening news, people

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<v Speaker 2>who had seen the video now reporting there were two

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<v Speaker 2>men clinging on the boats blah, blah blah. So where

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<v Speaker 2>did that information come from? Is that the same video

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<v Speaker 2>that they were watching yesterday? I still don't understand people

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<v Speaker 2>are selectively leaking obviously as always happens. Yeah, that's the

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<v Speaker 2>only thing that's left to the story to me is

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<v Speaker 2>just who's lying and so egregiously lying about what they

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<v Speaker 2>just saw? AnyWho, I would agree. The other thing that

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<v Speaker 2>is more interesting to me at this moment is the

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<v Speaker 2>teacher on there talking about how hard it is to

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<v Speaker 2>teach kids today with their dopamine addiction that we all

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<v Speaker 2>have from our smartphones and the pace of life, and

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<v Speaker 2>how you just can't hold a kid's attention. That should

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<v Speaker 2>get way more attention as a that's a very poorly

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<v Speaker 2>structured sentence that should get more discussion. Not only is

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<v Speaker 2>our curriculum a mess at the schools, but even if

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<v Speaker 2>you had the curriculum that I liked, How in the

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<v Speaker 2>world is any teacher going to stand up in front

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<v Speaker 2>of a twelve year old in the modern world and

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<v Speaker 2>talk to them about, you know, the Declaration of Independence

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<v Speaker 2>and hold their attention when their brains have been crafted

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<v Speaker 2>to take in information in a completely different way. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a horrific problem. It is, and this sounds like her hyperbole.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it is. I remember, you know, in

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<v Speaker 2>our teenage years, our parents were worried about us, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>smoking pot and having sex or whatever. I would far

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<v Speaker 2>rather have my kid smoke a little pot, have sex,

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<v Speaker 2>and not be addicted to the endorphin thing with the smartphone,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's far more damaging. I wouldn't want them

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<v Speaker 2>to become like a raving, everyday pothead. I'm not saying

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<v Speaker 2>that you can do terrible damage, especially to adolescents, but

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's a bigger threat to their health and

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<v Speaker 2>happiness than the hazards of old.

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<v Speaker 4>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>You could be if you want to be like a

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<v Speaker 2>real boomer, you can just well, they need to learn

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

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<v Speaker 2>It just is not going to work. I think we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to have to restructure all teaching in like video

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<v Speaker 2>form and little snippets. I think if you taught like

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<v Speaker 2>both of my kids, if you were teaching them in

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<v Speaker 2>the style that TikTok videos are, where the information comes

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<v Speaker 2>fast and in little snippets, much more likely to hold

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<v Speaker 2>their attention and have them walk away after an hour

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<v Speaker 2>of that having learned something than a teacher standing in

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<v Speaker 2>that they're drowning on not even close. And then when

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<v Speaker 2>I I was talking a couple of weeks ago about

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<v Speaker 2>how we may have ended the era of literacy, literacy

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<v Speaker 2>didn't really start in the world until around seventeen hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>when the printing press had been around long enough and

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<v Speaker 2>enough people had learned to read, and people got into

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<v Speaker 2>books and reading. It may be over now. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>all indications are it is over. Book sales, long form

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<v Speaker 2>reading is down so much that it's over. It was

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<v Speaker 2>about three hundred years of people reading and it's just over. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and it ain't coming back too and it ain't really

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<v Speaker 2>coming back. So you can either claim that you can

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<v Speaker 2>yell at the world and they'll get back on board

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<v Speaker 2>with reading or something, or to adjust to it. I

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<v Speaker 2>think those are your two choices. I think it's possible, unlikely,

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<v Speaker 2>but possible, that we as a society could decide in

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<v Speaker 2>the same way we did with drunk driving and cigarette smoking,

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<v Speaker 2>that kids addicted to the endorphin just shot after shot

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<v Speaker 2>after shot after shot of the smartphone is a terrible

0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.200
<v Speaker 2>thing to do to a child. Again, it's possible we

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<v Speaker 2>could do that it's unlikely. I really hate to admit

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<v Speaker 2>that you're probably right with your zingbang poo educational model,

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<v Speaker 2>but that may be the only choice. Well. One of

0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:14.320
<v Speaker 2>the problems with your plan, and this is one of

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<v Speaker 2>my biggest beliefs in the world. The generation that remembers

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<v Speaker 2>any other way is going to be dead before you

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<v Speaker 2>know it, and there won't be anybody left who remembers

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<v Speaker 2>what a brain felt like before smartphones came along. There

0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.440
<v Speaker 2>won't be many people. Pretty soon, there won't be anybody left.

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<v Speaker 4>Right.

0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:38.440
<v Speaker 2>I barely remember myself when I could just sit there

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<v Speaker 2>in quiet with a book for long periods of time,

0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:46.160
<v Speaker 2>and there was my brain screaming for more entertainment. Well, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's more profound than that. Just because they

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<v Speaker 2>don't have real friends. Some of a lot of kids,

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<v Speaker 2>and they never get together with anybody of the opposite sex,

0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.000
<v Speaker 2>and they have no interest in family or children or

0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:57.639
<v Speaker 2>anything like that will die out and it'll be a

0:26:57.680 --> 0:27:00.879
<v Speaker 2>planet of the ants. Oh. I just fatalists on some

0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:03.200
<v Speaker 2>of these things. But for today, to try to fix today,

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<v Speaker 2>I think, yeah, definitely, the education is gonna have to

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<v Speaker 2>go the direction of bingpoo zoom TikTok style. That's the

0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:11.680
<v Speaker 2>way you spread information. I think that's your only hope,

0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:15.800
<v Speaker 2>which would be a lot of work of the teacher. Well, yeah,

0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:17.600
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna have to have you know, I don't know,

0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:20.800
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna have to have to hire TikTok to design

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<v Speaker 2>you your curriculum. Then the Chinese just have a direct

0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:27.440
<v Speaker 2>pipeline into our elementary schools. That's just great. Well, happy

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<v Speaker 2>is armstrong. Am I wrong? I take in quite a

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<v Speaker 2>bit of media. I don't hear this conversation come up

0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:45.920
<v Speaker 2>really anywhere else. This whole nobody reads anymore. They need

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<v Speaker 2>a different way of teaching, et cetera, et cetera. I

0:28:48.880 --> 0:28:52.720
<v Speaker 2>don't really hear the conversation anywhere. No, I think the

0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:56.080
<v Speaker 2>American educational system and this is a great failing of

0:28:56.520 --> 0:29:01.720
<v Speaker 2>boomers and Gen X in particular. Whatever to millennials, whatever,

0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:06.040
<v Speaker 2>you people are a little younger than me. Actually, that'd

0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:09.160
<v Speaker 2>be most gen x. Our great failing is that we

0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:12.880
<v Speaker 2>saw education as a set it and forget it part

0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:16.320
<v Speaker 2>of society, because that's what it was when we were

0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:19.000
<v Speaker 2>growing up. There were some issues and tweaks that were needed,

0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:20.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, we could go into those, but it was

0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:24.560
<v Speaker 2>mostly a really solid institution that functioned at a high level.

0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Witnessed the fact that the American university system, and hilariously

0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:34.200
<v Speaker 2>in particular the University of California system, were the envies

0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:41.520
<v Speaker 2>of the world, and rightfully so. Now they're crap. Wow,

0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:44.360
<v Speaker 2>Joe dropped a sea bomb on our university. Damn right,

0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:50.320
<v Speaker 2>wake up and smell it. Smell the iguano just disappointing.

0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:51.920
<v Speaker 2>In our two, we're going to talk a little bit

0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:54.200
<v Speaker 2>about that pipe bomber that they caught and what the

0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.680
<v Speaker 2>deal is with him. There's not that much known. Surprisingly

0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:00.800
<v Speaker 2>little about the guys known to twenty four hours after

0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:03.760
<v Speaker 2>this story broke, but we do know something about the investigation.

0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:05.719
<v Speaker 2>Kind of interesting. We've got mail bag on the way.

0:30:05.720 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 2>I hope you can stay here. Totally crap. How have

0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:14.680
<v Speaker 2>I missed the attempted drone attack on Zelensky's plane in

0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:18.040
<v Speaker 2>Dublin the other day? There's so much going on in

0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:21.800
<v Speaker 2>the world that nobody can keep track of everything too much.

0:30:22.120 --> 0:30:25.040
<v Speaker 2>Stop it, stop creating news. Here's your freedom loving quote

0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:29.400
<v Speaker 2>of the day. This is so good from Hilaire Belleck,

0:30:29.840 --> 0:30:35.480
<v Speaker 2>paraphrasing Great George Orwell. A people that has forgotten its traditions,

0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:39.200
<v Speaker 2>its ancestors, and the sacrifices that brought its freedom is

0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:42.680
<v Speaker 2>a people already conquered. For the man without memory is

0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:45.920
<v Speaker 2>easily ruled, and the man without roots is easily led.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why they're trying to completely obliterate the history of

0:30:51.880 --> 0:30:55.680
<v Speaker 2>the country in schools. The postmodernists, the neo Marxists, they

0:30:55.760 --> 0:30:58.440
<v Speaker 2>know this. I know it's true. Well send then two

0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:02.120
<v Speaker 2>thumbs up to Ken Burns for reaching a lot of

0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:05.840
<v Speaker 2>America with pretty much the traditional story of our founding them.

0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:09.320
<v Speaker 2>Happy to hear that, Yeah, I would agree. Mailbag taught

0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:12.000
<v Speaker 2>us a note. Mailbag and Armstrong and Geddy dot Com. Joe,

0:31:12.120 --> 0:31:15.640
<v Speaker 2>you're not doing James Garfield quote today. You're saying to yourselves,

0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:19.600
<v Speaker 2>let's write because we've got a fascinating James Garfield fact

0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:24.480
<v Speaker 2>to kick off Mailbag. Garfield was ambidextrous and had the

0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:29.080
<v Speaker 2>rare ability to write in two languages simultaneously. What to

0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:32.080
<v Speaker 2>impress his guests at White House dinners, Garfield would often

0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:34.680
<v Speaker 2>write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other,

0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:40.200
<v Speaker 2>all while holding a casual conversation. That is some crazyss.

0:31:41.400 --> 0:31:46.560
<v Speaker 2>Most people can't write in their native language at all. Now, wow,

0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:49.200
<v Speaker 2>So he and Da Vinci are the only people I've

0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:52.480
<v Speaker 2>ever heard of that could do that. That's crazy. Yeah,

0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 2>I know, it's it's absolute madness. Moving along, Kellen from

0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:59.400
<v Speaker 2>Rohnert Park, CA. Hey, A G and crew. Had a

0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:01.400
<v Speaker 2>conversation with my boys in the car the other day,

0:32:01.480 --> 0:32:04.480
<v Speaker 2>my eldest sophomore in high school, talking about interesting professions

0:32:05.000 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 2>like how actors are professional pretenders, politicians, professional talkers? Had

0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:10.920
<v Speaker 2>you guys playing on the podcast at the time. My

0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:13.760
<v Speaker 2>six creator added, yeah, and these guys are professional complainers.

0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:17.720
<v Speaker 2>I had laugh. You get a yuke too? Yeah, thanks

0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:20.440
<v Speaker 2>for your thoughtful and educational complaining for helping us all

0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:23.920
<v Speaker 2>age a little faster. I believe that to be sarcasm, Kellen.

0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:26.960
<v Speaker 2>If I complained for a living, I was born to

0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:30.600
<v Speaker 2>this job, no doubt about it. Well. Being a critic

0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:35.160
<v Speaker 2>of you know, the overreach and abuse and just threats

0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:37.720
<v Speaker 2>to the country I'm happy to accept that critic of

0:32:37.840 --> 0:32:43.920
<v Speaker 2>modern society sounds much better than professional coplain. Yeah. Anyway,

0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:46.160
<v Speaker 2>let's say this is from PJ. I hadn't heard this.

0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:48.520
<v Speaker 2>The Minnesota Vikings have changed their name. Here's the new

0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:51.720
<v Speaker 2>new logo. Can you see that? To the Somali pirates.

0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:57.600
<v Speaker 2>I hadn't heard that. That's funny. Uh, let's see oh

0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:03.480
<v Speaker 2>in our sarcastic email of the day from a forest. Hey, guys,

0:33:03.880 --> 0:33:05.600
<v Speaker 2>to follow the back and forth around the strikes on

0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:08.320
<v Speaker 2>the Venezuelan drug votes, what's who's allowed to do what?

0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:11.280
<v Speaker 2>And why is it what law or law enforcement or

0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.240
<v Speaker 2>war and the rest of it. I was getting confused,

0:33:13.280 --> 0:33:15.000
<v Speaker 2>But then I had an idea. I think it's brilliant.

0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:17.080
<v Speaker 2>But since Joe almost went to law school, I'd like

0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:19.440
<v Speaker 2>your take. What if there was some way the president

0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:22.480
<v Speaker 2>could request some sort of authorization for the use of

0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:26.840
<v Speaker 2>military force. This we'll call it an AUMF, could outline

0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:29.240
<v Speaker 2>which assets are involved, what the objectives are. Now, we

0:33:29.240 --> 0:33:31.320
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't want to just hand these out willy nilly, So

0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:33.400
<v Speaker 2>maybe you ought to have a group of like five

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and thirty five people who have to vote yes

0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:37.920
<v Speaker 2>or no, approving it or maybe do it in two votes,

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<v Speaker 2>one with a group of four hundred and thirty five

0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:41.240
<v Speaker 2>and the other with one hundred. I don't know. I

0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:43.320
<v Speaker 2>haven't worked out all the details yet, but I feel

0:33:43.400 --> 0:33:46.880
<v Speaker 2>like I'm onto something here anyway, ohing too to be

0:33:47.000 --> 0:33:50.320
<v Speaker 2>fair to Trump several presidents in a row, including Barack Obama,

0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:52.239
<v Speaker 2>I have done all kinds of things without going out

0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:55.480
<v Speaker 2>and getting what you just described, But in general I

0:33:55.600 --> 0:34:00.600
<v Speaker 2>agree on a completely different topic. Brian from Santa Rose rights,

0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:03.760
<v Speaker 2>I drive six hundred to one thousand miles a week.

0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:06.960
<v Speaker 2>The number of idiots on their phones is staggering. And

0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:12.560
<v Speaker 2>then he introduces this brilliant idea, required self driving vehicles

0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:16.560
<v Speaker 2>for people who proved themselves to be jackasses behind the wheel.

0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:20.319
<v Speaker 2>If you need to text and use social media, blah blah,

0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:22.920
<v Speaker 2>you're in a cell driving vehicle. Same with slow drivers

0:34:22.920 --> 0:34:25.080
<v Speaker 2>in the fast lane, people that cannot get up to

0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:27.719
<v Speaker 2>freeway speed when entering said freeway when I'm sure you

0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:33.600
<v Speaker 2>have plenty to add yourself. H muttering in the dark.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, thanks for the note. Ony has a great,

0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:42.359
<v Speaker 2>great Dwight Eisenhower quote. Will use that next week. Yes,

0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:44.359
<v Speaker 2>we were riding with an uber driver the other day

0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.360
<v Speaker 2>on vacation and he is getting onto the Interstate and

0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:49.480
<v Speaker 2>he's coming down the ramp and I'm thinking, are you

0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:52.080
<v Speaker 2>gonna go any faster than this before you get on

0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:54.960
<v Speaker 2>the Interstate? And we were going forty eight miles an

0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:57.280
<v Speaker 2>hour when he joined the eighty mile an hour traffic

0:34:57.400 --> 0:35:00.440
<v Speaker 2>on the Interstate. He's being safe, I know, And I

0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:02.879
<v Speaker 2>wanted to say him, you think you're being safe? Don't

0:35:02.920 --> 0:35:06.080
<v Speaker 2>you think you're the safest person out here? And then

0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:09.480
<v Speaker 2>back to the question of the double tap, excuse me,

0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.360
<v Speaker 2>JT And Livermore writes to me, there's a bigger scandal.

0:35:12.719 --> 0:35:15.239
<v Speaker 2>That's the scandal of the same old dem playbook, in

0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:18.759
<v Speaker 2>which a lefty paper starts terrible and probably false accusations

0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:21.520
<v Speaker 2>by another, single anonymous source. How many times can the

0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:23.320
<v Speaker 2>Dems hurt our country based on the lives of a

0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:26.040
<v Speaker 2>single unnamed source. How many times can a WAPPO or

0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:29.400
<v Speaker 2>other paper fail to get corroboration before running their garbage story.

0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:32.040
<v Speaker 2>Who are the Democrats serving if not themselves? As certainly

0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:34.719
<v Speaker 2>isn't the country they've sworn to protect and defend. I

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<v Speaker 2>think they had two sources for this allegedly, And you know,

0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:44.719
<v Speaker 2>you're right in your greater statement. I agree with But

0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:49.480
<v Speaker 2>as we've seen, people will watch the video this Heinz character,

0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:51.799
<v Speaker 2>for instance, the Senator and come out and say, it's

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<v Speaker 2>the most troubling thing I've ever seen in my life.

0:35:54.080 --> 0:35:58.279
<v Speaker 2>It's just terrible, terrible, And so it's you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>can it's either honestly difference in the eye of the beholder,

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<v Speaker 2>or it's so easy to pose as being disturbed and

0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:09.759
<v Speaker 2>horrified that well, Admiral Dude testified yesterday no, there was

0:36:09.880 --> 0:36:12.600
<v Speaker 2>never any kill them all order. So he just flat

0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.160
<v Speaker 2>out denies under oath that that ever happened, which was

0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:18.280
<v Speaker 2>part of the reporting from the Washington Post on Monday

0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:23.279
<v Speaker 2>that had everybody all stirred up. Right, it's over. You

0:36:23.320 --> 0:36:26.320
<v Speaker 2>think the controversy is over, I'm declaring it over. I

0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.640
<v Speaker 2>hope you're right. We got a lot more an hour two,

0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:30.640
<v Speaker 2>like the pipe bomber and other stuff. If you miss

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