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

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

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Speaker 2: And now he.

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Speaker 3: Arms live from Studio C See Senior, A dimly led

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Speaker 3: room deep with them the Bowels and the Armstrong and

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Speaker 3: Getty Communications Compound.

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Speaker 2: And hey, y'all, on Tuesday, we call it Little Wednesday

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Speaker 2: around here. We're under the tutelage of our general manager,

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Speaker 2: Kiss and Gloria Gaynor. What now Trump's Kennedy Center honors

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Speaker 2: honoring our greatest entertainers and contributors to our cultures? Singled

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Speaker 2: out the band Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, and I can't remember

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Speaker 2: somebody else, Charles Bronson, George Strait. Oh that's right, George Straight.

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Speaker 2: I knew it was somebody very traditionally in heart Landy.

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Speaker 2: God bless George Straight. Not everything he's done for the country.

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Speaker 2: Oh so you wanted to you always wanted to be

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Speaker 2: the liberal elite and not people that regular people like. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: that's right, that's I would prefer the liberal elite. Yes, no, oh,

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Speaker 2: I just find that such an interesting combination. Kissing Gloria

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Speaker 2: Gainer hilarious. Em how y'all doing just terrific. How are you, emil?

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Speaker 2: But what are you going to do? I went to

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Speaker 2: the doctor last night. They put me on antibotics. Now,

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Speaker 2: so now a month of my antibotic you gotta take

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Speaker 2: four times a day. Woof. For some reason, my wife

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Speaker 2: is just coming down with something. She's in this acapella choir.

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Speaker 2: Their members are dropping like flies. It's the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: things are going around. I am Mike. Colds often turned

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Speaker 2: into an infection for whatever reason. The hanger I am

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Speaker 2: somebody like that in the olden days, I would have

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Speaker 2: died young. I think it would have just turned into

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Speaker 2: an affection. In fact, and I would have died. He

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Speaker 2: was always sickly because for whatever reason, my body just

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Speaker 2: doesn't fight off colts anymore. Anyway, whatever, maybe it's my

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Speaker 2: all donut diet. Oh lookout, lookout coughing fit the gout below.

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Speaker 2: So I was just actually reading reading the Mark Alpern

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Speaker 2: morning newsletter every day, and I really enjoy it. And

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Speaker 2: he's quoting a bunch of people. Trump's given a speech

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Speaker 2: tonight in Pennsylvania. He's going on the road. He's going

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Speaker 2: to do his Trump style tours all over America. You

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Speaker 2: know his rallies today he hasn't done for a very

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Speaker 2: long time, all about trying to convince people that he

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Speaker 2: cares about their economic pain and he wants to do

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Speaker 2: something about it. And Halprin's writing that. See if you

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Speaker 2: agree or not that of all the times in the

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Speaker 2: past decade people have declared Trump dead from various this, that, misstep,

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Speaker 2: political wins, whatever, this time he might actually be done

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Speaker 2: as a political force if he can't turn around the perception,

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Speaker 2: at least right now by lots of people, including lots

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Speaker 2: or doesn't care enough, or doesn't understand right. Yeah, I would,

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Speaker 2: I would agree with that assessment. It is so fundamental,

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Speaker 2: just in a couple of ways. Number One, on an

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Speaker 2: individual basis, your your financial you know, either comfort or fear,

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Speaker 2: because really those are the two emotions we all have

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Speaker 2: about our finances, right, either comfortable or afraid. And if

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Speaker 2: people are feeling that fear, nothing else matters. And so yeah,

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Speaker 2: if I think his messaging, the administration's messaging on economics

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Speaker 2: mean that's just the in general. If you get to

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Speaker 2: a specific of last week where he said inflation is

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Speaker 2: a democratic hoax or affordability that that is rough. That

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Speaker 2: of we're like, whoa dude, No, Yeah, you know, he's

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Speaker 2: long been bad at explaining anything more complex than one sentence.

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Speaker 2: And the approach he the administration needed to take was, look,

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Speaker 2: here's how inflation works. Those prices are way up. There

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Speaker 2: are a few we might be able to bring down.

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Speaker 2: What we're gonna try, like crazy to do is stop

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Speaker 2: take six months to a year. Hang with us. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna bust our asses to do this for you. There

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Speaker 2: was none of that, None of that. Yeah plus plus

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Speaker 2: be easier to do if you hadn't run around saying

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Speaker 2: understand the way inflation works thought that would actually happen. Well, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a trap of your own making. Not to mention

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Speaker 2: if you're claiming American citizens don't pay tariffs but on

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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of different industries, you've either gotten rid

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Speaker 2: because the tariffs are affecting them. Kind of works counter

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Speaker 2: Although you know, there are equipment costs and that sort

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Speaker 2: I think this bothering the farmers. But anyway, it's all related,

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Speaker 2: you know, And I don't want to just bash Trump

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Speaker 2: trade policy. Need it very very much. That relationship has

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Speaker 2: been way out of whack for decades now. But it's

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Speaker 2: a tough road, no doubt, and it's got to be handled.

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Speaker 2: Back to the messaging thing, it's got to be handled

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Speaker 2: with a little sensitivity and skill understanding. You know, leading

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Speaker 2: your people through difficult times is real leadership. And there

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Speaker 2: are a bunch of examples of a three history those

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Speaker 2: who've done a good job, whether it's war or economic

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Speaker 2: bad times or look, we've got to go through a

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Speaker 2: period of austerity to straighten out our budget. Here's why

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Speaker 2: we're doing it. You've got to be with me on this.

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Speaker 2: It's not been great lately. Well, no one, neither party

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Speaker 2: when inflation really spiked there during COVID, after we spend

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Speaker 2: go away confiscated brutal, absolutely brutal, and whoever ended up

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Speaker 2: so the you know, the the classic explanation of what

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Speaker 2: are really really good messages. Is it too little, too late?

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Speaker 2: And you know, there are plenty of events that will

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Speaker 2: the politics doesn't work on me anyway, just because because

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Speaker 2: just because a politician goes out and says I care

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Speaker 2: I need to hear some sort of policy that's gonna

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Speaker 2: have some effect me. I don't the whole Bill Clinton,

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Speaker 2: I feel your pain. I know it works on millions

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Speaker 2: Well that's a nice handshake, but all right, what do

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Speaker 2: But that's just the that's just the opening word. Now

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Speaker 2: what happens to me. I'm very cynical about politicians in there.

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Speaker 2: Throw on your barn jacket, staying on a baila hey,

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Speaker 2: and tell me how much you care about my life. Whatever,

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Speaker 2: Get the f out of here, right right. Tell you

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Speaker 2: that's the spirit. Um. But I'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 2: back the whole all this is a hoax thing, which

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Speaker 2: is probably a good idea because it's not a hoax.

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Speaker 2: Well end up, god Scott, he's so incapable of.

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Speaker 4: Explaining it tough.

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Speaker 2: If you want to say, blaming me for the price

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Speaker 2: It went up under Biden. We're trying to hold the

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Speaker 2: It's a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax. What is well?

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Speaker 2: Hopefully when we're at war with Venezuela, all this will

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Speaker 2: be forgotten. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: he's jojetting. I'm wearing a Santa hat again today helps

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Speaker 2: me feel better. My son took the good Santa hat.

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Speaker 2: We got a good Santa Hattan, a cheap, crappy Santa hat.

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing the cheap, crappy Santa hat. Probably made in China.

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Speaker 2: They don't care about Santa. That's Tuesday, December night with

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Speaker 2: Are you actually well? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Taking sixty seven ho So, whenever we're taking orders, they

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Speaker 3: go sixty six to sixty eight because of people like you.

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Speaker 2: Because of people like you. That's the nice girl at

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Speaker 2: seen this in my own real life. You get a

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Speaker 2: I would like whatever. To get through enough numbers to

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Speaker 2: get it up to sixty seven so they can all

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Speaker 2: As a guy with grown kids, I have no experience

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Speaker 2: my brother, who works for the city, was talking about

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Speaker 2: how he constantly works it in with his boss just

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Speaker 2: to annoy him. Wow. My parents, who are grandparents of

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Speaker 2: my kids, just became aware of the whole sixty seven

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Speaker 2: phenomenon and were somewhat confused by it. Explain it to someone,

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Speaker 2: you have to say, it doesn't make any sense, so

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Speaker 2: don't try to figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: It is. It is a fad without a fad. If

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Speaker 2: you want to see the I mean, go on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: You can look for any sports game in the country,

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Speaker 2: any high school basketball game when a team hit sixty seven.

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Speaker 2: Crowd goes wild. Oh my god, I just say, we're

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Speaker 2: easily amused as an understatement. Well, that's the thing, it seems.

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Speaker 2: And again, I don't want to be bitter old guy

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Speaker 2: would entertain like a severely mentally retarded Wow person, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I mean just fascination with the combination of numbers. There's

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Speaker 2: nothing there. You haven't revealed your baby name, Katie, but

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Speaker 2: you might have to consider six seven. I'm I'm just say,

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Speaker 2: with the babies being born, if you want to murder him, Katie,

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Speaker 2: I won't say a word thank you. I'll hang to

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Speaker 2: the god. The kid's six pounds seven ounces. I had thought,

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Speaker 2: You're like the only two guys over forty in America

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Speaker 2: I should have given them any bad That's an excellent

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Speaker 2: Australia is full of nasty animals. Joke. It is. My

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Speaker 2: About four percent of people who were approved for assistance suicide.

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Speaker 2: for this principle. You impose a limit so you achieve

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Speaker 2: What a great Orwellian phrase. So the government's gonna decide

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Speaker 2: whether this sixteen year old is mature enough to be

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Speaker 2: considered an eighteen year old. Let me guess a lot

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Speaker 2: of the times you're gonna say yes if it's you know,

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Speaker 2: for the program that you created. Wow, this depressed sixteen

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Speaker 2: year old is really articulate, and that brought us some

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Speaker 2: evidence from other countries they're a mature miner, and so

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Speaker 2: I think we ought to let that sixteen year old

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Speaker 2: kill themselves. In fact, we're going to help. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how to articulate this. As a

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Speaker 2: lover of liberty, but unless you are going to let

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Speaker 2: people fully carry the weight of all of their choices,

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Speaker 2: you know, eliminate the welfare state for everybody but the

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Speaker 2: most miserable among us, you know. And there's a dozen

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Speaker 2: examples of what you would have to do. But we

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Speaker 2: need limits. It's clear, we need guidelines as human beings.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise crazy stuff takes root and you get these social

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Speaker 2: contagions and they're just unhealthy. It's the balance is tough.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's easy, man. You expand it to

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's already really disturbing the idea of eighteen, nineteen,

448
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Speaker 2: twenty year olds being able to make this lifetime decision.

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Speaker 2: You expand it to fifteen sixteen year olds or whatever

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Speaker 2: they're planning to do. God, that's horrifying. One out of

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Speaker 2: twenty deads is people killing themselves. That ain't normal. Do

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Speaker 2: you think throughout the history of mankind that percentage of

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Speaker 2: people killed themselves? Of course not. Now that's insane Canada,

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Speaker 2: all of our hardware programming, all right, we need something.

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Speaker 2: We need a mood changer of some sort of Michael,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it'd be. I transition music or

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Speaker 2: have any wacky audio or something. The electric pan of

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Speaker 2: the saxophone jazzy drums just went in. This is cheerful

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Speaker 2: enough to even rescue a Canadian from their suicidal impulses.

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Speaker 2: You know, no, no, I whoops, I screwed up. You

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Speaker 2: know what. I was gonna go down to the hospital,

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna clip on a hockey game, grab myself

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Speaker 2: a Molson like my COOOKI Canadian hat. I enjoy my

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Speaker 2: life a little now that I've heard this music. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm in a better friend of mine. Oh and look

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Speaker 2: at that box that just showed up. It's a fabulous

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Speaker 2: great gift. Yeah. I know this is probably true for

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Speaker 2: all food, but like a lot of stuff, then you

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Speaker 2: know this is farm grown or this is fresh from

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Speaker 2: will attack you with some AA stuff later as open Ai,

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Speaker 2: which has really been the leading AI company out there.

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Speaker 2: Sam Waltman made up giant announcement yesterday in the direction

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Speaker 2: of the company Huge, So I'll talk about that. Just

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Speaker 2: seeing them money at football last night? Man that the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter in overtime? Wow? Was that something? With defending

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl champs losing on an interception at the very

496
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Speaker 2: end of the game to the Sorry I called them

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Speaker 2: the San Diego Chargers, Yes, chargers, it's an obscenity. I'd

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Speaker 2: rather hear the F word on the air than the

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Speaker 2: phrase Los Angeles Chargers discussing. Man, that was a fun game. No,

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Speaker 2: I didn't see a second of it, unfortunately. H And

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Speaker 2: speaking of the kids and tech and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 2: how do you like this headline? We gave students laptops

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Speaker 2: and took away their brains. Decades of data show a

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00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: clear pattern the more schools digitize the worst students perform.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me at all. Correlation or causation, We'll

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Speaker 2: take a look at it. I'm leaning causation. Okay, timing suspicious,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see. Oh my gosh, I saw another graphic.

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Speaker 2: I'll explain it to you. I think again pretty effectively

509
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Speaker 2: about how Americans spend their time from oh boy, the

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Speaker 2: early twentieth century to now. Is this going to make

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Speaker 2: me want to move to Canada and buy a rope

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Speaker 2: and a creaky stool. No, no, that's not how they

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00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: do it up there anyway. But uh no, but it

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Speaker 2: may motivate you to join Joe Getty's new back to

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Speaker 2: the woods fundamentalist civilization that I'm gonna found. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like the Amish, but with like cocktails.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear that the Omish with cocktails. I

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Speaker 2: want to hear that an hour or two. We got

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Speaker 2: mail bag on the way next day. Here. The long

520
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: and short of it is, probably the leading AI company

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Speaker 2: in the world has decided, Yeah, we're gonna put off

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Speaker 2: the trying to get to AI superintelligence for a while,

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00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: which is, you know, pretty big news. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.

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Speaker 2: Love this one as wise as as it is simple,

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Speaker 2: simple as it is wise from the great tim of Sowel.

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Speaker 2: What exactly is your fair share of what someone else

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Speaker 2: has worked for?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: So obviously true question. You've been asking for many years

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Speaker 2: that rich need to pay their fair share? Okay, what's

532
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: that share? How much you tell me? Currently they're funding

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Speaker 2: everything practically, so what would be fair? What exactly is

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Speaker 2: your fair share of what someone else has worked for?

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Speaker 2: That's great, Mailbag. If you would like to correspond to,

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Speaker 2: please do email addresses. Mailbag at Armstrong Egeddy dot com,

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Speaker 2: mail bag at Armstrongyiety dot com. Jeff Listener from Day

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Speaker 2: one Rights. I'm disappointed in Katie. Your headline yesterday from

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Speaker 2: the backbon Bee husband issues travel ban on any structurerom

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Speaker 2: Amazon was good, but she missed this one. How could

541
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Speaker 2: she Nigerian prince scammed by Somali immigrants. Oh, that's pretty funny.

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00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: That is pretty good. That's a funny joke. I will

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Speaker 2: not hear Katie called into question our skittles. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I think that one might have come up later in

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Speaker 2: the day. Yeah, I think it probably did. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 2: let's see, I had learned to hug people rights, I'll

547
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Speaker 2: say anonymous listen to podcast Jack said he'd rather get

548
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Speaker 2: in a fight than fistfight than hug someone. I shouted yes.

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Speaker 2: When I left home and moved to California at the

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Speaker 2: age of eighteen, I was very confused by all the hugging.

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Speaker 2: I felt like people were constantly hugging say hello, goodbye,

552
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: or just because, and I hated it. I really had

553
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: to observe other people and just bite the bullet to

554
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 2: fit in. Handshakes are so underrated. And then she mentioned

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Speaker 2: that she married into a family of huggers and kissers egad,

556
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Speaker 2: but learned to adjust. Well, okay, that's that's a different situation.

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Speaker 2: You're married into a family of huggers, then you gotta

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Speaker 2: But before that, I feel no need to fit in.

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Speaker 2: So uh. And then this is my favorite part. I

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Speaker 2: will never initiate a hug, but I'll go along if

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Speaker 2: it's clear the other person wants to hug, unless it's

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Speaker 2: a man I don't know well and I think he's

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Speaker 2: just moving into cop of feel. Then he gets the cold,

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Speaker 2: hard handshake of death. Ladies, I'm telling you, I know guys,

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Speaker 2: like this. I've known my whole life. Lots of them

566
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Speaker 2: are huggers because they want to hug young women. That's

567
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Speaker 2: why they're huggers. Oh man, I just find that so

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Speaker 2: off putting. I do too. Uh yeah, if yes, if

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Speaker 2: I'm yes, you're you are a young woman, so you

570
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Speaker 2: should weigh in. Well. Just a tip for hugging a guy.

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Speaker 4: Always hug down around their waist so they can't do

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Speaker 4: that creepy rubbing along your hip line move.

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Speaker 2: Of course, is their arm to go up? Is that

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Speaker 2: a thing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: She many Christmas See, it's funny. I have enjoyed nothing

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Speaker 2: more in my life, I think than being inside the

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Speaker 2: zone of intimacy with the females. It does have its pauses.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, very big fan of that. But the

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Speaker 2: idea of being in that zone like uninvited, Yeah, horrifies me.

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00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and having them talking to their friends about it,

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Speaker 2: oh mynding being the creepy guy horrifies me. Anyway, horrifies

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Speaker 2: us too, Sure it does. I'm gonna keep it light

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Speaker 2: in this male bag. I made the decision. Uh Eric

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Speaker 2: Eric hop sing from Astoria, Oregon. Beautiful Astoria. Y'all mentioned

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Speaker 2: Christmas music mentioned some of your favorites like Michael Bouble,

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Speaker 2: Harry Connock, Junior Philistines, the lot of you. There's only

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Speaker 2: one appropriate music for the ule Tide season, to wit,

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Speaker 2: Christmas on the Ponderosa from nineteen sixty three, Christmas without

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Speaker 2: the dulcet tones of Lorne Green and Dan Blocker. That's

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Speaker 2: in America I don't want to live in. Have I

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Speaker 2: heard that? Is that something we used to play years ago? Ah?

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00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: That sounds vaguely familiar. Christmas on the Ponderosa with the

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Speaker 2: cast of Ponza Bonanza. Right, yeah, let's see, Ryan from

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Speaker 2: Houston is just spitting mad. Problems with our spitty Congress

596
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Speaker 2: are worthless. Congress has trillions these issues. But the main

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Speaker 2: reason I can't trust any of them is this. It's

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Speaker 2: amazing that the stupid Party in the evil Party all

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00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 2: say the same thing on an issue. For instance, they

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Speaker 2: all see hideous war crimes in the Venezuelan and drug

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Speaker 2: boat thing, or clearly an action that was justified. I

602
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Speaker 2: can't trust any of them because these lying liars, all

603
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Speaker 2: they do is lie. And then he throws in in

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Speaker 2: a different email, the video could have shown a guy

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Speaker 2: with the rocket launcher in one hand and holding a

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Speaker 2: scarface level of cocaine, or two people creating Jack and

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Speaker 2: Rose from the Titanic while holding their detached limb, and

608
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Speaker 2: those lying liars would still spew the same bs. You're right.

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Speaker 2: You're right. They would have stuck to their scripts no

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Speaker 2: matter what they saw. Yeah. I tend to only pay

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Speaker 2: it if people have a comment that runs against their

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00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: type or party. That's about the only time you can

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Speaker 2: get my interest and me thinking I believe you, which

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Speaker 2: is unfortunate. Yeah, unless it's somebody making an especially eloquent argument,

615
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: but that's increasingly rare. In our instagrammy politics world, Boy, Joe,

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Speaker 2: TI's so many good things that I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: hear myself. I hope you feel the same. And it's

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Speaker 2: coming up an hour two. If you miss a segment,

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