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

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Getty Enough he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: He finally A bronx man recently threatened to blow up

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Speaker 2: the Department of Motor Vehicles after he was told he

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Speaker 2: would have to wait up to two hours to apply

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Speaker 2: for an ID. Unfortunately for him, the line to blow

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Speaker 2: up the place was three hours long.

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Speaker 1: That's a good joke. Having spent two hours of the

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Speaker 1: DMV yesterday, I spent two hours of the MVS today.

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Speaker 1: That's with an appointment. But but I tweeted out, and

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Speaker 1: I've wondered this since I was young. Why are all

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Speaker 1: life's losers hanging out at the DMV? Where are the

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Speaker 1: regular people? There are no regular people the DMV. It's

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Speaker 1: almost entirely losers. Like in line there you hanging out? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sitting in line. Ever, either's like with me. It's got

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Speaker 1: a bit of a Homer Simpson. Why are the things

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Speaker 1: that happen to stupid people keep happening to me? But

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Speaker 1: you don't look around and see anybody. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: thought this when I was twenty five. So this isn't

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Speaker 1: like me. Now, I've always thought this, It's like, very well,

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Speaker 1: every car parked in the parking lot is like Dennet

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Speaker 1: and missing hubcaps and got you know, a plastic bag

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Speaker 1: over one window. The percentage of people with either a

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Speaker 1: crutch or a sling is way higher than the regular population.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this. I'm uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: with it, and I don't know why it is. I've

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Speaker 1: always wondered that. Now. I tweeted that out and some

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Speaker 1: people said, well, those of that there is a separate

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Speaker 1: one for those of us who are life's losers. It's

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Speaker 1: called Triple A. And I did discover that in my

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Speaker 1: thirties that if you're a member of Triple A, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the stuff you can do there, But like

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Speaker 1: the thing I'm doing bringing a car in from another state,

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Speaker 1: you have to go to the d m V. California

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Speaker 1: tries to make it impossible to bring a car in

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Speaker 1: from another state because there are ultimate goals to have

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Speaker 1: no cars. That is the goal of the state of California.

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Speaker 1: They hate cars and they would like to get rid

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Speaker 1: of them. So you're always everybody in evs, which tear

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Speaker 1: up the highways. Which are already bad. Yeah, and I'm

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Speaker 1: registerrying to register an EV and it's still just as hard.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, that aside, I had a point of Oh

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Speaker 1: somebody did point out though, because I got into a

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Speaker 1: lot of conversations online because I had two hours to

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Speaker 1: kill wondering about this question. Is that uh, further down

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Speaker 1: the ladder of life working out for you, or when

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Speaker 1: you're young you drive cheap cars that have, you know,

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Speaker 1: more difficulties, and you swap cars more often, and just

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Speaker 1: with with other crappy cars, just lots of things happen

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Speaker 1: that require the DMV more often.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and there's there's a certain percentage of trips

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Speaker 3: to the DMV which are caused by lack of organization, No,

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Speaker 3: no doubt.

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking for myself.

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Speaker 3: I know that if I, for instance, had gotten the

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Speaker 3: form X thirty four or B in on time, I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't have to be standing in that damn line. And

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Speaker 3: there's definitely a correlation between ability to be organized and

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Speaker 3: think ahead and success in life. You either have it

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Speaker 3: or in my case, you marry it and thereby avoid

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Speaker 3: a lot of the trips.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, it's insane that we can't have a simpler

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Speaker 1: system though that I know a lot of it has

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Speaker 1: gone online. But it all should be easily doable online,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't it. Why not? Yeah, yes, clearly. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: AI can get a wrap on this someday where there's

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Speaker 1: a D M v AI thing that can tell you, no,

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Speaker 1: you need this form, click here and you'll have the form,

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Speaker 1: and then you fill out the form and it's submitted

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Speaker 1: on the computer. And all of this is nonsense of

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Speaker 1: waiting in line for hours, and this happen to me,

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Speaker 1: thank god, But I saw it happened to practically everybody

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Speaker 1: around me, waiting in line for hours to be told no,

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Speaker 1: you need thirty four B, you have thirty four B. A. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's so Soviet Union. That is so evil.

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Speaker 3: Actually, Elon Muskin, the Doge boys, they're getting all the

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Speaker 3: attention for cutting this and firing them over there, but

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Speaker 3: one of the main priorities they have is updating the

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Speaker 3: ridiculously antiquated and unconnected computer systems of the government.

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Speaker 1: And I would love to see that catch fire.

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Speaker 3: Just as an aside, after the a half dozen or

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Speaker 3: so of the DOGE leaders made that great appearance on

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Speaker 3: the Special Report with Brett Beher I really thought they

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Speaker 3: would be mounting a charm offensive where more of those

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 3: It could be that all of the Alphabet networks in

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Speaker 3: the usual suspects that New York Times have no interest

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Speaker 3: in it because it undercuts their narrative of it's just

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Speaker 3: a handful of frat boys on meth running around firing nice,

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Speaker 3: innocent people with families, when indeed that's not it at all.

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Speaker 1: I actually hadn't been in a DM being quite a

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Speaker 1: few years, so I was trying to take the multiple

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Speaker 1: hours as an opportunity to to just observe, you know,

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Speaker 1: our government system at work. I also committed myself to

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Speaker 1: knowing that I wouldn't get accomplished what I wanted to

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Speaker 1: accomplish in one trip, and I didn't, but to having

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Speaker 1: a cheerful out look about it as I watched so

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Speaker 1: many people get angry and thinking, you've made yourself miserable,

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Speaker 1: You've made the person that works there even a little

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Speaker 1: more hardened against the public. Nothing good was accomplished by

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Speaker 1: getting upset about this, no matter what. But I thought,

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Speaker 1: how do you do that job? How could you do

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Speaker 1: that job for a day? And not end up the

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Speaker 1: way a lot of DMV drone people are. The person

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Speaker 1: I worked with was very cheerful and nice, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of them aren't. And I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: could work that job one week without being one just

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Speaker 1: a mindless boredom of it, and then that everybody being

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Speaker 1: mad at you. It's really inhumane to subject someone to

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Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, I don't know how you do that.

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Speaker 3: I agree that it's not an excuse exactly for being

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Speaker 3: mean or abusive, but I understand it having dealt with

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Speaker 3: the public fair amount, especially in younger jobs.

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Speaker 1: I think it's how TSA people end up where they

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Speaker 1: are too, although with the added benefit for both of

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Speaker 1: those jobs, you can't be fired because working in retail

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Speaker 1: is a lot of that too, and you have to

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Speaker 1: keep your cheerful out look because they can fire you

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Speaker 1: and get somebody different, So you have to overcome the

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Speaker 1: whole The customers pissed me off. Yeah, yeah, it's a

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Speaker 3: My son, who is a gifted actor, though he is

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Speaker 3: not really acting these days, which is a shame, but

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Speaker 3: he he once got a job by this person, said,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of public interaction blah blah,

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Speaker 3: blah and can you handle that? And my son said, look,

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Speaker 3: I'm a trained actor. I can convince your customers. I'm

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Speaker 3: happy to see them. And they thought, okay, that's good enough.

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Speaker 3: So on a related note, in about ten seconds, the

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Speaker 3: idea of privatizing the postals service is getting a lot

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Speaker 1: And we will bring them to you. I won't say who.

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Speaker 1: A relative of mine briefly worked for the post Office,

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Speaker 1: thought that's what he would do, moving from his military career,

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Speaker 1: and he was there. I don't remember how long, not

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Speaker 1: very long weeks. He says, the most miserable group of

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Speaker 1: but he was a walking black hole of emotions. He

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Speaker 3: So Christian Snyder wrote a piece yesterday, I guess about

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Speaker 3: privatizing the post office.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't paid that much attention to this issue.

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Speaker 3: But as soon as anybody mentions that, the public employee

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Speaker 3: they're going to obliterate the postal service, it will be

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Speaker 3: the end of it. There will be no way to

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Speaker 1: I do get two pieces of mail per year that

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Speaker 1: I need, So yeah, it doesn't mean bliteration. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean obliteration, he writes, It means innovation, allowing

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Speaker 3: written on parchment powered by oxen. I believe that is

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Speaker 3: a shot at the antiquated and idiotic systems of the

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Speaker 3: postal Service. What's the difference between the public and private sectors.

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Speaker 3: The answer is simple. In the private sector, if a

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Speaker 1: In the public sector, if in an organization fails, it's

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Speaker 1: kept on life support with more tax payer money lesson. Tim.

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Speaker 3: The lawyer Tim Sanderfer has been helping us understand here

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Speaker 3: on the show and you Good folks for many years.

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Speaker 3: Such is the case with the US Postal Service, which

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Speaker 3: has lost over one hundred billion dollars since twenty oh seven,

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Speaker 3: one hundred over one hundred billion dollars. The number of

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Speaker 3: pieces of the US Posted Service handles has fallen fifty

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Speaker 3: seven percent since one but the costly infrastructure needed to

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Speaker 3: deliver every letter to every square edge to the country

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Speaker 3: continues to hemorrhage money. So why the Government Accountability Office

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Speaker 3: added the USPS's unsustainable business model to its high risk list,

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Speaker 3: noting that the office need to take action to address

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Speaker 3: its poor financial condition. There would probably be a hiccup

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Speaker 3: or two. There are a couple of bills we still

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Speaker 3: get via mail for various reasons that are not interesting

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Speaker 3: enough to go into.

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Speaker 1: I can I don't get any bills through the mail.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of that I get

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Speaker 1: in the mail, uh, Christmas cards, That's the only thing.

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Speaker 1: So in December I need the post office. The rest

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Speaker 1: of year, I'm pretty sure I don't. I'm amazed that

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Speaker 3: of America?

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Speaker 1: I'm a yes.

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Speaker 3: Of the things I said, I do fervently, and we'll

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Speaker 3: go down fighting till to day I die. It's one

439
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Speaker 3: of the reasons I'm so conflicted about the idea of

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Speaker 3: ever retiring from this job. I just as long as

441
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Speaker 3: we have any audience. Thank you for listening. It's hard

442
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Speaker 3: to not be in the fight anyway. Number two of

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Speaker 3: the five greatest channel just facing America. Do we still

444
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Speaker 3: have enough Americans? Our American idea is only useful as

445
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Speaker 3: long as there are people to believe it. And he

446
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 3: points out great periods of growth in our wealth, power,

447
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 3: standard of living, cultural influence, have typically been times when

448
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Speaker 3: our population is growing, usually by high birth rates and

449
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Speaker 3: relatively high immigration. Yet birth rates are collapsing around the

450
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Speaker 3: developed world. America is not immune declining rates of family formation,

451
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Speaker 3: resurgent rates of abortion. An era of population decline would

452
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Speaker 3: undermine all of the fiscal and financial assumptions behind our

453
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Speaker 3: entitlement state, as well as our free market economy. And

454
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Speaker 3: he doesn't really get into this, but the antidote to

455
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Speaker 3: that is to import millions of young people from around

456
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Speaker 3: the world who may or may not give a crap

457
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Speaker 3: about concern Number one, do Americans still believe in America?

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Speaker 1: So that's a big one. Realizing this is a little

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Speaker 1: heaviest segments go, but it's worth considering. Or three, are

460
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Speaker 1: we going broke? Yes, well, that one's settled. I mean

461
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Speaker 1: we could go into detail, but come on.

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Speaker 3: Now, Nearly a quarter of our GDP is now spent

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Speaker 3: on just the federal government, never mind the cost of

464
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Speaker 3: state and local governments. I warned of this years and

465
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Speaker 3: years ago. I should have written a quickie talk show

466
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Speaker 3: host book. When the most important lobbyist of government becomes

467
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Speaker 3: the government itself, we're doomed.

468
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Speaker 1: And we might be there and it's not sustainable. The

469
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Speaker 1: level of spending, the debt, the deficits, blah blah blah.

470
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Speaker 1: We all know that, right. This one's interesting. Fourth is

471
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Speaker 1: the world getting away from us. Foreign enemies will likely

472
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Speaker 1: always be with us, but we should be alarmed by

473
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Speaker 1: the prospect that they are united, uniting their causes and

474
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Speaker 1: expanding their spheres of influence. This is the axis of

475
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Speaker 1: a holes.

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Speaker 3: China, Russia Ran represent a block of resistance to the

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Speaker 3: American ideas, and they are trying to expand and send

478
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Speaker 3: its tentacles anywhere it can. This requires a brand of

479
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Speaker 3: grand strategic thinking on our part to strengthen the alliances

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Speaker 3: of the free world against them. It now appears, however,

481
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Speaker 3: that the Trump Advanced team wants our strategic posture to

482
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Speaker 3: move in precisely the opposite direction. This is a debate

483
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Speaker 3: that will go on and on and should That's an

484
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Speaker 3: oversimplification of a handful of things.

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Speaker 1: But that's number four in his list, and fifth the

486
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Speaker 1: hardest one to pin down. Have we lost our American

487
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Speaker 1: character of resilience and flexibility? And he points out America

488
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Speaker 1: used to not only build things quickly, you know, physical

489
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Speaker 1: things and institutions, but also rebuild them quickly, and he's

490
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Speaker 1: quoting himself, in wartime time is a vital factor, the

491
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Speaker 1: Union's victory over the Confederacy, the American victory over Imperial Japan.

492
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Speaker 1: We're heavily dependent on our capacity to turn out warships

493
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Speaker 1: at a speed and volume unmatched by our adversaries. He

494
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Speaker 1: goes into the history.

495
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Speaker 3: In the past, the complacement America could afford on to

496
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Speaker 3: skimp on armaments in peace time because it could ramp

497
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Speaker 3: up quickly at need. But today's America is a jungle

498
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Speaker 3: of red tape, in which the going in any project

499
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Speaker 3: a building is slow and laborious. The Ukraine War has

500
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Speaker 3: illustrated the dangers to the army of the perilously slow

501
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Speaker 3: pace of production for ammunitions. And it's not just war fighting,

502
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Speaker 3: he points out, it's being tested in the rebuilding of

503
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Speaker 3: California after the devastating wildfires, and even progressives like Ezra

504
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 3: Klein have recently been discussing how red tape and constituency

505
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Speaker 3: politics make it impossible to build things quickly in America.

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Speaker 1: I saw the other day, what is it. They're like,

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Speaker 1: there's been like two permits granted so far or something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, some shockingly low number. Right, they're in the

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Speaker 1: Palisades area.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a four, So it's twice as

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Speaker 3: many as you said, Yousenic. Four people have gotten permits

512
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Speaker 3: out of tens of thousands. And then he also mentions

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Speaker 3: that you bundle woke politics into that, which not only

514
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Speaker 3: doesn't you know, recognize the beauty of meritocracy, it poops

515
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Speaker 3: on it, and more broadly, the unresponsive and decay of

516
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Speaker 3: many of the institutions.

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Speaker 1: We're hurting. We're hurting, and it all goes back to

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Speaker 1: the fundamental principles of America and being an American. Don't

519
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Speaker 1: apologize for those principles or think they don't mean anything,

520
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Speaker 1: or well, I don't want to get into the culture

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Speaker 1: wars or anything like that. No, that is the only

522
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Speaker 1: thing that matters, because everything, everything rests on it, the

523
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Speaker 1: principles that made this country great. So inflation's inflation numbers

524
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Speaker 1: are out today and they're a little lower than they expected,

525
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Speaker 1: So that's good news. Eggs hit an all time high

526
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Speaker 1: up by chickens by chickens, up five point six percent

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Speaker 1: from last month, when they were already at an all

528
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Speaker 1: time high. I'm glad. I don't eat a lot of eggs,

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Speaker 1: I guess. I mean again, my wife does, and I

530
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Speaker 1: got to have a word with her. But how many

531
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Speaker 1: eggs did does if you eat a lot of eggs?

532
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Speaker 1: How many eggs scrambling us broke honey? Even if you

533
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Speaker 1: eat a lot, how many do you eat? Three a day?

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Speaker 1: Does that? That would be a huge number, including baking

535
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Speaker 1: and such. That's that's pretty aggressive. Yeah, I just don't know. Uh,

536
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Speaker 1: back to the hole. It was a little lower than expected,

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Speaker 1: expected by whom? What is their methodology? What the hell

538
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Speaker 1: do I care what they expected? Just wait for the

539
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Speaker 1: number to come out. So Los Angeles loves a good

540
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Speaker 1: police chase thing. And it happened in the middle of

541
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Speaker 1: the day, and you had all the helicopters around and

542
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Speaker 1: everybody's watching it. And it was a weird one. Lots

543
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Speaker 1: of weird stuff. The guy who stripped down to his

544
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Speaker 1: underwear jumped a fence and got into a family's backyard

545
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Speaker 1: pool to try to seem like I'm just a guy

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Speaker 1: in a pool. What are you talking about? Because it's

547
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: least day today, isn't it? A officer before the police

548
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Speaker 1: kept him, for instance, There's a lot to this story,

549
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: including the bass players, the bass player of Weezer's wife

550
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Speaker 1: getting shot. There's a lot here. Stay tuned. Will you

551
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Speaker 1: be able to enjoy Weezer hits like this one this

552
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Speaker 1: weekend at Coachella where Weezer's expected to play now that

553
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Speaker 1: their bass player's wife is in jail charged with attempted murder.

554
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: Oh my, that is upsetting right. Yep, yep, it'd be

555
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: hard to pay attention. You're playing the bass, your wife's

556
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Speaker 1: in jail tempted murder. Huh? You start singing your yips

557
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: out of place, blown core changes, but then the crowd

558
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: could go wild. This is how the whole thing goes

559
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Speaker 1: down yesterday. It's just kind of interesting on a number

560
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Speaker 1: of different levels. So it's middle of the afternoon, it's

561
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Speaker 1: like three point thirty. There is a hit and run

562
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Speaker 1: on the Ventura Freeway. Some guys there's a crash and

563
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Speaker 1: they decide to run from the scene, which you're not

564
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Speaker 1: allowed to do. Three dudes take off running for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: A number of like regular citizens decide to chase these dudes.

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Speaker 1: I've never done that, but I mean, like I'm like

567
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Speaker 1: a really bad guy. I might, but like just somebody

568
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: who's involved in a car wreck running from it. I

569
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Speaker 1: not gonna depends, I suppose, I don't know. Anyway, they

570
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Speaker 1: started chasing these guys and so they are on the run.

571
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Speaker 1: Then cops get there with backup, and the cops are

572
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Speaker 1: running through the Eagle Rock neighborhood chasing the dudes. One

573
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Speaker 1: of the dudes, well, one dude falls down as he's

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Speaker 1: being chased and he's all bloody. So he's laying on

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Speaker 1: the street bloody, So cops got attend to him. Then

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Speaker 1: one of the other guys runs, climbs over a fence,

577
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Speaker 1: takes off his clothes down to his boxer shorts, jumps

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Speaker 1: in the pool, and starts watering plants to try to

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Speaker 1: seem like he lives there, which is pretty clever, but

580
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Speaker 1: it didn't work. They apprehended him too. Worth a try. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: It turns out to be the neighborhood. And this part

582
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Speaker 1: I just figured out now as TMZ is reporting it

583
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Speaker 1: this morning. One of the houses in the nameghborhood belongs

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Speaker 1: to the bass player from Weezer. That's the band we

585
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Speaker 1: just played their very popular band from back in the day.

586
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Speaker 1: And she hears all the commotion. I wonder if maybe

587
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Speaker 1: she was watching about the high speed chase and all

588
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff on TV. Maybe even I don't know,

589
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Speaker 1: realized it was her neighborhood. She comes out of the

590
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Speaker 1: house with a gun because there's craziness going on in

591
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Speaker 1: her neighborhood. So she's standing in the driveway with the gun.

592
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Speaker 1: Cops come running down the street around the corner. There's

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Speaker 1: a woman with a gun. You know, they don't know

594
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Speaker 1: what all is going on, and they start yelling drop

595
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Speaker 1: the gun, Drop the gun. The cops say, they they

596
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: yell drop the gun repeatedly. We'll let body cams determine that.

597
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Speaker 1: I don't have any reason to think they didn't. I

598
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Speaker 1: just always remember that scene in Better Call Saul, where

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Speaker 1: the cop when he's testifying as to how he shot

600
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Speaker 1: the dude. His story is way different than what happened.

601
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I don't think that happens very often test

602
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Speaker 1: a lying the cops come around the corner. There's a

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Speaker 1: woman with a gun. They yell for her to drop

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Speaker 1: the gun. Drop the gun. This is the bass player

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Speaker 1: from Weezer's Wife, who is a gun enthusiast and might

606
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Speaker 1: have just been doing what any of us with guns

607
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: would do if we think something really bad is going

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Speaker 1: on in the neighborhood. I wouldn't do this. However, she

609
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Speaker 1: turns around. She does. She not only does not drop

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Speaker 1: the gun, she points the gun at the cops. Were

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Speaker 1: they uniformed, I believe so. I don't know that, but

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Speaker 1: that's what I was picturing. But I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I have any reasons. I'm pretty sure they come out

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Speaker 1: your driveway with anyway, they're lad LAPD patrol that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they were just you know, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why she pointed at the gun. That's where the

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Speaker 1: attempted murder comes in. I'm looking up at the picture

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Speaker 1: on the TV all the cops that are pointing their

619
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Speaker 1: the gun at the guy in his shorts who jumped

620
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Speaker 1: in the pool to try to pull off. Hey, I'm

621
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Speaker 1: just trying to swim in. What are you doing. They're

622
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: all a regular uniformed cops. Anyway, she points a gun

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Speaker 1: at the cops, which I guess gets you booked for

624
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Speaker 1: attempted murder. They shoot her, but not very badly, because

625
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Speaker 1: she then goes in the house and hangs out in

626
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Speaker 1: the house for quite a while with the baby. Then

627
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Speaker 1: she comes out later with the babysitter and says that

628
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Speaker 1: she's willing to uh surrender. So I'm kind of surprised

629
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Speaker 1: that she's not dead. I'm glad she's not dead, since

630
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: it seems to be like a misunderstanding. But I'm surprised

631
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Speaker 1: that if you got multiple cops you're pointing gum at them,

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Speaker 1: that she's not dead.

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, there is something missing from this story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't seem like fact. So according to TMZ,

635
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Speaker 1: she was only hitting the shoulder. They take her to

636
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Speaker 1: the hospital, but she's fine in talking. She is a

637
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: self described rock star wife. That's what she told the police.

638
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Speaker 1: I'm a rock star wife. Is that what she puts

639
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: on her tax forms? That's fine. I don't know. She's

640
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: got a bit of a wacky background, including this nugget.

641
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Speaker 1: She wrote a book called Some Girls, My Life in

642
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Speaker 1: a Harem, in which she chronicles her time as a

643
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Speaker 1: guest in quotes of the Prince of BRUNEI, Oh my,

644
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: so apparently, oh I remember that book? Really? Yeah, so

645
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: she like was a model sex toy for the Prince

646
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: of BRUNEI perhaps, or just arm candy.

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Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how the you know, the flow

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00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 3: chart looks in the harem world. What sort of positions

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, it all feels like.

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Speaker 1: You point to gun at multiple cops and you're not

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Speaker 3: That is amazing, like gunshot wounds badly enough. But I

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Speaker 3: see your point definitely. So, speaking of trade wars with China,

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