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

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

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Speaker 1: and Jettie and.

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Speaker 2: Arms from studio ce Ce Signor, a dimly lit room

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Speaker 2: deeper than the bowels.

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Speaker 1: Of the Armstrong in Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, midweek,

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Speaker 1: we're under the two ledge of our general manager Shared values,

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Speaker 1: as in, do we have any anymore? You've gone on

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Speaker 1: OPRAH with the general managers? Yeah, you know, I have guilty.

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Speaker 1: I said, nothing just jumped out, especially today Today's Shared Value,

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Speaker 1: so which is very nice. It's a nice it's a

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Speaker 1: nice impulse, charitable of you to say thank you. Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just nothing. Nothing leapt out.

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Speaker 3: In particular, I could have gone with Daniel Penny, who

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Speaker 3: did an interview with Judge Janine of all people, but

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Speaker 3: it was actually quite good and compelling, and we'll have

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Speaker 3: some clips.

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Speaker 1: For you a little bit later on. Yeah, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you I've been having I having trouble with this

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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours from the experience I had

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Speaker 1: with a person very very much like the guy Penny

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Speaker 1: ended up choking to death, coming on to my kids

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Speaker 1: and me and my family one night, and maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: retell that story later, just because it was so similar,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, it was just this close, and I

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Speaker 1: think about it way too often. I don't think about

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Speaker 1: it every day, but I think about it a lot.

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Speaker 1: In the last week or so, I've been thinking about

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Speaker 1: it every day. And so I heard the Daniel Penny

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Speaker 1: interview and he has talking about how he would have

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Speaker 1: been able to live with himself if if the guy

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Speaker 1: had hurt somebody and he hadn't done anything about it.

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Speaker 1: And so I've gone back and forth over the last

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Speaker 1: however many years, it's been of you know, did I overreact,

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Speaker 1: did I underreact? All that sort of stuff. And I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking I probably should have put my hands on the

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Speaker 1: guy and not just hoped that he didn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I was between him and my kids. But if he

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Speaker 1: had moved fast, how would I been able to stop him?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, right, And God dang it, I hope

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Speaker 1: you never end up in that situation. One of the

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Speaker 1: reasons that so many of us end up in those

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Speaker 1: situations is we have so many dangerous, freaking people on

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Speaker 1: the streets of our cities, correct and so you end

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Speaker 1: up in a situation where you have to make a

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Speaker 1: judgmentcall of do I instigate this and suffer whatever consequences

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Speaker 1: might occur in a blue state or blue city because

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid right now for me or my kids, Or

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Speaker 1: do I wait until they stab, shoot, punch a woman,

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Speaker 1: a kid or whatever and then try to subdue them.

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Speaker 1: Horrible situation to be in, but it's much more likely

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Speaker 1: when you got thousands upon thousands of these people walk

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Speaker 1: in the streets. The guy that I was involved with

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Speaker 1: ended up. He had.

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Speaker 3: Smashed a woman's face in a drive through in a McDonald's,

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Speaker 3: then beating up paramedics, and he'd done this in different states,

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Speaker 3: and bet let go in blue states and travel around

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Speaker 1: He was exactly the same sort of guy as this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know, God to help you again that you're

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Speaker 1: never in that situation because you got to figure out

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Speaker 1: what do I do here? Do I actually fight this

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Speaker 3: Then good luck, especially as a public figure like me,

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Speaker 3: So I'm fighting a homeless person, he gets hurt. Imagine

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Speaker 3: how that could be portrayed in the news, right, especially

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Speaker 3: if he was physically smaller than you or something like that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm gonna read some of the stuff that

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Speaker 1: out and his background and some of the things people

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Speaker 1: are saying about him now. And the fund that is

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Speaker 1: being a gather to go fund me to raise money

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Speaker 1: for some sort of statue or fund or scholarship or

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Speaker 1: whatever for this guy who lived a life of scumbaggery right,

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Speaker 1: reminds me of George Floyd exactly.

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Speaker 3: He didn't deserve to die, but the idea that it

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But we allow these to thing, we

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Speaker 1: allow these people to be on the streets. There's gonna

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Speaker 3: What really really galls me is the inability or unwillingness

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Speaker 3: Elon Musk Ashley if all people just had an excellent

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Speaker 3: believe either it's that ideology is so clouded the minds

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Speaker 3: loud it's primarily a drug addiction problem. The so called

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Speaker 3: homeless problem is in vast measure a drug problem. We're

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Speaker 3: not people who were working hard and paying the rent

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Speaker 3: but the vast majority.

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Speaker 1: Are a drug addict. The percentages are high enough of

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Speaker 1: it being a drug problem that it did to be

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Speaker 1: perfectly okay to only refer to it as a drug

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Speaker 1: problem and not refer to it as an almost problem at all. Exactly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: why are we doing the inverse of the truth.

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Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I'm always railing about letting the

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Speaker 3: left define the language that you use. We ought to

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Speaker 3: be calling them drug addicts, and if ten to fifteen

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Speaker 1: We really should come up with a a societal decision

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Speaker 1: on this. Mentally ill, okay, if you if you're mentally

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Speaker 1: ill because you use so many drugs, or you use

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Speaker 1: so many drugs your brain no longer works. What is that?

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Speaker 3: What are we gonna call that? What are we gonna

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Speaker 3: do with those people? So I heard you'll not let

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Speaker 3: certain I heard, uh, one of the best analogies I've

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Speaker 3: National Review podcast. Rich Lowry said, can you imagine if

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Speaker 3: we let people with Alzheimer's just walk wander the streets?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Great point, and said, well, you know they have Alzheimer's.

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Speaker 1: It's not our job, to our business to put them

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Speaker 1: what is what is the literal difference between somebody with

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Speaker 1: Tell me what the difference is. But there's no way

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Speaker 3: It's it's troubling because there's no constituency, there's no lobbyist

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Speaker 3: their excesses and their abuses, nobody disagrees that they had problems.

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Speaker 3: But then this progressive view that took hold in the

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Speaker 1: They'll be great. We're gonna close all the mental hospitals.

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Speaker 3: We'll just open a center on this corner, in this

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Speaker 3: But and this may ring a bell. Having instituted a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, we've got a lot from that Daniel Penny interview,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty darned interesting. So join me.

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Speaker 3: Please, no more use in the term homeless bums and junkies.

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Speaker 1: DJs, if you will. So we got a lot more

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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention? Oh, how about how about Israel?

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Speaker 1: So Syria used to have a military, Like four days ago,

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Speaker 1: Israel since Sunday has completely destroyed the Syrian military. Isn't

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Speaker 3: It is amazing Israel calculating that, Hey, if the lunatics

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I wonder if we're in favor of that

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Speaker 1: or helping them out on that. We might be wrong.

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Speaker 3: Oh probably yeah, yeah, Although with Biden you never or no,

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Speaker 3: and this will be my final thought. Then we probably

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Speaker 3: ought to start the show officially because Biden's FCC is

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Speaker 3: still in charge and they are draconian. Uh Iran, who

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Speaker 3: unleashed Hamas on October seventh, may have absolutely sowed the

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Speaker 1: And soon maybe could be more on that later. So

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Speaker 1: let's start the show officially. As Joe said, I'm Jack Armstrong.

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Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday. We're two

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Speaker 1: weeks from Christmas today. I got to remind myself of this.

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Speaker 1: You gotta quit screwing around man. Time is up. Gotta

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Speaker 1: get your shopping done. Stop yelling at me. I'm yelling

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Speaker 1: act together. They're twenty twenty four. We are armstrong.

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Speaker 3: Seriously, seriously, what was the first and name of the

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Speaker 1: I was eight, Probably we are armstrong. You're getting we

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Speaker 1: approve of this program? Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go officially according to FCC rules regulations.

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Speaker 3: This is exciting, isn't it. Let's start at Mark.

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Speaker 1: I love company holiday parties.

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Speaker 4: You get to be with people that you work with

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Speaker 4: say I love your ugly Christmas sweater and they're like,

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Speaker 4: that's just my sweater. And you get to be like, hey,

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Speaker 4: remind me, do you go buy Steve or Steven? And

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Speaker 4: he's like it's Mark, And your boss tries to crack

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Speaker 4: a joke and everyone around them does the employment laughter, Like.

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Speaker 1: There's more to that bit too.

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Speaker 5: Employment oh that's clever stuff. Oh we haven't had Paul Tarro.

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Speaker 5: We haven't had a real Christmas party in years. I

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Speaker 5: miss him.

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Speaker 1: Actually before the show we were talking about it and

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Speaker 1: everybody was thankful, but we don't have them. But I

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Speaker 1: miss him. I think it's good for the camaraderie. It

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Speaker 1: changes everything, you know, that couple of hours of getting

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Speaker 1: or meeting the husband or whatever and talking to them

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Speaker 1: about something other than work. Right, Yeah, I would agree.

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Speaker 3: It was always one of those man we've got to go, honey,

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Speaker 3: are you and then you get there and it's fun.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you're right because we.

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Speaker 3: Used to work with a lot of really cool, creative

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Speaker 3: people and the Christmas party somewhat oh yeah, yeah, real ravers.

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Speaker 1: I's around some people last couple of days who had

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Speaker 1: these great Christmas parties they were telling stories about and

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh, yeah, that still happened someplaces. Well, good

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Speaker 1: for you. How does mailbag look? Oh? Very good? Quite strong?

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Speaker 1: Was the general manager today? Coming together? Shared values? Okay?

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

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Speaker 1: I know you're trying to be christmasy, Michael, but I

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Speaker 1: don't think Jesus likes this music.

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Speaker 3: No, No, indeed, the three wise men, all three of

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Speaker 3: States to get care because they can't get any through

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Speaker 3: their government healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yep, it's very frustrating. Okay, different topic just came

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Speaker 1: across this poll first poll I've seen anyway on ap

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Speaker 1: Nork poll. It's one of your believed in polls, credible polls.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden partning his son. Approval rating on Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: Partning Hunter twenty two percent, twenty two percent, And the

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Speaker 1: only reason it has twenty two percent is because you

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Speaker 1: got like forty percent of Democrats say it's okay, really,

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Speaker 1: and like zero percent of a Republican So you will

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Speaker 1: justify any Yeah, yeah, everybody. If there's one thing I

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Speaker 1: could get people to do, it's not say yes or no,

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Speaker 1: right or wrong based on whether or not it's your side.

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Speaker 1: Try as hard as you can to separate these things out.

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Speaker 1: There's no way forty Democrats think Joe Biden Pardning Hunter

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Speaker 1: was a good thing, not a chance Hanson label.

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Speaker 3: This segment of the podcast, Jack Comma charmingly. Comma asks

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Speaker 3: for moral consistency from mankind.

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Speaker 1: Right, you're one hundred percent right? Of course, I know.

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Speaker 1: Do we used to do better at this or not?

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that? I feel like we used

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Speaker 1: to do better at this at times. At times I

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Speaker 1: think we did. There have definitely been eras.

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Speaker 3: We'll just restrict our discussion to the us of a

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Speaker 3: but there have been times in this country that yeah,

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Speaker 3: unity and shared values were very important, and that if

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Speaker 3: you violated those shared values, it didn't matter if you're

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Speaker 3: on mis's hide or not for the vast majority of us.

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Speaker 3: But that that's that that feeling of unity ebbs and flows,

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Speaker 3: and it's it's at a low, low ebb right now

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Speaker 3: in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Well, to argue with myself and I said this a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, but because I'm old, I'd forgotten it.

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Speaker 1: Learning in the book Sapiens that that's one of the

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Speaker 1: things evolutionary speaking, that has allowed Homo sapiens to survive,

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Speaker 1: is that we go with we're gonna follow our leader,

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Speaker 1: what right or wrong he's on it, We're on his side.

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Speaker 1: Because if you have a whole bunch of people who

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Speaker 1: are like, I don't know, I kind of agree with

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Speaker 1: our leader, but you know he's not completely right about this.

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Speaker 1: I'm about sixty forty, the other tribe that believes in

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Speaker 1: their leader is going to come in whoop your ass. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So there's a great advantage to right or wrong. It's

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Speaker 1: my team, let's go. There's a big advantage.

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Speaker 3: And in my head around good point Where does that

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Speaker 3: leave us?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, easton confused, morally unmoored.

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Speaker 3: What now where do I turn? I guess you hope

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Speaker 3: an interesting point.

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Speaker 1: I guess you hope that our intellect is able to

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Speaker 1: override that to a certain a certain extent.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think it's a There are a thousand

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Speaker 3: examples of this. It's like the like during the worst

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Speaker 3: moments of the way over the top me too movement

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Speaker 3: or the BLM thing or whatever. But where these these

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Speaker 3: lunatics were like condemning if you said, well, you look

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Speaker 3: great today, or you know, out with a coworker, would

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Speaker 3: you like to get coffee away from work someday? That

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Speaker 3: was just a horrendous crime. Because all of human courtship

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Speaker 3: is evil and leads to forcible rape. That was a

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Speaker 3: crazy attitude. A certain amount of the natural course of

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Speaker 3: human courtship, including the woman not refusing consent but delaying consent. Sure,

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Speaker 3: that's part of our mating dance, has been for millions

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Speaker 3: of years.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: It's that last percent that turns ugly that we've got

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Speaker 3: to rein in with our intellect. We're better than chimps. Well,

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Speaker 3: some of us are better. A few of us are

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Speaker 3: better than chimps. And it's that last bit of my

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Speaker 3: leader right or wrong, even as he gases ten million

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Speaker 3: Jews for instance, or you know, whatever example you'd like

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Speaker 3: to give.

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Speaker 1: And then a science story before we take a break

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Speaker 1: that I read yesterday about how we kind of have

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Speaker 1: a brain in our stomach. Scientists have discovered down at

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Speaker 1: Caltech or tiny little portions of a brain. And it's first.

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Speaker 3: Only has my schwunstick have been attempting to take control

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Speaker 3: and make the decisions in my life. Now my stomach

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Speaker 3: is swighing in his way.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what they got to discover, is the leader's

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Speaker 1: a really unwise brain down there in your genitals.

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Speaker 3: Kind of single minded, yes, a bit myopic. Yeah, as

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Speaker 3: I think you're leading up to a point.

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Speaker 1: There are similar neurons in our gut as there are

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Speaker 1: into our brain. And they're saying there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of difference between just being a tiny little brain that

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Speaker 1: makes various decisions on situations. So should we be digesting

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Speaker 1: the food and doing the normal thing, or are we

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Speaker 1: in a crisis now where we better hold back, slow

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Speaker 1: everything down so you can deal with things.

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Speaker 3: Sure, we don't need the muscle I'm sorry. The blood

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Speaker 3: flow to our digestion digestive tract. We need it in

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Speaker 3: our muscles right now. Yeah, you also don't need to

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Speaker 3: be sing your p while you're I don't know what

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Speaker 3: phrase you losing your mud? We you know when you're

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Speaker 3: when you're in a crucial situation. Well, right, that's that's

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Speaker 3: weird Freudian slip right there, Michael, am I wrong? Did

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Speaker 3: I just hear that or the way he pronounced the situation?

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Speaker 3: I think was all right? If it makes you a grain,

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Speaker 3: leave it in. Yeah, that's a fascinating thought. We have

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Speaker 3: neuron networks that make decisions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then many many brains, right, and they discovered

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Speaker 1: in the and they think it might be more places

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Speaker 1: in the body, meaning the whole brain system is more

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Speaker 1: complex and spread out than they'd ever thought before. Now

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Speaker 1: that's thought provoking. Is the genital's angles pretty funny? All right?

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Speaker 1: You know it doesn't need a brain because it's it's

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Speaker 1: always Yes, it's not like he's making a lot of decisions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but the circuit I'm seeing some red flags being waved.

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Speaker 1: Nat forget about it. Yes, well let's do it. I'm

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Speaker 1: all in, who's in, who's with?

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Speaker 3: Me.

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Speaker 1: She's clearly nuts.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we've got Oh, I a downer after all this laughing.

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Speaker 3: I want to get to some of the commentary around

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Speaker 3: the dude that got choked to death by Daniel Penny, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and trying to make you hear out of him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It was just amazing, amazing. Can't wait to read this

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Speaker 1: to you. You'll be amazed yourself. And other stuff. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get to Katie's headlines on the way, shoy. I'm

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Speaker 1: not stealing one of your headlines, Katie, but inflation ticked

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Speaker 1: up in November two point seven percent first time line, Jack,

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Speaker 1: Did I steal one of your headlines?

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Speaker 3: Total?

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Speaker 1: That's a good one.

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Speaker 3: Well, and I want to talk about Crooner's and he

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Speaker 3: brings up inflation.

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Speaker 1: God, you're a drag. I am. I am no fun.

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Speaker 1: I am no fun.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about Dean Martin's boozy warblings and

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Speaker 3: you want to talk about inflation?

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Speaker 1: What next?

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Speaker 3: The Federal Reserve?

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Speaker 1: Are you a Frank Sinatra fan? I've never really gotten

571
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Speaker 1: into Frank Sinatra. I shouldn't take some time on it.

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Speaker 1: It's like one of those bands I like, but I

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Speaker 1: don't love. Yeah, I just I don't think I've taken

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Speaker 1: the time I should take the time. There's got to

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Speaker 1: be a reason. Do you're not that big a deal

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Speaker 1: by accident. Yes, phrasing is cool if you're into that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, let's talk about including the Biden administration taking

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Speaker 3: a victory lap on their great win in Syria, which

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Speaker 3: is beyond inappropriate. I mean, it's practically bizarre. But first

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Speaker 3: let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with

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Speaker 3: Katie Green.

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Speaker 7: Katie, thank you guys USA today CEO Gunman Merchandise raises controversy,

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Speaker 7: claims of glorifying violence.

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Speaker 1: What's the merchandise?

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Speaker 3: Oh, people are making.

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Speaker 7: Shirts with his face on Etsy and posting.

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Speaker 3: BDI delayed defend shirts and sweatshirts and hats.

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Speaker 1: And I'm starting to agree with people who think this

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Speaker 1: is a like turning point, watershed moment, something or other

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Speaker 1: inflection point in terms of our going off the rails

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Speaker 1: as a country.

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Speaker 3: It's nineteen sixty eight to seventy three. Again, We're going

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Speaker 3: to see bombings and assassinations and god knows what else

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Speaker 3: because everybody's going to be so still justified in their

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Speaker 3: own heads that their gripe is the gripe and I'm

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Speaker 3: so right, I get to hurt people.

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Speaker 1: CNN.

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Speaker 7: Syrians celebrate falla facade as Israel strikes nearly five hundred targets.

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Speaker 1: They thought, here's our opportunity. This is a tree, that's

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Speaker 1: a tact us we've been worried about. They no longer

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Speaker 1: have an army, navy, or military or the ability to

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Speaker 1: produce anything for a military. In four days, it's all gone.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the main rebel guys are continuing to say the

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Speaker 3: right things about human rights and then freedom and that

606
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Speaker 3: sort of thing. We'll keep an eye on it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows, this guy might the leader, whatever his

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Speaker 1: name is. He might turn out to be an islamis

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Speaker 1: horrifying job. But his body language and the way he

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Speaker 1: talks is definitely different than most of these people.

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Speaker 7: From the Washington Post, Ukraine races to develop its own

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Speaker 7: long range weapons to counter Russia. From the New York Times,

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Speaker 7: Biden administration looks to reinforce US China ties ahead of

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Speaker 7: Trump's return ties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the bidens the problem now.

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Speaker 1: And I hate all these New York Times stories where

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Speaker 1: they they're like the Gavin Newsom trump proofing California. Everything

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Speaker 1: he's got to come from the angle of gotta get

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Speaker 1: this done before the evil Trump comes in. Oh, shut

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Speaker 1: up with that.

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Speaker 7: From the New York Post, women are getting quote designer

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Speaker 7: nipple fillers for Perkier bosoms.

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Speaker 1: Saw that.

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Speaker 7: What is that true? Well, going brawless is becoming a thing.

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Speaker 1: I live in college town. I've become aware of that.

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Speaker 7: Kim Kardashian released a bra that had a nipple built in,

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Speaker 7: and then it just kind of took off from there.

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Speaker 1: Your meme of the Yeah, your meme of the day,

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Speaker 1: think about.

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Speaker 3: This nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 7: Don't get into a car with strangers two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 7: Don't meet people from the internet alone twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: Order yourself the stranger from the internet and get into

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Speaker 7: a car alone with them.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty funny. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And finally, the Babylon be Biden cancels aid to Syria

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Speaker 7: after finding out some needy Americans live there.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, Hey, Katie, I used bad form in

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Speaker 3: the gym yesterday and strained my shoulder, and this morning

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Speaker 3: I have to pick up my left arm to reach

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Speaker 3: for the mouse.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Boy, you gotta stay out of the gym. It's dangerous

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Speaker 3: in there.

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Speaker 1: The public service announcement.

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Speaker 3: Right, I never strained my shoulder like laying around on

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Speaker 3: a couch.

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Speaker 1: I did this. I did this the other day.

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Speaker 7: I was lifting at the gym and then I went

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Speaker 7: to change the toilet paper roll and it was lights

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Speaker 7: out for my shoulder.

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Speaker 3: And it's still not all the way.

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Speaker 1: Back to normal. That sucks. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Wow, welcome to something like middle age. You're too young

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Speaker 3: to be described as middle aged. You're no longer a

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Speaker 3: kid officially, right. Weird injuries you get reaching into the

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Speaker 3: back seat, for instance, you're not a kid anymore.

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Speaker 1: Some high school kid almost dropped a thirty five pound

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Speaker 1: Stay you never get hurt like that. If you all,

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