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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 Getty, Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: They've been after this guy for years and years and years,

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Speaker 2: and you know, he's a violent guy. He gets up

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Speaker 2: there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but he's a violent guy and he's killed millions of people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned I was listening to a podcast yesterday

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Speaker 3: with some expert from some think tank and these were

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Speaker 3: definitely not Trump friendly people. But the guy from the

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Speaker 3: think tank said, look, we've indicted the guy, we had

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Speaker 3: a whatever, fifty million dollar bounty on his head, all

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Speaker 3: these different things, but nobody ever acted to follow through

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Speaker 3: on any of this stuff, and it needed to happen

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Speaker 3: at some point as they continued to do more and

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Speaker 3: more business with our number one enemies Iran, Russia, and

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Speaker 3: China right right, And interestingly, it was in an article

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Speaker 3: I was reading about Democrats who were pissed off that

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Speaker 3: their party is just knee jerk condemning it after they'd

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Speaker 3: been calling for the ouster Maduro for years and years.

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Speaker 1: But one of the folks said.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's saying there could be unintended consequences. There are

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Speaker 3: unintended consequences to leaving.

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Speaker 1: The guy in office.

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Speaker 3: Come on, we can't be against every action, which I

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Speaker 3: thought was a very good and reasonable thing to say. Michael,

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Speaker 3: do we have the theme music? I was looking for

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Speaker 3: a ready as Hanson advised you on that, don't play it,

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Speaker 3: just let me know. No, oh Jack, it's all turned

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Speaker 3: into a huaigo di tronos.

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Speaker 1: And that's all we.

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Speaker 3: Can lose to use because of weird copyright laws. It's

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Speaker 3: turned into a Game of Thrones. That's in Spanish, juego

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Speaker 3: di tronos.

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Speaker 1: That's what that music was. Yes, that's the theme for

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Speaker 1: the game. I never watched.

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Speaker 3: Got I'm going to watch the first episode I've ever

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Speaker 3: seen tonight, episode one, season one, Oh good. Decided to

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Speaker 3: watch that so I enjoy the hell out of it,

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Speaker 3: the whole thing. Yeah, anyway, and the idea of the

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Speaker 3: Game of Thrones is, you know, you want to be

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Speaker 3: the king. There's a lot of people that want to

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Speaker 3: take you down all the time, a lot of intrigue,

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Speaker 3: a lot of this and that, and you know, whether

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Speaker 3: it's Shakespeare, Game of Thrones are the history of every

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Speaker 3: country on Earth.

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Speaker 1: It's a common thing.

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Speaker 3: A lot of power, a lot of big players, a

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Speaker 3: lot of small players, and sometimes the small players can

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Speaker 3: have an incredibly big effect, have an incredibly big effect

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Speaker 3: on the outcome. So just to throw out a little

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Speaker 3: game of Thrones the description for you, and we got

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Speaker 3: a bunch of players here, President Trump. Now this is

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Speaker 3: the king. Okay, this is the big power. Your Game

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Speaker 3: of Thrones fans, you can fill in the names if

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Speaker 3: you like. He announced, Hey, we're running Venezuela and be

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Speaker 3: the Venezuelan interim authorities.

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Speaker 1: How interim, that remains to be seen.

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Speaker 3: We'll give the US between thirty and fifty million barrels

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Speaker 3: of sanctioned oil, with the proceeds overseen by the White House,

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Speaker 3: to quote benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States,

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Speaker 3: said Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump. That's a heck of an and yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Venezuela's Ministry of Information didn't respond to requests for comments.

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Speaker 1: Asked Trump, what we're supposed to say.

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Speaker 4: Anyway?

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Speaker 1: And US, sure everybody wins.

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Speaker 3: After the US captures strong Man Nicholas Muduro, trumpet House,

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Speaker 3: the US, we take control of Venezuela's oil reserves and

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Speaker 3: bring American oil companies into the country to rebuild the

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Speaker 3: oil industry in infrastructure, said Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 3: What we want to do is fix up the oil,

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Speaker 3: fix up the country, bring the country back, and then

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Speaker 3: have elections. Whoa say, the dedicated klepto narco communists running

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Speaker 3: the country and being gone. Nothing we can do about that.

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Speaker 3: But what's this about elections? They will not go down,

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Speaker 3: not swinging moving along the Wall Street Journal editorial board

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Speaker 3: or I'm sorry, it's an individual writer. Thor Halverson says,

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Speaker 3: Tell Delsi Rodriguez, you're fired, and he goes into the

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Speaker 3: very game of thronesy. Vice president of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez,

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Speaker 3: who is an iron fisted car Tell friendly communist torturer.

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Speaker 3: She designed and ran the torture programs for Venezuela. She's

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Speaker 3: our new buddy that's gonna lead the reform. Wait what Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And she said very unfriendly things the day we took Maduro,

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Speaker 3: her head. She's got to be doing a lot of

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Speaker 3: calculating every single day. Yeah, if i'm too friendly with Trump,

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Speaker 3: upset the whole apple cart of making money off of drugs. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm seeing one commonality between those two outcomes, and it's

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Speaker 3: the old b in the h Here are a few

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Speaker 3: sentences worthy of consideration to understand miss Rodriguez in her

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Speaker 3: situation which Jack is so poetically described to US reporting

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Speaker 3: to create indicate that Trump administration has struck a deal

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Speaker 3: with Rodriguez, mister Medora's iron fisted vice president, positioning her

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Speaker 3: as a transitional leader. She has, it seems, convinced US

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Speaker 3: officials she can dismantle the Maduro dictatorship, which would have

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Speaker 3: to include demobilizing the armed militias, these quasi governmental goon

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Speaker 1: How the hell is she gonna do that?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's just a job number one. There's more disbanding

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Speaker 3: the dreaded secret police, and if you have time after dinner,

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Speaker 3: ending the regime's drug empire.

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Speaker 1: But this is a fantasy.

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Speaker 3: Miss Rodriguez will fail spectacularly, leading to the final unraveling.

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Speaker 1: One more little bit of info.

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Speaker 3: Venezuela is not like Mexico, where the state coexists uneasily

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Speaker 3: with the cartels who are over here.

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Speaker 1: Here, the cartel is the state.

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Speaker 3: Factions like enriched generals, intelligent chiefs and narco traffickers won't

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Speaker 3: surrender power in some Washington broker deal. Miss Rodriguez herself

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Speaker 3: faces insurmountable obstacles, including her utter lack of legitimacy. Never

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Speaker 3: usurper who appointed her, and hatred for miss Rodriguez among

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Speaker 3: Venezuelans is visceral. She tortured my dad to death style hatred.

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Speaker 3: She's got to be working a deal with somebody. Excuse me,

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Speaker 3: it's the superfluw God.

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Speaker 1: I hope not. She's got to be working a deal

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Speaker 1: to leave the country.

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Speaker 3: Is she She's got to get out of there?

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Speaker 1: Of course. I don't know why weave not.

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Speaker 3: She's got bigger Hawaii vos than most men on earth.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why we'd give her a deal. Screw

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Speaker 3: you that, so you know you made your bed, sleep

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Speaker 3: That's that sucks for you. And I don't know why

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Speaker 3: be thinking, who can I Where can I steal a

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Speaker 1: Right right?

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Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, I can't imagine how she doesn't end

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Speaker 1: At the end of the month.

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Speaker 3: If I were her advisor, I would say, here's our strategy.

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Speaker 3: We feign full cooperation with Trump, but give him as

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Speaker 3: much cooperation as it takes to last out the next

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Speaker 3: three years, because three years is a blip, and we

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Speaker 3: just survive for three years. Then we go back to

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Speaker 3: running the thing the way we've always run it. If

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Speaker 3: jd Vance gets elected, well then we got to rethink

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Speaker 3: it again. But if some Democrat gets selected, then we

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Speaker 3: go back to running the place. She's got to be

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Speaker 3: in contact with those heavyweights in the cartels, though on

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Speaker 3: hundred percent. Now, I mean they're they're they're sitting next

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Speaker 3: to her in her office. Yeah, and keep telling him

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Speaker 3: don't want to end this. What's a good juego titronos

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Speaker 3: without a super villain, and that is probably Dio's Dado Cabello.

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Speaker 1: Play the theme, Play the theme.

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Speaker 3: Cabell I said, in a forbidding voice. That's right, that's

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Speaker 3: all we can play because of Carpie.

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Speaker 1: Right lows. Here's a picture of the dude.

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Speaker 3: He's got a big wooden bat with notches on it

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Speaker 3: that he's evidently going to bash somebody's head in.

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Speaker 1: Uh he uh.

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Speaker 3: He has an hour's long weekly show on state television

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Speaker 3: called Bringing Down the Hammer to make sure everybody's good

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Speaker 3: and terrorized he is, Is that like my two dads

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Speaker 3: or something like that? Is at a sitcoms? Not like

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Speaker 3: that at all? No, no, uh. Cabello is the belligerent

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Speaker 3: and eccentric, de facto leader of Venezuela's security forces and

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Speaker 3: He's long positioned himself as the regime's fiercest defender, commanding

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Speaker 3: gonna say off the air, you made a very apt comparison. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he seems like the pregosion of Venezuela. That that guy

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Speaker 1: But that kind of a guy.

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Speaker 3: But there was a Washington Post headline yesterday Fear grips Caracas.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't and I was looking for is a Washington

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Speaker 1: Is this actually happening? Well, it is, it is.

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Speaker 3: He the very night of the snatching, Cabayo is toting

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Speaker 3: they patrolled Caracas to prevent citizens from protesting in favor

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Speaker 3: he bellowed, before telling the armed group now off to

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Speaker 1: But that's how they went for us.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have evil gangs riding motorcycles through

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Speaker 3: the streets beating protesters down. But we don't want that

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Speaker 3: place to turn into chaos either. We don't want people

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Speaker 3: blah blah, which happens. What a beautiful transition, Jack to

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Speaker 3: the next chapter of the Juego de Tronos. Give me

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Speaker 3: one second of the theme, Michael Keba, there it is.

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Speaker 3: So there's no Juego de tronos without a beloved princess

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Speaker 3: who you hope can win. Right?

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Speaker 1: That would be Maria I can never remember middle name.

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Speaker 3: Machado, who is the freely elected leader of the opposition.

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Speaker 3: She's actually the most powerful politician in Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Why not let her rule well?

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Speaker 3: As Trump said, and he said it poorly, he said

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Speaker 3: it badly. I hate the way he said it, but

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Speaker 3: I see his point. She doesn't control the apparatus of

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Speaker 3: power in the country, the cartel, the cartel, learnment does

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Speaker 3: the Govtel's keep working on it. The cabal of thieves

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Speaker 3: runs the government, the security forces, the army, the.

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Speaker 1: Police, and to boot them out.

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Speaker 3: To debathify Venezuela to compare it with the Rock would

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Speaker 3: bring on absolute chaos and then a real.

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Speaker 1: Game of thronesy battle for supremacy.

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Speaker 3: Well you could hear her perk up when she threw

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Speaker 3: He would borrow money from friends and family and not

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Speaker 3: But not only does their philosophy I guess my point

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Speaker 3: is this, not only does their philosophy not work in

437
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Speaker 3: that you run out of other people's money, they don't

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Speaker 3: even live.

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Speaker 1: Like decent people at all. Like they're the worst of.

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Speaker 3: Humanity when it comes to dealing with the relationship with

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Speaker 3: money and stuff. And the thing that galls me the most,

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Speaker 3: maybe aside from the denial of liberty among these people,

443
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Speaker 3: is they have appointed themselves as so wise and benevolent

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Speaker 3: and good that they will decide who gets what, who

445
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Speaker 3: lives where I will be in charge of that. Imagine

446
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Speaker 3: the egotism of thinking.

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Speaker 1: You should decide that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's astonishing. It ought to be greeted with

449
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Speaker 3: an immediate go to hell please. Karl Marx was exactly

450
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Speaker 3: like James Joyce just fifty years earlier, without constantly borrowing

451
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Speaker 3: money from people.

452
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Speaker 1: And wanted to have nice clothes and eat out.

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Speaker 3: But he didn't support himself, so he was always in

454
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Speaker 3: debt and bringing down other people around him. And this

455
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Speaker 3: is just anecdotal, but but in my life, the people

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Speaker 3: that were the most conservative that I've known, as far

457
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Speaker 3: away from socialism as you can get, tend to drive

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Speaker 3: older cars, vacation, reasonably, live in medium sized homes, that

459
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Speaker 3: sort of thing. It's the socialist crowd that wants to

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Speaker 3: go out to nice restaurants and travel to fancy places

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Speaker 3: and blah blah blah. Your own philosophy doesn't make sense mathematically,

462
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Speaker 3: and then your.

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Speaker 1: Lifestyle what the hell? So?

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Speaker 3: Dedicated capitalist Joe Getty, for instance, married his wife in

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Speaker 3: our local church and then we drove to the Poconos

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Speaker 3: for our honeymoon. Zorin Mumdani, dedicated communist had a three

467
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Speaker 3: day wedding festival on another continent with his IVY League professor, filmmaker,

468
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Speaker 3: father and mother.

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Speaker 1: The rest of it.

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Speaker 3: He's got money to burn. He came from enormous wealth

471
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Speaker 3: and god the how do people fall for this ass?

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Speaker 3: And the woman who says home ownership shouldn't exist has

473
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 3: a one point six million dollar home right right now?

474
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Speaker 3: How's this for a howler? Unless you had more on

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Speaker 3: that particular topic. Do you remember we featured Washington State

476
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Speaker 3: Representative Sean Scott a few months ago. He was the

477
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Speaker 3: guy who was advocating taxing the big tech corporations like

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Speaker 3: Amazon right out of Seattle because they're they're snapping up

479
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Speaker 3: all the rental housing and causing the you know, the

480
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Speaker 3: the housing market to be too tight and blah blah blah,

481
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Speaker 3: and and you know, several of us thought, yeah, that'd

482
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Speaker 3: be great.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, yank the tech out of Seattle.

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Speaker 3: See how you're doing, then, chum, you know, go ahead,

485
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Speaker 3: you finance all of your socialist dreams anyway. So that's

486
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Speaker 3: the same who was interviewed the other day by Brandy Cruz.

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Speaker 3: This is Washington Representative Sean Scott being asked the obvious

488
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Speaker 3: question socialism never ever works. Let's start with ninety Michael.

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Speaker 7: I want you to give me one example, uh huh

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Speaker 7: of socialism you think working well somewhere.

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Speaker 8: A good example of socialism working well somewhere. It's this

492
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Speaker 8: is a really really cool question. I think of Cuban particular,

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Speaker 8: very very high literacy rate, number one, number two, extremely

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Speaker 8: strong commitment to public health. So that's one example that

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Speaker 8: I can think of that would resonate with pretty much

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Speaker 8: anybody in our state who cares about education or healthcare.

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Speaker 1: Would you disagree with that? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Jack, would you like to knock that softball? Four hundred

499
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Speaker 3: and fifty feet over the fence. Wow, that is absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 3: How old is this guy. He looks to be late twenties,

501
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Speaker 3: early thirties. That's sort of the prime age for radical

502
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Speaker 3: leftists who's gotten a little power.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Dig more into Cuba and what the reality of his

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Speaker 3: reality is of a living in Cuba.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he's living a fantasy. I mean huh. He reminds

507
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Speaker 1: me of Christopher Hitchins, who is absolutely loved.

508
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Speaker 3: Didn't agree with all his policy certainly, but he was

509
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Speaker 3: a big time socialist when he is young. And he

510
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: went to Cuba and lived there and was gonna work

511
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Speaker 3: on a coffee farm or something like that, right show,

512
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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. And he was there for a while

513
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Speaker 3: and realized, Okay, I'm not allowed to go where I want,

514
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Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to say what I want to say,

515
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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and got out of

516
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Speaker 3: their fast and.

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Speaker 1: The standard of living is miserable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but because they've got some government furnished healthcare and

519
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Speaker 3: allegedly education that's not true, by the way, the yeah

520
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 3: literacy figures they always throw around, it's.

521
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Speaker 1: An absolute lie.

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00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're all driving cars from nineteen sixty six

523
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 3: because nobody can afford anything else and they have no industry,

524
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Speaker 3: and it's undy.

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Speaker 1: Here's all you need to know about these countries.

526
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Speaker 3: Really, people risk their lives, them and their children to

527
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Speaker 3: get on and go through the ocean to get out

528
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Speaker 3: of there. That really is all you need to know.

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Speaker 3: But wait, there's more. He goes on people flee.

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Speaker 7: On makeshift rafts and die in the ocean to flee

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Speaker 7: Cuba for the United States.

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Speaker 8: I guess it, yeah, And I think that that is

533
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Speaker 8: something that absolutely we have to be sensitive to. But

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Speaker 8: you asked me about institutions that are working really really well.

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Speaker 7: About places socialism is working, and you chose a country

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Speaker 7: that people will risk their lives to flee from this

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Speaker 7: to this country. There's a reason for that, Sean.

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Speaker 1: There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct.

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Speaker 7: They still do it to this day. They show up

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Speaker 7: on the beaches at Miami because they would rather be

541
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Speaker 7: here and would risk their lives in shark infested water

542
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Speaker 7: to flee the country that you just gave me an example.

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Speaker 3: Of Washington Representative Sean Scott, you're an fing idiot, and

544
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: anybody who elected this guy, you're an e fing idiot.

545
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: For electing an e fing idiot? Are you hitting me?

546
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 3: How stupid? Can our politics become what's the next electing dogs?

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Speaker 1: I think that's the next step. Let's give them one one.

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Speaker 3: Surely, Jack, surely this guy has one coherent idea and

549
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Speaker 3: or defense of socialism.

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Speaker 8: And if this, if the situation were reversed, the injuries

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Speaker 8: and the ailments that they sustain as a result of

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Speaker 8: migrating to a place where they believe that they're going

553
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Speaker 8: to be better off, I believe that they can be

554
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Speaker 8: treated in a much better way than American health care

555
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 8: facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one

556
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Speaker 8: example that I can think of of socialism working very

557
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Speaker 8: well in public health and in education.

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Speaker 1: All right, can you made that whole thing? Hanson?

559
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 3: Let us get that whole thing, and hooray for Brandy Cruz.

560
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine how miserable you'd have to be to

561
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Speaker 3: try to craft a raft and go out and a

562
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Speaker 3: raft and go out in the ocean with the decent

563
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Speaker 3: chance children dying or being killed by your own government

564
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Speaker 3: if they catch you trying to leave.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine how desperate you'd have to be? Right?

566
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Speaker 1: And then if you did not track with that last clip.

567
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Speaker 1: His argument was that.

568
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Speaker 3: Well, having fled Cuba in desperation and come to the

569
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Speaker 3: United States, if they like got injured on the journey,

570
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: they'd have gotten better healthcare in Cuba.

571
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Speaker 1: That was his argument.

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Speaker 3: Did I mention Representative Sean Scott of Washington State, You're

573
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Speaker 3: an efing idiot. You should never if somebody asks you

574
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Speaker 3: what we should have for dinner, don't offer an opinion.

575
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: You're too stupid to have one. Good Lord, if your

576
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 3: wife had I don't know if he has a wife asks.

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Speaker 1: You, do he turn left or right? Here? Just remain mute.

578
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Speaker 1: You're too fing stupid.

579
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Speaker 3: To offer an opinion on that, Good Lord.

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Speaker 1: This guy's in government in.

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Speaker 3: Washington, check yourself. I guess the one thing I've learned

582
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Speaker 3: in the last couple of months from mayor of New

583
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Speaker 3: York or the mayor there in Washington or whatever this

584
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 3: guy is. You have to constantly fight the socialism thing

585
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: and make the arguments.

586
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: I thought they were tired.

587
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 3: And like it was boring to people, but apparently you

588
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: have to keep doing it. Yeah, as you know, one

589
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: of my jihads, now perhaps my number one jahad that

590
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 3: you know come to in the last ten fifteen years

591
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 3: is that you have to keep making the arguments for liberty.

592
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 3: We got very very lazy and kind of well, just

593
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 3: lazy and cocky as Americans that everybody understands how great

594
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 3: liberty is. Our kids will just absorb it around them.

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Speaker 3: Nobody will teach them otherwise, so we don't have to

596
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 3: make a concerted effort to teach them. Well, the Marxists

597
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 3: have moved into our schools. They are teaching them otherwise,

598
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 3: and we're losing the battle. Wow, that is something else.

599
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: Another big NFL coach got fired on what do they

600
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Speaker 3: call that Black Monday or black Yeah, black day or

601
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 3: something like that, very dark day, dark day, among other

602
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 3: things we have to talk about.

603
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Speaker 1: Stay here.

604
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 9: McDonald's is facing a lossuit that accuses them of falsely

605
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 9: claiming against mcgrib sandwich contains real pork rib meat when

606
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Speaker 9: it's actually made of restructured shoulder, heart and scalded stomach.

607
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, but people don't.

608
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 9: Get as excited when you say the MC's stomach is back.

609
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: Oh, heart and scalded stomach. You that's what the McRib is. Well,

610
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: it's reconstituted.

611
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: Wow, we did like big butts and I cannot lie

612
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 3: Judy and I got a big old smoked pork butt

613
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 3: the other day.

614
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: Oh that is so good. That's the best part of

615
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: the pig. Nice butt, porky.

616
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 3: So the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is going

617
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Speaker 3: on right now.

618
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Speaker 1: You attended several years ago. How many years ago was that, Michael?

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Speaker 1: Oh jeez, about four years ago, five years ago? I

620
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Speaker 1: guess yeah, uh huh? What's it?

621
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Speaker 7: Is?

622
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 5: It?

623
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: Crazy crap? It's crazy crowded. You can barely walk.

624
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Speaker 3: I would like to go someday, just walk around check

625
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 3: stuff out, just more from a the way companies, you know,

626
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 3: trot out their new stuff standpoint, Then it's.

627
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Speaker 4: Interesting because there's really cool stuff and then there's absolute crap.

628
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 4: And there's these Chinese companies that come in and you

629
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 4: can't even pronounce the names and they barely speak English

630
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Speaker 4: and they're just selling.

631
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: Junk, you know. So it's a weird dynamic.

632
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Speaker 4: You know, you got your mate like Sony, and then

633
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: you got these brands you've never heard of.

634
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all, that's fine, but it is intriguing.

635
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 3: That's kind of interesting because we mostly buy junk. So

636
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 3: maybe from a walking around there looking for what's cool standpoint,

637
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 3: it seems like, why are you here with your crap?

638
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 3: People buy crap all the time, this crap that doesn't work,

639
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 3: so maybe that's why they're there.

640
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Speaker 1: Anyway.

641
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Speaker 3: The Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, and uh,

642
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 3: I don't know what journalists wrote this, but the highlights

643
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 3: from day one. The biggest buzzword in the air at

644
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Speaker 3: the sea is physical AI. That's in Nvidia's term for

645
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 3: AI models that are trained in a virtual environment using

646
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Speaker 3: computer generated synthetic synthetic data.

647
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Speaker 1: I have no idea what that means.

648
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: I like when they use terms like that that they

649
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 3: should know nobody has any idea what that means, but

650
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Speaker 3: they just move.

651
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Speaker 1: On as if that's a common generated is synthetic data.

652
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 3: Synthetic data then deployed as physical machines once they've mastered

653
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Speaker 3: their purpose.

654
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Speaker 1: So I yes, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't give any examples, though I assume it would be

656
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Speaker 3: like rumbas, fancy roombas.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually, if you want next hour, I've got a

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Speaker 3: great article on the technologies that will probably change our

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Speaker 3: lives this year, which include robots. I mean, it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be your early adapters, who who grab them and have

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Speaker 3: them in their homes. But yeah, people just maybe it's

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Speaker 3: all the damn science fiction, but people want humanoid looking

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Speaker 3: computer machines. Certainly a lot of companies think we do.

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Speaker 3: I wonder how in how many years it'll be when

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Speaker 3: we all have some sort of human looking robot in

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Speaker 3: our house that does a lot of our tasks. Is

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Speaker 3: that going to be in ten years or sooner?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe because a common thing.

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Speaker 3: And if it's the dishwasher, why not also have it

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Speaker 3: be a sex spot that's always with the sex spot.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I'm trying to see the future.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty