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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.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: European officials are treating this is if it's a crisis moment,

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Speaker 3: and what's about to take place in Davos, the meetings

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Speaker 3: the President is going to have, whoever meets with him,

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Speaker 3: the meetings that they'll be having on the sidelines as

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Speaker 3: well aside from the President.

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Speaker 2: It is that kind of a moment of we need

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Speaker 2: to figure out it.

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Speaker 3: I think Mark Karney in Davos today earlier said this

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Speaker 3: isn't a transition, this is a rupture, and I think

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Speaker 3: that's how it's being viewed.

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Speaker 4: Is it full crisis mode, red alert Defcon one, the

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Speaker 4: post World War two order is falling apart?

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Speaker 5: Or is it we have a lot of meetings scheduled

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Speaker 5: on Greenland. I'm leaving tonight, as you know Davos. We

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Speaker 5: have a lot of meeting scheduled on Greenland, and I

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Speaker 5: think things are going to work out pretty well.

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Speaker 4: Try to sound less like Don Corleoni and the Godfather,

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Speaker 4: mister President, so him saying yeah, we're gonna have a

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Speaker 4: lot of meetings.

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Speaker 2: It'll work out fine.

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Speaker 4: I think that was one of Trump's first winks at

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Speaker 4: the camera or the audience, where he said, we'll get

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Speaker 4: together and talk about it.

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Speaker 2: All this has been posturing.

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Speaker 1: You think by the end of the day today, the crisis,

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Speaker 1: if it is a crisis, will be over. I mean

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Speaker 1: media outlets are reporting like European leaders are treating this

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Speaker 1: like a crisis.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they actually are or not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, oh yeah, as the news report said, they

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Speaker 4: quoted Mark Karney, who is the weak lefty leader of

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Speaker 4: Canada and who cares although the Conservative would have gotten

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Speaker 4: elected if Trump hadn't said over and over again we

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Speaker 4: were going to annex Canada. Anyway, he's saying, yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: a rupture, not a transition. I've been saying all along.

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Speaker 4: The idea of like military action is so insane for reasons.

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Speaker 4: I'll explain a minute that it just it's not going

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Speaker 4: to happen. So what is the next most likely thing

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Speaker 4: to happen, And that's a negotiated settlement?

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Speaker 2: Now shocks damage is done?

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Speaker 4: Well, lord, oh boy, who are you gonna shock the

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Speaker 4: bowlar bears? Anyway, the most likely scenario is a negotiating settlement.

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Speaker 4: But how much damage is going to be done by

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Speaker 4: Trump's bowling the China Shop act?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought this was interesting. I finally

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Speaker 2: came across sellum until the penguins bounce?

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, wait what? Tom Rogan is a super smart guy.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes I agree with him, Sometimes I think he's off

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Speaker 4: his rocker took the time to play out what would

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Speaker 4: happen if Trump gave an order to seize Greenland by force?

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Speaker 4: And he says, and feel free to you know, agree

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Speaker 4: or disagree with any of these obviously, but he said

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Speaker 4: it would likely provoke a mass resignation of the Joint

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Speaker 4: Chiefs of Staff in protest of an unjustified attack on

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Speaker 4: a close ally.

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Speaker 2: That is true.

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Speaker 1: I think I think all the Joint chiefs would resign.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd see seventy five generals resign. But Pengoin's

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Speaker 1: carefully preserved, and who can blame them? Would they be

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Speaker 1: quickly replaced by Trump agreement? People who say.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it, let's go ahead and attack and

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Speaker 4: NATO member I don't think so. The US military knows

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Speaker 4: the ultimate foundation of its powers and guns, but America's

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Speaker 4: moral credibility and shared strategic interests with allies.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I hear it rests.

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Speaker 4: Only the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs would likely

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Speaker 4: remain in office, and even then only to uphold the

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Speaker 4: sacred principle of civilian control over the military. The order

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Speaker 4: would spark immediate action from bipartisan majorities in Congress for

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Speaker 4: much the same reason, holding suggest Americans overwhelmingly oppose any attack.

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Speaker 4: Mister Trump would extinguish his political capital in a single moment.

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Speaker 4: The GOP's already fleeting midterm election prospects would evaporate, the

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Speaker 4: Age of MAGA.

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Speaker 2: Would come to an icy and abrupt end.

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Speaker 4: Congress would likely move immediately to block funding or otherwise

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Speaker 4: restrict the use of military force in short order and

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Speaker 4: for good reason, etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: You don't think we could just you know, we just

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Speaker 1: pull a boat up there to the beach, and a

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Speaker 1: and nobody's going to fire a shot.

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Speaker 2: And done and done. Well.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I think you've been watching too many

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Speaker 4: cartoons or something. That's not the way it works in

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Speaker 4: the real world. Now, it would be an absolute horror,

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Speaker 4: upending the Western Alliance and the NATO alliance, pleasing Amir Putin,

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Speaker 4: I mean more than anything since he got CRIMEA.

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Speaker 2: It just be it would be horrible, just horrible.

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Speaker 1: Well, so if we're back to the idea of that,

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Speaker 1: the way that Trump handles things is he never takes

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Speaker 1: anything off the table and he presents the maximalist approach

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Speaker 1: so that you can ease back to the spot that

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Speaker 1: he actually wanted.

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Speaker 2: As a negotiation. Yeah, seems like if you were like.

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Speaker 1: Trying to buy a car from him, he would say,

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Speaker 1: I want four million dollars for.

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Speaker 2: It, and I won't take a sent less Okay, you're not.

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Speaker 2: You don't have a four million dollar car worth about

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Speaker 2: eighty grand. So what are we doing here?

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Speaker 4: It works as I said, I think it was yesterday.

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Speaker 4: It's long bothered me that Trump, I don't think, appreciates

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Speaker 4: the historic importance of the presidency. And he's not unique

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Speaker 4: necessarily in that regard. There have been and several who

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Speaker 4: have crapped on the presidency in recent years in various ways,

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Speaker 4: but that lay waste and leave bloody lips and resentment

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Speaker 4: and bitter tears on the trail to the negotiated settlement.

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Speaker 4: That works fine if you're building New Jersey casinos, but

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Speaker 4: it's not good when you have allies who are spending

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Speaker 4: blood to support you. Adjusted for inflation, Denmark lost the

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Speaker 4: equivalent of a couple of thousand guys fighting alongside us

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Speaker 4: in a rock and Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a tie. That's not words on a treaty.

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Speaker 4: Oh, which reminds me by the way United States law

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Speaker 4: includes the NATO Charter and are signing on to it.

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Speaker 4: And also there was another one of significance. Oh well,

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Speaker 4: the UN Charter, both of which says you can't invade

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Speaker 4: another country, you can't take their land. And so that's

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Speaker 4: not international law, folks, that's United States law that Trump

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Speaker 4: would be a in violation of.

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Speaker 2: So he'd be impeached immediately.

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Speaker 1: Uh okay, Well, it's kind of a weird conversation to have.

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Speaker 1: So if we're presenting the idea that he doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: this in the first place, it's just the way he negotiates.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why everybody always goes through the this

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Speaker 1: is what would happen if he's serious. If we think

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Speaker 1: he's not serious, it's just he always goes with the

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Speaker 1: hardest ass position on everything, right, try to get off balance, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to try to put people in a position where they'll, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can have four bases and we'll pay for it, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, or whatever. As an off ramp.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, America's hat has a you know, they're

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Speaker 1: they're like the population of California. So it's like talking

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Speaker 1: to the governor of California when you're talking to the

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Speaker 1: leader of Canada.

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Speaker 2: That's worth remembering.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, if Trump's going to go around

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Speaker 1: saying these things, he can't all just pretend he's bluffing

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Speaker 1: all the time. You got to come up with some

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Speaker 1: sort of position. We got to take a break. We'll

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Speaker 1: be right back. So British journalist Piers Morgan yesterday offered

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Speaker 1: up a solution or a way to fight back against

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Speaker 1: Trump on this whole tariff Greenland thing, which we'll get

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Speaker 1: to it in a little bit because it's kind of hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But Trump is in the Switzerland. Took off this morning

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Speaker 1: in his plane. They had to turn around and come

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Speaker 1: new plane. Tiny plane, took off, got there, he gave

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Speaker 1: that the United States won't use force to take Greenland,

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Speaker 1: repeating that control of it.

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Speaker 2: Was necessary for national international security.

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Speaker 1: He said, quote, the United States would be appreciative if

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Speaker 1: the world acquiesced to our desire to take over the territory,

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Speaker 1: or you can say no.

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Speaker 2: And we will remember. Okay, all right, so it's over.

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Speaker 2: I guess okay, crisis is over. Yeah, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: So there'll be no draft.

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Speaker 4: Michael was worried about being drafted. Michael's not doing grishups

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Speaker 4: in the studio, jumping. Jack's getting ready in case he's called. Uh,

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Speaker 4: they'll be.

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Speaker 1: Drafting up to age fifty to bring men over to

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Speaker 1: fight in Greenland, great Scott.

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Speaker 4: So okay, all right, oh goodness sakes. So getting back

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Speaker 4: to the point I was making earlier, if I'm a

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Speaker 4: European leader and Trump is making noises like he's going

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Speaker 4: to attack a NATO ally, and as you were making

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Speaker 4: the point that you know, this is just his maximal list,

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Speaker 4: getting everybody on their heels, upsetting everybody, exhausting everybody, because

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Speaker 4: that's the way he likes to clear the field for

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Speaker 4: a negotiation. Even if you know that as a national

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Speaker 4: leader of it NATO country, having been threatened that your

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Speaker 2: What do you say, Why don't you do?

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Speaker 1: You just say that's the way he negotiates. It's fine

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Speaker 1: to your people because they're going crazy over there. Well, like,

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Speaker 1: so you know you and your wife are you don't

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Speaker 1: agree on where you should go for Thanksgiving this year?

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Speaker 2: Her parents or your parents? Damn?

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Speaker 1: And you have some and you start with I am

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Speaker 1: going to divorce you, and I'm going to spend every cent.

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Speaker 1: I've got to get full custody to kids if we

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Speaker 1: don't go to my parents' house for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: If you then.

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Speaker 1: Walk that back to okay, we'll do your parents this year,

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Speaker 1: my parents next year.

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Speaker 2: You can't. I'm willing to compromise and talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Can't just ignore the thing you said earlier about that's

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Speaker 1: That's what I've been saying all along, and that Trump

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Speaker 4: If he's negotiating the use of a ten acre parcel

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Speaker 4: in Jersey City who he wounds or pisses off or threatens,

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Speaker 4: you know, but it matters in alliances. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 4: quite as much as like the Barack Obamas and Joe

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Speaker 4: Biden pretended it did because they let NATO become a flabby, useless,

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Speaker 2: So there's there's probably a middle ground somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Between making yourself a martyr and never standing up for

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Speaker 4: yourself and growing to hate your wife and her family,

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Speaker 4: or screeching that I'm gonna divorce you and steal the

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Speaker 4: kids and you'll never see them again, something in between.

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Speaker 1: Ish, it looks like it's over now and his whole Okay,

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Speaker 1: but if you don't give us Greenland, we'll remember this, Okay,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'd say. If I was all right, I

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Speaker 1: remember it, then trust me, we'll remember it too. Good Lord,

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Speaker 1: I thought this ended up kind of unintentionally funny. Piers

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Speaker 1: Morgan yesterday came up with this plan. He's a journalist

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Speaker 1: from Britain. Maybe so the World Cup soccer is in

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Speaker 1: the United States this time around North America.

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Speaker 2: Maybe countries maybe.

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Speaker 1: England, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway and Italy should

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Speaker 1: all pause participation in the World Cup while the various

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Speaker 1: tariff negotiations continue. With President Trump, eight of the ten

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Speaker 1: favored teams to win withdrawing might concentrate his mind. The

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Speaker 7: Pritzker refused to answer if a man could become a woman.

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Speaker 4: an odd title because his his point is a lot

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Speaker 4: more specific and kind of nuanced than that. And then

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Speaker 4: he kicks Ezra Clent for a while, which I really appreciated.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know who he is, don't worry. He's

444
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Speaker 2: unimportant to your life.

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Speaker 4: He's a progressive who tries to masquerade as a moderate.

446
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 4: But when when he writes when topics like trans immigration,

447
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 4: so on, actually come up. Ezra, like a lot of folks,

448
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 4: still thinks that most Americans are quote fundamentally and morally wrong,

449
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 4: which means is pivot toward what he portrays his reasonablenesses

450
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 4: bull ass. No wonder he never apologized. He isn't sorry.

451
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 4: In his mind is as closed as ever. The same

452
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Speaker 4: dynamic plays out everywhere. Progressives claim to have moderated on crime,

453
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Speaker 4: on education, on speech. They adjust their language just enough

454
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Speaker 4: to avoid total campaign disasters and pr implosions, but they

455
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Speaker 4: never question the core conviction that animates everything they do.

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 4: Here's their core conviction. We are the moral vanguard, and

458
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Speaker 4: opposition to our program stems from bigotry, ignorance, or malice.

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Speaker 4: I think that shoe fits pretty well. You picture any topic,

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Speaker 4: any scenario where you're standing up to progressives where they

461
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Speaker 4: don't portray you as a bigot, an ignoramus, or just

462
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Speaker 4: cruel mean, And he says, until progressives actually abandoned this worldview,

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Speaker 4: until I apologize for their excesses, reform their institutions, and

464
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Speaker 4: build relationships with the moderate majority, the reactionary tide will

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Speaker 4: continue rising, the far right will keep winning, and progressives

466
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Speaker 4: will have no one to blame but themselves. The time

467
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Speaker 4: for reckoning is now before it's too late. You know,

468
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Speaker 4: I think he's right. I heard a great thinker. I

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Speaker 4: can't remember his name, Look it up and share it

470
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Speaker 4: with you, because I think he's super smart.

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Speaker 2: But he was talking about how.

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Speaker 4: Our politics, like on the surface that we can all

473
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Speaker 4: see and hear and raise money on and all, are

474
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Speaker 4: so different from how most Americans actually see the world,

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Speaker 4: which is overwhelmingly fairly moderate and pragmatic. Americans are an

476
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Speaker 4: incredibly pragmatic people, and most of our politics is super

477
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Speaker 4: idealized on one side or the other, and it's weird.

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Speaker 4: And he and this quinn q I'm quoting now both

479
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Speaker 4: believe that if somebody, you know, an honest, moderate lefty

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Speaker 4: were to say, look, you want to present as a woman,

481
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Speaker 4: that's fine. Nobody gets to hurt you, nobody gets to

482
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Speaker 4: fire you, or whatever.

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Speaker 2: We can talk about all that stuff. That's fine. But

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Speaker 2: you can't be dominating women's sports.

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Speaker 4: That's just wrong that most Americans would say, hallelujah, who

486
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Speaker 4: is this guy?

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Speaker 2: I'm voting for him? You know that guy is rom Emmanuel.

488
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Speaker 2: Who that guy is? He's sure as hell trying to

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Speaker 2: be yep.

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Speaker 1: So Southwest has been teasing their big change to the

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Speaker 1: seeding policy.

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Speaker 2: For a one a while.

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Speaker 1: It's happening next week, so he can bring you up

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Speaker 1: to speed on that. Right after we tell you about

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Speaker 1: prize Picks. It's a good time to get in on

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Speaker 1: the action. There's all kinds of football happening. Also in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a basketball season. Does the Olympics play

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Speaker 1: come into play any of this?

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Speaker 2: I don't even know. I have no idea. The Large Game,

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Speaker 2: the largest.

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Speaker 4: Game, the game that is superb to me, is coming up.

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Speaker 4: And there's no better way to cash in during America's

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Speaker 4: biggest sporting event than Prize Picks, where always feels good

504
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Speaker 4: to be right. And since the big Game is right

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Speaker 4: around the corner, that also means you shot your last

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Speaker 4: chance to get into football action before next season, so

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Speaker 4: close the season out right.

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Speaker 2: With prize Picks.

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Speaker 4: You get fifty dollars instantly to play in lineups for fun.

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Speaker 4: When you play just a five dollars lineup, that's right,

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Speaker 4: you play five, they give you fifty.

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Speaker 2: All every year.

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Speaker 1: I find it amusing that the most watched TV show

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Speaker 1: in the world you can't by law mention.

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Speaker 2: It's just hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, with prize picks you can get involved. You know,

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Speaker 1: I might put my money where my mouth is on

518
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Speaker 1: that whole quarterback for the Patriots, on this whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Download the Price Picks app today. Yep, use the coat Armstrong.

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Speaker 4: You get fifty dollars lineups after you play first top

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Speaker 4: five to five dollars lineup Prize picks.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be right. So what's the theory on

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Speaker 1: protecting that word? They think that super Bowl you can't

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Speaker 1: use it for commercial purposes, just like you couldn't use

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Speaker 1: Armstrong you getty for commercial purposes without our permission.

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Speaker 2: Right, But when.

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Speaker 1: Something gets that big, does it really does it help

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Speaker 1: you or hurt you?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Like for I don't know, I would love it if

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Speaker 1: people mentioned our name and every commercial for free, go

532
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Speaker 1: ahead mention my name. I see your point as often

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Speaker 1: as you can.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think it's yeah because if they permitted it, well,

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Speaker 4: there are two problems. Number One, if they permitted it,

536
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Speaker 4: it would go crazy, absolutely crazy. You'd have every single

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Speaker 4: brand in America claiming to be the official super Bowl

538
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Speaker 4: this or that or getting in on the action. Second,

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00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 4: copyright law, and this is a conversation we've had a

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Speaker 4: few times, but it's worth repeating for people so they

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Speaker 4: understand why McDonald's shuts down McDonald's hot Dogs and Burgers

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Speaker 4: in New Mexico, run by some guy named Angus McDonald,

543
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Speaker 4: poor pastard.

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Speaker 2: He's just trying to make an honest living.

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Speaker 4: It's because in copyright law, in similar law, patent law,

546
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Speaker 4: you need to consistently defend the copyright for courts to say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's their copyright, and they care about it and they

548
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Speaker 4: defend it. That's too bad because and you slack, you

549
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 4: don't get to change your mind and enforce it. Angus

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Speaker 4: boils up a good dog. Oh oh super, he'll do

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Speaker 4: your Chicago dog. You'll do you a cheese dog, a

552
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Speaker 4: chili dog. Terrific. And he has burgers. But he can't

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Speaker 4: call his food cart McDonald's.

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Speaker 2: He just can't. Nope, Sorry, Angus. So this tease has

555
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: been coming for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it, but it's coming next weekend

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Speaker 1: the twenty seventh. Flights departing Honor after the twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: will now have seat assignments for Southwest.

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Speaker 2: The end of the whole.

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Speaker 1: Get in line and get your seat early. And you

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Speaker 1: get a good seat thing, which I.

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Speaker 2: Think most people liked. Is there anybody that didn't like that?

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Speaker 2: I hated it. You didn't like it? No, I'll come.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was stupid because it introduced Yeah, just

565
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Speaker 4: a level of trouble and stress and everything else and

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Speaker 4: just no.

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Speaker 2: Just tell me what seat to go time. It is interesting.

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Speaker 1: I've never found it troubling or stressful, and I, you know,

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Speaker 1: always had a great seat easily, so I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Just you didn't like having to check in on time

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Speaker 1: to get the.

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Speaker 4: Good, the good, the good seat, Well, yeah then you would,

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Speaker 4: and then you'd be B forty three anyway, because there

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Speaker 4: were a bunch of people with their privileged status or whatever,

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Speaker 4: and then the whole people faking that they were crippled

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Speaker 4: to get on the flight, and Jesus cured them in

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Speaker 4: mid flight and they danced off the plane and just

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Speaker 4: and people in the wrong spot in line, and just

579
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Speaker 4: having this so pleased.

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Speaker 2: That the resting. No, it's stupid.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that that's your experience, because my experience has

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Speaker 1: been the exact opposite.

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Speaker 2: It is better than all the other headlines.

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Speaker 1: I always had a better seat, and I found it

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Speaker 1: incredibly why they're changing it.

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Speaker 2: But most people must not have liked it because they

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Speaker 2: are changing it. Ye huh. I know.

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Speaker 1: I've just seen Tim Sander for our friend, complaining about

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Speaker 1: the change too, because he liked it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, to each their own. I think that's a beautiful

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Speaker 4: example of how we can all get along.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I'm stupid, completely stupid, well, and I'm

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Speaker 4: just a little overwhelmed with all the stuff I've had.

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Speaker 4: I left out the best part of that column that

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Speaker 4: I quoted, the best part the blockbuster, the payoff, the

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Speaker 4: guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven. I left it off. Well,

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Speaker 4: here's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: We got a few more minutes left this hour and

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Speaker 1: a bunch of other hours to talk, so stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Every news publication that has a headline has the headline

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Speaker 1: Trump backs off military threat to take Greenland. The fact

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Speaker 1: that that was on the table is amazing. But it's

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Speaker 1: off the table now Trump has said no. We can

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Speaker 1: bring you the highlights on that coming up in our three. Also,

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Speaker 1: that was on the table in the same way that

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Speaker 1: like of dishous sheep eyeballs on the table would be

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Speaker 1: on the table nobody's gonna eat them.

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Speaker 2: Oh so cross.

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Speaker 4: We had that once when we were in Africa. I know,

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Speaker 4: well it was put before us. I didn't need any.

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Speaker 2: I didn't need any either. It was looking at me.

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Speaker 1: Scott Besson has taken on Gavin Newsom in hilarious fashion

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Speaker 1: over at Davos and we've got that for you an

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Speaker 1: hour three. And also Lebron James stayed one year too long,

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Speaker 1: clearly with the lakersof Now the owner's going after him.

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Speaker 2: But so more on that coming up.

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Speaker 4: So I was quoting a piece by Quinn Q in

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Speaker 4: which he was suggesting that progressives really need to apologize

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Speaker 4: in the backtrack, because even when they seem to moderate,

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Speaker 4: they still have that attitude we are the moral vanguard

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Speaker 4: in opposition or program stems from bigotry, ignorance, or malice.

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Speaker 4: And he cites a couple of center lefty types like

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Speaker 4: Sam Harris Andrew Sullivan, who understand what most progressive critics miss.

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00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 4: The problem isn't just that progressives get specific policies wrong.

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Speaker 4: It's that they've constructed an entire worldview in which very

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Speaker 4: basic things most humans take for granted are deemed fundamentally

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Speaker 4: and morally wrong. For instance, that foreigners are not citizens

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Speaker 4: and citizens' interests come first. That children are not adults

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Speaker 4: capable of consenting to irreversible medical procedures. These are bedrock

633
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 4: indisputable facts. But he's quite right that progressives deny them.

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Speaker 4: That rapid demographic transfermation of neighborhoods affects quality of life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of your favorites. That's because they live in

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Speaker 1: neighborhoods where it's not being affected.

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Speaker 2: Ah, they protected and unprotected class.

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Speaker 4: Back to that, Yeah, borders serve legitimate functions. How about

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00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 4: that merit matters. Yeah, they systematically deny that. I run

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Speaker 4: into that one a lot in what sense. It's clear

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Speaker 4: from the way people talk they don't think marriage matters.

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Speaker 2: It just oh it's merit.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, Yeah, although marriage too, but I run

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Speaker 4: into merit too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That parents have primary authority over their children's education and upbringing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is indisputable. And that the wrongness of racism and.

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Speaker 4: Sexism leaves no space for social justice carve outs. Racism

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00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 4: against Asians or Europeans and Jews is still racism, Sexism

650
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 4: against men is still sexism.

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Speaker 2: And so forth.

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Speaker 1: And these are not fringe positions held by trumpy weirdos

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Speaker 1: their baseline assumptions held by the overwhelming majorities across every

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Speaker 1: Western liberal democracy and progressives have spent fifteen years treating

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Speaker 1: people who hold these views as moral monsters. Well, I

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Speaker 1: wish we could have a presidential debate where all those

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Speaker 1: topics were put before the candidates, where they come down

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Speaker 1: on this. Does a foreigner have the same rights as

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Speaker 1: a citizen?

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Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Are children capable of consenting to irreversible medical procedures or

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Speaker 4: they think child's judgment and life experience or anything?

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Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Does it affect a person's neighborhood if the demographics change

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Speaker 4: quickly and completely?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Well, then why do you object to gentrification for instance?

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Speaker 2: Would be my follow up?

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Speaker 1: Ah well, oh, well, that's the privilege, a white privilege,

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Speaker 1: the patriarchy, something something critical theory. So if it goes

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Speaker 1: the other direction, good, If it gets more expensive and nicer, bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny.

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Speaker 4: They've spent fifteen years lecturing us that our bedrock beliefs

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Speaker 4: are sick and wrong.

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Speaker 2: They're not sick, They're not wrong.

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Speaker 1: Michael's so happy he's not going to be drafted into

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Speaker 1: the war against Greenland it's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty