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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, Katty Armstrong and Jetty.

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Speaker 2: And he.

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Speaker 3: Arms Day.

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Speaker 2: The brom Studio. C says, or a dimly lit room

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Speaker 2: where deep with them the fowls of the Armstrong and

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Speaker 2: Getty Communications Compound.

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Speaker 4: One week from today his election.

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Speaker 2: Day, and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

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Speaker 2: Not Halloween scares, electoral scars, boo tatism, boo well, and

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Speaker 2: day two of the Puerto Rico joke. So he pulled

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours out of the act. Harry. Anyway, We'll

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Speaker 2: see see if that matters to anybody I get. I

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Speaker 2: tell you what. The reviews on the economy are abysmal,

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Speaker 2: the borders wide open, crime is rampant, there are drug

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Speaker 2: addicts in the streets. But I just will not have

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Speaker 2: rude jokes about Puerto Ricans. Well, I'm casting my vote

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Speaker 2: in favor of Kamala Harris. I don't know. If I'm

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Speaker 2: from I consider Kansas my home. If they called Kansas

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Speaker 2: think that I'd say, I'd think, f you wow. So

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Speaker 2: Michael canceled that that big bit I'd prepared, all right,

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Speaker 2: Oh damn it. So it was an hediotic joke, as

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Speaker 2: stupid as terrible terry. He made a couple of stupid jokes.

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Speaker 2: He's an insult comic. He's a roast comic. He said,

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Speaker 2: if you've ever seen his act, it is very, very edgy.

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Speaker 2: I saw more of it yesterday, and so that's his thing.

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Speaker 2: It's just an odd choice to put at a rally

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Speaker 2: one week out from a president until election when you're ahead.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why he did that. I'd say odd

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Speaker 2: is a terrible the charitable description of what kind of

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Speaker 2: choice that was. The Republican chair of Puerto Rico said, so,

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Speaker 2: do you get to vote in Puerto Rico and doesn't count?

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows. That's the that's the Nate Bargatzi is George

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows. I'm making that shoke for decades. He stole

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Speaker 2: it from me anyway, cause somebody googled that, Katie. But

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Speaker 2: so the Republican chair from Puerto Rico, he's the chair

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Speaker 2: of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico said he's not

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Speaker 2: voting unless he gets a specific apology from Trump himself

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Speaker 2: about that, saying, no, well, I don't feel that way,

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Speaker 2: and that wasn't okay, So I don't know if that

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Speaker 2: means anything or not. I don't know what for Puerto

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Speaker 2: Rico votes and it counts. Must know toore Kens do

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Speaker 2: vote in several fairly important swing states. Well, right, but

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Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico doesn't matter. Do you know, Katie, somebody

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Speaker 2: is I think they vote for they've got a non

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Speaker 2: voting I can't. I don't remember anybody ever saying Puerto

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Speaker 2: Rico has got two electoral votes in the must not

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Speaker 2: count Guam, they've got a non voting representative or something. Okay,

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Speaker 2: congratulations for that, all right? I don't they get our

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Speaker 5: Yes, Katie, So, residents of Puerto Rico are not permitted

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Speaker 5: to vote in presidential elections. However, they can participate in

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Speaker 5: the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.

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Speaker 2: Oh so they choose the candidate, but they don't get

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Speaker 2: to vote in the presidential election. Wow, that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Sure, I like nobody knows better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, nobody knows that's fine. I had another point.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember what it was, Oh day two of this,

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Speaker 2: mean it's stepping on a rake. Just you didn't need

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no there's no upside. So Kamala's doing

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Speaker 2: her big rally on the Ellipse in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Which is a very area where Trump had his rally

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Speaker 2: on January sixth, and I assume she's going to make

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Speaker 2: all sorts of comments about that. That's the whole point.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting that that's the closing argument. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: decided one week from election. What did I hear Jake

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Speaker 2: especially this year given the record early voting in quite

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Speaker 2: So now we're at about a third a week out

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Speaker 2: Kamala is going to make her big January sixth. He's

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Speaker 2: quote unquote from all sorts of different political sides saying

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Speaker 2: that the Trump is evil closing argument is far far weaker.

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Speaker 2: All Right. It polls a weaker and it focused groups

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Speaker 2: much weaker than an affirmative description of why Kamala would

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Speaker 2: most interesting thing I've come across in the last twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours is Jeff Bezos's op ed in his own

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Speaker 2: basically comes out and says, look, nobody trusts us in

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Speaker 2: the media anymore, and we got to change the way

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Speaker 2: we do things or we're going to become completely irrelevant

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Speaker 2: if we haven't already. I so want to talk about that,

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Speaker 2: the frantic, squealing, self righteous statements of the various journalist

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Speaker 2: not endorsing anyone, and that how that's just such a

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Speaker 2: I really want to hear Bezos' reply, Jeff Well, his

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Speaker 2: bigger argument he's making is, you know, not over just

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Speaker 2: this little flaps, just look, we're becoming irrelevant. The it

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Speaker 2: was the Washington Post, wasn't it where they hired the

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Speaker 2: new people and they had the guy come in and say, look,

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Speaker 2: nobody reads your stuff, and everybody got all upset. He said, look,

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Speaker 2: you can be as mad as you want, but nobody

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Speaker 2: reads your stuff. And that's Bezos's argument about how much

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Speaker 2: everything is shifted to podcasting and everything like that because

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Speaker 2: to be completely irrelevant. And he's right, and it's and

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Speaker 2: I mean it's deteriorated a lot already. He's a businessman

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Speaker 2: you know, be worried about what the woke newsroom thinks

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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to find my favorite quote from a

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Speaker 2: are indignantly posting online said of Jeff Bezos, if you

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Speaker 2: They lost seventy million plus dollars last year, seventy some

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Speaker 6: If you don't have the buzz to run a newspaper,

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Speaker 6: get rid of it. Yeah, oh my lord, you're a

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Speaker 2: Right again. That's where the growing up, step in and

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Speaker 2: say nobody reads your stuff, your child all right, So

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you want to sit in a

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Speaker 2: but doesn't really make much sense if you feel like

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Speaker 2: to have an effect on people. Bezos's lead is and

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Speaker 2: the money thing. It's the we're now believe we're now

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Speaker 2: but we all are freaks. Well, yeah, Bezos, this is

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Speaker 2: a good piece. I can't wait to read it if

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Speaker 2: you haven't seen it already. He says, Reality is an

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Speaker 2: undefeated champion. I cannot wait. We've got to devote plenty

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Speaker 2: it's true and Reality is an undefeated champion, and people

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Speaker 2: aren't reading our stuff. Let's start to show. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday, October twenty ninth,

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Speaker 2: according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark,

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Speaker 3: Because it's about all of us. It's about all of

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Speaker 2: haven't downloaded it yet, but it's not getting very good reviews,

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Speaker 2: easy for me to do. That's the thing. Like, really,

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Speaker 2: series for now. On responding to Kamala Harris's advocating for equity,

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Speaker 2: in the same place, said Bishop Robert Baron quote. A

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Speaker 2: Editorial writer Robert Green. I'm deeply disappointed with the decision

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Speaker 2: one Post Opinion employee tells me. Another perhaps the same

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Speaker 2: very long. Well, and to Jeff Bezos brilliantly and simply

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Speaker 2: The Washington Post, when it started endorsing presidential can it

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six to the current day, has endorsed

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Speaker 2: executive director of the Post, this is cowardice, a moment

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Speaker 2: they would be fine with no viewers and no money

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Speaker 2: nobody offered a different opinion on the newspaper, which they

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Speaker 2: consider good yeah, and this might be my favorite quote.

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Speaker 2: This is once again Martin barn former executive editor of

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Speaker 2: The Post History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness

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Speaker 2: at an institution famed for courage. Wow, that is always

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Speaker 2: You are dying, Martin, dying is an institution. So the

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Speaker 2: all progressive news and ignore real things if they go

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Speaker 2: against your narrative. That's the courageous thing to do. That's

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Speaker 2: hard to imagine how that works. Yes, yes, wow, interesting.

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Speaker 2: Well I hope this is a turnaround. You know again,

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Speaker 2: of progressive America. You have lost us, said to Darcy,

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Speaker 2: who I quoted earlier. Whoever, that is on one side

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Speaker 2: is an Adolph Hitler praising autocratic wannabee who is vowed

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Speaker 2: to seek retribution against his perceived enemies should he find

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Speaker 2: himself back in the Oval office. On the other side

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Speaker 2: is a relatively run of the mill democratic politician who

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Speaker 2: respects the rule of law, an American democratic order. That's

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Speaker 2: a uh, laying out of the two candidates. Uh. You

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Speaker 2: don't get to call the balls and strikes anymore, Dear

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Speaker 2: sign Jeff Bezos, because you suck at it. You're terrible

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Speaker 2: at it. Our business is dying, and nobody trusts you.

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Speaker 2: They like Congress better than you. People like gonorrhea better

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Speaker 2: than they like Congress. And they like Congress more than you.

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Speaker 2: Get out. That was a good way to open his piece.

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Speaker 2: We're respected less than Congress. That's a pretty good way

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Speaker 2: to drive home your point. Oh so again, make the

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Speaker 2: case again why you should still be in charge. Please,

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Speaker 2: I'm listening now, Open mind, open heart. Here Katie Green's headlines. Next,

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Speaker 2: My stomach is making Chris Christy noises today for some reason.

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Speaker 2: You is right. We played that clip from when he

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Speaker 2: was on the never mind? What what's the hottest candy

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Speaker 2: you'll get egged. Stay tuned for that. The Wall Street

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Speaker 2: Journal laid it out. All right, all right, all right,

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Speaker 2: I'll show you what. I'll show you the candy I'm

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Speaker 2: handing out this. What does that say? The Constitution of

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Speaker 2: a few minutes. I'll say that though.

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Speaker 3: Wait, what a fun house you are to go share

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Speaker 2: I actually like that idea. I would do candy, and

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Speaker 2: if I have my little pocket constitution too, I would

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Speaker 2: like to hand out candy and pocket constitutions. That's all, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: says you lady. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what.

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Speaker 2: It's the lead story with Katie Green.

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Speaker 5: Trump team fears damaged from racist rally remarks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get to the trend, which is

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Speaker 2: fully established now, of calling anything the least bit ethnically

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Speaker 5: ABC hundreds of ballots damaged after ballot box set on fire.

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Speaker 3: In Washington State.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's happened a couple places. That's not good. No,

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Speaker 2: it's not. And it's centered in the conservative suburbs of

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Speaker 2: You could have this happen like twice in one of

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Speaker 3: From The Washington.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand that. Well.

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Speaker 5: The Washington Post is basically saying that now that Elon

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Speaker 3: Were usually it's the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, no, tech giant with its finger on the scales.

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Speaker 2: This is unacceptable.

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Speaker 5: From The Guardian, Tim Walls an AOC play football game

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Speaker 2: How'd that go? That's the idea is that people have

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Speaker 5: NBC McDonald's to resume selling its popular quarter pounder this week,

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Speaker 2: skip the onions. I'm an onion man, Like we're Pappy

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Speaker 2: my god, that's the topic. I would be in a hospital.

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Speaker 5: Dwayne Wade defends his new heat statue and brushes off criticism.

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Speaker 2: I saw the statue. What's what's the criticism? It looks

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