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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 is Joe Getty Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jettie and He Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 2: President Electron announced yesterday that he has selected former television

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Speaker 2: personality doctor oz Is the administrator for the Centers of

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Speaker 2: Medicare and Medicaid Services. Wow, another daytime television guy. It's

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Speaker 2: like his whole cabinet was selected by a kid who

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Speaker 2: was homesick with the flu.

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Speaker 1: That's good, it does have that feel to it. We've

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Speaker 1: got a late night joke off later on this hour

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Speaker 1: that'll be exciting. Yeah, So yesterday was Joe Biden's birthday

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Speaker 1: and all of the late night hosts of course had

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Speaker 1: jokes about that. And we'll compare and contrast at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. So stick around. And could it

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Speaker 1: be that an ancient civilization developed a tool, almost a

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Speaker 1: musical instrument that could make people insane? We will tell

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Speaker 1: you about the Aztec death whistle and play the sound.

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Speaker 1: And yes, while this is a transparent and jiv effort

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Speaker 1: to keep you tuned in, it's also amazing, really freaky

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Speaker 1: and amazing, So stay tuned for that. A handful of

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Speaker 1: stories worth touching on briefly, and we mentioned that the

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Speaker 1: big judges ruling against Google. The Justice Department says they

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Speaker 1: should be forced to sell the Chrome browser and they're

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Speaker 1: asking a judge to order it because they have too

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Speaker 1: much of a monopoly on search search engines, and the

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Speaker 1: Chrome browser is the most popular one on Earth, I guess.

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Speaker 1: And then they pay billions and billions of dollars for Apple,

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Speaker 1: for instance, to make Google the default on iPhones and

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Speaker 1: iPads and the rest of it. And nobody's quite sure

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Speaker 1: which way this is going to go. The Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: Justice Department and FTC is super activist, like too far

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Speaker 1: in my mind right, I'm an ignoramus on this sort

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Speaker 1: of stuff. What's a monopoly and what's not and what's

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Speaker 1: unfair whatever. But like I said before, the fact that

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Speaker 1: you really can't live your life, especially if you got

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Speaker 1: kids in school, without being part of the Google world,

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem right to me. Yes, the idea, well, you

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Speaker 1: would be really really, really difficult. Go ahead and tell

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Speaker 1: do which which is their platform for meetings whenever Google meets,

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Speaker 1: Google meets, So I can't be on that Google docs.

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Speaker 1: I don't do Google, or I don't use do Google Docs,

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Speaker 1: I don't do Google classroom. Go ahead and try that.

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Speaker 1: It ain't a very easy way to live your life, right. Ah.

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Speaker 1: Let's see advertisements next to search results accounted for fifty

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Speaker 1: seven percent of Google parent alphabets three hundred and seven

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Speaker 1: billion dollars of revenue last year. And the court case

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Speaker 1: that people are looking at as a precedent was twenty

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Speaker 1: five years ago when the US Court of Appeals vacated

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Speaker 1: at lower courts ruling blah blah blah. They said that

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Speaker 1: Microsoft had gotten huge organically. It grew it wasn't through

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Speaker 1: because it was really really good, and so you couldn't

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Speaker 1: break it up over that. On the other hand, a

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Speaker 1: could he even write click a mouse twenty five years ago? Oound,

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Speaker 1: no kidding, right, Yeah, that's a good point. Any sort

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Speaker 1: that's the dinosaur age. Yeah yeah, Oh, musk In Ramaswami

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Speaker 1: government because of the nature of the work. If you're

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Speaker 1: I have your park ranger, Jeff, what do you do? Well,

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Speaker 1: The bulk of my job is keeping an eye on

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Speaker 1: entire dynamic of quality work, of accountability, of getting your

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Speaker 1: including Jack Yes, Tick death whistle. But I was reminded

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Speaker 1: of this email that we got from uh, we'll say, alnonymous.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about how many members of the federal workforce

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Speaker 1: work from home with very little oversight, the implication being

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Speaker 1: that they have work to do but get nothing done

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Speaker 1: because they aren't being closely supervised. I worked for the

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Speaker 1: state government. I'll let you guess which state. Very large.

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Speaker 1: It has an ocean next to it. Texas. I worked

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Speaker 1: for the state government. Pardon me, must be Texas. Nailed it.

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Speaker 1: that's not the problem in my current role, I hate

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Speaker 1: I have very little actual work to do. I've had

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Speaker 1: many positions like this, not all, but many government positions

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Speaker 1: like this. I love these stories. I love these stories.

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Speaker 1: You would not believe because we've been in California, which

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Speaker 1: is another large state, for many, many years. We've heard

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Speaker 1: from state and boys for many many years. We've heard

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Speaker 1: these stories for decades. Love them all well. Back to Joe,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the show has long been based out of Sacramenta, California,

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Speaker 1: Back to Alnanymous's note here, I've told my supervisor, I

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Speaker 1: Problem is they don't have enough work to stay busy either.

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Speaker 1: are a paraiya. Nothing will sabotage your career faster than

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Speaker 1: pointing out how much time employees waste doing nothing. No

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Speaker 1: is how empires die Jack is Sangrey Not to mention

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Speaker 1: resentful tax payers. I work for a tax agency. Every

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Speaker 1: That's what government is. It's an enormous cash cow for people.

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Speaker 1: a government. This is a careful, painstaking analysis of Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris's campaign and the big super pack that was financing

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Speaker 1: I mean you could, you could work hard on massaging

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Speaker 2: Today is President Biden's eighty second birthday. Hey, you can

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Speaker 1: reporting on whether or not Russia fired off an ICBM.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to read up on how significant this is

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Speaker 1: sort of ballistic missile definitely, whether or not it was

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Speaker 1: defense policy. Don't get caught up on the range of

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Speaker 1: the missile system launched, whether it was an ICBM or

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Speaker 1: an IRBM. I don't know what that means intermediate range

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Speaker 1: ballistic missile. Probably the range isn't the important factor. The

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Speaker 1: fact that it carried in an mir V payload, is

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Speaker 1: much more significant for signaling purposes and is the reason

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Speaker 1: Russia opted for it. This payload is exclusively associated with

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Speaker 1: nuclear capable missiles. So this was a gesture of like

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Speaker 1: you said earlier, it's not like we don't know that

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Speaker 1: fire them. I guess the fact that you actually fired

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Speaker 1: got to scare the hell out of her. Whoever's job

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Speaker 1: up missiles, because we have the ability to pick up

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Speaker 1: a missile. Read that new book about nuclear war. I

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Speaker 1: don't have it memorized. I'll have to look that up.

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Speaker 1: The woman that put together all the information on the

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Speaker 1: planet about nuclear war, she goes through, second by second,

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Speaker 1: what it would be like if there were a full

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Speaker 1: on attack by Russia. From the first within two seconds

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Speaker 1: it's picked up on a satellite, then where the information

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Speaker 1: goes from there, and then who makes what decision? When

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Speaker 1: it's fascinating, and then when the missile would hit the

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Speaker 1: United States, what would be like after that? How many

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Speaker 1: people would die? How the whole thing is just frightening

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Speaker 1: as hell. But Anyway, there are people that monitor this

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and if Putin's firing off these kind

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Speaker 1: of missiles that had to have somebody's underwear in a

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Speaker 1: ward before they figure out exactly where it's going and

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Speaker 1: what it's doing. AnyWho, Ian Bremer tweeted out that China's

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Speaker 1: successfully launched an ICBM into the Pacific just a couple

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Speaker 1: we have agreements not to do that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: especially without notifying people. Anyway, I Bremer said, Russia is saying,

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Speaker 1: hold my beer. Here's in panels report on that.

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Speaker 4: Overnight multiple strikes by Russia on the eastern Ukrainian city

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Speaker 4: of Dnipro, and the situation is rather confused, a big question.

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Speaker 1: What was it?

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Speaker 4: Ukraine initially saying was an ICBM strike, and President Zelenski

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Speaker 4: just reinforcing that in the last few minutes, but they're.

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Speaker 1: Still assessing ICBMs.

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Speaker 4: Have never been used in combat before, and our nuclear

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Speaker 4: capable got this wasn't a nuclear strike, and the Western

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Speaker 4: official also saying they didn't think it was an ICBM,

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Speaker 4: but many agreeing that they haven't seen a strike like

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Speaker 4: this before.

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Speaker 1: Interesting that panel fulm ABC News. He goes on here

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Speaker 1: and then we can discuss.

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Speaker 4: But of course the attack comes in the wake of

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Speaker 4: Ukraine firing American blistic missiles and the US embassy here

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Speaker 4: closing yesterday. I mean, it fairs amount of potential Russian attack.

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Speaker 4: And we're also hearing that North Korean generals and high

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Speaker 4: ranking officers were present at the site of yesterday's strike

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Speaker 4: using British cruise missiles into Russia. I mean, frankly, it's

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Speaker 4: been a week of escalations. All of this is going

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Speaker 4: to be a huge challenge for Presidents Electroump and his

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Speaker 4: plans to try and end Russia's war here in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts before I start talking again, Ah, A couple

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Speaker 1: of things. It just it seems clear that Putin wants

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Speaker 1: to send the message yet again that any escalation and

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Speaker 1: weapons supplied or their use will be met with hard assery.

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Speaker 1: So's that's fairly typical. If it was an ICBM, that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty big deal. If it wasn't, it probably wasn't

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Speaker 1: a big deal just because they're heaving missiles at each

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Speaker 1: other like and then the whole Putin has changed their

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Speaker 1: nuclear use protocols. I read into that, and that's it's

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Speaker 1: it's not a big deal at all. He doesn't go

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Speaker 1: by protocols. It's an autocracy. He just makes decisions constantly

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Speaker 1: next without even thinking about it. Now, the Soviet Union

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Speaker 1: was very systems based, and they wanted to prevent a

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Speaker 1: nuclear war with the United States, and so they had

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Speaker 1: protocols that they actually paid attention to. But they said

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Speaker 1: with Putin, it's it's merely saber rattling. Now, whether he's

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Speaker 1: prepared to pull out a saber and stab somebody with it,

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Speaker 1: that's a different question. And I know some people think

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Speaker 1: he is, But all in all, I just think it's

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Speaker 1: more just maneuvering, political maneuvering to try to get to

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Speaker 1: the bargaining table with the best deal possible. Joe Getty

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Speaker 1: soft on nuclear war. I hope you're right. I hope

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Speaker 1: you're right. My concern is that he thinks, and he

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Speaker 1: may be correct, that he could get away with a

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Speaker 1: limited nuclear strike, and that the world would like really

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Speaker 1: get angry and say mean things and talk about sanctions

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Speaker 1: which never work, but he'd get away with it. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe they'd blame the US and NATO. Who knows. I

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Speaker 1: suspect rather strongly that in the real world, Putin would

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone, he would call Biden. It would

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Speaker 1: two hours later. You'd be told it's not a good time.

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Speaker 1: He would call back the next day, trying to catch

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Speaker 1: you pull back this, or we're going to set off

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Speaker 1: a small nuclear device into neypro That is what is

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Consider your options carefully, call me back.

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Speaker 1: And nobody knows. According to the books I've just recently read,

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Speaker 1: Secretary Blinkin himself doesn't know how Biden would react to that.

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Speaker 1: He wonders right by the way, the name of the

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Speaker 1: and outs of what that would look like and what

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Speaker 1: you like that sort of thing. No doubt what Ian

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Speaker 1: Pannell said there. It has been a week of escalations

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Speaker 1: with Ukraine using our attackers and then using the British

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Speaker 1: long range missiles yesterday, and then Russia using a bigger

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Speaker 1: rocket than they've used so far. And yeah, I hope

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Speaker 1: that it stops there, I guess, uh yeah, yeah, And

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Speaker 1: again I suspect rather strongly that it will, but we'll

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