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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.

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Speaker 2: Yo, live from Studio C Sor. It's a dimly lit

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Speaker 2: room deep with the numb bowels of the Armstrong and

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Speaker 2: Getty communications. Calm down and today Friday headed into the

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Speaker 2: weekend under the tutelage of our general manager. This one

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Speaker 2: will annoy you, but I'm really proud of it. The flagpole,

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Speaker 2: the flagpole. Why is the flag in? Every day or

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Speaker 2: so they run something up it to see if it

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Speaker 2: sticks against Trump, total dictator. He's a Hitler fan. And

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Speaker 2: then like twenty four hours later where he's like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: you remember that whole Hitler thing Tuesday seems nutty. You

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Speaker 2: you mix your metaphors. I believe you don't run a

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Speaker 2: flag up to see if it sticks. You throw things

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Speaker 2: things up the flagpole to see if anybody salutes, and

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Speaker 2: all of them. Okay, that's an excellent point, and I apologize.

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Speaker 2: It's the dizzy times we live in. It's let me disoriented.

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Speaker 2: Here's my favorite quote of yesterday from the Great Polster

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Speaker 2: Nate Silver. Basically, everyone loses twenty five IQ points in

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Speaker 2: the final two weeks of an election campaign. That's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: That's really good, he said. It's like showing up to

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Speaker 2: good too. I was, that's so funny. Cramming through all

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Speaker 2: the stuff we crams through before the show, I was

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Speaker 2: struck by the increased, increasingly frantic and idiotic nature of

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Speaker 2: everybody's lost twenty five points off their IQ. It's a

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Speaker 2: good metaphor. Yeah. The New York Times Siena polls out today.

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Speaker 2: They only got a couple of lefts. Most expensive poll

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Speaker 2: in the field public Pole. Anyway, they have it exactly

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Speaker 2: forty eight to forty eight with eleven days left, exactly, which,

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Speaker 2: if you go by past elections, means Kamalo's behind by

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Speaker 2: three really in terms of trying to win, but who knows.

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Speaker 2: They're making the argument that this time around, maybe she

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Speaker 2: loses the popular vote but wins the electoral college and

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Speaker 2: to keep their readers from jumping off balconies with that

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Speaker 2: against the wall to see you salutes. In my opinion,

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Speaker 2: right exactly, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.

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Speaker 2: gets those sayings wrong all the time. We'll burn that

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Speaker 2: kind of a Yogi bar as a character. Huh, exactly

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Speaker 2: what was I gonna say? I don't know. I was

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Speaker 2: talking about the election, something about So I got my

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Speaker 2: with one message, and all these messages aren't walking. And

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Speaker 2: it was the idea said two weeks ago they got

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Speaker 2: that she got dementia. Now he's an evil genius fascist,

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Speaker 2: Which is it? And and he said, if I was

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Speaker 2: willing to take a nuanced argument, I could explain how

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Speaker 2: Flayly to go heavy dementia and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you can't really take over the country if you're so

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Speaker 2: too complex an argument, which is chilling. Right, that's a

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Speaker 2: good way to pick your leaders on arguments that have

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Speaker 2: town because the Ironman Triathlon is going on this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Are you commeeting in that? Michael? Tell me about it.

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Speaker 2: I was planning to, but I just must have forgot

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Speaker 2: bothering me, right, I gotta get tried on my singlet

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Speaker 2: suppose you've got no time for the iron, So I

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Speaker 2: That's crazy exactly, that's just insane. Well, and then I

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good lord. We work with somebody who does

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Speaker 2: you'd have to be. Uh. I can't sit on a

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Speaker 2: for that long. How do you get used to that

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Speaker 2: hard tiny bicycle jammed up your wedge? Do you have

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Speaker 2: well hois graphic? Do you have biking shorts? Sir? Have

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Speaker 2: you invested in a pair of biking shorts? I am

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Speaker 2: never ever going to be wearing biking shorts. No, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I'm not gonna wear biking

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Speaker 2: shorts is ridiculous. I don't think you know what you're

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Speaker 2: talking about, sir. I know they got padding in them,

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Speaker 2: but I don't. I don't run a bike like that,

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Speaker 2: so I don't need that. I'm never gonna wear the bike.

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Speaker 2: So what do you wear the ride the beach cruiser

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Speaker 2: like you're a six year old woman or something. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I have a one speed bike. We're a one speed family.

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Speaker 2: Those are that's the fun bike. Okay, But I wear

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Speaker 2: a Saturday morning. Oh, you don't need to wear that.

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Speaker 2: I have them. They look like they're shorts. All begun

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Speaker 2: to listen to you with your prejudices. You're ridiculous. They're comfortable,

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Speaker 2: they look great, they got pockets for everything. I have

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Speaker 2: for jerk. Ok all, I'm not wearing bike shorts, just

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Speaker 2: All, right, enough, we had any The jury is actually

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Speaker 2: picking a brocks to throw. I think I've made my case, yes, Katie.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm just thinking of some form of a bet

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Speaker 3: that is set up for you to lose. Needs to

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Speaker 2: Well that's the point. I think he hears bike shorts

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Speaker 2: and has a very limited view of what that is.

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Speaker 5: Nowhere that either the people of America, thank you, remember

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Speaker 2: I would like to seek out the people behind that

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Speaker 6: I'm not putting notes clothes. Oh god, that was funny.

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Speaker 6: We just start show officially, it's Friday. We have so

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Speaker 6: many professional things. That's exactly right. That's what the whole

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Speaker 2: The entire crowd. That was awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's

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Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this It is Friday, October twenty fifth

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Speaker 2: of the year twenty twenty four. Life will Not Be

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Speaker 2: Born twenty four where Armstrong and getting We all approve

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Speaker 2: has been flipped on who's the joyful candidate? Oh? Please

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Speaker 2: not even he is going out with the He's Hitler.

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Speaker 2: What another memoir from Hillary? But anyway, what she said

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Speaker 2: the whole fascist Hitler thing. How does mailbag look? It's

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Speaker 2: it's decent enough. We have clips of the week first though,

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Speaker 2: we have a great continuing series of freedom loving quotes

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Speaker 2: the Day plus mail bag. First, though, it's time to

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Speaker 2: the week that was. It's cow Clips of the Week,

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Speaker 2: So here it goes.

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Speaker 2: spend whatever they want. They got money flown in from

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Speaker 2: the oil sheeks. They always win. They're in the Premier League.

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Speaker 2: The lesser teams are always relegated down to the Trump

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Speaker 2: League that Ted Lasso spent most of his time in.

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Speaker 2: The greatest thing for American sports is that they have

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Speaker 2: leveled the playing field and so every team has a

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Speaker 2: reasonable chance to compete every year. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: I just thought, yeah, it was interesting, and you know,

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Speaker 2: is it some sort of Joe Gideon endorses socialism. No,

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Speaker 2: not at all, not at all. But in the context

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Speaker 2: of sports, where the entire question is am I watching

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Speaker 2: an exciting game? Yeah, it makes perfect sense. I thought

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Speaker 2: it was pretty good analysis. Here's an interesting thing conversation

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Speaker 2: I got into with my son yesterday. It really made

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Speaker 2: me think and I wanted to bring it to the air.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember how we got started on this, but

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Speaker 2: I talked about rooting for the underdog. I wish I

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Speaker 2: could remember the origin of our conversation, but I talked

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Speaker 2: about rooting for the underdog, and I said, it's kind

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Speaker 2: of a common thing to do. People like to root

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Speaker 2: for the underdog. And he said that doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I don't know. I just I just

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Speaker 2: just what we do, like my dad taught, like when

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Speaker 2: I was a kid, if we turned on a game,

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Speaker 2: I'd say, well, who do you root for? If you

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Speaker 2: don't know who I usually root for, who's behind? Root

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Speaker 2: for the underdog. And my son, who's a very interesting person,

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Speaker 2: said that doesn't make any sense just from a like

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Speaker 2: an evolutionary standpoint, and I and I was thinking about

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Speaker 2: it for a while, and I've always been interested in

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Speaker 2: this comment from Osama bin Laden, this quote where he said,

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Speaker 2: and he was talking about geopolitics and all that sort

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Speaker 2: of stuff, and he said, when when two people see

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Speaker 2: horses fighting, they root for the strong horse. And I thought,

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Speaker 2: that is not what we usually do. And I wonder

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Speaker 2: if the normal evolutionary thing is to root if two

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Speaker 2: people are in a fight, you root for the strong one.

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Speaker 2: And we've kind of like overcome that or lost that

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Speaker 2: out of either I can't tell of its softness or goodness,

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Speaker 2: but I just thought it was interesting. I remember the

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Speaker 2: first time I heard that Osama bin Laden quote, I thought,

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Speaker 2: that's not what I would do. If I saw two

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Speaker 2: horses fighting, I wouldn't be rooting for the strong horse

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Speaker 2: to beat down the weaker horse. But that's the way

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Speaker 2: he's on and I wonder if that's the way most

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Speaker 2: of the world, or most of the humans through history

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Speaker 2: have seen things. I came up with this phrase years

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Speaker 2: and years and years ago, and if I were a

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Speaker 2: different guy, I would have devoted my life to developing

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Speaker 2: the theory, but as working on my short game on golf. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: the idea that you get you have to take care

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Speaker 2: of necessity before you can get to nicety. You have

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Speaker 2: to get through the quest for security before you can

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Speaker 2: indulge the more gentle parts of the human spirit. And

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Speaker 2: I think in Osama Bin Lauden's part of the world,

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Speaker 2: you are still in the competition is everything. Of course

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Speaker 2: he was an extremely with wealthy Saudi air. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: but in that part of the world, you've got your

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Speaker 2: competition phase of development as human beings. Then you get

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Speaker 2: to your altruism phase, where you can afford to be

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Speaker 2: kind to the less fortunate. There are many many tales

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Speaker 2: of you know, for instance, people fetishize, romanticize the Native

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Speaker 2: American peoples and the way they lived, and then the

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Speaker 2: way they lived was frequently brutal. If you couldn't pull

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Speaker 2: your weight, you were left to starve to death. If

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Speaker 2: you were lazy or indigent or a coward, you were

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Speaker 2: either killed or left to die. You were sent out

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Speaker 2: to die into the wilderness. And it was only after

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Speaker 2: a certain amount of security and wealth has accumulated that

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Speaker 2: you can take care of the handicapped, in the blind

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Speaker 2: and the developmentally disabled or whatever, which I think is

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Speaker 2: a wonderful thing. But yeah, during the hard scrabble years,

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Speaker 2: not so much, which would be ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 2: nine percent of human history. So we have softened out

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Speaker 2: of our culture, the normal tendency to root for the stronger,

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Speaker 2: do you think? And yeah, and I think so. And

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Speaker 2: while I like that, and in all kinds of different ways,

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Speaker 2: I wonder I fact culture gets overtaken by cultures that

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Speaker 2: continue to do it, do the old way. Now we

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Speaker 2: root for the strong, well, right now we're too like

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Speaker 2: the core of the armstrong and getting message for our

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Speaker 2: beloved republic, which is that if you get too far

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Speaker 2: down the road to that obsessed with the niceties, just

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Speaker 2: a self obsessed critical theory, you know, microaggressions, just all

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Speaker 2: that crap. You get way too far into the navel gazing,

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Speaker 2: you will be taken like ripe fruit by those who

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Speaker 2: are young and hungry and brutal, no matter how big

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Speaker 2: and strong your empire seems to be. Take a look

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Speaker 2: at history, friends, and so you know that's that's been

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Speaker 2: our message. If we've had a consistent message through the years,

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Speaker 2: is you can't get too soft and self indulgent, or

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Speaker 2: it's over. I was just thinking about that in terms

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Speaker 2: of rooting for the scrappy underdogs and maybe the more successful. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: human impulses to root for the giant Strong has been

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Speaker 2: built to be the best whatever team, corporation, person, fang, whatever. Counterargument.

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Speaker 2: If you see somebody who's clearly in the underdog position

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Speaker 2: and they triumph, you've you've identified a real winner. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought it was a very interesting,

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Speaker 2: uh that it didn't automatically make sense to my son

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Speaker 2: because he hasn't been you know, inculcated yet. It has

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Speaker 2: light up the idea of rooting for the underdog. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: really interesting question. If you have any thoughts, mail bag

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Speaker 2: at Armstrong e getty dot com. We we'll touch on those.

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Speaker 2: I actually have one more quick note on baseball specifically,

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Speaker 2: since twenty eleven, the winner of the World Series has

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Speaker 2: ranked between seventh and eighth in the majors in payroll

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Speaker 2: on average. Oh interesting, top eight ten of the past

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Speaker 2: fourteen champs, including the Yankees or Dodgers. This season, either

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Speaker 2: one will have had payroll in the top ten. Only

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Speaker 2: one the twenty seventeen Houston Astros who cheated, as I recall, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you ain't cheating. He eight trying. I loved that team.

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Speaker 2: I know they cheated, but that was a fun team.

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Speaker 2: Only one those Astros ranked in the bottom half. Oh well,

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Speaker 2: it's accurate to say that the Yankees and Dodgers don't

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Speaker 2: win the Series every year A team that bears at

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Speaker 2: least a passing resemblance to them almost always. And if

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Speaker 2: you're in the bottom half of salaries, you've got really

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Speaker 2: no shot. That's something you would never tell your fans.

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Speaker 2: If you're in the bottom half, start banging on trash cans. Right,

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Speaker 2: if you're familiar with the reference, We've got Katie's headlines

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Speaker 2: on the way. World Series Game one is tonight in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Now it seems like my microphone is crazy

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Speaker 2: loud was it was off and now it's Michael if

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Speaker 2: you lost your mind, there's something gone wrong. Button sabotage, sabotage.

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Speaker 2: We've been sabotaged. Okay, I hate to hear that. Well,

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Speaker 2: let's forge you ahead. Then it's let's figure out who's

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

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Speaker 3: Katie starting with the New York Times. Harris and Trump

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Speaker 3: deadlocked to the end, according to final Times in Sienna

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Speaker 3: national polls.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually forty eight to forty eight, which is horrible

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Speaker 2: news of your Democrat.

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Speaker 3: By the way, CNN, Israel strikes Gaza and Lebanon. A

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Speaker 3: ceasefire talks are expected this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Speaking a listener to NPR every day, there's going to

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Speaker 2: be a ceasefire as soon as the Dodgers and Yankees

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Speaker 2: announce the ceasefire. Ye please, Yeah, Yeah, it's funny. I

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Speaker 2: didn't even catch that because I'm so used to hearing

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Speaker 2: it in in this meaningless term, right, the ceasefire. I

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Speaker 2: heard somebody say yesterday. Currently neither party has an interest. Yeah. See,

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Speaker 2: that's the problem with the whole Ceaspire thing. You got

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Speaker 2: to have both parties very interested. When neither party has

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Speaker 2: any interest. What are we talking about here? It's like

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Speaker 2: that man and woman. They currently no plans to get married.

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Speaker 2: They haven't met, they haven't talked to each other. That

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Speaker 2: what they do know of each other, they hate each other. No,

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Speaker 2: we will discuss wedding plans further this weekend. Right, it's weird,

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Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, every time I listen to

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Speaker 2: NPR on this story, it's Israel bomb to school or

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Speaker 2: Israel bomb to hospital. How have you not caught on

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Speaker 2: to they call everything a hospital or a school? Do

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Speaker 2: you really think every building in Gaza is a school

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Speaker 2: or hospital? Or Southern Lebanon.

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Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, LA District attorney requests resentencing for

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Speaker 3: Menendez brothers, opening a path to release.

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Speaker 2: Marxist prostitute makes announcement he thinks will somehow help him period.

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Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk's Secret conversations with

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Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin.

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Speaker 2: So I haven't read that story of you, I have, indeed, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well you have to tell us about that later. I

587
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Speaker 2: know how it's being portrayed in the central left media,

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of, oh, of course, kind of hilarious.

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Speaker 2: Back to Russia. Russia, Russia. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: From NBC, Kim Jong owned to send putin twelve thousand soldiers.

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Speaker 3: South Korea says that US they'll be fair game.

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Speaker 2: Say that again, you glitched out. I didn't hear what

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Speaker 2: you said or glitched out of my head. But you're

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Speaker 2: a Michael sabotage probably.

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Speaker 3: Dang Michael sending twelve thousand soldiers. US says they'll be

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Speaker 3: fair game for killing. Yes, Oky, no to take out

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Speaker 3: to lunch?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well played, Katie. Idiots?

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Speaker 3: But USA today Nevada forfeits women's volleyball game against San

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Speaker 3: Jose State.

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Speaker 2: Really another forfeit? Yeah, oh that's right. I became aware

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Speaker 2: one of some friends of the Armstrong and Getty show

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Speaker 2: in sports and the government have written a powerful letter

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Speaker 2: about that topic. We'll get to that later on the show.

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Speaker 2: Just forcing women to compete against men get their heads knocked.

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Speaker 3: In From International Business Times radio stations replacing journalists with

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Speaker 3: AI presenters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? Lose my job? Apparently? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Go on, Katie, open a taco truck. Huh.

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Speaker 3: Our meme of the day is? It says at the top,

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Speaker 3: So I ordered an take two? So I ordered an

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Speaker 3: Arnold Palmer, and it's a picture of an Arnold Palmer

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Speaker 3: with a giant egg plant in it.

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Speaker 2: Oh unfortunate how the lemonade iced tea comes with the

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Speaker 2: big egg plant in it. Let's move on, please class

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Speaker 2: it up.

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Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon be worst allegation yet. Woman claims

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Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three, Trump touched her inappropriately with classified

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Speaker 3: documents while praising Hitler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's another one of those out in Epstein's

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Speaker 2: sort of claim about Trump doing something bad with the woman.

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Speaker 2: I suppose we could get into that or not not

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Speaker 2: dignify it anyway. Much more on the way, stay here,

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty