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Speaker 1: Guys broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the

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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and he Armstrong

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Speaker 2: and Getty.

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Speaker 3: Department of Transportation hitting Jet Blue this week with a

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Speaker 3: two million dollar fine.

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Speaker 2: DOT investigation found.

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Speaker 3: Jet Blue operated four chronically delayed flights on the East Coast,

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Speaker 3: arriving more than thirty minutes late more than half the

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Speaker 3: time for at least five straight months.

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Speaker 2: Wow. The fine, in.

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Speaker 3: Part, will go towards compensating Jeff Blue passengers already impacted

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Speaker 3: and those who see flight cancelations and lengthy delays in

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Speaker 3: the year to come. But Jet Blue says half of

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Speaker 3: the blame lies with the US government urging the incoming

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Speaker 3: administration to prioritize modernizing outdated ATC technology and a dressing

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Speaker 3: chronic air traffic controllers staffing shortages.

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Speaker 1: So the weather has been crazy the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I was in the midst of it in the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: and you can't blame the airlines when the weather is

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Speaker 1: that bad. I mean, there's no structure of travel that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't get disrupted heavily when you have historic snow, wind, cold,

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing, but in general, the airlines punish

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Speaker 1: us a lot with the I was amazed. I flew

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Speaker 1: a couple of different airlines and just the paying for

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Speaker 1: every single little thing. Now, so you book your ticket,

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Speaker 1: Oh that's just for a seat where like Cary, if

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Speaker 1: you have to, you're gonna have to sit with your

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Speaker 1: head bent like this. If you want your head to

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Speaker 1: be straight up and have room to have your head

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Speaker 1: straight up, you gotta pay an extra thirty nine dollars.

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Speaker 1: If you want your feet, you have to remove your

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Speaker 1: feet if you're in this seat, if you want to

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Speaker 1: actually have your feet, and then it's another fifty nine. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you want to have a bag. You're gonna travel with luggage.

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Speaker 1: Of course I'm traveling with luggage. I'm gonna travel across

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Speaker 1: the country with nothing. Well, if you're gonna have luggage,

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Speaker 1: then it's another this much money.

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Speaker 4: It's just wow. Yes, it's like the going to a steakhouse.

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Speaker 4: Everything's all a car. Wait a minute's sixty three bucks.

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Speaker 4: It's just for the slab of meat.

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Speaker 2: Right right.

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Speaker 1: And then I got I got screwed by a rental

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Speaker 1: car company. Also when I showed up to get my

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Speaker 1: vehicle and they said we don't. We don't have one

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Speaker 1: of those right now. What do you mean I was

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Speaker 1: about to set off on a cross country trip. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean you don't have it. I'm showed to

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Speaker 1: my email confirmation number. I'm supposed to show up at

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Speaker 1: this time. What does the word confirmation mean to you?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't. That means that we should have the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: We understand you reserve the vehicle, but we don't have

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Speaker 1: the vehicle when it's busy like this, we don't always

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Speaker 1: have the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: I said, what do you mean when it's busy like this?

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Speaker 1: Nothing in this email says that if you're busy, you

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Speaker 1: won't have my car.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't say that anywhere. I was really unhappy with that.

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Speaker 4: So it's a system that says, you know, we usually

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Speaker 4: have those cars. So yeah, let's promise this guy one.

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Speaker 4: It's like a specific car that they're going to have

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Speaker 4: for you.

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Speaker 2: No, can we put you in something else?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: I don't want something else. Traveling across the country, I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of space. Well, we don't have that.

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Speaker 1: But again, what does confirmation mean? Tell me what confirmation

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Speaker 1: is here? I'll look it up in the dictionary for you.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, So I got into this discussion with my

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Speaker 1: family members about where I run into problems with my

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Speaker 1: whole libertarianism free market stuff. And I'm always will be

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Speaker 1: a free market guy as opposed to you know, state

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Speaker 1: run whatever. But it just seems like some industries. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if the barrier of entry is too difficult

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Speaker 1: airlines and rental car companies or what, but it seems

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Speaker 1: like a race to the bottom. Oh and a couple

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Speaker 1: of different was calling around see if I could get

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Speaker 1: a vehicle. The website, the attempting to talk to a

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Speaker 1: human being is just so horrible, and it's getting worse,

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Speaker 1: and there doesn't seem to be the normal market pressures

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Speaker 4: Up with you. This reminds me somewhat of your rants

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Speaker 4: about cheap Chinese crap flooding the country. I think a

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Speaker 4: more for quality. A lot of people are just price

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Speaker 1: So if a company treated you better, which probably would

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Speaker 1: cost a little more. You think the majority of people

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Speaker 1: would not choose that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they would go for the low ticket.

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Speaker 4: Well that's disappointing then yeah, I just yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 2: I just think it is.

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Speaker 4: And getting back to the Jet Blue story, number one,

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Speaker 4: our air traffic control system is in dire need of

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Speaker 4: an upgrade, but it has no lobbyists to bribe politicians,

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Speaker 4: so it's not gonna happen. But the idea of finding

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Speaker 4: Jet Blue heavily for not being able to be on time.

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Speaker 4: They're already hemorrhging cares. They're constantly trying to merge with

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Speaker 4: somebody because they're going out of business. Finding them, they're like, okay, great,

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Speaker 4: we'll fire three or four more pilots, pay your fine.

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Speaker 2: Great, that'll make us on time on it.

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Speaker 4: It has a very The beatings will continue till the

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Speaker 4: morale improves field to it.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I've never.

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Speaker 4: Flown Jet Blue because I'm not low ticket guy. Right,

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Speaker 4: I want a shoulder massage. I want a valure seatide

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Speaker 4: prefers ilk, but the lure will do.

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Speaker 1: My brother, who's a fairly large guy, flew Spirit and

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Speaker 1: he said he couldn't feel his feet by the time

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Speaker 1: he lefted because he had his legs all twisted up

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Speaker 1: and pushed together.

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Speaker 2: And if you can't.

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Speaker 4: What he doesn't realize is the full name of Spirit

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Speaker 4: Airlines is in parentheses, is we'll crush your Spirit Airlines.

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Speaker 1: It looks like the Prime Minister of Canada is resigning

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Speaker 1: and a weasel if he says anything interesting, good looking

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Speaker 2: If he says anything interesting, we'll bring that to you.

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Speaker 1: What's the short version of why he's resigning? People hate him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, yeah, people hate him. He's a woke idiot

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Speaker 4: who's ruined Canada.

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Speaker 2: You ruined Canada? Are you happy?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 2: Get LGDP gt lbch LGBTQ two plush There he is there, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the real Northern George Washington there.

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Speaker 4: Huh. How about that leadership about weasel? Oh geez, all right,

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Speaker 4: speaking of weasels in bad leadership, Joe Biden is soon

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Speaker 4: to be the former president. I appreciated this clip forty

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Speaker 4: two Michael Todd Piro Joe Biden.

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Speaker 5: He has spent five hundred and seventy days on vacation

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Speaker 5: the last four years. Get out your calculator, America. That

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Speaker 5: is forty percent of his presidency. That means four out

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Speaker 5: of every ten days. For those of you who aren't

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Speaker 5: good at math, Joe Biden has spent on a beach

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Speaker 5: or otherwise at some form of not working.

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Speaker 1: Well, we all know why. I mean, he was incapable

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Speaker 1: of doing the job and his brain didn't work. Somebody

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Speaker 1: just sent this text. I was watching Joe Scarborough this morning.

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Speaker 1: He stated that this is the best Carter I've ever seen. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and if you don't like it, f you, right, we

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Speaker 1: all know the story. It is this going to be

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Speaker 2: So it's already lost.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're not even done with the Biden presidency,

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Speaker 1: and it's already not enough of the conversation that hey,

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Speaker 1: y'all covered up for this guy for years and you

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Speaker 1: got caught and that's how why you lost. You idiots

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Speaker 1: loved the Babylon b headline, paraphrasing White House claims President

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Speaker 1: Carter is as sharp as ever behind the scenes, right, yeah, right, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So normally we defend presidents and say, well, they're plugged

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Speaker 1: in all the time, quote unquote, being on vacation, they're

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Speaker 1: doing the job from elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: Although a senile old Joe Biden.

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Speaker 4: I mean I think he was actually on like semi

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Speaker 4: permanent vacation.

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Speaker 2: This happened and got a lot of attention.

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Speaker 6: Forty Michael, the President will hedge New Orleans. He gave

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Speaker 6: a preview yesterday on the message he'll share with the

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Speaker 6: victims families. It's one we've heard before in times of tragedy,

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Speaker 6: about the need to hold on to each other in grief.

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Speaker 6: He also gave an update on the investigation and was

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Speaker 6: asked by reporters if he still believes that white supremacy

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Speaker 6: is the greatest threat to the homeland, after he faced

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Speaker 6: He wound up giving this answer.

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Speaker 7: Listen, I didn't look as Look, we are the most

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Speaker 7: extensive hold the culsummation in the world.

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Speaker 2: Funny thing, might being the oldest president. I know more

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Speaker 2: world leaders than any one of you ever met. In

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Speaker 1: Wife, Okay, you're gonna have to tell me what he

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Speaker 4: Oh, it was rambling nonsense. I had foreign countries and

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Speaker 4: give me give me forty one Michael.

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Speaker 2: World might being the oldest president.

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Speaker 7: I know more world leaders than any one of you

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Speaker 4: Wife's The piano tinkles in the back room. The background

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Speaker 2: You did, brom, get off my log? God? How does so?

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Speaker 2: We're talking? Last hour?

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Speaker 1: And if you didn't get it, you should get the

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Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand, the Opening to Meet

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Speaker 1: the Press, and pretty much all the shows. Yesterday was

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Speaker 1: a nation on edge after a terrorist attack, and I.

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Speaker 2: Thought that's funny.

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Speaker 1: I was traveling around the country as an airports, as

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Speaker 1: maybe this is why I should take in less of it.

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Speaker 1: It's just not real. I mean, it just doesn't match

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Speaker 1: up with everybody's life on a day to day basis.

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Speaker 1: And that would fit in with the President coming out

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Speaker 1: and giving a speech about the Terek in New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to say I am with you.

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Speaker 1: I feel your tragedy. I thought, who's that freaking for?

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Speaker 1: The people in New Orleans don't They're not watching this,

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Speaker 1: They don't care the actual family members.

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Speaker 2: My family member's dead.

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Speaker 1: The last thing I'm doing is watching the news to

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Speaker 1: see what the President said, and then for.

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Speaker 2: The rest of us listening to him at some speech.

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Speaker 1: Right, Do they actually think that we as a country

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Speaker 1: like Christian Walker, meet the press and the president and

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Speaker 1: his speechwriter. Do they think one were on edge and

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Speaker 1: they need to call us, and two were grief stricken

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Speaker 2: Do they think that?

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Speaker 4: I think they do. Yeah, I do, because they are

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Speaker 4: The public's suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions,

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Speaker 4: calls for public inquiry and demands for accountability. The scandal

441
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Speaker 4: is already reshaping British politics. It's not just about the

442
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Speaker 4: heinous nature of the crimes, it's that every level of

443
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Speaker 4: the British system is implicated in the cover up. I'm

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Speaker 4: reading minds at this point, Jack, I'm guessing a lot

445
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Speaker 4: of our listeners are saying, I still haven't seen this

446
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Speaker 4: in the American press, right, and then you could probably

447
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Speaker 4: guess why we're not quite as freaked out as Europe.

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Speaker 2: But we are way down the road of.

449
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Speaker 4: Any criticism of an immigrant or an immigrant culture or

450
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Speaker 4: a different culture as racism and xenophobia, nationalism.

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Speaker 2: Any wrong, anything that's not white, male, Christian.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, exactly, it's xenophilia. I suggest really strongly and everybody,

453
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Speaker 4: I think people who are honest with themselves try to

454
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Speaker 4: do this. Come to your conclusions based on the facts.

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Speaker 4: Don't come to your facts based on your conclusions. If

456
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Speaker 4: something is true, it's true, deal with it. If men

457
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Speaker 4: of Pakistani Muslim origin or raping young girls in Britain,

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Speaker 4: deal with it.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 4: Social workers were intimidated into silence, Local police ignored, excused,

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Speaker 4: and even embedded pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior

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Speaker 4: police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the

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Speaker 4: name of maintaining what they called community relations. Local councilors

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Speaker 4: and members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the

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Speaker 4: parents of raped children, charities, non governmental organizations and labor MPs.

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Speaker 4: That's your minister's of Parliament accuse those who discussed the

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Speaker 4: scandal of racism and islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or

468
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Speaker 4: downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity,

469
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Speaker 4: much of Britain's media elite balanced or remained barnacled to

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Speaker 4: the bubble of Westminster politics and its self serving priorities.

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Speaker 4: They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism

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Speaker 4: and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration

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Speaker 4: policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid

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Speaker 4: of being called racist or islamophobic. They did this because

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Speaker 4: Britain's traditional class snobbery has had fused with the new

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Speaker 4: snobbery of political correctness.

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Speaker 2: Does that sound familiar?

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Speaker 1: So let me jump in and try to understand this,

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Speaker 1: and maybe everybody else already understands it, But so if

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Speaker 1: I you got a Pakistani forty year old dude who

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Speaker 1: lives in a neighborhood, an apartment or a house or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Who is he raping?

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Speaker 1: Is he raping the children of other Muslim families?

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Speaker 2: Who are they grooming? Who are they raping? Excellent question.

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Speaker 4: I was just about to get to that, but I'll

486
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Speaker 4: just go ahead and characterize it. What you have is

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Speaker 4: groups of these men who hang out together do whatever

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Speaker 4: they do together. And this is in large part, almost

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Speaker 4: not almost entirely, but in large large part in the

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Speaker 4: really rough post industrial call it rust belt northern English

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Speaker 4: towns where you've got a lot of poverty, orphans, drug abuse,

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Speaker 4: alcoholism among teens and that sort of thing. They target

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Speaker 4: the downtrodden girls, identify them, groom them, drug them, feed

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Speaker 4: them alcohol, and rape them over and over and over again,

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Speaker 4: then traffic them. Some of them end up dead. And

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Speaker 4: then the authorities are so terrified of being called this

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Speaker 4: that or the other, or of stirring up something that

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Speaker 4: would harm community relations, they soft pedaled it.

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Speaker 2: And there are stories.

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Speaker 4: And again this is not in some sort of wild eyed,

501
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Speaker 4: right wing crazy report. This is documented stuff being written

502
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Speaker 4: about right now in the free press. And this has

503
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Speaker 4: been going on since the nineteen sixties and really got

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Speaker 4: bad in the seventies. These men targeted the most vulnerable girls,

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Speaker 4: the poor and the fatherless children in care homes that's orphanages,

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Speaker 4: with candy, food, taxi rides, drugs.

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Speaker 2: They raped the girls, passed.

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Speaker 4: Them around family and friendship networks, pimped them into similar

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Speaker 4: networks in other cities, then discarded them as they reached

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Speaker 4: the age of consent. This pattern was repeating in as

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Speaker 4: many as fifty cities across the country, including in Leafy

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Speaker 4: Oxford and Liberal Bristol. A twenty fourteen inquiry estimated that

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Speaker 4: fourteen hundred girls had been serially raped in Rotherham alone,

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Speaker 4: which is the industrial city that all of this first

515
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Speaker 4: became really known and talked about. Here's a story about Sophie,

516
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Speaker 4: a twelve year old girl in Oldham entered a police station.

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Speaker 4: This is going to be tough to take. By the way,

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Speaker 4: if the kids are less listening, have them stop. You

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Speaker 4: can explain the horrors of the world later in their lives.

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Speaker 4: Twelve year old girl named Sophie entered a police station,

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Speaker 4: reported that she had just been molested in a graveyard

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Speaker 4: by a man named Ali. Desk officer told her to

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Speaker 4: come back with an adult. When she was sober. Two

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Speaker 4: men accosted her in the police station, joined by a third.

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Speaker 4: They raped her in their car. When they dumped her

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Speaker 4: on the street, she asked for a name name a

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Speaker 4: man named Sarwan Ali for directions. He took her to

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Speaker 4: his home, raped her, gave her money for bus fair home.

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Speaker 4: A man named Shaquil Chowdery pulled up in his car

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Speaker 4: offered to take her home. He abducted her and took

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Speaker 4: her to a house where he and four other men

532
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Speaker 4: repeatedly raped her. This is a twelve year old girl

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Speaker 4: in Britain, all covered up from the local politicians to

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Speaker 4: the cops, to Westminster Abbey in the name of not

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Speaker 4: admitting their immigration policies had failed.

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Speaker 2: The working people of England miserably. So I saw this.

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Speaker 1: Popping up on Twitter. Elon Musk's platform, as he is

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Speaker 1: the guy that is like alerted the United States and

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Speaker 1: some of the world to this story. So he got

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Speaker 1: he came across the court documents from a case about this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so this stuff was I mean, you can't get more

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Speaker 1: credible than that. This is from the actual court documents.

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Speaker 1: It's not from some like you said, right wing anti

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Speaker 1: Muslim Twitter feed.

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Speaker 4: When was the court case? How many years ago that

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Speaker 4: he came across I couldn't tell you. I don't know

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Speaker 4: this specific.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrap my head around how when that

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Speaker 1: court case was going on it didn't blow up into

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Speaker 1: the biggest story in England or the world.

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Speaker 4: For the reasons we've been talking about, the elite, including

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Speaker 4: the elite media, are intensely uncomfortable with this storyline because

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Speaker 4: it did hints toward, you know, the stuff of bigotry

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00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 4: and prejudice, an anti immigrant sentiment, and they refuse to

556
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Speaker 4: give it fuel, even if it's one hundred percent true.

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Speaker 4: A couple more facts on that very question. The majority

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Speaker 4: of the victims were white, plus some Seekhs. The majority

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Speaker 4: of their abusers were a Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim extraction.

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Speaker 4: The majority of their crimes were committed in cities with

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Speaker 4: a Labor Party controlled council and a Labor Party MP

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Speaker 4: who needed Muslim votes. This led to institutional racism of

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Speaker 4: the inverted kind that enabled the perpetrators to do as

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Speaker 4: they like. The system itself became corrupted. Welfare workers admit

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Speaker 4: that they failed to report crimes because the police told

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Speaker 4: them that they would be accused as racist. A leader

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Speaker 4: of one freaking week I know, you know if you've

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Speaker 4: looked into the eyes of a girl who's been raped

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Speaker 4: repeatedly by a group of guys and you can keep

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Speaker 4: your mouth shut because it might look bad.

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Speaker 2: Boy, you're a different sort of person than me.

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Speaker 4: Good lord, you know that relates to another story I

573
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Speaker 4: want to do probably tomorrow about why the US is

574
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Speaker 4: whooping butt on Europe economically speaking, and believe it or not,

575
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Speaker 4: it kind of relates to this case. But the leader

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Speaker 4: of one rape gang in Oldhams, Shabir Ahmed, worked for

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Speaker 4: a local council as a welfare rights officer and ran

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Speaker 4: his gang from the government offices. Another member was on

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Speaker 4: the Oldham Youth Council. In multiple cases, local libor politicians

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Speaker 4: of Pakistani background interfered with police inquiry. I think you've

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Speaker 4: gotten the flavor of this. There's much much more and

582
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Speaker 4: the stories again. Twenty sixteen inquiry said that at least

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Speaker 4: fourteen hundred young British girls had been raped in this

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Speaker 4: manner and that was years ago and it's.

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Speaker 2: Still going on. So I got a couple of questions

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Speaker 2: about this.

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Speaker 1: We should take a break, and I'll bet some of

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Speaker 1: you might have some questions or comments on the text

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Speaker 1: line because I and then yeah, a little more on

590
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Speaker 1: this coming up.

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Speaker 2: Not the funniest thing we've ever done.

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Speaker 1: Here's the text line for two nine five KFTC.

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Speaker 2: Stay here.

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Speaker 1: So for a lot of you, and this is a

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Speaker 1: very serious adult topic we're into right now in case

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Speaker 1: you just joined us.

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Speaker 2: For a lot of.

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Speaker 1: You, you knew this story, uh, the serial raping of

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Speaker 1: young girls in Great Britain and perhaps in the United States.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that maybe later.

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Speaker 1: But Elon started tweeting about it a lot over the

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Speaker 1: weekend for whatever reason.

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Speaker 2: Did he just come across this information? Is that what happened?

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Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, he became aware of it. And

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Speaker 4: I can't find this specific case because again there were many, many, hundreds,

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Speaker 4: couple thousand young English girls systematically raped and still are today.

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Speaker 1: And somebody came forward and it was enough to make

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Speaker 1: it to a court case, and you know, actually I

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Speaker 1: have a trial. Anyway, Elon was reading the actual documents

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Speaker 1: that came out of this trial and like, how have

611
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Speaker 1: I never heard of this?

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Speaker 2: How is this a bigger deal.

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Speaker 1: And it's been going on and for a long time,

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Speaker 1: still going on today. So here's my question, one of

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Speaker 1: my many questions about this.

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Speaker 2: So these.

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Speaker 1: Muslim men who came to Great Britain, was this the

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Speaker 1: sort of thing they did back in their own countries

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Speaker 1: and it was accepted there? Or did they They couldn't

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Speaker 1: have gotten away with it, They couldn't have gotten away

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Speaker 1: with it in their own country. But they come to

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Speaker 1: a country like the United States or Great Britain, where

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Speaker 1: our laws and culture are so open.

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Speaker 2: You can get away with it.

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Speaker 4: Well, they were in a culture in Britain's way worse

626
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Speaker 4: than the US, although the US is heading in that direction.

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Speaker 4: They went to a culture that was terrified of calling

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Speaker 4: them out for what they were doing, for reasons of

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Speaker 4: not wanting to be bigoted or anti Islamic, or cause

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Speaker 4: conflict or to lose the votes in some of these

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Speaker 4: heavily Muslim parts of England. So it was the most

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Speaker 4: cold hearted and selfish sorts of politics that motivated turning

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Speaker 4: blind eye.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a couple of texts. A big thing.

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Speaker 1: The big thing is you have Muslims in key political

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Speaker 1: positions that prey on these girls too. As you just said.

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Speaker 1: But so I'm just trying to figure out because most

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Speaker 1: of us would even if it was legalized today, most

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Speaker 1: of us would not do this.

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Speaker 4: All right, including most Muslims. They would find it absolutely abhorrent.

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Speaker 4: It's worth saying. But the problem is when you, for

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Speaker 4: reasons of cultural prerogatives that you don't want to come

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Speaker 4: off as a nationalist or a xenophile or a racist,

644
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 4: regularly ignore the most horrific crimes against innocent girls to

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Speaker 4: preserve that narrative, you have become an evil monster.

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Speaker 1: To the question of why it isn't being talked about

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Speaker 1: more now, because you'd think once Elon blew the lid

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Speaker 1: off of it, it would be like leading the CBS

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Speaker 1: Evening News or something. But there is something that goes on,

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Speaker 1: apparently in the human mind or society or something. If

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Speaker 1: something is too big or awful, we just move on.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the way we have with the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: It's just so big and awful, eh, and just move on,

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Speaker 1: never mind. And we did it with the pandemic of

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen two, and this might be one of those

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Speaker 1: it's just too big and awful to deal with.

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Speaker 2: I think there is some of that.

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Speaker 4: I think the other aspect of it, particularly in terms

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Speaker 4: of the media, is that it would be fairly easy

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Speaker 4: to portray a legitimate description of what is going on

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Speaker 4: and what has gone on as anti Islamic, as Islamophobic,

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Speaker 4: as anti immigrant, as bigoted, as racist, just an you

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Speaker 4: could portray an accurate discussion of it.

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Speaker 2: In that way.

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Speaker 4: And trust me, as a guy who does this for

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Speaker 4: a living, I'm aware of that as we're doing it.

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Speaker 4: And so if you have an entire media complex that's

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Speaker 4: already predisposed to not saying anything nasty about immigrants in general,

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Speaker 4: or Muslims or whatever, you combine that with that paranoia.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna call me a racist in my career is

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Speaker 2: going to be over.

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Speaker 1: You get silence, boy, that's a heck of any interesting thing.

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Speaker 1: Elon has got the benefit of, you know, he's too

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Speaker 1: rich to care what anybody thinks about what he says.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, and if we ever disappear, folks, just google and

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Speaker 4: bing all day long till you find our new podcast.

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Speaker 2: There'll be one. Armstrong and Getty on demand is what

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Speaker 2: it's called.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: If you miss the segment, get it Armstrong and Getty