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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: Authorities in Italy recently sees more than twenty one hundred

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Speaker 3: fake pieces of art and connection with a large scale forgery.

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Speaker 3: Network officials first became suspicious when they realized the last

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Speaker 4: I'm not pleased with that. Can you give me another joke, Michael,

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Speaker 4: I need to be amused before I can move on.

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Speaker 2: I too am unamused. Weth switching gears. This is from

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Speaker 2: the National Toy Hall of Fame. Just asked.

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Speaker 4: This year's inductees are my little Pony.

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Speaker 2: That's great? The card game Phase ten. Yeah, they all

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Speaker 2: made it into the Hall of Fame. But a lot

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Speaker 2: of less popular toys got left out. I'm gonna show

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Speaker 2: you some of them right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: If we have mister potato head hoofs all arms.

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Speaker 2: Next up we have square Hula hoof that's hard to

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Speaker 2: got frustrated.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and finally there's Clue Menanda's brothers and come on,

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying they.

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Speaker 2: Didn't make it. Look how frustrated that little girl is

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Speaker 2: speaking of the Menendez brother That leads us in perfectly so.

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Speaker 4: At the very end of the campaign where Chay Gascone,

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Speaker 4: the DA of La County, was a running four uh

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Speaker 4: to continue to let people get away with crimes and.

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Speaker 1: Overthrow Western civilization. Correct, yeah, he's a he's a Marxist.

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Speaker 4: There at the very end he made a big pitch

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Speaker 2: We need to review with the Menendez case again to

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Speaker 2: bring real justice.

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Speaker 4: Right, you do a good impersonation of him to bet

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Speaker 4: his goal. That moment is passed. Yeah to that. But

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Speaker 4: the end everybody is like, what your foot your Your

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Speaker 4: closing argument to get re elected is letting loose Menendez brothers.

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Speaker 4: The only way the new guy is not as interested

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Speaker 4: in that. You have a new LA DA. Thank god.

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Speaker 6: The Los Angeles DA called for a judge to free

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Speaker 6: the Menendez brothers, the newly elected district Attorney Nathan Hoffman

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Speaker 6: telling us not so fast. Hawkman says he now wants

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Speaker 6: to review all the evidence.

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Speaker 7: If you just signed this case based on just reviewing

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Speaker 7: a Netflix documentary, you're not doing a You're doing a

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Speaker 7: disservice to the Menendez brothers, to the victim family members,

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Speaker 6: Hawkman questioning the motive and the timing of DA George

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Speaker 6: Gascone's decision.

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Speaker 2: So close to the election. Is it a just decision

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Speaker 6: There are two other possible paths of freedom here for

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Speaker 6: the Menendez Right now, a junt is reviewing new alleged

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Speaker 6: evidence in this case. There's a hearing set for that

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Speaker 6: later this month. But also at any time, the governor

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Speaker 4: And also that news report included just in general because

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Speaker 4: of Menendez brothers are just one, you know, tiny angle

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Speaker 4: of everything is that new La DA got elected with

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Speaker 4: the idea that Gascone wasn't locking up enough criminals, and

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Speaker 4: I'm going to lock up criminals. People break the law,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to lock them up, which is really the

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Speaker 1: Radical Das kicked in the arse and sent a packing

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Speaker 1: in LA in San Francisco, in Oakland, cal Unicorne is

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Speaker 1: starting to wake up a little bit to the horrific

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Speaker 1: results of the schemes that the poor people in California

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Speaker 1: had been sold.

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Speaker 4: It's shocking how bad things have to get before the

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Speaker 4: electorate reacts, but it's good to know there is a limit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The great limiting factor on how far the backlash goes

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Speaker 1: is the public employee unions. They weren't gonna kill themselves

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Speaker 1: to defend Georgia s khone. But in terms of getting

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Speaker 1: of the Blue states, is going to be a tough one.

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Speaker 2: Tough one. So, speaking of poor relations this is shocking

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Speaker 2: to me and sad. Shocking and sad.

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Speaker 1: The number of people freaking out over family members who

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Speaker 1: voted for Trump and ending like lifelong or decades.

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Speaker 2: Long relationships over it.

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Speaker 1: And I think I understand the dynamics. To understand something

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Speaker 1: is not to condone it. But I get, Okay, you

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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, But at the.

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Speaker 1: Point that it's like a cherished friendship, don't you like

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Speaker 2: It? Would kill me lose this friendship. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: But if you're a cultist and you have been convinced

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Speaker 4: Let's agree to not talk politics and you go on

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Speaker 4: with your lives. But if you actually believe I talked

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Speaker 4: about this last week, somebody I know was at work

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Speaker 4: the next day and somebody put their arm around them

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Speaker 4: and said, racism is.

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Speaker 2: The only thing that explains it. Are you okay? Like

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Speaker 2: what it is? Not inflation or anything else? Okay?

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Speaker 4: But so if you actually believe that though, and you thought, well,

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to hang out with racists or Nazis

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Speaker 4: or whatever fascists, Yeah, I get that, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Katie, you've dealt with this on one level or another.

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Speaker 1: Right that Katie is Mike.

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Speaker 4: If I if I knew it, if I found out

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Speaker 4: a friend, even if we were pretty good friends, was

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Speaker 4: secretly a Nazi who believes in exterminating the Jews, I

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Speaker 4: probably actually wouldn't be friends with them anymore.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 8: I had a friend and coworker who was actually part

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Speaker 8: of my wedding party who ended up telling me that

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Speaker 8: she no longer knew what kind of heart I had,

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Speaker 8: and obviously she said my soul was dark and she

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Speaker 8: couldn't associate with me anymore.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting.

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Speaker 4: It's similar language to the friend I mentioned last week

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Speaker 4: who the best friend of twenty five years said I'm embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: For you, and I don't even know who you are anymore,

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Speaker 4: Sort of stuff like, yeah, what, I think you probably

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Speaker 4: know who I am pretty well after twenty five years

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Speaker 4: of being close friends.

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Speaker 1: MSNBC had this Yale associated psychologist or something on saying

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus people especially, you do not owe your family

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Speaker 1: any of your time or love if they have turned

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Speaker 1: against you. Oh, that's some good counsel on their sweetheart.

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Speaker 1: I saw it as a momentary overwrought politics.

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Speaker 4: I saw on that topic a report that calls to

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Speaker 4: crisis lines from the LBGTQ community were up seven hundred

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Speaker 4: and fifty percent after the election. Well, then that's a

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Speaker 4: bunch of people who've been misled by nonsense because you

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Speaker 4: got nothing, zero, absolutely zero to be worried about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Our friend Katie Grimes, who we just talked to yesterday

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Speaker 1: the California Globe today going through all sorts of the insanity,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's liberal white women mostly, although some women

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Speaker 1: of color. But she says, my own experience proves that

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Speaker 1: no amount of logic irrationale will soothe maniaca leftists. In

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Speaker 1: November twenty sixteen, when Donald Trump was first elected, female

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Speaker 1: step members of my family were distraught, inconsolable, deeply troubled,

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Speaker 1: bordering on mad. I only reminded them of their misery.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Christmas meals together that year were non existence,

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Speaker 1: non existent. By the time Trump was inaugurated, it was

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Speaker 1: obvious that my female family members were not speaking to me,

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Speaker 1: although there wasn't a formal proclamation yet until my book

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Speaker 1: was published in twenty seventeen, and she co wrote a

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Speaker 1: book called California's War Against Donald Trump?

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Speaker 2: Who Wins? Who Loses?

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Speaker 1: I received a scathing email from the step matriarch describing

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Speaker 1: what a ghastly, selfish and insensitive daughter I was, sending

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Speaker 1: book apparently triggered an unhealthy response by the females in

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Speaker 4: In twenty sixteen. And what issue would that have been?

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Speaker 4: Mostly his like treatment of women from the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sort of thing, Yeah, yeah, Who is it

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Speaker 2: not that more people grasp that there's all kinds.

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Speaker 4: Of you only have two choices, there's all kinds of

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Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be.

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Speaker 4: It's because I don't women to have want women to

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Speaker 4: have abortions, unless you specifically said that that's the reason

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Speaker 4: you voted for Trump. There's all kinds of economic reasons

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Speaker 4: or tax reasons, just all kinds of things policy.

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Speaker 8: This is all coming from the same group of people

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Speaker 8: who cannot tell us what a woman is anymore right?

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Speaker 2: Right? Which is madness? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just I have trouble getting in the headspace of

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Speaker 1: It's just inconceivable to me. Now, the very notion is

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Speaker 1: ridiculous to me. I want to quote Matt Taibi coming up.

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Speaker 1: He wrote a piece entitled Charmingly ding Dong. The cult

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Speaker 1: is dead. The cult is not dead, but it's it's

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Speaker 2: Oh what was I was about to say something else?

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Speaker 2: Dang it, flit it right out of my mind. The

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Speaker 4: So we got that stuff on the way, stay with us.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about that new Gladiator movie. I

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Speaker 2: this happened the other day on CNN.

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Speaker 9: I think there are a lot of families out there

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Speaker 2: They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.

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Speaker 7: I'm trans girl boy.

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Speaker 7: How changed, they're not boys, they're they're not playing girl

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Speaker 9: But that's why Republicans kept running those ads over and

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Speaker 9: over and over again, because they saw the metrics suggestion

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Speaker 9: that lie in those ads over and over again and

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Speaker 9: using rhetoric, Mike, you just use saying this is boys

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Speaker 7: Talking about trans girls playing playing being allowed to play

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Speaker 7: with the people.

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Speaker 2: Who are in their gender.

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Speaker 7: And if you don't believe that, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: You're going to you're gonna die on that hill, dude,

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Speaker 1: Well you're gonna die in the of America. America hates

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Speaker 1: the idea of boys playing in girl sports. This guy

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Speaker 1: says I'm a girl, that is a girl magically transformed

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Speaker 1: into a girl. In defiance of all science. It's funny

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Speaker 1: because they were browbeating us and imprisoning us in our

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Speaker 1: Matt Taibi, who is a man of the center left,

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Speaker 1: a good old journalist. He is like so many center

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Speaker 1: left type people, as as vehement a critic and enemy

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting and I get it. But he wrote

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Speaker 1: ding dong, the cult is dead. The national mass psychosis

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Speaker 1: As I've said many times, Matt is not the beginning

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have a lot of fighting to do

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Speaker 1: because they rule academia and are churning out more cult

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Speaker 10: And I trust President Trump's decision this one. I feel

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Speaker 4: That's pretty good stuff right there. That's a pretty good

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Speaker 4: argument right there.

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Speaker 1: They talk about mister Hegseth's combat experience. He's been an

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Speaker 1: advocate for veterans both on TV and his member of

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Speaker 1: veterans groups.

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Speaker 2: He's smart and telligenic.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, he's never run a big institution,

447
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Speaker 1: much less one of the largest and most hide bound

448
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Speaker 1: on the planet. You're familiar with the term hide and

449
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Speaker 1: bound essentially means so stuck in its ways it can't

450
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Speaker 1: be changed. He has no experience in government outside the military,

451
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Speaker 1: and no small risk is that the bureaucracy will eat

452
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Speaker 1: him alive. And they're a little bit concerned that Trump

453
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Speaker 1: picked him purely to go off after the woke crowd

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Speaker 1: in the Pentagon, which is a very worthy mission in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, or what as they point out, there are

456
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Speaker 1: ginormous security risks out there, or because he watched him

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Speaker 1: on Fox and Friends a lot. Oh that might have

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Speaker 1: been ninety percent of it. Who knows, Yeah, I never

459
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Speaker 1: know with Trump, and that's that's my concern about Pete.

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Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't think he would restrict restrict himself

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Speaker 1: for being a culture warrior to go against the world

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Speaker 1: because he cares too much about the troops because he's

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Speaker 1: being there, So.

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Speaker 2: I'm less concerned about that.

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Speaker 1: But the and again, a lot of people who just

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Speaker 1: want knee work, throw grenade or punch the establishment the

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Speaker 1: nose and enjoy their their bleeding. The problem with that

468
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Speaker 1: is that it's such a short lived pleasure.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've taken in the first forty eight hours of

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Speaker 4: pushback against him from the liberal media, and if the

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Speaker 4: best they can come up with is he's said negative

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Speaker 4: things about women in combat.

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Speaker 2: Whatever, folks, I'm going to.

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Speaker 1: Use an unfortunate and rude letter here, and I hope

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Speaker 1: that you can forgive me f the left wing media.

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Speaker 1: My thoughts on this is that, and again, maybe he

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Speaker 1: can find people who are experts in this and help

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Speaker 1: execute his vision. But the numbnumber one challenge is Robert

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Speaker 1: Gates could tell you at the Pentagon is the Pentagon itself,

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Speaker 1: it is hundreds of thousands of people.

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Speaker 2: What's the millions, It's over a million.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Defense, yeah you know, yeah, well yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is essentially an extension of the Pentagon. So you

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Speaker 1: got hundreds of thousands to millions of people, depending on

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Speaker 1: where you're pointing to, and many of them spend their

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Speaker 1: entire day like the creatures of any bureaucracy, their purpose

487
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Speaker 1: is to protect the bureaucracy and protect their jobs.

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Speaker 2: If they have five.

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Speaker 1: Minutes at the end of the day to execute your

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Speaker 1: vision for defending the United States of America or or

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Speaker 1: or helping our brave men and women in uniform. If

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Speaker 1: they got five minutes at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: maybe they get around to it. Their main job is

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Speaker 1: protecting the bureaucracy. So what you're sending a fighter in

495
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Speaker 1: there to rein that in and if you can't get

496
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Speaker 1: that going, you can't get anything gone.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just naive.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure I am naive about this, but I understand

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Speaker 4: why he couldn't talk to Robert Gates and Leon Panetta,

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Speaker 4: for instance, at length. They come up with several great

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Speaker 4: names of people that would be good to do the

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Speaker 4: running the organization stuff for you while you're the vision guy,

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Speaker 4: which is often the case with the very top person and.

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Speaker 1: Kackaneer to Elon Musk in his opinion on all of us, Yeah, again,

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Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by Pete. It could be a train wreck.

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Speaker 1: But like the Wall Street Journal, I'm thinking, hmm.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of our brave folks in uniform, we have been

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Speaker 1: associated with Warrior Foundation Freedom Station for years and years now.

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Speaker 2: It's near and dear to both of us. It means

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Speaker 2: a lot to us.

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Speaker 1: We've seen first hand the impact they make in the

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Speaker 1: lives of our brave men and women are warriors as

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Speaker 1: they transition from active duty to civilian life, but they

515
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Speaker 1: couldn't do what they do without your continued support.

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Speaker 4: And we've been helping out with this particular aspect of

517
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Speaker 4: Warrior Foundation for years. And that's the flying our heroes

518
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Speaker 4: home for the holidays. Everyone deserves to spend the holidays

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Speaker 4: with loved ones, especially the men and women who have

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Speaker 4: so bravely sacrificed for our country. And with a little

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Speaker 4: bit of money, you can fly our ill injured Marines,

522
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Speaker 4: soldiers and sailors home for the holidays. Today's the day

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Speaker 4: to go to Warrior Foundation dot org and give.

524
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Speaker 1: And every little bit helps. If you can spare twenty bucks,

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Speaker 1: that's fabulous. If you're a whale and you can spend

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more than that, well that

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Speaker 1: would be great too, because trust us when we say

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Speaker 1: they do incredible work. When our bravest need the help

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Speaker 1: the most, go to Warrior Foundation dot org. Make that

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Speaker 1: tax deductible donation. Warrior Foundation dot org. Get the name right,

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Speaker 1: it's not that similar organization. You don't want them, You

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Speaker 1: want this Warrior Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 4: I just saw this headline. I'm gonna have to look

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Speaker 4: into it. Political chaos breaks out in New Zealand Parliament

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Speaker 4: after controversial dance. Okay, can't imagine what that was.

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Speaker 2: Was it the Lombarda, the forbidden dance? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Was it the hokey pokey?

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Speaker 1: Who did I see? I think it was right before

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Speaker 1: the the election, said all of you people who are

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Speaker 1: such fans of democracy and the people's voice. These are

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Speaker 1: the same people who went crazy over the macarena not

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Speaker 1: long ago.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of forbidden dance.

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Speaker 11: Hey Macarrena, Our executive producer Hansen has come up with

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Speaker 11: a fantastic theory around the whole Matt Gates nomination for

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Speaker 11: Attorney General.

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Speaker 4: Then maybe we can explore and we can hear some

548
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Speaker 4: people's reactions to that odd bombastic pick, among other things

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Speaker 4: on the way in a hot movie I can't wait

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Speaker 4: to see too, Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: It is an art choosing gladiators and usually prisoners of war.

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Speaker 2: I claim the city for the glory of Rome. You

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Speaker 2: have something in your wage. I haven't let it go.

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Speaker 2: It will carry you to quaintness.

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Speaker 4: Denzel Washington steals the movie, although he's the star of

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Speaker 4: Gladiator too, which looks freaking fantastic. I just saw a

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Speaker 4: trailer in which a bloody horned rhinoceros being ridden by

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Speaker 4: some Roman gladiators riding towards somebody else with a sword.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how that turns out. I don't like

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Speaker 4: his chances, but I'm.

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Speaker 1: Not sure I liked the counselor he was working with

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Speaker 1: who told him to hang on to his rage.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's healthy.

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Speaker 4: It's got the guy from The Mandalorian is one of

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Speaker 4: the stars who I was reading something that Sandals and

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Speaker 4: Swords movies, as they're known in Hollywood. I guess there's

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Speaker 4: an arc to them. Every couple of years we put

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Speaker 4: out a big Sandals and Swords movie that is a

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Speaker 4: huge hit that the public seems to hunger for, and

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Speaker 4: it kind of fits in with that whole men think

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Speaker 4: about the Roman Empire roughly three times a day thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: there's just such a fascination with the Roman Empire, especially

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Speaker 4: among men, that every few years we need a new

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Speaker 4: sandalan swords movie to like satisfy that hunger.

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Speaker 2: And here's going to be the latest interesting analysis. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't surprise me. I read about the Roman Empire

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Speaker 4: fairly regularly. So the big political bombshell that was naming

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Speaker 4: Matt Gates to be attorney general yesterday, and we're going

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Speaker 4: to talk about more about that next hour. But our

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Speaker 4: own executive producer came up with a pretty decent.

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Speaker 2: Theory as to why that is.

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Speaker 4: But let's hear this report from one of your newscasts

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Speaker 4: about it.

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Speaker 10: You got a thing about this guy. This is a

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Speaker 10: guy that didn't have that the media didn't give a

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Speaker 10: time at day to after he was accused of sleeping

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Speaker 10: with an This is what.

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Speaker 2: I asked at all. No, no, no, the way we're

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Speaker 2: going to do? Uh? Where is it now? Okay, I'll

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Speaker 2: have to find it again.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Thirty five, the President elects electing a fierce loyalist Florida

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Speaker 5: Congressman Matt Gates as his attorney general. Gates now tapped

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Speaker 5: to lead the Justice Department, the same department that was

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Speaker 5: investigating the congressman for years for alleged obstruction of justice

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Speaker 5: and for alleged sex trafficking, the DOJ ultimately closing the

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Speaker 5: investigation and bringing no charges against Gates. The congressman is

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Speaker 5: currently at the center of an ongoing bipartisan House Ethics

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Speaker 5: Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug

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Speaker 5: use allegations. Gates has denied, calling the investigation frivolous.

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Speaker 4: So that's the table setting, and then the report was

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Speaker 4: supposed to come out tomorrow. That seems like a heck

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Speaker 4: of a coincidence. And the report is said to be

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Speaker 4: very damaging. That's according to Republicans on the various committees

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Speaker 4: that have leaked to the news sources in the last

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Speaker 4: twenty four hours. Now, he has a lot of enemies

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Speaker 4: Democrats and Republicans Senate and House, and a few friends

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Speaker 4: and very few friends. So maybe they're overstating how damaging

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Speaker 4: it is. I doubt it, but it's fairly damaging, and

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Speaker 4: I have a feeling it is going to be leaked

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Speaker 4: out tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Or this weekend. So that's interesting on its own.

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Speaker 4: There are already three senators on the record, Republican senators

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Speaker 4: on the record that say they're not going to vote

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Speaker 4: for him. You can only lose three to get to fifty,

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Speaker 4: because then it would be a tie in jd Vance,

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Speaker 4: you assume would cast the winning vote as the Vice president.

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Speaker 1: Sure for his boss I've pictured the Democrats. Every time

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Speaker 1: a Republican votes, know, they say, all right, Jim, you're up,

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Speaker 1: and Democrat votes say, yeah, we'd love him to be

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Speaker 1: attorney general.

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Speaker 2: Let's see how it goes and force more and more

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Speaker 2: Republicans than over him.

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Speaker 4: But so Hanson, our executive producer's theory is my theory

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Speaker 4: yesterday was just Trump likes watching heads explode. I don't

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Speaker 4: even know if he's thought down the road to whether

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Speaker 4: or not Gates will be confirmed. If he doesn't get confirmab,

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Speaker 4: I'll pick somebody else. I'm not sure Trump worries about

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Speaker 4: that stuff that much. But he just loved watching people

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Speaker 4: on CNN and MSNBC and CBS go nuts.

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Speaker 2: Over this yesterday. Yeah, and he just gets such a

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Speaker 2: kick out of that.

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Speaker 4: But Hanson's theory is, and this could very well be true,

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Speaker 4: that every once in a while he does one of

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Speaker 4: these things and then sits back and watches television and

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Speaker 4: figures out who's really with me and who's not really

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Speaker 4: with me. The people the Republicans that are asked on

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Speaker 4: a mic, what do you think of this choice?

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Speaker 2: Who say I think it's good.

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Speaker 4: I'm willing to keep an open mind and give Matt

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Speaker 4: Gates the fair hearing he deserves, and Trump thinks, okay,

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Speaker 4: they're willing to who ignore their own beliefs for my sake.

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Speaker 4: Put that down on the little chart that way, or

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Speaker 4: the people who just can't bite their tongue and are like,

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Speaker 4: what the hell and you reloud, there's somebody that can't.

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Speaker 2: Count on Hanson.

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Speaker 1: You may be right, but it's a little Saddam Husseini

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Speaker 1: ish for my tastes.

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Speaker 2: I bet it's true.

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Speaker 4: You don't think he keeps track of the people that

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Speaker 4: are willing to bend their own thinking to support me

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Speaker 4: no matter what, practically, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Again, I think it may be right. That doesn't make

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Speaker 1: it right. It is correct and yet terrible because so

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Speaker 1: like even I want you to kill this child for me.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's very mob bossy. It's a little

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Speaker 4: Canaan ably a little al Capone. Or is it that's

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Speaker 4: the right story? God said to Abraham, give me a

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Speaker 4: sen Abe said, God, you must be putting me on.

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