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Speaker 3: This from Aleen Anonymous.

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Speaker 1: We're on our way home from school tonight, and out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, my twelve year old daughter says, do you

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Speaker 1: know why I'm worried about having kids racing myself for

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Speaker 1: some climate scare mongering or some other brand of crazy

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Speaker 1: that TikToker or teachers are pushing.

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Speaker 3: I responded, no.

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Speaker 1: Why, she says, I'm afraid they'll come home one day

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Speaker 1: and they'll tell me their trans and I'll say, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: you're not, and then they'll hate me, and the school

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Speaker 1: will call me in and yell at me and tell

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Speaker 1: me I'm anti trans, and I'll say, you damn right

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: This is a twelve year old.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Wow, who has a very similar attitude

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Speaker 1: So many thoughts and emotions racing through my head. But

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Speaker 1: in the moment I couldn't ever stout laughing. I told her,

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Speaker 1: hope bad that will have passed by the time she

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Speaker 1: has kids. I certainly think it will. I wouldn't call

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Speaker 1: it a fad kind of one. It's a psychological contagion.

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Speaker 1: There are a bunch of examples of this through history.

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Speaker 3: How interesting is that.

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Speaker 2: Though, kids like her kid and my kid coming to

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, this young woman, obviously, God bless her, has

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Speaker 1: the I am not going to tell you to ignore

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Speaker 1: the evidence of my eyes and ears and my conscience.

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Speaker 1: Good for her anyway, Who knows, Maybe a little be

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Speaker 1: the kids of this generation, whatever they're called, who are

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Speaker 1: growing up rolling their eyes at the furries in their classrooms.

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Speaker 1: They're sick of having pronouns and gender issues shoved down

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Speaker 1: their throats. Who can see plainly and simply that the

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Speaker 1: trans and nine non binary kids are mainly just misfits.

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Speaker 1: We're desperate for attention and belonging. Ding Maybe today's middle

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Speaker 1: schoolers will be the ones to rebel with conservatism and

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Speaker 1: put a stop to the madness.

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Speaker 2: Eventually, my son's always bringing up the furries, How does

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Speaker 1: Brilliantly said an anonymous and good for your kid. You

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Speaker 1: are absolutely right on every single count. How's about this?

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Speaker 1: Greeting's big freedom, Old simple Jack in America's Sweethearts Michael,

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Speaker 1: Katie and Hanson. Our fabulous son, who just happens to

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Speaker 1: is starting the years of freshman at a very nice

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Speaker 1: California public high school. We've driven our son to and

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Speaker 3: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Due to this and to and fro drive time, our

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Speaker 1: son also enjoys the statistically proven educational advantage of listening

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Speaker 1: to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Our son, who naturally

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Speaker 1: understands the meaning of such words as Marxist, woke, progressive,

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Speaker 1: and scumbag, reported that his classes were pretty much chill

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Speaker 1: But he asked his chill blank teacher, what does climate

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Speaker 3: They make us teach this stuff. Oh my god, wow. Wow.

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Speaker 1: The notable exception to the mostly chill and relaxed teachers

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Speaker 1: Saving America's utes one day at a time, Alnonymous.

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Speaker 2: You know it's not unrelated to the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 2: the fact that World War three is on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: They're not unrelated that we're so willingly like giving away

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Speaker 2: Western civilization or embarrassed by it. Of course they're related.

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Speaker 2: There's why would there be a great need to protect

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Speaker 2: something that you don't like? Yeah, yeah, I remember years

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Speaker 2: It just started years ago. When I think Harold Bloom,

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Speaker 2: he was so bothered by the fact that nobody taught

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Speaker 2: of all time was no longer being taught in the universities,

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Speaker 2: That was the only time I'd ever come up if

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Speaker 2: at all. Well, if you're that willing to give away

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Speaker 3: Don't band together to win.

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Speaker 4: Right, right in the success that they have had coming

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Speaker 4: up primarily through education the teachers, colleges and then the

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Speaker 3: Admires the wrong word.

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Speaker 1: You've got to respect how incredibly evil and devious and

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Speaker 3: Let it happen under our watch.

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Speaker 2: I was reading Henry the Fifth and listening to it

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Speaker 1: No, I'm sure there are multiple really good books about this. Actually,

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Speaker 1: But how the civil rights movement followed fairly closely after

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Speaker 1: That's where we convinced people to hate their own countries

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Speaker 1: That's what we'll do. And just for what it's worth,

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Speaker 1: it's horrifying, it's heartbreaking, but it has been successful.

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Speaker 2: And as my twelve year old just finished reading Animal

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Speaker 2: and were the same tyrants as the tyrants before a

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Speaker 3: Yeah so good. Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: And as I tweeted the other day, I untleashed a

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Speaker 1: I don't know why the urge just overcame me, but

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Speaker 3: You gotta join with us. We'll overthrow the high.

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Speaker 1: And the middle throws out the high and becomes the high,

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Speaker 3: History of the world, yep, pretty much, Jack arm Strong

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Speaker 2: My son, who is in playing football last year said

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Speaker 2: started inquiring about getting gym memberships and found out that

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Speaker 3: And I was surprised by that.

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Speaker 2: But so they came up with some sort of program

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Speaker 2: And I have had I've heard enough women over the

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Speaker 3: You ever heard that? Explain now that that's hot talk? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: That what we are currently doing defies how the US

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Speaker 2: And this is all from his new book, Democracy or Republic.

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Speaker 2: The People in the Constitution. The two sides fight over

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Speaker 2: everything large and small, from major problems to utter trivialities.

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Speaker 2: No substantial occasion presents itself. They fight both tooth and

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: these people pretend to go at it hammerdon dongs, right,

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Speaker 2: Well, you need but the after you need to write

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Speaker 2: the afterword for his paperback version of that book, because

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Speaker 3: Listen to me.

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Speaker 2: Sorry James Madison, your system for government might be trumped,

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Speaker 2: and everything like that. Sorry, sorry, I can stay in office.

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Speaker 1: I got both my kids on my payroll, my wife's,

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Speaker 1: my campaign consultant. We live in a giant house right

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Speaker 2: Now, I used to be a guy who would yell

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Speaker 3: Other than that, things are going fine. From my perspective,

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Speaker 3: Believe it or not, I think ever since he started

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Speaker 3: But no, he looked, he saw which way the wind was.

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Speaker 2: Blowing, and rightly or wrongly determined and I better get

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Speaker 2: on board with the other side is evil. We need

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Speaker 2: to destroy him, crowd, and that's what he has done.

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Speaker 2: So we've gone further down that road. Somebody needs to

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Speaker 2: stand up at some point and say, look, our government

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Speaker 2: is designed to work only if we compromise, and if

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Speaker 2: we don't, it's just it's just not going.

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Speaker 3: To work at all.

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Speaker 1: Well, aside from a small handful of jackasses like ourselves,

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Speaker 1: virtually everybody in media who could carry that message forward

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Speaker 1: has gone with the same plan as the politicians because

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Speaker 1: it helps for clicks, it.

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Speaker 2: Helps for d absolutely does, absolutely does. We've had this

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Speaker 2: conversation many times behind the scenes that you know, the

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Speaker 2: other sides always wrong, our side's always right. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of people making a lot of money with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's going to have a shelf life, like as in

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Speaker 2: the country is going to have a shelf life. But man,

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Speaker 2: currently the absolutely no compromise. Ever, if you're seen going

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Speaker 2: out to dinner with the other side, you're ruined. Somebody

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Speaker 2: will run to your left or right, depending on your party,

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Speaker 2: and beat you because you sent a load to somebody

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Speaker 2: on the other side.

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Speaker 3: That's just that's never gonna work.

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Speaker 1: No, it's suicidal as a country. But I feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm standing on the beach yelling at the tide.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So, and it fits within it's within the Republican Party itself. Also,

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Speaker 2: so Matt Gates in a handful of others are So

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Speaker 2: we're not going to compromise on this.

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Speaker 3: On the whole speaker thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, man, your your hope for legislation that reforms entitlements

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Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff can't get through the

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Speaker 2: Senate and get signed by the president currently, you got

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Speaker 2: to win more elections.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You're right, we're yelling at the tide.

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Speaker 1: Shockingly. I have a kind word about John Fetterman. He's

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Speaker 1: the loser socialist from Pennsylvania. That's the fella who only

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Speaker 1: one because he's running against doctor Oz.

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Speaker 3: That's right, carpetbagging quack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could become senator if I could run against

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Speaker 2: Gonna Rhea or something else unpopular.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's uncharitable toward doctor Oz. I thought you were

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Speaker 1: calling for civility just a moment ago met with doctor Oz,

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Speaker 1: mortal enemy. Fair enough, he goes back to something he

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Speaker 1: did to us in our own studio.

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Speaker 3: If you haven't ever heard that story.

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Speaker 1: Behoodied Behemoth, bum trust funder communist from Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: Hi, good night everybody. Hello.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Michael, let's set the scene here with

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Speaker 1: just a little bit of Yeah. I know that doesn't

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Speaker 1: really enter into any of the things I said, but

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Speaker 1: give us a little clip sixty one, would you come on?

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Speaker 3: You know what's so hard sometimes is watching those videos

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Speaker 3: and the people telling the kids don't cry, and like

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Speaker 3: let them cry. So that's Rashida Tuley.

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Speaker 1: But hours and hours after it became generally known that

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Speaker 1: the Israelis did not bomb a hosp a hospital and

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Speaker 1: five hundred plus were not killed. All of it was

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Speaker 1: Hamas lies, she was still saying that that was the case.

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Speaker 1: John Fetterman oddly tweeted out, yes, socialist loser, John Fetterman,

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Speaker 1: I think we covered that. But anyway, yes, the same

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Speaker 1: fella said, it's truly disturbing that members of Congress rushed

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Speaker 1: to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who

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Speaker 1: would take the word of a group that just massacred

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Speaker 1: Inno Senator's Raeli citizens over our key?

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Speaker 2: Ally the New York Times would several Congress people would Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's troubling, but good question. I'm on your side on

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Speaker 2: this one. Now get a job. Get a job ever

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Speaker 2: in your life, have one job.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's got a job now us Senator fabulous bringing

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Speaker 1: his wit and wisdom to the halls of the Senate.

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Speaker 3: Everybody, good night.

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Speaker 1: New open letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, signed by

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Speaker 1: over seventy faculty members, we call on you and the

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Speaker 1: Harvard leadership to publicly and unequivocally them the intimidation and

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Speaker 1: harassment of Palestinian, Arab, Black, and Muslim students and other

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Speaker 1: supporters of Palestinian liberation at Harvard. The leadership should denounce

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Speaker 1: all forms of racism, Islamophobia, and Zemenophobia, including anti Semitism

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Speaker 1: and anti Palestinian racism. Okay, you know, I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: mentioned anti semitism, because there's a hell of a deal

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Speaker 1: Jewish Harvard students right now are afraid to come out

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Speaker 1: of their dorms because you have mobs dressed as Palestinians

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Speaker 1: chanting death to Israel.

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Speaker 2: Now, the Palestinians elected Hamas back in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody reference polling that would show that they

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Speaker 2: would re elect Hamas again if you had an election today.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's accurate or how good the

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Speaker 2: polling is.

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Speaker 3: But I'm not familiar with that.

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Speaker 2: But for the sake of this conversation, assuming that would

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Speaker 2: be true. Now, it is true that they elected Hamas

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Speaker 2: the one and only time they've ever had open on elections,

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Speaker 2: but if they would elect him again.

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Speaker 3: So how far do you go with the and children.

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Speaker 2: Are never to blame for anything. Uh, you can't put

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Speaker 2: it on them, But how far do you go with

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Speaker 2: the it's not their fault. See, you can't attack Hamas

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Speaker 2: and kill Palestinians if you vote, would vote for the Hummas.

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Speaker 3: To be your government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's complicated just because ethically, yeah. Yeah, and you know, Hamas,

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Speaker 1: after being elected by a very very narrow margin, essentially

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Speaker 1: ended democracy and took over as dictators. And I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen those polls, but yeah, I just the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: So much of what's being said on the pro Palestinian

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Speaker 1: side requires putting aside your morality completely. Just making it

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Speaker 1: absolutely clear all of these moral claims I'm making are

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Speaker 1: entirely conditional on what side we're talking about. Just so

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Speaker 1: you know, appreciate the honesty.

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Speaker 2: Collective punishment for Palestinians is awful, and I might agree

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Speaker 2: with you but collective punishment for Israelis was okay because

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Speaker 2: Hamas went in and killed a bunch of babies that

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Speaker 2: didn't vote for nothing, And so you're okay with collective

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Speaker 2: punishment on that side. Collective punishment going the other way

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Speaker 2: is wrong. And then you've got the other thing of

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Speaker 2: Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians. But then in the same

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Speaker 2: breath you make the argument of it was just them

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Speaker 2: reacting to decades of oppression.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, which is it right?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't mean to suggest that anybody who's pro

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Speaker 1: be a better deal for the Palestinians is a monster

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Speaker 1: or anything like that, or of course thinks the Israel

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Speaker 1: has been unfair at times, or maybe even now. That's

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Speaker 1: absolutely an argument that could and should be heard. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, the whole when you impose the victim

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Speaker 1: oppressor framework on every single question, which is what the

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Speaker 1: radicals in American universities have been doing for a couple

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Speaker 1: of days, aids now, it turns off, It obviates it

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Speaker 1: to avoids the need to think every single question is

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Speaker 1: predecided for you up to and I know this thing

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Speaker 1: sounds like an insane example even up to It's okay,

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Speaker 1: if they slaughter babies in their cribs because they're the

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Speaker 1: victim and the babies were part of the oppressors, so

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Speaker 1: it's okay. It turns you into a stupid, vicious beast

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Speaker 1: when you look at everything through the victim oppressor lens.

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Speaker 1: You no longer have to think it all. You no

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Speaker 1: longer have to exercise anything approaching morality anymore. That's why

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Speaker 1: it's so appealing to people, because they don't have to

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Speaker 1: wrestle with anything difficult.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons I despise it so much.

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Speaker 1: It turns people into vicious, bloodthirsty mobs who are completely

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Speaker 1: convinced of their own righteousness.

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Speaker 1: That this was so interesting, the taking a look at

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Speaker 1: insurance right now?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, I mean.

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Speaker 1: You talk about inflationary pressures and holy crap, look at

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Speaker 1: this bill. Insurance is absolutely at the top of the

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Speaker 1: list of you know parts of your life where you

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Speaker 1: say that maybe second only to groceries because you have

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Speaker 1: to shop more often.

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Speaker 2: But it's up twenty percent.

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Speaker 1: Auto insurance rates are up forty six point two percent

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Speaker 1: since January twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty, it's up almost fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: That is correct, Sir, Holy, more than in the eight

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Speaker 1: previous years combined. Homeowner home owner premiums have increased by

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Speaker 1: about thirty eight percent since twenty nineteen, about six percent

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Speaker 1: in the first three months of this year.

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Speaker 2: Now, you don't understand. We have record low unemployment, stock

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Speaker 2: market is up, inflation is slowing.

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Speaker 3: Why are you not happy? I don't understand why you're

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Speaker 3: not happy?

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Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, the rates are even higher in many

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Speaker 1: of the states in which the Armstrong and Getty Shows

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Speaker 1: most listened to, including Arizona, Illinois, Texas, California, and Floridy.

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Speaker 2: Is this one sector not discussed more?

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Speaker 3: This is a bigger deal than the price of gas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, And it's interesting people are looking

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Speaker 1: around saying essentially what the heck is going on? Well,

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Speaker 1: progressives are blaming, of course, climate change in corporate greed.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren was jabbering the other day, Man, is she

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Speaker 1: a treat? She says, I'm gonna quote her. Now, insurance

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Speaker 1: have underwritten financing fossil fuels, and then they profit from

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Speaker 1: selling protection from the impacts of those fossil fuels on climate.

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Speaker 1: Trying to say that because insurance companies have some money

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Speaker 1: and energy, the energy has caused rapid climate change and

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Speaker 1: that's why insurance premiums are high. Blah blah blah, and

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Speaker 1: listen to the here's where it really gets hit. And

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Speaker 1: now when climate risks arising, they're trying to hang American

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Speaker 1: families out to dry here and demanding either higher premiums

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Speaker 1: or to get out of the market all together.

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Speaker 2: It's on May fifty nearly fifty percent increase since pre

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Speaker 2: pandemic on auto insurance. I remember when I was younger,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to get like a cool, fast car. I

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Speaker 2: realized I can afford the car. I can't afford the

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Speaker 2: car insurance. Well, that's got to be doubly true, now

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Speaker 2: can I What kind of car can a young person

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Speaker 2: drive that they can afford the insurance on?

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Speaker 1: So what's actually happening is in here? The sort of

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Speaker 1: person who would like to know what's actually happening is

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Speaker 1: opposed to just getting spun. The actual culprit is a

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Speaker 1: bad storm of inflation, litigation abuse, and government made dysfunctions,

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Speaker 1: according to Wall Street Journal, which had been exacerbated by

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Speaker 1: a string of bad weather. So you start with auto

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Speaker 1: insurance rates used in new vehicle prices have increased thirty

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Speaker 1: percent and twenty one percent, respectively since January twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Spensive cars cost more to ensure. Duh.

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Speaker 1: Prices for vehicle parts have risen twenty two percent since

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Speaker 1: the start of the pandemic. Well repair costs are up

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Speaker 1: fifty percent, absolutely none of that having anything to do

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Speaker 1: with corporate greed or climate check.

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Speaker 2: Now, the parts are up the same amount that overall

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Speaker 2: inflation's up roughly twenty percent.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and I'm so glad they bring this up

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Speaker 1: because and I wish I could get to the litigation abuse,

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Speaker 1: because that's important. But this is one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: aspects of life in America that nobody is talking about.

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Speaker 1: The progressive anti police movement fueled by George Floyd, the

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Speaker 1: Ferguson effect, et cetera, has seriously reduced traffic enforcement, resulting

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Speaker 1: in more reckless driving in accidents, deaths, from alcohol related

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Speaker 1: crashes have risen by a third since twenty nineteen, even

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Speaker 1: as arrests for driving under the influence and traffic citations

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Speaker 1: have fallen by twenty percent.

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Speaker 3: Effect meat cause