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

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Jetty en he Armstrong and Yetty Nicholas Buduro had

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Speaker 1: his chance, just like Iron had their chance. Until they didn't,

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Speaker 1: and until he didn't. He left around and he found out.

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Speaker 2: What we've witnessed today is a powerful demonstration of America's

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Speaker 2: joint force. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse,

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Speaker 2: we debrief, we rehearse again and again, not to get

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Speaker 2: it right, but to ensure that we cannot get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: Also, we haven't mentioned this yet today. New York Times

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Speaker 1: was their reporting on Sunday that we had somebody next

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Speaker 1: to Maduro. I mean, we had a mole in there,

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Speaker 1: knew where he was hour by hour all the time.

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Speaker 1: And so others have said, that's a good message to

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Speaker 1: send to Putin or various bad guys around the world.

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Speaker 1: Ayatola whoever, that we can get somebody really close to

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Speaker 1: you that knows exactly what's going on.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to know that raises a little paranoia among

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Speaker 3: the evildoers of the world.

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Speaker 1: Well haha, yeah, make some look around one. Oh but

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Speaker 1: it's him. I saw the way he looked at me

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Speaker 1: the other day at dinner. I'm gonna kill him super quick.

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Speaker 3: Note had a really enjoyable conversation with Mike Lyons about

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Speaker 3: this during hour two of the show to kick off

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Speaker 3: our two. If you missed it, you'll probably enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: Grab it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You

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Speaker 3: ought to be subscribing that way, it downloads automatically.

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Speaker 1: I've seen the pictures of Trump in the what do

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Speaker 1: they call it, that room that they're in when these

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Speaker 1: things are happening.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the situation, the situation room.

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Speaker 1: I like that we've got a situation happening, which is

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Speaker 1: pretty big.

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Speaker 3: After the guy from Jersey Shore, Mike, the situation pretty

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Speaker 3: broad term because everything's the situation, but the situation.

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Speaker 1: It's a fair point. And Trump's sitting in there, Tylas

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Speaker 1: collar open, looking very stern faced. I'll bet he was,

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Speaker 1: because same as Obama with gett know, Osama bin Laden

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Man, these things go wrong, not only and

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Speaker 1: I imagine first and foremost your thoughts or geez, I

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Speaker 1: hope we don't have, you know, twenty marines die here

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Speaker 1: or something like that. But then just the political fallout

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Speaker 1: would be immense if that had been a disaster, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: both are true. Oh, Zelensky over the weekend more or

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Speaker 1: less saying, how about, that's pretty cool what you did

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Speaker 1: there at the Maduro, But you try the putting there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little different, different situation, but I see your point.

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Speaker 3: Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it could have been a disaster.

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Speaker 3: And one of the main things we talked to Mike

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Speaker 3: Leines about was what a magnificent display it was of

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Speaker 3: American military might and coordination and prowess.

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Speaker 1: I reached out.

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Speaker 3: To a person I am close with, a career military fellow,

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Speaker 3: and expressed that in many words, and he responded back,

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Speaker 3: we can do some serious ass, I said, yours is

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Speaker 3: more concise than mine. We can like nobody else on earth.

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Speaker 3: But we certainly didn't to when we were leaving Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: So why is that horrible leadership? That's what I'm wondering.

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Speaker 1: Was it just was a Biden? Was the people below him?

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Speaker 1: Was it just didn't plan? And the way they were

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Speaker 1: just talking about there were you plan and plan and

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Speaker 1: plan and plan or Yeah.

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Speaker 3: One of the things I learned later in life that

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Speaker 3: has to be taught to non military people. Is that

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Speaker 3: one of the most difficult things the military ever does

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure that's very, very hard. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And Joe Biden was a horrible president on virtual

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Speaker 3: every level. So we heard General Cain there, Dan Raisin Caine.

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Speaker 3: It's such a good nickname. I hesitate to use it

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Speaker 3: because everybody uses it all the time, including our commander

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Speaker 3: in chief. But his descriptions during the news conference of

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Speaker 3: how the raid unfolded to me were just riveting.

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Speaker 1: Jackie. Mind if we jump into that now, let's start

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Speaker 1: with fifty two Michael.

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Speaker 2: This was an audacious operation that only the United States

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Speaker 2: could do. It required the utmost of precision and integration

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Speaker 2: within our joint force, and the word integration does not

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Speaker 2: explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction

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Speaker 2: so precise. It involved more than one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's I had no guess if you'd ask

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Speaker 2: A helicopter force ingress towards the objective at low level.

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Speaker 2: We arrived at Maduro's compound at one one am Eastern

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Speaker 2: and the apprehension force descended into Maduro's compound and moved

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Speaker 2: with speed, precision, and discipline towards their objective and isolated

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Speaker 2: ground force while apprehending the indicted persons.

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Speaker 3: As Mike Lyons describes so beautifully, the wave of aircrafted whoops,

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Speaker 3: there goes your defenses. Yeah, and now your power's out.

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Speaker 3: Oh there's your cordon of security.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye, fellas.

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Speaker 3: And just coordinating then with the special forces both Army

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Speaker 3: that I guess we're the best in the world at

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So Mike Lions did say, and you should listen

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Speaker 1: to that segment if you have any interest in this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. But he said the same thing that

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Speaker 1: to coordinate our various branches is what separates us from

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Speaker 1: the rest of the world, and that I don't know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, The more I hear about that, the more I

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Speaker 3: understand how incredibly important that isn't how impressive we are

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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I need your vote on this. Dan. Mike

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Speaker 1: needs a great nickname too, Mike Roaring Lions. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that's too much.

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Speaker 3: Mike's great, Mike the Mighty Lions, Mike a pride of No,

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Speaker 3: that's just obscure and showing off my knowledge of groups

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Speaker 1: Working on it. I mean, the guy's name is Lions.

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Speaker 3: Goodness sakes, we got to be able to come up with,

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Speaker 1: So Maduro is going to appear in court. He gave

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Speaker 1: But the other day when he got arrested in there,

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Speaker 1: What are you give a thumbs up for? Dude? I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's key, he's an optimist. I'd say, you're cool. I

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Speaker 1: has just gone one hundred and eighty degrees the other direction. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Flew first class, at least that's what I'm guessing, because

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Speaker 3: they had him in.

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Speaker 1: So that must have been a comfortable flight for him.

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Speaker 1: And we don't usually grab the wife, but we grabbed

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Speaker 1: But well, you wouldn't normally write you go and you

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Speaker 3: No, not unless she reached for a weapon, which I

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Speaker 3: think she did, or used her as a human shield

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Speaker 3: is what the hell now? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Trump saying we run Venezuela. I mean

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Speaker 1: he said that like an hour later or something like that.

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Speaker 1: We now we're going to run the country until there's

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Speaker 1: a judicious transition. Yeah, we're in charge of Venezuela. And

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Speaker 1: everybody in the world, I think, said, what what does

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Speaker 1: that mean? Yeah, how's that going to work? Exactly?

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Speaker 3: It was perhaps the greatest end We're gonna take control,

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Speaker 3: YadA YadA, YadA, the greatest YadA YadA anna in the

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Speaker 3: history of geopolitics. Now it's become more clear and we

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Speaker 3: could probably play some of Marco Rubio on the various touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He also said over the weekend that because we have

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Speaker 1: simultaneously happening, an even bigger event going on in Iran,

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Speaker 1: the security forces have decided not to shoot him down

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Speaker 3: I've got to admit I haven't been paying enough attention

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Speaker 3: to the Iran situation just because I've been so I've

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Speaker 3: long been a hardcore we need to be more activist

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Speaker 3: inan our hemisphere guy, and so I'm really interested in

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Speaker 3: the Venezuela thing and where I might go. But you're right,

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Speaker 3: that's a huge story. There are two choices. Either there

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Speaker 3: the hands of the security, for which Trump is vowed

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna let happen, or this is the beginning

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Speaker 3: of the end of the regime. Those are really the

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Speaker 3: only two choices. Oh yeah, I can't think of some others,

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Speaker 3: but those are the two main choices.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which would be huge.

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Speaker 3: One final thought for now on the Venezuela deal, because

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Speaker 3: oh the president, let's go ahead, Michael play I just

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Speaker 3: was looking at it a second ago that there is

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Speaker 1: The next question is who's in charge of Venezuela right now?

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Speaker 2: Have you spoken to the newly swarned president there, Rob Riguz,

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Speaker 2: and what are your thoughts on the entire situation.

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Speaker 1: We're dealing with the people.

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Speaker 2: We're dealing with the people they just got sworn in,

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Speaker 2: And don't ask me what's in charge, because.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an answer and it'll be very contulation.

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Speaker 4: Does that mean it's.

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Speaker 1: We're in charge? So we're in charge?

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Speaker 3: And it became more and more clear as Marco Rubio

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Speaker 3: but it became clear that the plan is, Look, we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for something that actually does matter. I was up

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Speaker 1: servicemen in Americans around the world. Be a huge deal

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Speaker 1: if the IATOLA fled. But usually they have these uprisings

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Speaker 1: a little bit protests, and they may slaughter people in

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Speaker 1: the streets until it ends. Trump has vowed we are

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Speaker 1: locked and loaded and will come to their rescue. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean?

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Speaker 3: And usually it's in the big cities, maybe the college

439
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Speaker 3: campuses that you have some of these demonstrations, but it's

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Speaker 3: filtered out into the hinterlands.

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Speaker 1: Of towns across the morn. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, among their many gripes is not only the oppression

443
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Speaker 3: but the fact that the annual inflation rate climbed to

444
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Speaker 3: forty two point two percent last month, forty two percent

445
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Speaker 3: devaluation of your pay in your savings year after year,

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Speaker 3: and the food inflation is even bigger, actually the price

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Speaker 3: of food.

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Speaker 1: So that is definitely one to keep your eye on

449
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Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Like I said, it'd be a big

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Speaker 1: deal if they Iotola fell and it you know, got

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Speaker 1: into that. Yeah, what do he thinks? Most likely though,

452
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Speaker 1: some sort of military dictatorship run by the Revolutionary Guard?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, just I mean that's certainly I would hope

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Speaker 3: and pray for something different, but.

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Speaker 1: Still could be less less of an enemy to the

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Speaker 1: United States than I totala though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and once you let the genie of liberalization out

458
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Speaker 3: of the bottle, it's very very hard to get back in.

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Speaker 3: So if the Revolutionary Guard were to say, look, we're

460
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Speaker 3: in charge now, it's not the Iyatola, and we realize

461
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Speaker 3: you're pissed off about this and that, and so we're

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Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna work with you on that. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: liberalize a little bit here, We're gonna make sure that

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Speaker 3: you know, whatever, this economic policy is a little more

465
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Speaker 3: enlightened If they fail on that, then they're back to

466
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Speaker 3: bloody crackdown on an emboldened population, or they get swept away.

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Speaker 1: Well, but then, what do you think about Trump saying

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Speaker 1: we ain't gonna stand for you shooting protesters in the street.

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Speaker 3: I think, wow, wow, that that requires a bit of

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Speaker 3: a Do we have a second? Yeah, we have a

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Speaker 3: second for an answer, a couple of things. Number One,

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Speaker 3: that gives the Iyatolas and the Revolutionary Guard the ability

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Speaker 3: to say, look, this is an outside attack or being

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Speaker 3: attacked by the evil West and by the infidels, and

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Speaker 3: they will appeal to everybody's Muslimism, but it might not

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Speaker 3: be enough because the regime is so hated enough. Iranians

477
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Speaker 3: would be like, look, I don't want to be occupied

478
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Speaker 3: by the US. But if they're going to punch the

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Speaker 3: iatola in the I R C U right and the beard, well,

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Speaker 3: then good good on him and we'll do the rest

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Speaker 3: of the overthrowing.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the help. I think we get a couple

483
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Speaker 1: of patchy helicopters in there, throw a lasso around that beard,

484
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Speaker 1: yank him up, him up about the beard? Okay, less serious, fair.

485
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Speaker 1: I cannot not watch Dick Clark's Rock in New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 1: I've watched it every year since I was like eight

487
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Speaker 1: years old. I can't not watch it. And my kids

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. Hey, we enjoy hating on it. We enjoy

489
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Speaker 1: mocking all so much. It's a show. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: so much fun to hate. First of all, who the

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Speaker 1: hell is watching that show? Who knows who Dick Clark is?

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Speaker 1: Old people go to bed. They don't stay up till midnight,

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Speaker 1: at least to all the ones. I can't be tractual.

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what's going on. But I got

495
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Speaker 1: a text from somebody and they said, ooh, they keep

496
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Speaker 1: teasing Diana Ross. I got to stay up for this.

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Speaker 1: They're big teas. So Ryan, Dick Clark died a long,

498
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Speaker 1: long time ago. If you don't know this, he was

499
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Speaker 1: a big deal when rock and roll started in the fifties,

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Speaker 1: Dick Clark, and then he had this New Year's Eve celebration.

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Speaker 1: He died a long time ago. Ryan Seacrest runs it now.

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Speaker 1: Ryan has had too much work. He has now crossed

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Speaker 1: over into Little Dolly Parton, got a little Kenny Rodgers

504
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: thing going there. Little too much. So just a tip

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Speaker 1: to Ryan Seacrest you've gone too far full Mani Low. Yes, yes,

506
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Speaker 1: that's what he looks like, Barry man Low. And he's

507
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Speaker 1: not that old. Can I somebody get me an age

508
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Speaker 1: on Ryan Seacrest? But he's already had too much surgery anyway.

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Speaker 1: FT four sounds about right, It's a guess sounds about right. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 1: what do you got daty? Katie? One fifty one? He

511
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Speaker 1: just turned fifty one.

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Speaker 3: Cool, it's way too old to be getting the man

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Speaker 3: Low too young? I'm sure it's way too young. You

514
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Speaker 3: have had so many surgeries that it's noticeable. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, how could you possibly be teasing your big

516
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: teas for the evening? So the show is always people

517
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: well past their prime, and then people that are so

518
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: new you've never heard of them, and so it satisfies nobody.

519
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see any of these people. And their

520
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Speaker 1: big tease was the Queen of Motown, Diana Ross, only

521
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Speaker 1: one hour away, like, who in the hell is this four?

522
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Speaker 1: And the crowd is all teenagers in early twenty somethings.

523
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Speaker 1: Who Diana Ross? I looked? I told my kids, I said,

524
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Speaker 1: I think she was a hit before I was born.

525
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Speaker 1: And Joe and I are old. Her first hit was

526
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Speaker 1: Before we were born, nineteen sixty four, and you're teasing

527
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: that as your big git for New Year's Eve. Just hilarious.

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Speaker 1: She came out there. She's almost she's a one year

529
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Speaker 1: younger than my mom. She's eighty one years old. Oh bo,

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Speaker 1: she was old when I was a kid. She's dressed

531
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Speaker 1: just like she always did, in a super tight long

532
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: dress and a bowl around her neck, and her big

533
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Speaker 1: giant hair and so much makeup you can't even tell

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Speaker 1: what she is. And she came out there and she

535
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: sang her song. So was it lip SYNCD? She actually

536
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Speaker 1: sang them you could tell because she got so winded.

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Speaker 1: She was breathed.

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Speaker 5: Up side upside down.

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Speaker 1: She was so winded from walking around the stage and

540
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: twirling around at her age, she almost ended up upside down.

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Speaker 1: Got on, Michael, that's the first staff joke of the ear.

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Speaker 1: They get nothing, friend. Wow, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: If you'd asked me to come up with a funny punchline,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I could have done that.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: Stay tuned, everybody, because we've got a special treat for you.

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Speaker 1: Was Gary Puckett Jaffa God silly? I mean it's wonderful,

548
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Speaker 1: wonderful s yes, half a century stress right, yes, Michael.

549
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Speaker 1: You remember how long they kept at Clark on the air.

550
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, well well well passed his

551
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: ability to after a stroke or anything like that. But

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Speaker 1: I'm just amazed by it. And so the way these networks,

553
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: because I mentioned this earlier, the final year end network

554
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: ratings came out and NBC ended up being number one,

555
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: but just by a sliver. Their average in primetime is

556
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Speaker 1: four million people. I'll about the average in primetime when

557
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: we were kids, with something like forty five million people,

558
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Speaker 1: forty million hit shows. Yeah yeah, well I averaged out

559
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: of course, yeah yeah. And now it's four million for

560
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: the number one network you get down to whichever finished last.

561
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Speaker 1: I think ABC was like three and a half million.

562
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Speaker 1: And so why they continue to hang on to the

563
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: old model until it's completely dead as opposed to try

564
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Speaker 1: to come up with something new and resonate with the

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Speaker 1: new generation. It's bonkers to me. Yeah, oh breaking Maduro news.

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Speaker 3: He went before the judge and told the judge he

567
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Speaker 3: rejects the charges because he was kidnapped. No, the English

568
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: word is apprehended there, Nikki, So shut up. And get

569
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: back to yourself.

570
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: He says he is not guilty. He pleaded not guilty

571
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: there in court. I'm contrare, says the prosecutor. Did some

572
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: talk of the death penalty. Any chance of that us

573
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: executing Maduro on us soil? Probably doubt it. I doubt it.

574
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: There's a lot of it's a lot of headache to

575
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: go to. We got cages. Put him in a cage,

576
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: put him in a day in cage. We will finish strong.

577
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: Next the Tao has cracked forty nine thousand for the

578
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: first time ever because of Maduro. More on that tomorrow, my.

579
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,719
Speaker 3: I drilling into him or selling him or what so

580
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 3: I'll give you a very short version of this and

581
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,959
Speaker 3: maybe pay it off tomorrow. I had long been skeptical

582
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 3: of the cliche that people, kids, especially who are bookworms,

583
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: wore glasses more or that you know, intellectuals wear glasses,

584
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: Chairman mount famously.

585
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: But I was wrong.

586
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 3: It's absolutely true, and ophthalmologists are raising alarms about an

587
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: epic an epidemic rather of childhood myopia, which is shortsightedness.

588
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 3: And we'd all known that social media and smartphones is

589
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: good for kids, mental health and hearts.

590
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: But reading.

591
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 3: Staring at a screen looking at something close to you

592
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: for a prolonged time causes the eyeball to grow longer

593
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 3: from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away.

594
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: No one wants a long eyeball.

595
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 3: Well you got a long eyeball, Son, And that's why

596
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: kids who are bookworms need glasses more interesting. In fact,

597
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 3: it's been declared a national emergency in China.

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Speaker 4: More reading glasses, strong, strong, Ready.

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00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: Here's yours for final thoughts, Joe Getty, let's get.

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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 3: A final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap

601
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: up the first show of the year. Katie Green or

602
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: esteem and use woman? Yeah, why don't you lead us off?

603
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 3: Katie will shake it up?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead? What's your final thought? I have to go

605
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: through my pantry and get rid of all of the

606
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: chocolate that I was given of Christmas.

607
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Speaker 3: Oh oh boy, good lord, so much chocolate. Michael Aangelow

608
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Speaker 3: are technical director. As a final thought for US, Michael, Yeah,

609
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 3: maybe I'm just being power hungry, but what if the

610
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: US takes over Chili.

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00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: I like the off season fruit and I like to

612
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Speaker 1: have full access to it.

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00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 3: You know, it's an issue, certainly, fruit Jack a final

614
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Speaker 3: thought for us.

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Speaker 1: I'll be tuning in the CBS Evening News tonight, as

616
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: they have vowed on too many stories, the press missed

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Speaker 1: the story because we've taken into account the perspective of

618
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: advocates and not the average American. We put too much

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Speaker 1: weight on the analysis of academics and elites and not

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00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: enough on you. That changes. Now that's the new Berry

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Speaker 1: Weiss Evening News starting tonight. I love that so much

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Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. I know.

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Speaker 3: My final thought is I was really enjoying vacation and

624
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 3: looked at returning to work. Is a lot of people

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Speaker 3: return to work even though we have a great job.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I did.

627
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: I sat down and read a bunch of emails that

628
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 3: we got on the last show of the year last year,

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Speaker 3: a lot of you saying absolutely lovely things about how

630
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Speaker 3: much you enjoy the show. And I thought, it's not

631
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Speaker 3: about you, dumb, dumb, It's about the good people.

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00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: Right. So you're their dancing monkey. Here, we are dancing

633
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: like the little monkeys.

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00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 3: We are put a fun head on us and watch

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Speaker 3: us go yay I'm kidding, Oh boy, Armstrong, you getdy.

636
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Speaker 1: Wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so many people.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong Egeddy dot com.

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Speaker 3: Here's the deal. You need to follow us or subscribe

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Katie, no more at and one of

644
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Just gotta gotta get him out

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Speaker 1: of here. We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong

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Speaker 1: in Getty.

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Speaker 2: The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation.

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Speaker 2: This was an audacious operation that only the United States

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Speaker 2: could do.

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Speaker 1: If you would have seen what I saw last night,

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Speaker 1: you would have been very impressed.

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Speaker 2: We train, we rehearse, not to get it right, but

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Speaker 2: to ensure that we cannot get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro had his chance. He left around and he

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Speaker 1: found out Armstrong and Getty