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Speaker 1: Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of

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Speaker 1: you hanging out with us. Happy Monday. And it is

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Speaker 1: week three of the Trump administration and basically the legacy

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Speaker 1: media and all their cronies essentially unable to keep up

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Speaker 1: with anything that is going on on a day.

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Speaker 2: To day basis.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, Trump said I'm going to put a twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent tariff on Mexican goods, twenty five percent on Canada,

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Speaker 1: ten percent on Canadian fuel. Within the last hour, essentially,

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Speaker 1: Mexico has folded in its standing up.

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Speaker 2: To the Trump tariff threats.

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Speaker 1: They have agreed to send ten thousand additional soldiers to

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Speaker 1: the border. They have agreed to work harder to interdict

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Speaker 1: the flow of fentanyl to the the United States, and

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Speaker 1: they have also been held to a new standard, which

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Speaker 1: is Trump is postponing the impact of the tariffs for

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Speaker 1: thirty days in the event that Mexico makes good on

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Speaker 1: its on its goals here, which are really the United

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Speaker 1: States goals Canada, I believe there is a three pm

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Speaker 1: deadline of sorts buck on exactly what may happen with Canada.

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Speaker 1: A lot of throat clearing and threats coming from America's

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Speaker 1: top hat to the north. But I would expect that

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Speaker 1: very quickly Canada will recognize that they need the United

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Speaker 1: States far more than the United States needs Canada. And

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Speaker 1: so what really is happening, Whether buck you look, we've

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Speaker 1: got a pattern now, Whether you look at Columbia and

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Speaker 1: its president refusing the return of illegal immigrant migrants, Trump

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Speaker 1: threatens retaliatory action Columbia buckles. Panama says, hey, we're not

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Speaker 1: doing anything wrong. Even though the Panama Canal is now

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Speaker 1: being managed by Hong Kong. We have Marco Rubio make

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Speaker 1: his initial visit there. Panama's president comes out to a

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Speaker 1: large extent, bends the knee. American power is back. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to apologize, We're going to use it. And

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Speaker 1: all of the people who are saying what Trump is

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Speaker 1: going to do is not going to work just look foolish.

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Speaker 1: As one after another. America's adversaries in many ways been

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Speaker 1: the knee to US diplomacy.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing, Clay. I know you were sick this weekend

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Speaker 3: and Clay fought through it. Everybody and is here on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Clay were hysterical by the way that you guys. Apparently

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Speaker 3: if you play the flute enough shirtless, your fever goes away.

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Speaker 3: According to the memes, that was good to know. But Clay,

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Speaker 3: I just this weekend I was out of the shooting range.

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Speaker 3: It was a busy weekend here in South Florida. The

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Speaker 3: amount of amazing things Donald Trump is doing, it's tough

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Speaker 3: to keep up with what's going on, and you keep

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Speaker 3: seeing things. And my first reaction, my ex feed is

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Speaker 3: the best it's ever been. X is the best it

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Speaker 3: has ever been. Okay, so remember when everyone was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: Elon's going to destroy Twitter. No, actually, I think that

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Speaker 3: played a large role in getting the truth out about

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Speaker 3: all things Trump related for this election, which I believe

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Speaker 3: strongly helped Trump in the election. You know, it was

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Speaker 3: And now when I open up my ex feed, it's,

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Speaker 3: you know, Trump threatens tariff with Mexico, Mexico caves. Trump

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Speaker 3: says Panama needs to change its Belton Road initiative with China.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is again through people in the cabinet,

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Speaker 3: through Mark Arrubio, but it's his administration and Panama now

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Speaker 3: is saying, you know what, we're not going to renew

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Speaker 3: with China the special deal we have that's part of

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Speaker 3: their Belt and Road initiative, and we're going to change

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Speaker 3: things up to give you more preferential rights to the

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Speaker 3: Panama Canal, by the way, that's not over yet. And

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Speaker 3: then on top of it, you've got Elon Musk and

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Speaker 3: this is so unprecedented that you would be seeing a

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Speaker 3: tweet that there's no longer a government, federal bureaucracy spending

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Speaker 3: the billions, the tens of billions that you have to

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Speaker 3: say to yourself, wait, is this really? Is this really

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Speaker 3: what's happening? And the FBI purge that happened Friday, well,

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Speaker 3: you know you were trying to hydrate and stay and

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Speaker 3: stay you know, as healthy as you could. I mean, Clay,

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Speaker 3: all these things together are remarkable. And Trump is just

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Speaker 1: So what Elon basically has decided is and I saw

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Speaker 1: him just tweet this, But the number one thing you

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Speaker 1: come from that the United States distributes? And he basically

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Speaker 1: mega brilliant kids, basically because they're supposedly like nineteen to

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Speaker 1: looking at every possible expenditure to see whether or not

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Speaker 1: it's in any way warranted or it's our tax dollars

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Speaker 1: being distributed in an inefficient manner. And I know that

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Speaker 1: many people out there who run a business understand the

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Speaker 1: necessity of going over the accounts payable and looking at

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Speaker 1: what you're actually spending versus what you need. I don't

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Speaker 1: think our government's ever done this, and so it's a

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Speaker 1: form of shock treatment because whatever business you deal with,

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Speaker 1: if it's for profit, it's probably not mega efficiently run.

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Speaker 1: And many of you out there know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: How many of you have been on the phone with

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Speaker 1: bill on an individual basis, and how extremely excruciatingly frustrating

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Speaker 1: that is. And that's a for profit business, and there's

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Speaker 1: still complete messes. Imagine what our federal government looks like,

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Speaker 1: where you have just layered trillions upon trillions and trillions

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Speaker 1: a business would, In other words, is this an intelligent

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Speaker 1: way to spend money? And the people who are shrieking

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Speaker 1: the loudest right now have been fat hogs who have

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Speaker 1: been feeding at the trough of the United States government

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Speaker 1: for generations, and suddenly people are saying, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: what is the taxpayer actually getting in exchange for all

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Speaker 3: I love this, but you see this and you go,

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Speaker 3: is this really? Is this really happening? Look? Trump, Trump

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Speaker 3: is blown away a new term two was going to

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Speaker 3: get off off and running really fast. Right. I think

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Speaker 3: we knew based on the team that he had and

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Speaker 3: just the sense of destiny and everything around Trumpet Clay,

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Speaker 3: we're in the third week here. The New York Times

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Speaker 3: headline Elon Musk's team now has access to Treasury's payment systems.

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Speaker 3: The Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen gave Musk's representatives at the

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Speaker 3: so called don't you love The New York Times hates

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Speaker 3: this so much? These so called I mean no, It's

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Speaker 3: called the Department of Government Efficiency, a powerful tool to

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Speaker 3: monitor and limit government spending. Clay Elon and his boys

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Speaker 3: have the checkbook now, Yeah, they can see exactly what's going.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about a way to

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Speaker 3: freak out the swamp and the deep state. This is amazing.

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Speaker 3: And we haven't even gotten to the fact that senior

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, this is what he tweeted thirty minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: The only way to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer

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Speaker 1: transactions for review. Obviously, naturally this causes those who have

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Speaker 1: very upset. Too bad. All he did was ask how

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Speaker 1: payments are made. One department does them, and he wants

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Speaker 1: to go look at it. And I think this is

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Speaker 1: indicative of and this is why many of you out

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Speaker 1: and why I personally couldn't do it. We were talking

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Speaker 2: From their work.

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Speaker 1: In other words, you don't want to really get noticed,

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Speaker 1: you don't really want to shake things up. The government

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Speaker 1: way that I think many government workers have come to think.

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Speaker 1: And when you have a guaranteed paycheck, I understand that

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Speaker 1: what Elon Musk, through Trump, who has empowered him, is

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Speaker 1: Elon seems optimistic Buck, that they're going to be able

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Speaker 1: to cut a trillion dollars in spending. Now, if they

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Speaker 1: economic growth. And I think what Elon's is thirty six

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Speaker 1: Interest rates aren't coming back down, Buck. The Fed has

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Speaker 1: That's how true growth happens for everybody. And that seems

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Speaker 1: to be the goal that Elon Musk is pursuing, in

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Speaker 1: addition to trying to put people on Mars and try

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Speaker 3: Here's I think you've hit on something that's really important,

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Speaker 3: that is defining this era that we're in right now,

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Speaker 3: the new Golden Era, however you want to phrase it.

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Speaker 3: You have the most I don't know, impactful, profound, transformative,

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Speaker 3: let's go transformative. You have the most transformative figure in

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Speaker 3: way that is happening right now. It's incredible.

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Speaker 2: It's like the actual Avengers coming all to work in

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Speaker 2: the furtherance of America.

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Speaker 3: And I mean if I told you two years ago, Clay,

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Speaker 3: of Trump's second term, I mean that sounds insane, right, yes.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is where Trump deserves credit too.

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Speaker 1: Trump recognizes the talent, the necessity and the sheer bad

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Speaker 1: ass ness of Elon Musk and his team to such

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Speaker 1: an extent that he has basically deputized them and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: go make the government great, go make it more efficient.

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Speaker 1: You have a skill set that very few people do,

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Speaker 1: and Elon's skill set is so rare that other supremely

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Speaker 1: give back to the country. And I Buck, I saw

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Speaker 1: I think you sent this tweet. And I've been admittedly

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Speaker 1: such that I didn't even know when Luka Doncik got

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Speaker 3: A a fusillade, a salvo, an avalanche of Trump policy,

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Speaker 5: Tonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the

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Speaker 1: great enthusiasm everywhere on all fronts as things seemed to

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Speaker 2: We don't even.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it, but in two weeks Buck, basically the

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Speaker 2: But it's a.

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Speaker 1: Testament to Trump that all it took was him coming

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Speaker 2: And we yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Was just gonna say, the the trade war.

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Speaker 2: The Mexican standar off has well done.

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Speaker 3: This is it's so funny to me, Clay. You have

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Speaker 1: Biden didn't do anything to the Trump tariffs. It's not

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Speaker 1: it was a validation of Trump's economic policy. To even

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Speaker 3: Well, one of the reasons you didn't hear much about

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Speaker 3: on that. Let me just on the specifics here of Mexico.

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Speaker 3: By the way, this is from truth Social just now

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Speaker 3: We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for

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Speaker 3: That has become the foreign policy bipartisan consensus until now.

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Speaker 1: I think so many of these people have gotten used

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Speaker 2: And I've said this for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you think about Trump, the guy is a master

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Speaker 1: And how many of you out there, look, we hire

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Speaker 1: me a massive amount by cutting a trillion dollars in

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Speaker 1: federal expenditures.

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Speaker 3: He is a This is a dream team situation. And

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Speaker 3: let me also say and JD Vince and there were

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Speaker 3: some of you last summer, who were all book?

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Speaker 5: Why do you like? JD?

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Speaker 3: Vince? Why do you so?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: And I know you have a lot of you knew,

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Speaker 3: but some of you you've come around now. JD. Van's

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Speaker 3: fabulous communicator, excellent surrogate for all things Trump White House,

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Speaker 3: a great future for MAGA down the line. I mean,

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Speaker 3: but in terms of the dream team of Trump and

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Speaker 3: Elon working together immediately doing the things cy they're wasting

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Speaker 3: no time. Rubio, Secretary of State. Rubio has announced he

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Speaker 3: is now the acting director of USAID, the US Agency

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Speaker 3: for International Development. Musk and Trump are working to dismantle

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Speaker 3: the agency. This story broke during this segment right now.

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Speaker 3: Well you with you and me talking. I've even seen

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Speaker 3: some reports online that there are people who are trying

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Speaker 3: this is amazing, Clay quote. It is the apocalypse at USAID.

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Speaker 6: That's amazing. I mean, this is not stuff you ever read.

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Speaker 6: Government agencies. They're here forever. They never get their budgets cut,

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Speaker 6: they never get told what to do. There are people

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Speaker 6: online saying that they're trying to block physically block those

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Speaker 6: employees from getting access to different parts of USAID like

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Speaker 6: they own it, like these government employees. It's their house

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Speaker 6: or something.

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Speaker 1: Every single person out there who works in private business

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Speaker 1: that is not funded by the government. All of you

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Speaker 1: at some point have either been fired. I've been fired,

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Speaker 1: or you've had to worry that you might be fired.

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Speaker 1: The reason I started my own small businesses was because

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Speaker 1: I got fired and I was like, I never want

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Speaker 1: And a lot of you out there who are entrepreneurs

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Speaker 1: have had similar experiences in your life. That's why you

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Speaker 1: started your small businesses that maybe have grown into big businesses.

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Speaker 1: No one in the government has ever had to deal

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Speaker 1: with this to your point, Bucket, no one has ever

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Speaker 1: had to sit and look over their shoulder and be like, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: if I don't finish this report today, then I might

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Speaker 1: have to worry about there being some sort of consequences.

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Speaker 3: Can I give you a quick window into what this

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Speaker 3: is Like. I was in the CIA in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and eight when the financial crisis just you know, when

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Speaker 3: lemand Leman was allowed to collapse into nothing and the

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Speaker 3: stock market was you know, free fall and all these

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Speaker 3: all these things people were talking about, you know, a

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Speaker 3: credit cataclysm and all this stuff, right, and you know

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Speaker 3: what was like the CIA. Occasionally people at the water

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Speaker 3: cooler or in the We actually had a Starbucks and

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Speaker 3: a dunkin Donuts at Langley and people made a lot

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Speaker 3: of judgments about you based on the morning. Were you

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Speaker 3: a Starbucks guy or a dunkin Donuts guy? You were

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Speaker 3: a dunkin Donuts guy, I'm assuming right. Yes, it was

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Speaker 3: a red state blue state. It was a subtle red

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Speaker 3: state blue state internal thing like everyone that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, dunkin Donuts is based in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 3: They're actually but it's interesting by the Carlisle Group. It's

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Speaker 3: it's it's a you know, a huge private equity firm.

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Speaker 3: I think it's owned by the Carlot Group, but it's

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Speaker 3: owned by a huge private equity firm, I know. But

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Speaker 3: the perception was it was more like normal, you know,

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Speaker 3: working class and Starbucks was like the fancy place. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: anybody who visits Langley can see these things. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they have two in the cafeteria. They have a Starbucks.

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Speaker 3: I don't if they still do. They had a Starbucks

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Speaker 3: and a dunkin Donuts. And we used to call it

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Speaker 3: red state, blue state because I would see all the

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Speaker 3: like especially I would see all the like paramilitary guys

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Speaker 3: when they'd come through Langleyer headquarters, always in dunkin Donuts,

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Speaker 3: and then at Starbucks it was much more. They all

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Speaker 3: kind of look like David Hogg, who's now the vice

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Speaker 3: chair of the DNC, by the way, which is hilarious.

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Speaker 3: But I bring it up because the financial crisis was

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Speaker 3: happening and people were walking around the building like like

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Speaker 3: it had no effect on them whatsoever, because we were in

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Speaker 3: the government and we were fine and our checks will clear.

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Speaker 3: And you know, the only thing you heard a few

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Speaker 3: people grumble about was their four oh one k's went down,

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Speaker 3: you know, twenty percent or something, and they're like, well,

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Speaker 3: it'll come back. But that was it. There was no concern.

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Speaker 3: People were losing their houses and their jobs and then

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Speaker 3: all this stuff whatever, And it was at CIA. It

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Speaker 3: was business as usual. So I can tell you that's

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Speaker 3: what it's like in all federal government agencies and has

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Speaker 3: been for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: And also, Buck there is no incentive to move quickly

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Speaker 1: on anything. I remember one of my buddies said, and

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Speaker 1: this is when they actually went into office, obviously, was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I work with the federal government and I

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Speaker 1: was like, what's it like there? And he said, dude,

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Speaker 1: you should just come and look at our stairwell and

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Speaker 1: our elevators. At the minute it hits five pm. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he is, like, it is a stampede of

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Speaker 1: every single person has come there. You know, they've wiled

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Speaker 1: away the day and they hit He said, like, you

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Speaker 1: should just come and stand. And the idea that the

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Speaker 1: taxpayer is getting a good return on the money that

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Speaker 1: we are paying for all of this is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. I can't imagine.

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Speaker 1: There have to be so many unfulfilled people in government

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Speaker 1: who actually do have talents that the economy would benefit

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Speaker 1: from if they applied them elsewhere. But they've gotten locked

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Speaker 1: in and they're like, hey, I'm making seventy five or

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Speaker 1: eighty or one hundred K. I've got retirement in sixteen years.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to rock the boat. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: what a miserable way that is to live? I just

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine putting my labor into that.

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Speaker 3: This is a quote at the direction of agency leadership.

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Speaker 3: The us AID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington,

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Speaker 3: d C. Is closed to agency personnel today February third,

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Speaker 3: agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will

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Speaker 3: work remotely. This is from an internal email that cnnis

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Speaker 3: has published, you know, has published a text from thousands

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Speaker 3: of contractors and civil servants have lost access to email

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Speaker 3: and USAID systems. I mean, this is this is real.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: There's kind of stuff that it's like if Trumpet said

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Speaker 3: on the campaign trail, it'll be like that would be amazing.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, come on, Clay, he's doing it. Do

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Speaker 3: you think there's very much Here's the other thing. Who

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Speaker 3: are the people that are gonna feel bad for the

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Speaker 3: government employees who have never had to face any sort

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Speaker 3: of consequences for their sinecure jobs. I just don't think

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Speaker 3: there's a I understand they have a lobby and they

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Speaker 3: will use the media, the legacy media, to try to

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Speaker 3: turn this into the equivalent of, you know, fascism and

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Speaker 3: hit Lary.

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Speaker 2: It's really funny, by the way.

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Speaker 1: Fascism is not employing as many people in the federal

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Speaker 1: like shrinking the size of the federal That's what they're

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Speaker 1: gonna argue, which is very funny in of itself. I

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Speaker 1: don't you may recall some example in history of someone

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Speaker 1: taking over the government by making it smaller. And it

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Speaker 1: actually is a very funny concept, but that's what they're

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Speaker 1: going to try to argue that Trump is a dictator.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love every aspect of this. Look.

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Speaker 2: Remember when cam quarters were the hot item back in

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Speaker 2: the eighties and nineties. True story.

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Speaker 1: I remember my dad thought that he was going to

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Speaker 1: become a camcording genius, went in bought a cam quarterer.

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Speaker 2: This is one hundred percent true.

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Speaker 1: Came out, looked at the instruction, manual, got home, took

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Speaker 1: it back and got his mother. He was like, this

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Speaker 1: is too complicated for me. I'm just going to stick

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Speaker 1: VHS tapes in the Travis. There's one hundred percent story

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Speaker 1: like he got it. He looked at it, he was like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I'm just going to go back to the

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Speaker 1: regular camera. Poor guy probably celebrating so in that big camquarterer.

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Speaker 3: Just a quick programming note, I have been informed by

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Speaker 3: the local authorities here that they may be shutting off

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Speaker 3: power in my grid. Again, Clay, So why is the

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Speaker 3: power constantly getting shut off in your grid?

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Speaker 2: I mean you're not in Nicaragua, right, I mean like.

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Speaker 3: I am in this lovely place, South Florida, which is

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Speaker 1: How much notice did you get that they would be

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Speaker 1: turning your power off in an hour? And like I've

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Speaker 1: basically got an hour of notice that they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. The power would just go out.

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Speaker 1: Buck We kept plastic ice cubes frozen in the refrigerator

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