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

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Speaker 4: What's stuffed in there kind of made me nauseous. Of course,

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Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite pizzas, Like chicken bacon garlic,

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Speaker 2: had one. Yeah, So a couple of things. Number one,

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Speaker 2: to cap off the discussion last hour, and if you

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Speaker 2: wastes of taxpayer dollars. Well, it's graft. Is theft under

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Speaker 2: the guise of the Green New Deal and the rest

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Speaker 2: about the incredible graft in our government is to broaden

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Speaker 2: the tax code. Have everybody have significant skin in the game,

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Speaker 2: in favor of fiscal responsibility. That's why the left is

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Speaker 2: constantly harping on about the rich need to pay their

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Speaker 2: It is a specific strategy. Secondly, in his not the

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Speaker 2: State of the Union address the other night, Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: enlisting a bunch of stupid expenditures that they've gotten rid of,

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Speaker 2: to tell you it's a fascinating land that leads the

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Speaker 4: Narrow it down to a hemisphere for me, it's it's

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Speaker 4: in Africa, Okay, southern hemisphere.

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Speaker 2: Obviously.

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Speaker 4: In World War three news, a couple of different things.

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Speaker 4: First of all, this Donald J. Trump, he is at

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Speaker 4: real Donald Trump on your Twitter tweeted this out yesterday.

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Speaker 2: This is how the world got.

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Speaker 4: This news Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. You can

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Speaker 4: choose release all of the hostages now, not later, and

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Speaker 4: immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people

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Speaker 4: you murdered, or it's over for you. In all caps

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Speaker 4: only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are

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Speaker 4: sick and twisted.

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Speaker 2: Exclamation point.

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Speaker 4: I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.

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Speaker 4: Not a single Hamas set member will be safe if

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Speaker 4: you don't do as I say. I've just met with

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Speaker 4: your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed.

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Speaker 2: This is your last warning. Exclamation point.

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Speaker 4: He met in the Oval office with a whole bunch

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Speaker 4: of hostages who were released and told him their horrifying

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Speaker 4: stories of abuse and torture and people they saw murdered,

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Speaker 4: so it was fresh on his mind when he sent

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Speaker 4: out this tweet.

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Speaker 2: Well and again to echo the President's sentiments. What kind

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Speaker 2: of sickos hold back the dead bodies is extortion is

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Speaker 2: a bargaining chip for the leadership.

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Speaker 4: Now is the time to leave Gaza while you still

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Speaker 4: have a chance. Also, to the people of Gaza, a

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Speaker 4: beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. If

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Speaker 4: you do you are dead all caps exclamation point.

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Speaker 2: Make a smart decision.

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Speaker 4: Smart in all caps, and the rest of the messages

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Speaker 4: all caps, capital letters. Release the hostages now or there

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Speaker 4: will be hell to pay later.

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Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America. Wow. Wow,

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Speaker 2: Are you able to get through all that veiled diplomatic talk,

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Speaker 2: Jack to get it the message he's trying to send

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Speaker 2: anything he means it. Yes, I do too. Now, he

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Speaker 2: was fired up from that meeting with the hostages, and

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Speaker 2: you probably shouldn't decide national policy while you're fired up,

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Speaker 2: or maybe you should. Well that's an interesting thought. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he has said that sort of thing before, so

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Speaker 2: obviously it's not just a momentary whim. Look, here's my

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Speaker 2: point of view, which I've made fairly clear. They are

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Speaker 2: Islamic supremacist bent on wiping out the Jews. This is

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Speaker 2: Hamas and the radicals, and that includes many of the

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Speaker 2: average folks in Palestine, in the Palestinian territories they believe

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Speaker 2: this too. They're bent on dominating the entire world in

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Speaker 2: the name of Muhammad, period, no matter who they have

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Speaker 2: to kill or how many of them have to die.

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Speaker 2: They're Islamic supremacists. They're incredibly dangerous, as dangerous as any

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Speaker 2: movement that's ever existed on Earth period. Refute me if

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Speaker 4: Almost always it's a bad idea to make big decisions

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Speaker 4: or pronouncements when you're emotional. But maybe in this case,

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Speaker 4: fresh off of talking to people who were held by

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Speaker 4: these monsters, is a good time to make a very

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Speaker 4: clear declaration before you get bogged down in a whole

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Speaker 4: bunch of foreign policy papers of Saudi Arabian oil prices

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Speaker 4: and blah blah blah and this and that tectonic plates

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Speaker 4: and Nana and just flat you know, I just heard

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Speaker 4: this woman's story of being raped and seeing people murdered.

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Speaker 4: Screw these people. You release all the hostages and bodies now,

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Speaker 4: or I'm killing you all. I guarantee being the autopsy

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Speaker 4: reports of that young mom and her two little boys

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Speaker 4: who were murdered deliberately in cold blood with their.

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Speaker 2: Hands by Hamas.

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Speaker 4: So I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish

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Speaker 4: the job. Not a single HOMAS member will be safe.

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Speaker 4: This is your last warning. You got to follow through

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Speaker 4: on that. I mean, you lose all credibility.

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Speaker 2: Boy. I bet the gender studies classes at Columbia University

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Speaker 2: are a buzz this morning.

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Speaker 4: How about that opening Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye.

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Speaker 2: You can choose. It's like aloha Jack, It's very similar.

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Speaker 4: Release all the hostages now, not later, or it is

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Speaker 4: over for you. Well, I don't know that there's not

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Speaker 4: a specific deadline on this.

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Speaker 2: Now. Does now mean.

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Speaker 4: By a close of business COB or this weekend or

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Speaker 4: in the next month.

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Speaker 2: I think it means we are now taking the steps.

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Speaker 2: The countdown has begun to massive strikes, et cetera. We

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Speaker 2: are going to unleash them the moment they're ready unless

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Speaker 2: you make a move.

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Speaker 4: Or Israel will release them and you're what's going to

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Speaker 4: be different is you're not going to hear a peep

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Speaker 4: out of the president of concerns for going too far

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Speaker 4: or don't as Kamala Harris said to Benjamin Netanyahu when

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Speaker 4: he was talking about going into Romala.

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Speaker 2: Or wherever he was going to go to Rafa, Yeah, yeah, don'ticulous.

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Speaker 2: Who got to pursue the two state solution? Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: that's one part of World War three. Here's the other part.

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Speaker 4: So we got the trade war ramping up with China,

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Speaker 4: which is we keep saying is a completely different story

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Speaker 4: than Mexico and Canada.

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Speaker 2: UH.

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Speaker 4: China's Defense ministry spokesman put out this message yesterday.

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Speaker 2: This is from the This.

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Speaker 4: Came out of their their embassy here in the United States,

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Speaker 4: basically their their spokesman for the second Deaf Well, and

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Speaker 4: unlike Pete Heggsath occasionally getting out over his skis UH,

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Speaker 4: this is with the full approval Ishesion Ping.

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Speaker 2: It's it's without a doubt. Well, that's interesting.

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Speaker 4: This is actually a different one, which is also very

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Speaker 4: provocative than the one I was thinking of earlier.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, put out this statement.

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Speaker 4: If a war is what the US wants, be it

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Speaker 4: a terraff war, a trade war, or any other type

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Speaker 4: of war, We're ready to fight till the end.

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Speaker 2: That's from the Chinese embassy. Wow.

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Speaker 4: And obviously that's pretty provocative because you could have said,

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Speaker 4: or any other type of war, we're ready to fight.

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Speaker 2: Till the end. Is pretty provocative.

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Speaker 4: Between the two most powerful, well two of the three

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Speaker 4: most powerful countries on Earth, Russia being the other one.

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Speaker 2: By the way, although as has been said many times

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Speaker 2: which is metaphor that's tough to get passed to the substance.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what you were going to say. That's

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Speaker 2: that is, ah, the lighter side of nuclear holocaust. That

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Speaker 2: is the problem with that metaphor. It's an excellent one,

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Speaker 2: but Russia is a paper tiger. It's a little Aputian.

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Speaker 2: But its gigantic arm is its nuclear arms. And so

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Speaker 2: if you if you assume nobody's going to get into

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Speaker 2: a nuclear holocaust, then don't even mention Russia to me, well,

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Speaker 2: questionably more powerful.

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Speaker 4: Apparently we regularly do assume they're willing to do that.

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Speaker 4: I mean all of our decisions on arming Ukraine in

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Speaker 4: the Biden administration were based around how likely Putin would

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Speaker 4: use nukes, So that was the whole thing. Yeah, will

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Speaker 4: the midget hit us with his giant giant arm?

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Speaker 2: I hope not.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I've got more on that thought right after that,

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Speaker 4: you no, I apologize.

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Speaker 2: It's a useful metaphor, but it's derailed the entire conversation.

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Speaker 4: So there is some interesting reporting in the Wall Street

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Speaker 4: Journal about Trump's trade war, particularly with China.

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Speaker 2: I'll read that later.

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Speaker 4: I've read. Yeah, and it's in the Wall Street Staday,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy eight thousand men. That's the British army. How

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Speaker 4: And why did we give them money? Why did they

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Speaker 4: And Trump's just recognizing that that is already over and

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Speaker 2: Economically. Yeah, how and when is the great question?

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Speaker 4: And Trump haters took that as look, how awful this is.

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Speaker 4: I missed this last week, so referring and everybody believes

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Speaker 2: Oh, poor you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because the next foot to drop was so interesting.

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Speaker 2: There was a hastily convened press conference late on Tuesday

441
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Speaker 2: in Germany and Friedrich Mehrtz. Fred Mertz announced a break

442
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Speaker 2: with German tradition for the last seventy five years from

443
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Speaker 2: now on Germany's famously strict fiscal rules. Is it even

444
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Speaker 2: worth noting? Post WW one till WW two Germany was

445
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Speaker 2: a financial ruin. That's one of the reasons Hitler was

446
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Speaker 2: able to take power. So you know why.

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Speaker 4: I just learned this recently from reading that book about

448
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Speaker 4: the Impressionists and Paris in eighteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: I have an idea, but go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, after Prussia, which became Germany during that war so

451
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Speaker 4: soundly defeated France, France started the war with Germany then

452
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Speaker 4: just thrashed them like in a couple of days. They

453
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Speaker 4: imposed such over the top onerous financial penalties on Paris.

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Speaker 2: That's why Paris.

455
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Speaker 4: Went so far after French, France, Germany and World War One.

456
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Speaker 4: They were still angry from that war. In eighteen seventy

457
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Speaker 4: and they went too far. Isn't that interesting the way

458
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Speaker 4: history works?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, absolutely so. So anyway, so from now on,

460
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Speaker 2: Mertz said, Germany's famously strict fiscal rules would no longer

461
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Speaker 2: apply to military spending, paving the way for a rapid

462
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Speaker 2: acceleration in the country's rearmament. The incoming government was also

463
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Speaker 2: set up a five one hundred billion euro infrastructure investment

464
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Speaker 2: fund to rebuild the country's long neglected transport, energy and

465
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Speaker 2: digital infrastructure. He added, quote, given the threats to our

466
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Speaker 2: freedom and to peace on our continent, we must do

467
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Speaker 2: whatever it takes for our continent. The country needed to

468
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Speaker 2: re arm he added, and so to do so, it

469
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Speaker 2: needed to rebuild its economic muscle at all as well.

470
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Speaker 2: Rather so this is and look, I'm not willing, I'm

471
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Speaker 2: not going to rush in and praise Trump as some

472
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Speaker 2: sort of grand historic puppeteer, because we have to see

473
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Speaker 2: how all of this plays out. But it sure seems

474
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Speaker 2: to be going in the direction of at least some

475
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Speaker 2: of the European powers are becoming I believe the paraphrase

476
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Speaker 2: tusk Ally's worth having, right, I mean, what the hell's

477
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Speaker 2: the point Britain is a good old friend. We used

478
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Speaker 2: to have a king together. Those were good times. Common language, English,

479
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Speaker 2: common law, blah blah blah. I love the Brits, I

480
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Speaker 2: love the UK. But as an ally, maybe too many.

481
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Speaker 4: Dudes are people just in general have watched too many

482
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Speaker 4: World War Two movies and documentaries and still think of Germany,

483
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 4: France and Great Britain as these.

484
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Speaker 2: Dominant global military powers. Yeah, when they're not the vaunted

485
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: British Navy, the German ground forces and tank columns and Luftwaffe. No,

486
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 2: not so much. It's it's like thinking I'm the baseball

487
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 2: player I was in nineteen eighty three.

488
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Speaker 4: I'm not, and neither are they. Yeah, and I heard

489
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Speaker 4: some of the math on this. It's very troubling. Even

490
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Speaker 4: if you know Germany actually does and France does, and

491
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Speaker 4: Britain does really commit to spending a lot more money

492
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Speaker 4: and building up their forces. It would take years for

493
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Speaker 4: them to get up to a place where they're somewhere

494
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Speaker 4: close to the United States.

495
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Speaker 2: I mean, we're the dominant military power.

496
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Speaker 4: They have five hundred million people is Europe, and they're

497
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Speaker 4: not even close to the United States, Russia or China

498
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Speaker 4: militarily and their economy, the EU economy, especially if you

499
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Speaker 4: include Britain, has depending on how you measure it an economy,

500
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Speaker 4: the same sizes are slightly more slightly less depending on

501
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Speaker 4: what year you're talking about. So it's more people every

502
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Speaker 4: bit the economy. And they have like a stick as

503
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Speaker 4: they're military because and it's it's.

504
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Speaker 2: Like so many things we say, you know, soft people

505
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 2: are soft. Easy times produce soft people. Soft people produce

506
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: hard times. Hard times produce tough people. Blah blah, that cycle.

507
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 2: And in the same way that we often say, hey,

508
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: the kids didn't raise themselves, Europe is the product of

509
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: the United States security umbrella being so impregnable and we

510
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 2: are so serious about keeping it strong. And you know, frankly,

511
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 2: the Soviet Union crumbled and China wasn't much and so

512
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: there weren't any great threats. They became very, very soft

513
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Speaker 2: in the way that it's practically inevitable for countries to

514
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Speaker 2: do and people to do. But now and lefties who

515
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: just try to discredit Trump are blaming Trump for this.

516
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. I'm blaming Vladimir Putin and Chijan Ping and

517
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: just the way the world changes. But they've realized that

518
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: period is over. These are the tough times that we

519
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: warned about, and soft people in soft countries will get squashed.

520
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: You know, it was a great saying. Who said this,

521
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: Dostoski or King Lear on it? I can't remember. It's uh.

522
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Speaker 2: Powerful countries do what they will, Weak countries do what

523
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Speaker 2: they must. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The MSNBC crowd constantly that portraying this is us abandoning

525
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Speaker 4: our I mean, I I'm for I think we should

526
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Speaker 4: sport Ukraine.

527
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. I said that a million times. I'm

528
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: not making that argument. But the idea is a very

529
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: very useful alliance. But the idea that that we're abandoning them.

530
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Speaker 4: They abandoned us a long time ago, or they abandoned

531
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Speaker 4: the commitment to the current world order right, they like it.

532
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Speaker 2: They just want us to make sure we do it.

533
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Speaker 2: And there's not no value to continuing to speak of

534
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: our strong reliance. That does actually have value some but

535
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: the old guard placed so much value on saying the

536
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Speaker 2: right things and acting as if it was still the

537
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Speaker 2: NATO of nineteen fifty that they ignored the utter rot within,

538
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Speaker 2: and Trump is not putting up with that. On paper,

539
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: it's great, it's indisputably great. Just have to see how

540
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: it plays out.

541
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I personally could talk about this all day, but

542
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 4: for better or worse, we will be talking about it

543
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 4: for the coming days, weeks, months, years, and maybe centuries.

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Speaker 2: I have more information on beautiful Lesotho. No, okay, never mind.

545
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Speaker 4: I do want to get to the You remember the

546
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 4: story of the Kansas City Chiefs fans. They go over

547
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Speaker 4: to a buddy's house to watch a game. He falls

548
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Speaker 4: asleep on the couch. His last thing he remembers, passes out. Yeah,

549
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 4: his buddies apparently went out in the backyard and FROs

550
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Speaker 4: to death. He didn't know they were out there, so

551
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 4: he says, anyway, there have been some arrests in that

552
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 4: whole thing, and kind of if you're a partier, you

553
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 4: might want to hear how this story is going down. Anyway,

554
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 4: lots of stuff on the way.

555
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Speaker 2: Stay here, Farmstrong Ngetti.

556
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Speaker 1: Authorities booking the so called chemist along with another man

557
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: on manslaughter charges yesterday, the first offend at Jordan Willis

558
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: owns the home where his friends and bodies were found

559
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: back in January of twenty twenty four. Now, after searching

560
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Speaker 1: Willis's home, investigators found a bag of drugs with Willis's

561
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Speaker 1: DNA on it, another bag of Fittanel had traces of

562
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Speaker 1: Carson's DNA, and a witness who was watching the game

563
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Speaker 1: with the victims providing a probable cost statement claiming he

564
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Speaker 1: saw a large plate of cocaine supplied by Willis for

565
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Speaker 1: the rest of the group earlier that day.

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Speaker 2: So we talked about this a lot.

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Speaker 4: When it happened, it was fourteen months ago, as a

568
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Speaker 4: year and two months ago, they found those chief sickles

569
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Speaker 4: in the backyard of that guy's house. Three Kansas City

570
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Speaker 4: Chiefs fans that froze to death, and everybody's trying to

571
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Speaker 4: figure out and he was passed out in the house

572
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 4: and it was like three days. People tried to get

573
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Speaker 4: a hold of him. He didn't answer the phone or whatever.

574
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 4: Finally people had to come knock on the door. He's like,

575
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Speaker 4: you know, they're asking you, have you've seen Jim.

576
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

577
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Speaker 4: Somebody at some point looks in the backyard and Jim's

578
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Speaker 4: frozen solid.

579
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Speaker 2: Him and two other dudes. Yeah. Yeah, seemed pretty clearly

580
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Speaker 2: a drug overdose thing at the time, and that's what

581
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Speaker 2: it turned out to be.

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Speaker 4: But now they've made some arrests so you have a

583
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Speaker 4: party at your house. It's probably not unusual. I'm guessing.

584
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Speaker 4: I doubt this was the first time they've ever had

585
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 4: this sort of get together. But you have a party

586
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: at your house, you supply the Inebrians they freeze to death.

587
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 4: A mirror is more traditional, but back too, and then

588
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 4: you're charged with what it's so, my gosh, I just

589
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 4: saw the story of manslaughter.

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Speaker 2: That's sort of pretty bad. Not uh yeah, it's a

591
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: serious crime. Yeah, it's not murder per se. But and

592
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Speaker 2: and to me, the guy who served up the drugs,

593
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Speaker 2: the homeowner, the buddy, that's a different situation than the

594
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Speaker 2: guy who sold it to.

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Speaker 4: Them, right, Well, that's why I've been focusing on the dude.

596
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Speaker 4: To just he owned the house and he did what

597
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 4: his friends probably do. Also, the drug dealer is a

598
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Speaker 4: different thing. Uh And and you know, if this scares

599
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Speaker 4: drug dealers all across the country, holy crap, I'm on

600
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Speaker 4: the hook for murder.

601
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Speaker 2: If some stinks into the drugs, well good, you know

602
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: I have no problem with that, right yeah, yeah, I

603
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: love this idea. And we've known some great, you know,

604
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Speaker 2: grieving parents whose kids thought they were taking a zanax

605
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 2: and they found them dead in their bedroom in the morning.

606
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: There are no pills or powder drugs that are safe

607
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 2: at this point, there are no street drugs that are safe.

608
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: In short, and people selling death are responsible for the deaths.

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Speaker 2: I mean, on the left, you have bizarre arguments that

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Speaker 2: a firearms manufacturer is responsible if somebody commits a murder.

611
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a stretch, beyond a stretch. But somebody

612
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Speaker 2: who sells drugs that might be one thing or not

613
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 2: or the other and people die from it, I mean

614
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: that is clearly a crime if you're misrepresenting what you've sold,

615
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: your poisoning people, which I was about to say, in

616
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Speaker 2: the drug dealer's defense, he's entitled to it a defense

617
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Speaker 2: jacket's in the constitutions.

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Speaker 4: Unless you're gonna like every because you've got your supplier

619
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Speaker 4: who's probably a scary person or works for a very

620
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 4: scary person. But what are you supposed to do if

621
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Speaker 4: you want to be in that line of work? And

622
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 4: maybe maybe the overall point here is you shouldn't be

623
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 4: in that line of work, I suppose. But oh, if

624
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Speaker 4: you're in that line of work as a drug dealer,

625
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 4: are you supposed to have like a chemistry set and

626
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 4: check everything you get to make sure it's not laced with.

627
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 2: Something or Yeah, that would probably be a really really

628
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: good idea unless you want to be on the hook

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Speaker 2: for a murder. Wow.

630
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Speaker 4: And again, like, if this ends up driving lots of

631
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Speaker 4: people away from wanting to do this for a living, fine,

632
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 4: I'm fine with that.

633
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: But God, that guy who just.

634
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 4: Threw the party, just like I'm sure many parties they've had,

635
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 4: maybe they did it every home Chiefs game or twice

636
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 4: a week or whatever. All of a sudden, you're gonna

637
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 4: be going to prison because they froze the death in

638
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Speaker 4: the back yard and you're like asleep the whole time.

639
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 2: That's gotta be quite the thing, right, Yeah, you all

640
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: just got together to get hammered and then three people

641
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 2: are dead. Yeah, it's it's damned Unfortunately.

642
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 4: How do you think they ended up in the backyard though?

643
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 4: You think they went out I was always suspecting they

644
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 4: went out there to smoke cigarettes something like that, and

645
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 4: then the fetanyl kicked in.

646
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 2: Or something right exactly, or even you know they're going

647
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: to their car for the night or whatever, but yet

648
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: it kicked in they passed out.

649
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 4: Wow.

650
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: Well, let that be a warning, kids, adults, don't do drugs,

651
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: Do not do drugs, Kids, street drugs, bad coming up,

652
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Speaker 2: fascinating stories from the Department of Justice, and much more.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us if you can. Armstrong and Getty