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Speaker 1: Hey guys, we are back on normally, so was normalist.

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Speaker 1: It takes for when the news gets weird. I am

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Speaker 1: Mary Catherine Ham.

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Speaker 2: And I am Carol Marco. It's him Mary Catherine.

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Speaker 3: How was your weekend?

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Speaker 1: It was good. We had a lovely easter. No one

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Speaker 2: So that is a wild success.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I mean the ish is doing some work in

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Speaker 1: that sentence, but it's a picture of all four of them.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: We visited the West coast of Florida, the Gulf of America.

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Speaker 2: It was a birthday weekend trip for me and it

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Speaker 2: was very, very nice. I had not seen a lot

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Speaker 3: It was really beautiful.

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Speaker 2: But the best part of my trip was that I

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Speaker 2: and Instagram is just a happy place for me. Getting

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Speaker 2: back on X today has been like returning to a

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Speaker 2: mental asylum. It's like, oh God, I remember this, this

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Speaker 2: is the crazy people live.

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Speaker 1: I did the same thing because you know, it's Easter weekend,

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Speaker 2: It's hard when I got that reacclimated. You know, a

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Speaker 2: lot of the time, I start thinking like, well, maybe

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Speaker 2: and mostly X for me, I mean, that's the one

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Speaker 3: But you know, I.

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Speaker 2: It's I really appreciate the breaks. And I think that

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Speaker 2: if you're listening and you are angry at just what

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Speaker 2: you saw on your social media feed on any given day,

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Speaker 2: take a break, you know, just gonna take it off

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Speaker 2: your Phone's that's kind of my big piece of advice,

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Speaker 2: because my finger automatically opens it all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll notice real fast if you take it off

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Speaker 1: your phone, how big your addiction is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because when your finger is clicking the blank space.

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Speaker 3: That's what I always say, like when your fingers like

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Speaker 3: where did this go?

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Speaker 1: Yes? It also turns out like you can do a

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Speaker 2: I'm just supposed a picture of that on X. Well,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he talked to Megan Kelly last week. And I

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Speaker 3: And I looked up his bio.

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Speaker 2: Other things, visiting professor at all these medical schools, published

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, to your point, he actually answers a question

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. The last and perhaps most splashy one

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Speaker 4: We want American pharmer companies to do well and companies

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Speaker 4: but the scientific evaluation needs to be independent, and that's

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Speaker 4: why today we're announcing we're removing industry members pharma members

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Speaker 3: So we're going to be.

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Speaker 4: Replacing them whenever statutorily possible. With patients and family givers,

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Speaker 3: That seems like such an obvious thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, in our world, I just feel

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think this is one of those instances of

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Speaker 1: But these are people, these are men in their own right.

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Speaker 2: would love to see what they do next.

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Speaker 1: We shall see.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what the biggest story of the week is.

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Speaker 2: Carol, I'm sure it's very controversial.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Easter Bunny got between him and like a

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Speaker 2: It looked like just such an old fashioned Easter egg hunt.

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Speaker 1: There's a there's a little of that. To be sure,

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Speaker 3: Listen, He's still Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Just because Jesus into your life doesn't mean you change personalities.

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Speaker 1: I have never been to the White House Easter egg

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Speaker 3: By Oh bless is hard. Oh yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: Hey remember when Biden had to get led around by

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Speaker 1: the Easter Bunny? Not me, not this way.

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Speaker 1: One more thing. Yeah, I do think this is important.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that there's an upgraded Easter Bunny? At

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Speaker 3: That is a good looking Easter Bunny.

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Speaker 1: He looks brand new. He's like a light brown color.

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Speaker 2: Hey, the Easter Bunny gotta glow up. I'm all for it.

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Speaker 1: Those goes after the Easter Bunny next in the New

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Speaker 2: Am I keeping it light today as everyone gets back

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Speaker 2: into the swing of things at work. DHS Secretary Christy

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Speaker 2: And she did, it would look flawless, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Three thousand, but I heard her rumor that the restaurant

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Speaker 3: Carol?

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Speaker 2: I will say that I am a rare person that

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Speaker 3: Because I'm a poker player and you can only take home.

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Speaker 2: So but the days that I am carrying my poker

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm one of those like sad people. I

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Speaker 1: I do think for the thief DHS secretary, like not

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Speaker 1: This is? Actually it's a book from Chap Peterson, who

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Speaker 1: Not a not a lucrative steal for anyone, partly because

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Speaker 3: Right in his little fur collars.

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Speaker 1: Also, her whole makeup bag was stolen, and I just

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is such a bummer.

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Speaker 2: That is actually I'm like, the badges, that's tough, apartment keys, okay,

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Speaker 2: passport that's annoying.

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Speaker 3: But the makeup bag.

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Speaker 1: The makeup bag. Do you realize the work that goes

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Speaker 1: into this.

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Speaker 2: It's years of effort. It's not like a one day

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Speaker 1: No, this is a this is a treasured a treasured thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: curated collection, that's right, yep. Well, yeah, we hope it's

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Speaker 1: returned to her, by the way it should should remind

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Speaker 1: every one of the dangers of dining in DC. Watch

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Speaker 1: out safe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, stay safe out there, friends. Well, thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us on normally. Normally airs Tuesdays and Thursdays, and

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