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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jeckie and he arms Wrong yet to live from Studio C.

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Speaker 2: See, we got a brand new month on our hands.

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Speaker 1: Exciting as that. Here at the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, we.

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Speaker 2: Are under the tudler Jibber general manager, the great, the flawed.

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Speaker 1: He rolls to who's that greatest hitter of all time

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Speaker 2: BEZ ball fan for life for betting on bzbell is past.

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Speaker 1: Oh he died.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he died at the age of eighty eight, I

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Speaker 2: think for somebody eighty three eighty three, which good news

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Speaker 2: for him is he bet one thousand dollars it outlive

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Speaker 2: Chris Christofferson, so that's a good payoff.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, not appropriate. I just read a phrase I didn't

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Speaker 2: know it. Let's see, I like throwing around the Latin

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Speaker 2: when I can the mortuous, nil nissy bonum of the

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Speaker 2: dead say nothing but good Nah. I'm more of a

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Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld view of has enough of him anyway? Who

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Speaker 2: are you to argue with latin? You know I have

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Speaker 2: said this before and it's true. The biggest bias that

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Speaker 2: occurs in the news industry is what you cover, and

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Speaker 2: that's the one most people, I don't think get. What

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Speaker 2: you decide to cover is the biggest bias, and so

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Speaker 2: I try to bounce around on news. I try to

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Speaker 2: I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: Many regular people do that.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe most people are either I only want

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Speaker 2: to hear the democratic side of things, or I only

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Speaker 2: want to hear the conservative side of things, so they

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Speaker 2: just stick to their own news source. Anyway, if you

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Speaker 2: were watching MSNBC today, for instance, you are completely unaware

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Speaker 2: of this longshoreman strike, completely unaware it is even happening.

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Speaker 2: If you watch Fox, it is the biggest story in

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Speaker 2: the country. The biggest story in the country, Bigger than

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Speaker 2: Israel going in on the ground, bigger than the debate tonight,

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Speaker 2: is the longshoreman strike. What would be your guess as

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Speaker 2: to why Fox made such a big deal out of

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Speaker 2: it and MSNBC made such a small deal out of it.

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Speaker 2: You have a guess Politically, well, not shockingly, I'm going

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Speaker 2: but I think it's universally agreed that this long shoreman strike,

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Speaker 2: should it stretch beyond a very short period, will cause

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Speaker 2: serious economic disruption.

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Speaker 1: So it is absolutely a legitimate news story.

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Speaker 2: I think the eagerness or hesitancy to cut it is

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Speaker 2: all about your attitude toward organized labor. On MSNBC, the

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Speaker 2: narrative of powerful union with members who make a lot

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Speaker 2: way I was wondering. If that's the case, it's unless

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Speaker 2: there are some details I haven't heard yet. It looks

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Speaker 2: like the dock workers, the long sherman are really on

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Speaker 2: the wrong side of history on this all the way around.

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Speaker 2: Their biggest sticking issue is absolutely no automation, No automation

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Speaker 2: Jobs are going to be protected from technology forever. Give

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Speaker 2: Plus they're looking for something like a seventy seven percent raise. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: plays for most of America. Either, you turn down a

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Speaker 1: But they can. I sympathize. I would try to do

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Speaker 2: But nobody is on your side, fellas no now trying

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Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen. And we can't compete with China and

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Speaker 1: So they think it's last part was kind of made up.

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Speaker 2: They think it's going to cost the economy about five

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Speaker 2: we know how that goes if it lasts very long.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they got any leverage. Thirty six ports

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Speaker 2: maintain and if this is self declownment, I will readily

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Speaker 2: each and every one of you. Clown I am. I

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Speaker 2: I think AI will be the technology that reduces employment,

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Speaker 2: doesn't grow it.

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Speaker 2: Famously, the lad Heights of the world have vowed that

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Speaker 1: But AI, I wonder.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: It makes organized labor look well indefensible. Oh yeah, you

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden is refused to enact the Taft Tartly Law,

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Speaker 2: where he can jump in if there's a big giant

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Speaker 2: I just hope the dock workers will remain polite and

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Speaker 2: hear a gentleman using foul language this morning, and I

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Speaker 2: Uh, we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,

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Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, October. First,

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Speaker 1: It's too damn high.

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Speaker 1: The rent is too damn high. I bring the rent

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Speaker 2: I know mine is. Anyway, it's October first, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's rock into October officially according to CC

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Speaker 2: They had a quite a discussion on NPR today about

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Speaker 2: Pete Rose, the baseball player whose heyday was in the seventies,

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Speaker 2: whole working class Charlie Hustle thangy yeah, which I thought

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Speaker 2: I don't remember. I don't think anybody else has ever

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Speaker 2: little nutty as part of what made him great, right,

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Speaker 2: You got cat ladies, you got cat eating, that's your discipline. Wow, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you have to watch many debates,

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Speaker 2: it's not the job of the moderator to jump in

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Speaker 1: No, that's not what the moderator does. Oh, I hate

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Speaker 2: So very little of that is about what policy would

440
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Speaker 2: be when you're in office, and not a single damn

441
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Speaker 2: syllable of it would affect the lives of Americans. No

442
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Speaker 2: walls is like National Guard record or whatever. I get

443
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Speaker 2: that being a story like when he first landed on

444
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Speaker 2: the scene a month ago or whatever, but god dang it,

445
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 2: I don't care about that anymore. At all mind, I.

446
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:08,679
Speaker 1: Could see taking shots.

447
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 2: At him for being a serial resume patter, but no,

448
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 2: I don't particularly it's it's not a pivotal issue. But

449
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 2: I do think it's interesting that in the Wall Street

450
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Speaker 2: Journals fantasy, perhaps most of the stuff about Walls is

451
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Speaker 2: pretty relevant because it has to do with policy and

452
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 2: track record, as opposed to the van stuff, none of

453
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Speaker 2: which affects any Americans life in Iota unless you're I

454
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Speaker 2: don't know, a pet store owner in Springfield, Ohio, and

455
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 2: sales have gone down because people figure they'll buy the

456
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Speaker 2: cat and then just get eaten anyway, So what's the point.

457
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Speaker 2: Why why is this never a question in a debate?

458
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Speaker 2: What's the role of the federal government? Mister Walls? Oh wow,

459
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Speaker 2: how about that? Instead of digging into you said in

460
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one childless cat whatever, more Americans than ever

461
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Speaker 2: and on the federal government for money?

462
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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Is that a good

463
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: thing or a bad thing? Just you know, that'd be interesting.

464
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: So the New York Times is trying to lower expectations.

465
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Speaker 2: They had an article yesterday about Tim Walls is so nervous,

466
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 2: he's chewing his fingernails. He's never been in a debate

467
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 2: like this before. He's new to the game of politics,

468
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: which is a bit of a made up story, as

469
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: he's been in politics for twenty years and debated a

470
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of times, and really good on his feet,

471
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Speaker 2: and I doubt he's the least bit nervous. A crock

472
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Speaker 2: of crap that is yea. But yeah, lowering expectations quick

473
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Speaker 2: note that I wanted to get on to my main

474
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Speaker 2: point in bringing all of this to your attention. My habitations,

475
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Speaker 2: my expectations are boredom.

476
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ninety minutes.

477
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Speaker 2: Yeah, difficult to watch, continually reminding myself you have to

478
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Speaker 2: pay attention, Joseph. You have to pay attention right scrolling

479
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 2: through your phone checking out baseball scores. I kind of

480
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 2: like this note from sideshow Bob. He's a speaker of truth.

481
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Speaker 2: It's a seer of reality. It's funny seeing all the

482
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Speaker 2: comments about Kamla not doing anything about the border is veep.

483
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Speaker 1: As a side note, no effing fan of hers. Veeeps

484
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Speaker 1: never do anything.

485
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Speaker 2: In fact, the last one did exactly one thing I

486
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Speaker 2: can remember, and y'all wanted to hang him for it.

487
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good, Bob, That is a good point. Yet

488
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Speaker 1: that happens.

489
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Speaker 2: Vice president's regularly run usually not let this, but they

490
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Speaker 2: regularly run, and then they always have to all of

491
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Speaker 2: a sudden act like they were consequential when they were

492
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 2: just hanging around waiting for an international funeral for four

493
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Speaker 2: years and well, and the reality of it is the

494
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 2: job has no duties except breaking ties in the Senate

495
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 2: and is famously just useless. It's a career killer. As

496
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: often as this it is a career launcher. But Kamala

497
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Speaker 2: and Joe absolutely flogged the notion for the last four

498
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Speaker 2: years that she was the last person in the room.

499
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Speaker 2: She was his closest advisor. She was the border zar

500
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Speaker 2: or all right, the root causes zar. How's that going?

501
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: And now it's about face that. No, she's the candidate

502
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Speaker 2: to change, so it's all phony. But to have it

503
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Speaker 2: both ways is a little annoying, and you want to

504
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Speaker 2: stick it to them anyway. Here is my action at

505
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Speaker 2: my actual point, after asking about the National Guard and

506
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Speaker 2: cat ladies and Hitler, not a single word will be asked,

507
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Speaker 2: probably about this Wall Street Journal opinion piece a Medicare

508
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Speaker 2: election bribe for seniors. This story is admittedly complicated, but

509
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Speaker 2: it's the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, touting in

510
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Speaker 2: a press release that average Part D premiums will be

511
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Speaker 2: declining by ninety dollars next year, while benefits will improve

512
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Speaker 2: thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and other new enhancements

513
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Speaker 2: that actually cut funding for insurance companies who said they

514
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Speaker 2: would raise premiums, which would depress benefits, which would cause

515
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Speaker 2: the pharmaceutic companies to declare war on the pharmacies and

516
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Speaker 2: something something, and our entitlement programs are utterly falling apart

517
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: and built on fraud, top to bottom. Fraud and dishonest

518
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: accounting is the part, is the point of this article.

519
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Speaker 2: It's actually quite interesting. It's just very difficult to explain.

520
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Speaker 2: Not a word on that we'll hear about child ass

521
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 2: cat ladies. Well, it's always been true to a certain extent,

522
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 2: and it's more true now than ever.

523
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Speaker 1: We're more into.

524
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Speaker 2: Like in the personality of the person than their stance

525
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Speaker 2: on thorny issues things that affect our lives, right, yes, yeah,

526
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Speaker 2: And for the record, having a cat or two does

527
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Speaker 2: not make one a cat lady in my world. I

528
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Speaker 2: thought we decided three was the over under three and

529
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Speaker 2: a half. Yeah, three and yeah, three and a half

530
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Speaker 2: is the over under. If you have three cats, you're

531
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Speaker 2: definitely under cat lady suspicion. You tell me you got

532
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Speaker 2: three cats, I'm in your house. I'm like, that's a

533
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of cats. They're a fair number of cats.

534
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: But four, yeah, what the hell cat lady? Now if

535
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Speaker 2: you are a child in cat Lady, or what about

536
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Speaker 2: cat lady whose kids are grown?

537
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Speaker 1: What does JD.

538
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: Evans have to say about that? You raise your kids,

539
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 2: they're they're fabulous, good citizens, nice folks, honest, hard working,

540
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: patriotic Americans.

541
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Speaker 1: And now you have seventeen cats. I don't know you.

542
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Speaker 2: Does Jdvans think you should not have a say you

543
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: got that many cats? Me and my Haitian friend Harvier

544
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 2: are getting up the cookbook.

545
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Speaker 1: They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're

546
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: eating outs. They're eating I want to they're eating I

547
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: want to talk about live there.

548
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: About medicare, and you two clowns with it. Never mind,

549
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: you clowns. That's gonna come up early in the debate tonight,

550
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 2: you know it is. And I'm gonna roll my eyes

551
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: so hard it might get kids.

552
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: Come help me. Dad's eyes are stuck again.

553
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: The Haitian cat eating thing will come up early in

554
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Speaker 2: the debate, don't you think first Yeah, maybe first fifteen minutes.

555
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Maybe first question. It might be the two cat doctrine. Yesh, God,

556
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Speaker 1: oh God help us. We got a couple of wars

557
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Speaker 1: going on.

558
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: I hope there's some questions about that, and you see

559
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 2: where everybody stands. And then the dock workers strike. I

560
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: think that'd be a good thing to hear their opinions on.

561
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: I don't know how Walls would handle that, because it

562
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Speaker 2: seems to me that the Left is trying to ignore

563
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: this dock worker story, so maybe CBS won't even bring

564
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Speaker 2: it up. Anyway, we got some more other news to

565
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: get into. You might not know about some of those things.

566
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,479
Speaker 2: We'll try to fill in the details. What did Joe

567
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 2: Biden say yesterday when he was asked about the strike?

568
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Speaker 2: What did you say yesterday when he was asking about

569
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 2: Israel going in on the ground in Lebanon? Both of

570
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: his answers were troubling.

571
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Speaker 1: Bat care all on the way.

572
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 2: I've noticed that with parenting, I've got a almost thirteen

573
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: year old and a going on fifteen year old. You

574
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: only think about this sort of stuff constantly, the whole

575
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: parenting thing only constantly so, and not only for my

576
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: own kids, but just for society in general. As much

577
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 2: as we talk about it and it gets talked about,

578
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: I still think it's underappreciated. The great change that had

579
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 2: happened in the last twenty years of nobody walking around

580
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,479
Speaker 2: staring at the phone to everyone walking around staring at

581
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: the phone is underappreciated. It's so ubiquitous and there's so

582
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: little you can do about it that I guess, you know,

583
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 2: why even talk about it. But that is the biggest

584
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 2: change to humanity, maybe ever in a short amount of time.

585
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: You know, the Industrial Revolution came on much slower than that,

586
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: or lots of other things. The I think about it,

587
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: maybe I think about it too much, Maybe I got

588
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: a problem. Maybe I should see a therapist about this.

589
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: But like, drive him by a bus stop and everybody's

590
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 2: staring at their phone. I think then twenty years ago,

591
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 2: they'd either been talking to each other or reading a

592
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 2: book or thinking or something, but they wouldn't.

593
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: Have been staring at their phones all the time.

594
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 2: All the kids coming out of the high school and

595
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 2: I pick up my son, everybody walks out looking at

596
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: their phone. Four people walking out of the school together,

597
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,719
Speaker 2: all looking at their phone instead of talking to each other.

598
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: It's just what an amazing change leading to this. I

599
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 2: think this fits in this guy, Yanni Applebaum, who I

600
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: don't actually know. He writes for the Atlantic, and it

601
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: looks like his politics are not mine, but he's He's

602
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: definitely right about this. Tweeted out and then got a

603
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: whole bunch of responses to educators. This is about the

604
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 2: incoming class of college freshmen all across America, and particularly

605
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: at elite universities, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere.

606
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 2: Teacher in Illinois told me that, Okay, I'll start with

607
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: his large numbers of students arriving at highly selective universities

608
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: are unprepared to read a book cover to cover because

609
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: no teacher has ever asked them to do that before.

610
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 2: That's his article in The Atlantic.

611
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: Good Lord.

612
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: And then the response is from teachers all across the

613
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 2: country to this, saying, yeah, basically, here's a public high

614
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: school teacher in Illinois who used to structure her classes

615
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: around books, but now focuses on skills such as how

616
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: to make good decisions and about leadership. Students read parts

617
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 2: of the Odyssey and supplements with music articles and ted talks,

618
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: but do not read.

619
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Speaker 1: The entire book. Here's another one.

620
00:32:59,440 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: That I like.

621
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: The blah blah blah blah.

622
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: During the fall twenty twenty two semester, when a first

623
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 2: year student came to his office during office hours to

624
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 2: share how challenging they had found the early assignments in

625
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: literature humanities class. It required students to read a book,

626
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a

627
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: week or two. But the student told the advisor that

628
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: her public high schools she had never been required to

629
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: read an entire book. This is somebody who got into

630
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: an elite university. She had been assigned excerpts poetry and

631
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: news articles, but not a book cover to cover, and

632
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: found it quite daunting. Here's a Melville scholar at one

633
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: of your fancy Pans universities who switched American literature on

634
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: Melville from Moby Dick. They dropped Moby Dick and now

635
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: read the short stories. One has to adjust to the times.

636
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 2: The teacher said a number of professors told him for

637
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: his Atlantic article that their students see reading books as

638
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: similar to listening to vinyl records, something that a small

639
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 2: subculture might still enjoy.

640
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: But that's most relic of an earlier time in the

641
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: blink of an eye, as you were describing, right right, Yeah, wow.

642
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: So kind of similar to what you were saying earlier

643
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: about AI might be the first time. I think it's

644
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 2: going to be the first time that the technology advancement

645
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 2: actually does away with a whole bunch of jobs and

646
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 2: doesn't replace them with new jobs. I think this is

647
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 2: one of these scares that is going to turn out

648
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: to be true. The whole We did a thing a

649
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 2: while back on all the things jazz was blamed for

650
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: when jazz became popular music. Jazz was leading to promiscuous

651
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: sex and economic problems and people couldn't read and blah

652
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: blah blah. Everything was blamed on jazz. So all of

653
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: the ideas to play in a jazz band, and I

654
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 2: certainly hoped so, but my hopes were dashed.

655
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Speaker 1: But lots of different changes in society. You're blamed for

656
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Speaker 1: all kinds of things.

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Speaker 2: This one the intention span staring at the phones, can't

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Speaker 2: read a book is not good.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to be okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the intellectual stuff bothers me, but I think it

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Speaker 2: bothers me less than the connectedness stuff, the emotionals, the

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Speaker 2: mental health stuff of not being connected to your peers,

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Speaker 2: not laughing and joking and poking fun at each other

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Speaker 2: and sharing your idle thoughts with each other.

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Speaker 1: That one really bothers me. Yeah, I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: going away. We have a lot more for you. I

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Speaker 1: hope you can stick around.

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Speaker 2: Moby Dick the Whale winds spoiler alert, Armstrong and Getty