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

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he.

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: And finally, Authorities of California, you're looking for a thief

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Speaker 3: who allegedly drove a stolen car through the doors of

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Speaker 3: a JC Petty department store and stole jewelry. Police described

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Speaker 3: the suspect as six feet tall, with brown hair and

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Speaker 3: a very disappointed wife.

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Speaker 2: You can drive through a different door.

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Speaker 1: Another elitist shot in America's shopping institutions, Jack James Cash Penny,

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Speaker 1: perfectly good place to shop. What's the one that we've

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Speaker 1: played the other day? Oh oh oh, the Seth Myers joke.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and play one, Michael.

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Speaker 3: Starbucks announced this week it's doubled it's paid parent leave

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Speaker 3: policy for baristas. Well, Duncan employees are still insisting they're

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Speaker 3: not the father.

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Speaker 2: What what the hell was that?

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Speaker 1: It's a beloved coffee and donut emporium and more across

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Speaker 1: the fruited plain Duncan Man Dunkin Donuts were the treat

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: Oh really, we didn't have to.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was good like once every few months after church,

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Speaker 1: we would go get dunkin Donuts.

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Speaker 2: Once every few months. Yeah, it's a post every day.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, which would be more of a year, which

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Speaker 2: would be more like today's lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so. Coming up of America's OBEs, the epidemic, No,

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Speaker 1: it can figure out where it came from. So a

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Speaker 1: couple of barely related thoughts. We're talking about this Bizarro

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Speaker 1: ruling in California where this male rapist, he's a brutal

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Speaker 1: forcible rapist, he's done it more than once, is now

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Speaker 1: identifying as a woman, which is meaningless and stupid, and

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Speaker 1: so the judges insisted the prosecutor refer to him as

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Speaker 1: she and her through the trial. And then this person's

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Speaker 1: in a woman's prison as obscene. And I was talking

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Speaker 1: about the how you can't underestimate what it does to

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Speaker 1: you when anybody really but the government forces you to

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Speaker 1: say something you know not to be true. You have

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Speaker 1: to submit to them. It breaks your spirit, which is

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Speaker 1: I was in a Troe did a trivia night with

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Speaker 1: Judy and some friends, and I was so bummed because

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Speaker 1: one of the questions, was what is the last line

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Speaker 1: And I'm so bummed because I just read it and

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Speaker 1: I'm so into it. The last line happens to be

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Speaker 1: he loved big Brother. It's Winston Smith. When his spirit

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Speaker 1: was so completely broken, he actually internalized that he loved

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Speaker 1: big brother. You know, he was full cognizant of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just driving home the message that if you're

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Speaker 2: told something enough, you will come to believe it, which

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Speaker 2: is right, highly troubling, but it seems to be the

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Speaker 1: And my militants about this topic and some others it.

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Speaker 1: You know, if I run into a transgender person, whatever

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Speaker 1: I hope you find healing and happiness. I truly do.

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Speaker 1: I'm never going to hurt anybody's feelings or humiliate them

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Speaker 1: or try to discriminate against them in any meaningful way.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be terrible and cruel. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, I understand from Orwell and others what

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Speaker 1: of ideological oppression. It breaks your spirit and I won't

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Speaker 1: do it. Having said that, I just came across this

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Speaker 1: big brother isn't just watching. He's changing how your brain works.

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Speaker 1: And this is so interesting. It was a studied done

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Speaker 1: if these people, the subjects of the experiment, were aware

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Speaker 1: are the closed circuit cameras. We're making sure that everything's

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Speaker 1: on awareness of and sensitivity to various stimuli, including faces.

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Speaker 1: Cutting to the end. I know this is utterly unclear,

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Speaker 1: In other words, it changes your psyche to know you're

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Speaker 2: Well, we might as well figure out how it affects us,

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Speaker 2: because it's here, a lot of places, in coming other places.

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Speaker 2: and it's getting closer every day.

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Speaker 1: If our purpose is to make ourselves insane as a society,

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Speaker 1: we're doing very very well. Sure, I congratulate us home,

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Speaker 1: completely different topic. I thought this was great. Alan Dershowitz

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Speaker 1: and Andrew Stein wrote this piece what Trump can do

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Speaker 1: about sanctuary cities, because Trump has vowed to do plenty

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Speaker 1: about it. Also, bring sanity back to colleges, in elementary schools,

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Speaker 1: little mysterious. What levers does he have exactly? And Dershwitz

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Speaker 1: and what did I say? The guy's name is? Stein

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Speaker 1: wrote that a constitutional showdown is looming over the border policies.

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Speaker 1: We've all heard Tom Holman saying, we're going to deport

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Speaker 1: these people. We're gonna round them up. You can either

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Speaker 1: help or not. I liked what Holman said too. He said,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you're not gonna support us, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to cooperate with us, We're gonna put two three

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Speaker 1: times as many ICE agents in your city. That's fine,

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Speaker 1: we'll get it done. Denver Mike Johnston has said he'd

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Speaker 1: be willing to go to jail to prevent deportations. All right,

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Speaker 2: What a hell to die on again? I just say,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna go to jail to protect criminals who've committed crimes,

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Speaker 2: because that's where we're starting with. People are committing crimes

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Speaker 2: in the United States and are here illegally. You're gonna

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Speaker 2: You're nuts, you know.

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Speaker 1: I wish you could somehow get to what is going

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Speaker 1: and that desire is so strong in him it's like,

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Speaker 1: of priorities. I don't get that at all. Newpole out

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Speaker 1: today similar numbers to what we've had before. Two thirds

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Speaker 1: of Americans want all illegals deported. That's never gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: But the ones that have committed crimes in the United

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Speaker 2: States are gonna get deported. So then that's got to

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Speaker 2: be like ninety percent, and you're going to be You're

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Speaker 1: I really think they are. I'm too again, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's very strange. I mean, even if we just deported

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Speaker 1: the twenty percent who are the most derelict, lazy, useless,

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Speaker 1: and or criminal, that'd be an enormous victory, just a.

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Speaker 2: Fabulous Well, there are six hundred thousand criminals here illegally

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Speaker 2: right now at least sure.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, how will this hall be resolved by the courts.

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Speaker 1: They write, Article six of the Constitution mandates that federal

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Speaker 1: law quote shall be the supreme law of land, notwithstanding

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Speaker 1: the States all powers quote not delegated to the United

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Speaker 1: to the States. Oh right, that is work correct. The

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Speaker 1: constitutional question is whether the authority to regulate immigration, including

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Speaker 1: the power to deport illegal aliens, is a power delegated

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Speaker 1: to the federal government, and they write, of course it is.

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Speaker 1: Border Crossers can travel from state to state unhindered, so

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Speaker 1: entry anywhere in the US is entry everywhere. Thus, the

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Speaker 1: federal government alone has the authority to control the right

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Speaker 2: Now, to me, the only question I'm not an expert

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Speaker 2: in all this law stuff, but to me, the only

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Speaker 2: question has been how did it go this long? Where

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Speaker 2: a county, a city, estate can declare themselves sanctuary. That's nuts.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the rub, They write, The Constitution does not

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Speaker 1: prohibit states from providing food, healthcare, housing, driving privileges, and

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Speaker 1: other necessities to everyone within its borders, nor does it

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has articulated an anti commendeering doctrine that

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Speaker 1: prohibits the Feds from quote, conscripting the state's officers directly

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Speaker 1: to enforce federal law. And they write about how the

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Speaker 1: doctrine's been revised over the years, and there's no real

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Speaker 1: clear guidance on how it would precisely applied to sanctuary cities.

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Speaker 1: Much would depend on these specific state action at issue.

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Speaker 1: Bob about the President's established when some Southern state officials

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Speaker 1: try to prevent the enforcement of federal court's desegregation orders,

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Speaker 1: strongly suggest that states and cities may not actively block

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Speaker 2: But they don't have to help, right is that to

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Speaker 1: In between these extremes are a variety of state actions

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Speaker 2: I can see legally how that's the thing. And I

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Speaker 2: San Diego County just voided by the other day, where

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Speaker 2: your constituents, a majority of your constituents say, yeah, don't

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Speaker 2: help the federal government deport people are committing crimes in

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Speaker 2: our county, and you're legally if a majority agrees with that, okay.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe there are very many places where that's

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Speaker 2: I find it hard to believe that the majority of

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Speaker 1: I know, it's a bizarre notion. I can't believe anybody

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Speaker 1: legal scholars just think, all right, we're not doing nothing

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's still it's obscene to me that you would.

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Speaker 1: And look, I am fully acquainted with the argument that

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Speaker 1: if the immigrant community fears any interaction with the government

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Speaker 1: will lead them to be deported, they won't report a rape.

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Speaker 1: They won't report when these Venezuelan monsters kidnap them and

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Speaker 1: torture them and take over their apartment. They'll be afraid

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Speaker 1: to talk to any authorities. We can't have that. I

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Speaker 1: But the idea that you have a violent criminal that

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Speaker 1: the Ice, and you, well, we're not going to help them.

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Speaker 1: We're going to release that rapist or that to arm

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Speaker 2: I only got about half those references.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, like with a message at the end, and

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Speaker 2: that's why we've all got to deal with climate change

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Speaker 1: Oh no, there has never been a less politically correct

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she was in she was in contact with this

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Speaker 2: Like there was literally an entirely new category of misinformation

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Speaker 1: Flipping through the Washington Post right now. I don't see

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Speaker 6: Look, there's so many young women who have been including

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Speaker 2: They talk about that.

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Speaker 1: But here's the deal.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of young women to be raped by

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That was one of the highlights from the

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Speaker 1: Thank you, President Biden, President Trump.

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Speaker 6: Well, he's right, he did beat medicare, beat it to death,

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Speaker 2: And that was the end. A Joe, you answered all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Doctor Jill's role in all of this needs to

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Speaker 1: Because why are other journalists from other publications so enthusiastically

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you are tweeting it around

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Speaker 2: Well, my favorite retweet was somebody complaining about PolitiFact named

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Speaker 1: So the Wall Street Journal goes into a great deal

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Speaker 1: the senior advisors were absolutely clearly running the show, and

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Speaker 1: Let's see how into detail do we want to get.

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Speaker 2: The constantly canceling meetings, to me is where it really

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Speaker 2: If you're constantly canceling meetings, you by definition can't do

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Speaker 1: Well, you certainly probably can't deal with I just said

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Speaker 2: Don't bring the president of the United States bad news, right,

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Speaker 1: Well, right, And evidently he couldn't handle it emotionally, he

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Speaker 2: for many periods of time, during you know, trials or

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Speaker 2: be interested in was the Hunter thing. That's also not good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They tell a story of Representative Adam Smith Washington,

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Speaker 1: who was the head of the House Armed Services Committee,

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Speaker 1: powerful committee. He was alarmed by what he viewed in

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Speaker 1: the lead up to the Afghanistan withdrawal as overly optimistic,

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Speaker 1: unrealistic expectations, and they just he didn't know what they

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Speaker 1: were looking at, what they were thinking, And he was

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Speaker 1: trying desperately to get on the phone with the president,

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Speaker 1: and they never let him through, even though as a

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Speaker 1: lower ranking member of the committee he had regularly talked

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Speaker 1: to past presidents. Uh, and they mentioned that he he

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Speaker 1: said something about it got blasted by Anthony Blink and

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Speaker 1: he blasted back, and he finally got a short apology

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Speaker 1: on the phone from Biden. Was the first time he'd

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Speaker 1: talked to Smith, the head of the House Armed Services Committee,

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Speaker 1: in his four years in office. I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: if there are other particularly telling details, Oh, his cabinet meetings.

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Speaker 1: He just never met with his cabinet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, go fraction if you have those the numbers, like

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Speaker 2: Obama meeting with the cabinet versus Biden, because that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And they talk about how traditionally presidents meet a

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Speaker 1: lot with Treasury, Defense in state, but that it got

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Speaker 1: the meetings became fewer and fewer and fewer, to the

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Speaker 1: point that cabinet secretaries wouldn't even call the White House

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Speaker 1: because they knew they couldn't get an appointment with the president.

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Speaker 1: So over four years, Biden held nine full cabinet meetings,

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Speaker 1: nine three in twenty one, two in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: and three and twenty twenty three just won this year.

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Speaker 1: One well, there's not much going on in the world

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Speaker 1: of the country this year, so a total of in

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Speaker 1: their first terms. Obama held nineteen, Trump twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Wow, he had one minute Biden.

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Speaker 1: Biden in the past was as when he was vice president,

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Speaker 1: he gathered the cabinet leaders once a week, saying in

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Speaker 1: a speech, it's important to get together regularly because of

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Speaker 1: the synergy it brings. It makes the government more competent,

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Speaker 1: it makes our policy more coherent and successful. This is

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Speaker 1: an important thing. And as president he just never met

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Speaker 1: with them. They talked about how difficult it was to

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Speaker 1: prep him for the meeting with Robert Hurr, the special counsel,

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Speaker 1: who ended up saying he was a sympathetic, well meaning

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Speaker 1: elderly man with a poor memory, which of course.

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Speaker 7: Was blasted as blasphemy and ridiculous and untrue by Democrats

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Speaker 7: at the time, but that he would just constantly forget

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Speaker 7: no when he asked you this, say that, and then

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Speaker 7: ten minutes later he would have forgotten.

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Speaker 1: And sure enough when he met with her, he forgot

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Speaker 1: everything he was supposed to say and the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: Including as you recall, he didn't know he couldn't tell

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Speaker 2: you when he was vice president.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was not an aberration. They talk about

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Speaker 1: prominent donors organizing events with the president and were shocked

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Speaker 1: to be told there's going to be no Q and A. Really,

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Speaker 1: you can have two or three questions, submit them ahead

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Speaker 1: of time, you will read them from a card, and

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Speaker 1: the president will answer them. But at some events the

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Speaker 1: Biden campaign printed the pref questions on note cards. People

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Speaker 1: read them, and even with all these steps, Biden made

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Speaker 1: flubs which confounded the donors who knew Biden had the

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Speaker 1: question ahead of time. Right.

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Speaker 2: I remember that's the one of the instances where Mark

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Speaker 2: Alpern wrote, I have never heard of a candidate using

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Speaker 2: note cards in a fundraiser. That is completely new.

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Speaker 1: Right. And then as they make clear of these donors

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Speaker 1: who are speaking, you know, off the record, are saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: even when they did that, he couldn't answer the questions,

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Speaker 1: but he was fine to run for another term, and

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Speaker 1: nobody said anything, by the way, publicly, until George Clooney did, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a link I've got here that somebody

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Speaker 2: included from the New York Times where Biden declared a

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Speaker 2: super ager. He's just one of those people that just

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Speaker 2: ages better than the rest of us, lucky.

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Speaker 1: Us, unbelievable this year that came out. Yeah, And so

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Speaker 1: getting back to the he didn't talk to his polsters,

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Speaker 1: and he kept saying stuff that was just patently absurd

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Speaker 1: about the state of the race. Those fears intensified on

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Speaker 1: July eleventh, when Biden's top advisors met beyond closed doors

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Speaker 1: with Democratic senators, where the advisors laid out how they're

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Speaker 1: going to win with Biden. The message from the advisors

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Speaker 1: was so disconnected from public polling, which showed Trump leading

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Speaker 1: Biden nationally, it left Democratic senators incredulous. It spurred Senate

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Speaker 1: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to speak to Biden directly. According

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Speaker 1: to people familiar to Pierce, what the senators saw as

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Speaker 1: a wall erected by Donald and Mike Donald and his

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Speaker 1: advisor to shield Biden from bad information. Donald wouldn't comment

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Speaker 1: for the story. On July thirteenth, Biden held an uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: call with a group of Democratic lawmakers called the New

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Speaker 1: Democratic Coalition. I remember. This aimed at reassuring them about

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Speaker 1: his ability to stay in the race. The president told

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Speaker 1: participants that polling showed he was doing fine, and when

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Speaker 1: challenged on that, became angry. At one point, Biden looked

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Speaker 1: up and abruptly told the group he had to go

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Speaker 1: to church. Some lawmakers on the call believed then someone

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Speaker 1: behind the camera was shutting it down. Biden dropped out

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Speaker 1: of the race eight days later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that also explains why it was so hard to

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Speaker 2: push him out. Not only did Nancy Pelosi have to

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Speaker 2: go say we'll ruin you, she had to explain the

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Speaker 2: actual polls to him because he was unaware. Wow, why

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Speaker 2: did he want to step down? If all he was

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Speaker 2: seeing was on my head or tied? Why would I

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Speaker 2: get out?

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Speaker 1: And what the hell was the role of his crazy,

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Speaker 1: crazy wife?

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Speaker 2: No kidding? And how much did Kamala know about all this?

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Speaker 2: You're either in the room for all the major decisions

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Speaker 2: or you weren't. And if you were in the room,

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Speaker 2: you knew exactly how diminished he.

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Speaker 1: Was well, and when he was claiming we're neck and

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Speaker 1: neck and he clearly wasn't, Kamala, were you in the

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Speaker 1: room for that? Everybody was lying, So a lot of

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Speaker 1: them they're still lying. In this article they call current

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Speaker 1: White House staff is saying no, he's not diminished, He's fine.

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Speaker 1: He's perfectly fine.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait till the books are actually written. There'll be something.

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Speaker 2: And again keen on his crazy, crazy wife say one way,

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Speaker 2: you answered all the questions, Joe, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: We'll finish strong next arm Strong.

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Speaker 1: He yetie.

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Speaker 8: House after house after house in Otwood, Illinois, about fifty

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Speaker 8: giant inflatable Santas moving in after teacher Samantha Binyon got

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Speaker 8: her whole neighborhood on board.

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Speaker 5: Actually, Jess sent the message out to all of my

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Speaker 5: neighbors probably three weeks ago, and from there it's just grown,

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Speaker 5: and now there are so many Saints in town.

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Speaker 9: Bingyon was inspired by videos of total Santa takeovers in Canada.

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Speaker 9: The holiday trend now ballooning across the US, from Illinois

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Speaker 9: to New Jersey and even out west.

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Speaker 2: Part of it is giant inflatables have just gotten cheap

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Speaker 2: enough that the every man can have them. That's part

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Speaker 2: of it, right.

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Speaker 1: It's a great time to be alive.

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Speaker 2: It just wasn't possible to have a twenty five foot

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Speaker 2: anything that many years ago, and now many people can, yes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to communist slave labor. I can't. I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: of it's manufactured in America.

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Speaker 2: No not if it's not.

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Speaker 1: What is aim? Jack? What is Aim? Joe? And they've

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Speaker 1: gotten some final thoughts Armstrong and close show.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad we were able to slip that in

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Speaker 2: before the end of the holiday season.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant.

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Speaker 2: That's really good. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody to wrap up

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Speaker 1: the show for the day. There is Michael Angelo pressing

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Speaker 1: the buttons in the control room. Michael, I'm on the

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Speaker 1: hunt for one of my presents that I got my

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Speaker 1: wife and it still hasn't arrived. I'm getting a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: so they have to get a backup.

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Speaker 2: Get I know what that's like. I had one I

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Speaker 2: was watching Is it gonna make it or not? It

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Speaker 2: showed up yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Whoao? Oh boy. Katie green Or steemed to use women

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Speaker 1: as a final thought.

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Speaker 2: Katie, the least favorite part of gift giving is in

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Speaker 2: my horizon, and that's having to wrap everything. I suck

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Speaker 2: at it. It's interesting. Most women are really good and

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Speaker 2: fast and wrapping. Not most women, Jack, not this one.

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Speaker 1: Not you? No, okay? Jack? A final thought for us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I wrap it looks like I had a

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Speaker 2: fight with it, like we got into it, like we're

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Speaker 2: trying to kill each other. And the wrapping job and

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Speaker 2: then the remains of the paper and the scissors and

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Speaker 2: the tape, and then.

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Speaker 1: The sounds that come out of the room. My wife

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Speaker 1: used to mock me for my gift wrapping, but she

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Speaker 1: could tell it hurt my feelings, so she stopped thinking.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of which, my final thought is happy birthday to

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Speaker 1: my beautiful bride, Judy. You'd better than ever have a

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Speaker 1: great birthday. We're going out for fancy dinner tomorrow, which'll

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Speaker 1: be nice.

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Speaker 2: There will be gifts, cool fancy like Applebee's on a

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Speaker 2: date night with the Bourbon Street steak and an Oreo

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Speaker 2: shirts and no sticky forks.

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Speaker 1: I know nothing but clean forks for my girl.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getdy wrapping up an They're grueling four hour workday.

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Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot of great hot

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Speaker 1: links there.

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Speaker 2: Drop us line if you want to see tomorrow. God

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Speaker 2: bless America. I'm strong and Getty.

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Speaker 1: This is a message for the people of America. Is

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Speaker 1: anyone else humping them? Meltdown? I got nothing for you

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Speaker 1: On that when it comes on for you to go,

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Speaker 1: you'll have to go. So let's go with it.

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Speaker 4: So this is where I'm the most maga, just freaking

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Speaker 4: burn of the let Washington d C. You shut down

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Speaker 4: for a month where people are crying in the streets

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Speaker 4: to get enough attention, we have public weepings

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Speaker 1: Yes, and that high Armstrong and Getty