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

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Speaker 2: Rid of the German shepherds. Doom Eller's a tariff on

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Speaker 1: Doberman's now protecting us and today we're under the tutelage

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Speaker 1: of our general manager.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. University of Florida.

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Speaker 1: Alligators national champs, I think international chance. They deserve the

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Speaker 1: respect of having their full name used, the Alligators.

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Speaker 2: You don't hear that very often. Oh, fantastic exciting game.

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Speaker 2: If you watched it. If you didn't, that's fine too.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. That's nice. That's very charitable. I don't

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Speaker 1: want anybody to feel left out apparently.

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Speaker 2: You know. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: The the email that I've been going through prior to

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Speaker 1: the show just rife with hostility. I mean, people just

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Speaker 1: one particular sort of person just enraged at any questioning

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Speaker 1: of the great Man. But that's that's fine, Okay. I've

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Speaker 1: responded not with anger but with kindness to all. How

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Speaker 1: about the fact that the market turned like two trillion

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Speaker 1: with what's going on here?

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Speaker 2: And it's because a fake.

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Speaker 1: Truth social post from Donald Trump was flying around Wall

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Speaker 1: Street and the market like, I mean, gazillions of dollars

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Speaker 1: then everybody, oh, that's not real.

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Speaker 2: Then other things happen. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I got a slightly different explanation as a blue check

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Speaker 1: mark Twitter journalist dude who wildly misinterpreted a statement by Trump.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, the effect is the same.

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Speaker 1: It was it was it was nothing, it was vapor,

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Speaker 1: it was inaccurate, and the market turned trillions of dollars

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Speaker 1: on It isn't that interesting?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yes? Oh hell yeah? It is?

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Speaker 1: Is that is that some of that computer trading because

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Speaker 1: I almost said nineteen thirty nine, might as well say,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, somebody said something really loud on

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Speaker 1: trillions of dollars because one dip ass whatever you know

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Speaker 1: social media platform it was on saying Trump is saying

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Speaker 1: he will consider a ninety day pause when he didn't

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Speaker 1: say that at all. That's a guy saying something. Two

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Speaker 2: But that just seems like that that just doesn't see

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: About anything, which is pretty obvious to anyone who listens

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would agree to top.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it seems like investing should be more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's the sort of thing Warren Buffett talks about. Should

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Speaker 2: That's what hits you.

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Speaker 1: Talking about earnings and value and dividends. Oh, you're so

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Speaker 1: Yesterday's ville, man, it's all about speculating. Here's today's news, though,

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Speaker 1: and some of it is interesting. Politico says Trump has

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Speaker 1: started telling allies and phone calls that the endgame of

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Speaker 1: the White Houses and talks with multiple countries stressing that

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Speaker 2: So that's what Politico is saying.

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Speaker 1: In the Washington Post, has Elon Musk appealed directly to

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Speaker 1: the President to ditch the whole tariff regime.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal headline CEOs who had been silent now

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Speaker 1: these tariffs. So they're saying to the president, you understand,

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Speaker 1: we've got to say that. And Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas,

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Speaker 1: President Trump uses this moment is leverage, that would be

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Speaker 1: a massive victory for the American people. But there are

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Speaker 1: voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever.

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Speaker 1: There are angels and demons sitting on the president's shoulders.

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Speaker 2: Who does he listen to? A Manda Crews have a

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Speaker 1: Everything he says seems a little dramatic. With angels and

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Speaker 1: demons sitting on the president's shoulder, who does he listen to?

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Speaker 2: But I hope the angels, Ted, We'll.

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Speaker 1: See how this all turns out. That's right, You know,

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Speaker 1: it was funny. It was when we met him and

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Speaker 1: some reason, decided to go with that. Ah, I'm a

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Speaker 1: great roman orator approach to every public pronouncement. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: Have you listened to his podcast at all? M No,

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Speaker 1: I haven't either. Oh, seek that out. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: how all this turns out. And I don't know. Did

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Speaker 1: I just find that frightening? Two point four trillion dollars

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Speaker 2: Would you hear? Bye? Bye? I mean throw millions billions

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Speaker 2: sell it all, sell really quick, just learn it, just

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Speaker 1: Just doesn't seem the way super genius financial people should work,

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Speaker 2: I'd say, now I have an upset stomach.

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Speaker 1: We have the first direct talks with a RAN in

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Speaker 1: Turns out those super advanced stealth bombers with the bunker

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Speaker 2: So maybe that's the case.

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Speaker 1: But the one that's going to end up hanging out there,

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Speaker 1: China have not changed. There are enemy I'm all fired

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Speaker 1: up about this because I was listened to yet another

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Speaker 1: But anyway, he is really a hawk on the whole

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Speaker 1: He says, people come to him all the time with

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Speaker 1: say with Chinese? Says, no, they're much worse than anybody

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Speaker 1: thinks in terms of China is building to take on

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Speaker 1: single day. They're planning to take us on and defeat us,

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Speaker 1: and we're acting like it's not true anyway on the

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Speaker 1: whole trade thing. You know, Trump China came back Friday

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Speaker 1: I think that China United States thing is that's gonna

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Speaker 1: of our lives. You want to hear a headline slash

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Speaker 1: lead that will make you say, wait, what. Many US

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Speaker 1: companies plan to keep China ties. Survey fines Washington made

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Speaker 1: increase their ties with China. That's really interesting given that

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Speaker 1: just it's crack cheap. Chinese labor is crack for companies.

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Speaker 1: They think, Oh my god, I hate the communists. Look

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. What Jack just said, but look at

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Speaker 1: Well, if Apple is being honest last week, and I

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Speaker 2: Over three thousand dollars, that's extraordinary. Yeah, yeah, we.

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Speaker 1: Getty on this it is How did it already get

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Speaker 1: to be pulling up my sleeve? Tuesday April the eighth,

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Speaker 1: we approve of this program.

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Speaker 1: Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, leaping into

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Speaker 4: From twelve down to the school's third national championship in

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Speaker 4: men's basketball sixty five sixty three the final, the Florida

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Speaker 4: Gators are the national champions once again.

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Speaker 1: The tendency of college teams to be unable to score

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Speaker 1: over extended periods at times, and the kids playing suffocating

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Speaker 1: Game seven of the finals means.

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Speaker 2: That no college game is over till it's over. Correct,

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Speaker 2: you can have enormous swings.

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Speaker 1: Also, Florida's biggest star, uh, who's having one of the

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Scored eleven points and they still want none

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Speaker 2: it's amazing. So we got mail Bag coming up.

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Speaker 1: A little bit later, we get Katie's headlines, and then

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Speaker 1: we got some more news of the day. I can't

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Speaker 1: the dire Wolf. It's been ex extinct for thousands and

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Speaker 6: From the Washington Post, the US just had its windiest

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Speaker 2: I'm glad somebody's measuring that.

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Speaker 6: From the New York Post, AOC flies first class to

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Speaker 2: What are you so unhappy about? Your life looks pretty

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Speaker 1: It could well be the dudes who have no disability

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Speaker 1: men is now about five percentage points lower than in

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Speaker 1: the early eighties. Okay, this is not like the nineteen tens.

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Speaker 1: This is the nineteen eighties, five points lower. As a result,

443
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Speaker 1: there are about three and a half million fewer men

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Speaker 1: between the ages twenty five and fifty four in the

445
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Speaker 1: workforce and one point three million between the ages of

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Speaker 1: twenty five and thirty four, a significantly bigger population than

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Speaker 1: we have in the eighties. Right then there would have

448
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Speaker 1: been were it not for this decline. Labor participation among

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Speaker 1: working age women, on the other hand, recently hit a

450
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Speaker 1: record in part because they are having fewer children, and

451
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Speaker 1: then people aren't coupling that sort of thing. At the

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Speaker 1: risk of stereotyping, women are more inclined toward helping professions

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Speaker 1: such as services than those that require physical labor.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's just true. It's undeniable.

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Speaker 1: So I've not done a manufacturing sort of job before,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know what it's like, but I certainly

457
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Speaker 1: feel like there's a social stigma around it that doesn't

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Speaker 1: help true.

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Speaker 2: Why it is.

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Speaker 1: Why there's not a social stigma around having a meaningless,

461
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Speaker 1: soul deadening paper pushing job in a cubicle, I don't

462
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Speaker 1: know why that is. I mean, maybe the other way

463
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Speaker 1: around should be. There shouldn't be any stigma around any jobs.

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Speaker 1: Working for a living is considerably better than not whatever

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Speaker 1: the hell you're doing.

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Speaker 2: So why I always the.

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Speaker 1: Vestige of the twentieth century where a job where you

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Speaker 1: used your brain as opposed to your back was seen

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Speaker 1: as a higher status job.

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Speaker 2: God, I don't know some of these jobs or you

471
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Speaker 2: use your brain.

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Speaker 1: That's barely not much, I mean, but they certainly don't

473
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Speaker 1: seem like they'd be much more enjoyable as starter jobs.

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Speaker 2: Right, Tedious is tedious. I had a.

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Speaker 1: Sort of manufacturing job for one summer, and it was

476
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Speaker 1: pretty tedious, honestly, but I'm sure it is. You know

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Speaker 1: why I go went ahead and took it and kept it.

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Speaker 1: It was because it paid pretty good. It was my

479
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Speaker 1: best option. Right, So, yeah, you got any and well

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Speaker 1: you should have to make a living. You got us

481
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Speaker 1: import yourself somehow.

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Speaker 2: No, you don't. What kind of monster are you listen

483
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Speaker 2: to this? Would you?

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Speaker 4: So?

485
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Speaker 2: Where have all the good working men gone?

486
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Speaker 1: Some are subsisting on government benefits, are living off their parents.

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Speaker 1: About seventeen percent of working age men are on Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: seventeen percent, seven and a half percent on food stamps,

489
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Speaker 1: and six point three percent on Social Security, many claiming

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Speaker 1: disability payouts.

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Speaker 2: According to the Census Bureau.

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Speaker 1: Many spend their days playing video games and day trading, well,

493
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Speaker 1: day trading hilarious, speculating on meme stocks, or you tell

494
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Speaker 1: somebody your day trading.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how often you're actually.

496
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Speaker 1: Trading and making any money because you don't want to

497
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Speaker 1: say I just play video games and live in my parents' basement,

498
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Speaker 1: so you say you're your day trader. So I don't

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Speaker 1: remember our good friend Craig the healthcare Genius's statistics. But

500
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Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, originally medicaid was only supposed to

501
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Speaker 1: cover like a tiny percentage people period.

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Speaker 2: Now it's covering percent.

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Speaker 1: Maybe now it's covering and that would have been like

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Speaker 1: the old and you know people that I got all

505
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Speaker 1: kinds of physical or mental problems. Now it's seventeen percent

506
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Speaker 1: of working age men, not like senior citizens.

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Speaker 2: That's nice.

508
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Speaker 1: Yeah. A couple more stats. Other missing men are taking

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Speaker 1: longer to finish college or pursuing graduate degrees. Only about

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Speaker 1: forty one percent of men complete a bachelor's degree in

511
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Speaker 1: four years, even though study after study shows they don't teach.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to work. There's great inflation. It's dopey.

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Speaker 1: Only forty one percent and a quarter take more than

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Speaker 1: six years. Wow, because you're in no hurry to get

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Speaker 1: out of college. My dad used to comment about perpetual

516
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Speaker 1: college students. And I never really understood what he was

517
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Speaker 1: talking about. And I'm sure it was a small number

518
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Speaker 1: of people back when he was in college, but now

519
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Speaker 1: it is a lot.

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Speaker 2: Apparently. I'll just stay in college.

521
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Speaker 1: I'll just keep borrowing money and because I'm too young

522
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Speaker 1: or unwise to understand what I'm doing, and I'll just

523
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Speaker 1: keep this game going of I get to sit around

524
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Speaker 1: with my friends and discuss the world without ever having

525
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Speaker 1: to engage in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have disability.

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Speaker 1: My thumb hurts on Thursdays, final stat Then.

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Speaker 2: I will I will stop.

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Speaker 1: We're just we are a fat, lazy, comfortable society. We're

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Speaker 1: headed to front denial, right, we are headed straight toward France.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The unemployment rate Jack considered this among recent college grads

533
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: with a sociology degree is about seven percent, and their

534
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: medium wage, if they do have a gig, is forty

535
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Social

536
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: grads can earn twice as much working on an auto

537
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Speaker 1: assembly line, which pays an average hundred thousand dollars a year.

538
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: Good gig, but not many want it. The reality is

539
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Speaker 1: that masses a young people, writes Alicia Finley, who again

540
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: as a genius, has been taught that capitalism is exploitive.

541
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Speaker 1: They don't want to work in factories. They'd rather mooch

542
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: off taxpayers or their parents. How Karl Marx is that, Yes,

543
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Speaker 1: some of it is that, I'm sure, But I just

544
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is just the cultural

545
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: that would be embarrassing for your parents and for you

546
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: if you worked over at the whatever factory. Yeah, more

547
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: embarrassing in our current society than if you just live

548
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: at home and you know.

549
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: You say you're a day trader.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be more embarrassing to have a job at

551
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Speaker 1: a plant than to live with your parents, But I

552
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: think it is. Or having taken six years to get

553
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: an undergrad degree in gender studies, you're now getting a

554
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: master's degree in the theoretical decolonialization of art or whatever

555
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: the say sometimes. Thank for soft people, man. There is

556
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: no more iron law of humanity than that. I think

557
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: My kids, my two boys, are growing up in a

558
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: household where they hear me talk enough about this that

559
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: they realize that's uncool to not go out there and

560
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: get a job of some sort. I hope we got

561
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Speaker 1: Katie's headline. No, we already did that. We've got Joe's

562
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Speaker 1: bag on the way.

563
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Speaker 2: Stay here a.

564
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Speaker 3: Word.

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Speaker 2: You're going to be hearing a lot more in coming years.

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Speaker 1: De extinction, as they think they've pulled off the first

567
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Speaker 1: de extinction by bringing back the dire Wolf, which disappeared

568
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Speaker 1: thirty five thousand years ago thirty.

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Speaker 2: Five three free appearance on Game of Thrones. That's correct.

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Speaker 1: Ummah, so yeah, we'll talk about that maybe an hour

571
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Speaker 1: or two is no, oh, the lonesome cry of the

572
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Speaker 1: dire Wolf. Here's your freedom loving quote. It today sat

573
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Speaker 1: along by an alert listener whose name I do not recall,

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Speaker 1: and I apologize for that. I am incompetent and will

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Speaker 1: suffer the consequences thereof. But it's from an rand and

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Speaker 1: I quote Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but

577
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Speaker 1: two rival gangs fighting over the same territory based on

578
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Speaker 1: the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of

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Speaker 1: the state.

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Speaker 2: I think she's absolutely right. It's the horseshoe theory. But yeah, yeah,

581
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Speaker 2: quite so.

582
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Speaker 1: Mailbag drop us a nowood jem mail bag at Armstrong

583
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Speaker 1: and Getty dot com. I have put aside some of

584
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: the impassioned, angry, idiotic emails about this, that, and the other,

585
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: just because I'd rather go with stuff that amuses me.

586
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, it's a little life

587
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: advice for it. You've probably heard many times, don't hit

588
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: send when you're angry, whether it's a text or an.

589
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: Email or whatever.

590
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: And I think some people think that's because, well, it

591
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: might be hurtful to the other person, and it might

592
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: hurt our relationship, and blah blah blah, and all of

593
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: that is very true. The other un underappreciated aspect of

594
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: hitting sen when you're angry is that you come off

595
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: like a stupid child who can't control yourself. Even if

596
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: you're writing to a radio show, remember your name's attached

597
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: to that, and you come across as an angry adolescent

598
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Speaker 1: sputtering at their dad or mom.

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Speaker 2: Okay, think about it before you hit send. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Moving along from first initial t trash in California, guys,

601
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: what really surprises me is the millions that are spent

602
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Speaker 1: of taxpayer money to run public service announcements for a

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Speaker 1: cleaner California.

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Speaker 2: Don't litter?

605
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: Really, you tell me not to litter. You you allow

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00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: junkie camps to exist. Here's an idea, why not start

607
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: getting rid of the junkies in their camps. I couldn't

608
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: if I tried litter as much in my lifetime as

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Speaker 1: you know, the camp in the park with the tents

610
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: and all the crap, well right, and where those tax

611
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: dollars are spent in Sacramento, I can't remember. Katie had

612
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: a story a week or two ago about cleaning up

613
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Speaker 1: a junkie camp along the Sacramento River and they removed

614
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: three thousand tons of trash or whatever it is. And look,

615
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Speaker 1: I hate littering. I don't believe in throwing away so

616
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: much as a cigarette butter, a candy wrapper. But seriously,

617
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Speaker 1: you're gonna harangue me a taxpayer expense not to throw

618
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Speaker 1: away my gum wrapper. Well, you're allowing junkie camps to

619
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Speaker 1: unload thousands of tons by the river.

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Moving along, Neil and Utah writes, guys, A long time

622
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Speaker 1: listening to My parents would listen to you and Jack.

623
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Speaker 2: When I was in high school.

624
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Speaker 1: I picked up your show listen regularly as a thirty

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Speaker 1: six year old.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know you think that's a nice thing to say,

627
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Speaker 2: but you're old. Get over it. But his.

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Speaker 5: This is a coordinated monthly test of the emergency alert system.

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Speaker 5: Broadcasters in our area are testing the equipment that can

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Speaker 5: quickly warn you in the event of emergencies. If this

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Speaker 5: had been an actual emergen see such as flooding, high winds,

632
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Speaker 5: or a chemical spill, official messages would have followed this tone.

633
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Speaker 5: This station serves the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada Foothill Counties.

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Speaker 5: This concludes this test of the emergency alert system.

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Speaker 1: At least there was a noose in her son's bag.

636
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: So there's a doll and some sort of string that

637
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: seemed to be over the doll's head. First thing that

638
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: popped in my head. These are not toys, These are

639
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Speaker 1: something different. Tonny says she needs a support animal.

640
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Speaker 2: Wow.

641
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, people just looking to be outraged crazy. Oh that

642
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: one's so good, but it's a little long.

643
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Speaker 2: Oh.

644
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Speaker 1: The One More Thing podcast yesterday, I'm strung Getting One

645
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: more Thing. I talked about using Google Translate while standing

646
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Speaker 1: next to Spanish speakers.

647
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Speaker 2: To see what they were saying.

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Speaker 1: And is that pe perhaps out of boundser since they're

649
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: right there speaking within earshot.

650
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Speaker 2: Is it okay?

651
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Speaker 1: Garrick says, I'm a white guy who learns Spanish. So

652
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Speaker 1: whenever I'm around Mexicans I always tell them that I

653
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Speaker 1: know Spanish when they're speaking.

654
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Speaker 2: It seems like the right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Really, that's interesting, Psych, stop being a self hating white

656
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Speaker 1: boy Joe, So maybe he doesn't do that on all.

657
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: You feel like, are there people that feel like they

658
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Speaker 1: need to say, by the way, I speak Spanish?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: But Denny says Psych, So I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: the opposite or all right, Okay, we got a lot

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Speaker 1: more on the way, including the return of the Dire Wolf,

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty