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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong. Welcome

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Speaker 3: Every once in a while, an argument seems to be

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Speaker 3: one in the world of politics or loss, depending on

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Speaker 3: which out of it you were on. Not a lot

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Speaker 3: most elections. We seem to just go back and forth

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Speaker 3: same arguments. But every once in a while an argument

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Speaker 3: is one or lost. One of the best examples in

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Speaker 3: my lifetime being gay marriage. So thoroughly drubbed by the

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Speaker 3: idea of gay marriage, Republicans just ceased fighting it at

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Speaker 3: all when it became clear that the country had decided

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Speaker 3: that that's what they want, and so that then that

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Speaker 3: argument was over and it just doesn't exist anymore. And

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping that maybe that has happened, or we're close

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Speaker 3: to it happening with the whole identity politics thing that

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Speaker 3: took off in the mid nineties and has been running

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Speaker 3: this country for a long time. And maybe maybe because

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of people on the left saying this

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Speaker 3: is not working for us, starting with well, not starting

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Speaker 3: with a whole bunch of different people have said it, well,

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Speaker 3: this isn't it. James Carvel's he ran Clinton's campaign, really

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Speaker 3: pre identity politics taking hold of the Democratic Party way

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Speaker 3: back in the early nineties. But this is what James

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Speaker 3: Carvel has to say about the current state.

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Speaker 5: Of things with reference to exotic positions. Was our identity politics?

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Speaker 5: If you read the article in your Times, I said,

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Speaker 5: I give Harris credit, she does not bring this up.

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Speaker 5: But this stuff is like smoke on your clothes of

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Speaker 5: a fireplace.

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Speaker 3: You can't wash it off.

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Speaker 5: And those ideas, well, it's true, they never said it.

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Speaker 5: You know how many millions of dollars that the Republicans

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Speaker 5: ran on anti identity politics positions that people had taken

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Speaker 5: in a Democratic party in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: toancy is a lot because you see it politics the

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Speaker 5: other side gets to play, and you've got to understand

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Speaker 5: that it's going to take another four years before we

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Speaker 5: wash the stench of this off of our.

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Speaker 3: Clothes, at least, so identity to politics being your politics

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Speaker 3: are all about your immutable things, like your skin color,

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Speaker 3: whether you man or woman, what you know, your hispani

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Speaker 3: are identity politics your politics.

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Speaker 4: But your place in the world. Are you a good

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Speaker 4: person or a bad person? Can you work here or not?

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Speaker 4: That's all about your immutable characteristics.

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Speaker 3: Sam Harris, who is a lefty, super smart guy, best known,

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Speaker 3: wrote in sub stack yesterday, I think there are some

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Speaker 3: lessons that the Democrats really must absorb for what is

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Speaker 3: undeniably a total political defeat. They simply must recognize that

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Speaker 3: several planks of their platform are thoroughly rotten. Identity politics

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Speaker 3: is over. No one wants it. Latinos and Blacks don't

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Speaker 3: even want it, as witnessed by the fact that they

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Speaker 3: moved to Trump and record numbers. Trump got a majority

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Speaker 3: of Latino men nationwide, and some kind He's got a

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Speaker 3: majority of Latino men and women, even with all that

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Speaker 3: things like they're poisoning the blood of our people. A

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Speaker 3: comedian called Puerto Rico a pilot garbage at a Trump rally,

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Speaker 3: and the entire Democratic machine, all of the liberal media

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Speaker 4: Because its practically the closing argument of the campaign, right

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Speaker 4: that that will be looked back on them as a mistake.

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Speaker 4: The numbers Puerto Rican voters moved strongly toward Trump in

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Speaker 3: Because the point is, and then I'll get back to

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Speaker 3: this Sam Harris thing is they cared more about what

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Speaker 4: Gender, whatever, what particular Caribbean island i'm from.

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Speaker 3: Right, there's one species of identity politics that had an

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Speaker 3: enormous effect on this election, and most Democrats don't seem

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Speaker 3: the Olympics. And if that sounds like transphobia to you,

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Speaker 3: you're the problem. Political equality, which should we should want

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Speaker 3: When Sam Harris is writing that, I gotta believe that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta believe there are people like Sam and

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Speaker 4: the many many others who are coming out of the

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Speaker 4: chafing because they know how insane it is, you know.

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Speaker 4: To get back to Carville's point real quickly, he talked

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Speaker 4: about the Democrats didn't really run on identity politics exactly.

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Speaker 3: They kind of soft pedaled it. I would suggest.

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Speaker 4: That the Republicans weren't running against what the Democrats were

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Speaker 3: What people see in.

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Speaker 4: Their elementary schools and their kids' sports, and the college campuses,

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Speaker 3: Your workplace, in the training you have to take every year,

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Speaker 4: Folks, trust me when I say, with some exceptions, the

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Speaker 3: Don't consent to that, because it's still.

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Speaker 4: Going on in some corporations, government offices where you have

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Speaker 3: I've been wanting to get to this.

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Speaker 4: I came across an article and it was in the

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Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal, which, granted, if you're employing lots and

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Speaker 4: It's just inevitable, even if you're the Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 4: And it's and it's an article about you know, transgender

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Speaker 4: Nobody has a right to do that.

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Speaker 3: Sam Marris said Americans aren't fond of seeing biological men

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Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty and counting different medals and awards,

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Speaker 3: rest of it. It's I tell you what, folks, it is,

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Speaker 3: for better or worse, an unbelievable example of how a

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Speaker 3: very small but vicious group of people can twist society

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Speaker 3: in ways that you wouldn't think were possible. Well As

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Speaker 3: listening to the National Review podcasts the other day, they're

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Speaker 3: making the point that the same crowd that managed to

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Speaker 3: this and thought they could do it again. I mean,

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Speaker 3: because gay marriage was incredibly unpopular not that long ago.

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Speaker 3: I always point out that in a two thousand and

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Speaker 3: eight election, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic

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Speaker 3: Party running against each other, both stated marriage should be

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Speaker 3: between a man and a woman. That's not that long ago.

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Speaker 3: In the Democratic Party, the great Barack Obama was against

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Speaker 3: I mean it turned out, I think we all agree

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Speaker 3: And they thought they could do the same thing with

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Speaker 3: the trans thing. No you can't, This is nuts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it professional like you know, anything goes sexually. Activists

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Speaker 4: were part of it, but also the postmodern neo Marxist

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Speaker 4: you know, Black Lives Matter is trying to and the

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Speaker 4: rest of it.

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Speaker 3: So that, yeah, they tried to seize that.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of that sort of mission creep in

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Speaker 4: nonprofits like the NAACP. They've won all their victories, I mean,

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Speaker 4: what else do you want. The Southern Poverty Law Center,

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Speaker 4: they want all their victories. But they got a staff

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Speaker 4: and they got lots of people making lots of money,

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Speaker 4: so they kind of morphed into the yeah, we're uh

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Speaker 4: And by the way, we're gonna identify like half of

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Speaker 4: And so they just what are they now? They're a

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Speaker 4: marry who I want to marry. Okay, great, And then

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Speaker 4: they added the T and oh oh, And that was

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Speaker 3: I'll find it.

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Speaker 4: But they didn't use quotes around transgender, including talking about

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Speaker 4: transgender kids. And I wish I could remember what perfectly

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Speaker 4: reasonable thing they used quotes around. But we now accept

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Is there an agreed upon meaning of that, or is

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Speaker 4: that an activist's effort to prejudice the argument, and therefore

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Speaker 4: agreed upon meaning of that term at all. I'll find

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Speaker 4: that so I can make the contrast all the more

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Speaker 4: clear for you. But the war for the language tell

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Speaker 4: you what. We got to fight it every single day

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Speaker 3: Well, how about the food pyramid throughout my lifetime and

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Speaker 4: Speaking of the recent electoral results in which the Democratic

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Speaker 3: Thank god.

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Speaker 4: It seems like an odd moment for perhaps the most

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Speaker 4: But Gavin Newsom of California did just that with a

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Speaker 3: Katie, Welcome, How are.

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Speaker 7: You, Good morning, Joe, Good morning, Jack. I'm well, I'm

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Speaker 4: I love the headline your recent piece Gavin Newsom is

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Speaker 4: Would you agree it seems like an odd moment for

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Speaker 3: This is my time.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he needs to learn to read the room, because

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Speaker 3: I understand the wanting to be the first in as

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Speaker 3: What's he thinking?

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Speaker 7: You know, you ask a really good question, because I

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Speaker 7: And I think part of the problem is a he

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Speaker 4: So you've made your career covering California and California politics.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, isn't that There's nothing like a good visual.

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Speaker 7: Even lefties are tired of this because lefties, well they

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Speaker 7: They're tight with a buck, they want their kids to

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Speaker 3: It's funny. I mentioned that my car's in the shop

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Speaker 4: And Gavin's contention is that, and he's utterly a con man.

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Speaker 3: You'd think he'd wake up and smell the discontent.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he has no ability to do that, and I

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Speaker 7: That's where his career was supposed to take him. So,

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Speaker 4: I just that's that's that's that hit me like a flow.

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Speaker 4: I gotta take me real quick. Are you skilled in

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Speaker 4: the arts of karate or what?

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Speaker 3: That's shut out of me? Yeah? I can't even imagine that.

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Speaker 4: So, once again, for people who are listening around the

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Speaker 4: country who may not be familiar, can you give us

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Speaker 4: the nickel version of Gavin Newsom's energy policies? And and

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Speaker 4: and just and as Katie talked, perhaps folks, you can

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Speaker 4: imagine this being implemented nationwide.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Actually, what Gavin Newsom is doing is imposing unbelievable

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Speaker 7: regulations on our oil and gas industry. We're not fracking

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Speaker 7: for natural gas in California, even though we sit on

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Speaker 7: top of the world's largest gas reserves. So he's trying

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Speaker 7: to restrict all this. He's forcing oil and gas companies

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Speaker 7: to withhold hold back some of their oil and gas

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Speaker 7: and it's going to lead to even higher gas prices.

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Speaker 7: His California Air Sources Board, that's the regulatory agency for

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Speaker 7: our global warming policies, just passed amount to at least

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Speaker 7: the sixty five cent additional tax on top of our

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Speaker 7: highest gas prices in the entire country. So what he's

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Speaker 7: doing is creating shortages of everything, including water deliveries. I mean,

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Speaker 7: it's hard to make this stuff up. It's almost like

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Speaker 7: the un is running Gavin Newsom and California because nobody

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Speaker 7: in this state wants to live like this, and yet

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Speaker 7: these morons are still voting for this.

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Speaker 3: So is there any chance that he's not actually angling

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Speaker 3: to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight, that he's

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Speaker 3: trying to get some other really lucrative gig, like an

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Speaker 3: Al Gore type lifestyle or something. I mean, is it

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Speaker 3: just a money grab that I don't quite understand yet.

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Speaker 7: It's it's about power and money. I wrote right before

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Speaker 7: the election and article about how the only thing he

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Speaker 7: really has left to focus on is his climate change chops,

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Speaker 7: and so he's trying to pivot to become the next

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Speaker 7: al Gore on the net.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of money in that there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of freaking money at that, and you don't have the

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Speaker 3: scrutiny of politics exactly, and.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to you don't have to produce anything.

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Speaker 7: There's no results necessary. You will go around and blather

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Speaker 7: on about climate change this and that and carbon emissions,

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Speaker 7: and for some reason, the media buy a book line

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Speaker 7: and sinker oh boy.

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Speaker 4: Katie Grimes is the editor in chief of the California Globe.

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Speaker 4: Katie I picture Gavin announcing officially for president the presidency.

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Speaker 4: Within a couple of years, we will organize a march

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Speaker 4: of all forty million Californians from California to DC, Kansas.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna need to stuck up on avocado toast, but

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Speaker 4: we will march to DC.

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Speaker 3: And declare America. Please don't do this to yourselves, Please don't.

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Speaker 4: We've linked Katie's a couple of recent pieces up top

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Speaker 4: at the hot links at armstrong in giddy dot com

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Speaker 4: if you want to take a read. Katie, great to

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Speaker 4: talk to you is always keep fighting the good fight.

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Speaker 7: Thanks. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 3: Guys, always fun. Thanks. Yeah, just you know. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to embarrass Katie or.

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Speaker 4: Anything, but she is a fairly mainstream to left leaning

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Speaker 4: journalist who just prized old school journalism telling the truth.

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Speaker 4: And she has gone from you know, absolutely you know,

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Speaker 4: tolerant and sympathetic toward kind of the center left to

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Speaker 4: being aghast at what she's seeing in her home state,

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Speaker 4: as so many are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think this is my current working theory that

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Speaker 3: he's not actually angling to be the twenty eight nominee,

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Speaker 3: that he's trying to raise his Q factor, his name

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Speaker 3: and everything like that, just in progressive circles and become

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Speaker 3: something that makes him a lot of money for a

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Speaker 3: long time Al Gore style.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's calculating enough that I still say he is absolutely,

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Speaker 4: fully turgid aroused for the idea of the White House.

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Speaker 3: I always saying that, I think you are enjoying the imagery.

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Speaker 3: Is what's going on.

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Speaker 4: Shakespeare Head sexy stuff in his place too, and he's

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Speaker 4: worshiped so anyway, But you do make an interesting point.

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Speaker 4: He's calculating enough that that's his main goal, but he's

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Speaker 4: positioning himself in such a way that other goals are

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Speaker 4: pursued at the same time. Yeah, he's really, in a word, evil,

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Speaker 4: an evil human being.

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Speaker 3: So doge coin different than bitcoin? But also a cryptocurrency

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Speaker 3: has now as of today, jumped twenty percent since Trump

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Speaker 3: announced Elon and the DOGE Group or whatever they're going

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Speaker 3: to call it, DOGE the Department of Efficiency. So because

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Speaker 3: it's named the same as their cryptocurrency, they're people invested

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Speaker 3: in the cryptocurrency.

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Speaker 4: Well, the general friendliness toward cryptocurrency, plus the branding wise,

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Speaker 4: that helps. God, I got to figure out the timing

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Speaker 3: So to paint the picture for you, it's Trump and Biden,

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Speaker 3: all smiles in blue suits and red ties, sitting there

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Speaker 3: in front of a roaring fireplace there in the Oval Office,

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Speaker 3: and Biden's good at that whole backslapping were pals thing

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Speaker 3: he's been doing for since before most of us were born.

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Speaker 3: And this is the only thing he's good. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: really his only uh. And and Trump, of course is

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Speaker 3: joining the fact that he has uh defeated that side thoroughly,

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Speaker 3: first time they've been together since the debate that ended

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Speaker 3: Biden's career. Oh my god, Trump probably never been as

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Speaker 3: happy as life. Then, sitting next to this guy that

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Speaker 3: he's so thoroughly.

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Speaker 4: Trounced having, slaps Biden on the back and says, remind

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Speaker 4: Hunter to pay his taxes.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 1: See around the Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah, or John

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Speaker 1: your Joe podcasts and our Hot Lakes.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.

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Speaker 3: Katie, You're gonna have to explain to us what the

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Speaker 3: hell this is we're hearing here.

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Speaker 8: So apparently there's this internet trend going on, an internet trend.

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Speaker 3: You say it's an internet trend.

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Speaker 8: And apparently if you exhale all the way, get all

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Speaker 8: the air completely out of your lungs, and then you

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Speaker 8: try to scream, you make some form of a noise

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Speaker 8: like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotcha. The exhale and scream challenge. I'll do

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Speaker 3: that with my kids today for fun. Take a video,

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Speaker 3: let us know it goes. I'll do it with one

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Speaker 3: of my kids. My high school kid is no longer

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Speaker 3: interested in anything whimsical. He is just gloom. Teenager. What

589
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 3: the official uniform of teenager? Though?

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Speaker 8: The whole reason I discuss I wanted to see if

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Speaker 8: Michaelangelo could do it.

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Speaker 3: Michael do that for us on Mike. Exhale completely, then

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Speaker 3: try to scream. Okay, here we go, here we go.

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Speaker 3: So you took you in, healed? You didn't. You didn't

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Speaker 3: exhale enough either. It completely exhamed. Okay, no, you healed again?

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Speaker 3: He can't in here.

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Speaker 2: He blew out.

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Speaker 3: Then you took a breath. Okay, let me blow. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna just do nothing but blow. Don't take a breath

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Speaker 3: in you took it. You I am never mind never

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Speaker 3: I don't understand. I'm growing out. That's the why I

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Speaker 3: excel you do not take a breath. You are taking

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Speaker 3: the fact that you're not following these instructions is I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna blow out, right, Okay, Katie, we gotta go. No,

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna go through this again.

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Speaker 4: Michael, Michael, you blow out, you go and then you

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Speaker 4: go and then you scream.

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Speaker 3: You're not supposed to. That's leave out to last. Try Okay,

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Speaker 3: so just blow and scream, but but don't okay, all right, okay.

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Speaker 4: All right, everywhere, so earlier, earlier, it's all right, Katie

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Speaker 4: for the podcast.

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Speaker 3: You need to do it because I want to hear

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Speaker 3: you try to do it. Okay, podcast, Okay.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: The the only thing I took away from that is

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Speaker 4: how incredibly infectious laughter is listening to those numbskulls try

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Speaker 4: to do the numbskullish challenge of the day.

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Speaker 3: Right, But they're all laughing, so you just can't help.

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Speaker 3: But you know, giggle. Here is a professor at the

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Speaker 3: University of Kansas, where I spent a year in grad school. Poorly.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what class he's teaching here, but somebody

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Speaker 3: got out their cell phone. He's doing this in the

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Speaker 3: little lecture room in front of a bunch of students.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it, but here you go. That's what

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Speaker 3: frustrates me.

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Speaker 9: There are going to be some males in our society

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Speaker 9: that will refuse to vote for a potential female president

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Speaker 9: because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.

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Speaker 9: We can line all those guys up and shoot them,

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Speaker 9: and they clearly don't understand the way the world works.

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Speaker 3: Did I say that?

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Speaker 9: It scratch that from the recording. I don't want the

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Speaker 9: Deans hearing that I said that.

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Speaker 3: We missed the very first part of that, where he's

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Speaker 3: in a conversation when somebody starts their cell phone, where

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Speaker 3: he's saying, people who think that men are smarter than women,

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Speaker 3: So why is he having that conversation anyway? Who thinks

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Speaker 3: either way that either gender is as a whole smarter

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Speaker 3: than the other. That's just a dumb premise to start with.

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Speaker 3: And then he goes into there are people that won't

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Speaker 3: vote for Kamala Errs because they don't believe women are

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Speaker 3: smart enough. People who thinks that how many people do

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Speaker 3: you know? Thinks that what are you talking about? Katie?

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Speaker 3: Feel free to weigh in.

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Speaker 4: But as a guy who loves and cherishes women in

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Speaker 4: every part of life, the male who has to PROMI

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Speaker 4: trait himself talking about women are so much smarter.

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Speaker 3: Men are so dumb. Women are smarter. You are pathetic.

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Speaker 4: You should turn in your genitals, sir, and I use

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Speaker 4: that term loosely.

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Speaker 3: That's pathetic.

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Speaker 8: Two points. One, I hate nothing more than a male feminist.

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Speaker 8: That's awful. Second, this guy's name is Philip Locock.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not. It is no, Yes, how did

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Speaker 3: that escape me?

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Speaker 8: And he's a lecturer in the Department of Health, Sport

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Speaker 8: and Exercise Science.

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Speaker 4: You know, good year, Alish just could probably help you

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Speaker 4: with your problem there, mistress, support garden.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how low is it support garment that gets

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Speaker 3: that thing up where you need it to be. You

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Speaker 3: gotta change your name. You know, you don't want to

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Speaker 3: down around your knees. You want to up here, waste level.

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Speaker 4: I mean, maybe many generations of Locock settled the West

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Speaker 4: and made Kansas the fabulous states that it is today.

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Speaker 3: You gotta change your name. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 10: Maybe I'm with all due respect to great grandfather Locock

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Speaker 10: in the work he did in Prohibition and Grandpa Locock

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Speaker 10: and it's how he, you know, opened the first bank

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Speaker 10: of Solona or whatever.

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Speaker 3: You gotta change your name. Yeah, you know, maybe I

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Speaker 3: should have more sympathy, But he grew up with that

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Speaker 3: name probably many endless jokes like we're doing now, and

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Speaker 3: it drove him to being a male feminist where he

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Speaker 3: has to overreact the other direction or something. Low tea,

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Speaker 3: armstrong and getty,