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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Merche

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Speaker 1: Church Stage Bushler Sturgs trender uh that one courtesy of

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Speaker 1: uh you and the editor and AI and some exciting

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Speaker 1: new advances in AI. Yeah, because superproducer Catherine Law also

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Speaker 1: brought this clip to our attention.

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Speaker 2: Yep, I think it's good to juxtapose it with one

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Speaker 2: headline where the head of Google's Deep mind AI said

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Speaker 2: society isn't prepared for artificial general intelligence. True. Oh, AI's

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Speaker 2: pop hu and.

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Speaker 1: The n official general intelligence is going to be wild

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Speaker 1: if they ever get to make it.

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Speaker 2: Also, we're not prepared for whatever this bullshit is you

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Speaker 2: unleashed on.

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Speaker 1: So what do we have right now? Let's take a

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Speaker 1: look at what what is operational at the moment. So, yeah, super.

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Speaker 2: Producer Catherine the stick talk video of a guy the

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Speaker 2: closing interview. Yeah on zoom it said when they interview

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Speaker 2: you using AI, and it's clearly some avatar trying to say, okay, great,

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Speaker 2: let's touch base and it gets caught in some demonic

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Speaker 2: AI loop to touch it gets worse.

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Speaker 1: Best touch.

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Speaker 2: Anyway. Yeah, we're not it isn't even prepared to say

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Speaker 2: let's touch base later. Yeah, I feel like it was,

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Speaker 2: let's touch base later, but every time they got to

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Speaker 2: the l they would start over, let's touch base again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, shout out to AI. We are not prepared

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Speaker 1: for you or not.

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Speaker 2: You're right prepared.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when when it comes, if it comes,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we just allow Google to keep burning

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Speaker 1: down the entire planet's rainforest for six decades, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to see them there. Well, it's gonna be. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: blow your mind how easy it is for them to

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Speaker 1: replace you. How easy their AI bots say, let's touch

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Speaker 1: space later, as they're.

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Speaker 2: These like AI preachy people, or they're like, it's like

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Speaker 2: and it will help solve climate change when it gets

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Speaker 2: to that level of like intelligence. But it wrote that

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Speaker 2: logic reminds me of like the Boogie Night scene where

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Speaker 2: Mark Wahlberg and John c Riley are trying to get

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Speaker 2: a record deal but not pay for the demo that

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Speaker 2: they recorded, Like you got to pay. It's like, no,

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Speaker 2: but we need the tape to get the deal to

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Speaker 2: pay you. Brandon, It's like, yeah, no, that's not how

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Speaker 2: it works.

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Speaker 1: I can do more quick, so I could do more work,

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Speaker 1: so I could buy more coke, so I could do

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Speaker 1: more work so I could buy more.

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Speaker 2: No, is gonna more carbon and then eventually we'll get there. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we won't.

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Speaker 1: We will not. Let's see so big news out here

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter, La Times, all these places

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Speaker 1: are covering Trump's planned movie tariff, where he just like

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, was like, I'm going to do a

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent which seems very scientifically arrived at one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent tariff on all Hollywood movies being made out

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Speaker 1: of anywhere else. And he claimed to have done very

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Speaker 1: strong research on how Hollywood is being destroyed. But despite

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Speaker 1: the Office of the US Trade Representative said that those

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Speaker 1: services that he's planning to subject to tariffs are not

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Speaker 1: subject to tariffs, and that in nineteen eighty eight, Congress

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Speaker 1: passed a law quote explicitly barring the president from regulating

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Speaker 1: in any way the import or export of things like movies, books,

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Speaker 1: and music. But everyone's just treating this like, oh no,

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Speaker 1: what are What's Hollywood going to do? Now? It's like

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Speaker 1: he can't. He just said he's going to a thing

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Speaker 1: that you can't do.

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Speaker 2: I'm putting a one tariff on foreign ghosts across the board.

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Speaker 2: And then rather than being like what the fuck is

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Speaker 2: I'll be like, oh boy, foreign ghosts are in for

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Speaker 2: a bit of economic trouble with their new tariffs, Like.

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Speaker 1: How are the foreign ghost manufacturers going to react to

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Speaker 1: Trump's new gambit?

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Speaker 2: And small business owners who import for foreign ghosts for

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Speaker 2: their livelihoods?

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Speaker 1: Like what? The statute couldn't be more plain? According to

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Speaker 1: a global regulations law expert, Congress in nineteen eighty eight,

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Speaker 2: Even like their legal opinion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly what the fuck do Zach? I know? Even

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Speaker 1: if something like a tariff could be enacted, the film

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Speaker 1: industry is actually one of the country's strongest exports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like that does a lot of heavy lifting for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the one thing that we still do

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Speaker 2: Trade war people like countries just be like, all right then,

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Speaker 2: like we just won't show the fucking movie, and Hollywood

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Speaker 2: has been frothing at the mouth for the Chinese audiences.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all they care about. How's it going to

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Speaker 1: do overseas?

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Speaker 3: You do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I don't know, y'all. Y'all gave this man money,

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Speaker 2: so why don't you figure it out?

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Speaker 1: Much like today's Alcatraz story, we wanted to kind of

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Speaker 1: get a sense of where did this come from? This

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Speaker 1: idea that he so strongly researched, like he did a research. Dude,

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Speaker 1: just might word, don't look into it. It turns out

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Speaker 1: that this idea is probably thanks to uh, the movie

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Speaker 1: star whose most recent project was being the second build

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Speaker 1: lead of the Charge Weber vehicle high ground A John Voight.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, one of Trump's special ambassadors to Hollywood, in

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Speaker 1: addition to Sylvester Stallona mel Gibson. All three guys who

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Speaker 1: are at the top of Hollywood. So it made sense

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Speaker 1: to the top. Yeah, at the top peak performance.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and let's try just mumbling on. He's like,

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Speaker 2: exactly exactly, sy That's why I have you here as

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Speaker 2: my special ambassador. But so Voight said that he met

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Speaker 2: pitch his plan for how to save the movie industry.

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Speaker 2: It also involved Voight's manager's firm, SP Media Group, who

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Speaker 2: issued a press release clarifying that their proposal also included

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Speaker 2: federal tax incentives, significant changes to several tax codes, the

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Speaker 2: establishment of co production treaties with foreign countries, and infrastructure

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Speaker 2: subsidies for theater owners, film and television production companies, and

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Speaker 2: post production companies. Wait, so they're like basically like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I know you heard we talked to Trump, but that's

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Speaker 2: not what we were.

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Speaker 1: Not what we said. We did suggest tariffs in certain

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Speaker 1: limited circumstances, but Trump just zoned out during their pitch,

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Speaker 1: woke up when you heard the word tariff and was like, yeah, tariffs,

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Just no understanding of what's possible. The

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Speaker 1: with Trump and told Bloomberg that they suggested that tariffs

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Speaker 1: could be used to punish bad actors who take their

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Speaker 1: entire production overseas. Speaking of bad actors, High Ground, John

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Speaker 1: Voy's latest movie, produced by SP Media Group and filmed in.

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Speaker 2: It looks like a Western, so like Montana, Bulgaria.

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Speaker 1: Hey, uh huh Bulgaria. But that's obviously just one movie

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Speaker 1: John Voice project before that, also by SP Media Group,

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Speaker 1: Man with No Past, which has like a young man

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Speaker 2: Like Chicago, it looks like New York.

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Speaker 1: That's New York, right, Yeah, there's New York in the background,

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Speaker 1: so obviously that was shot in Bulgaria. Oh and strangers

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Speaker 1: that that one even has John Voyd on the fucking poster. Broye,

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Speaker 1: another Void SP Media Group joint made in Bulgaria. You're

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Speaker 2: I thought, maybe maybe I know the rule of threes

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Speaker 2: and everything, and it's really well and that's a place

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Speaker 2: so many people are talking about how Eastern Europe is

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Speaker 2: where a lot of productions are landing because it's much cheaper.

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Speaker 2: Like that's the problem. It's that the fucking tariffs. It's

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Speaker 2: that that people can't afford to live and everything. The

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Speaker 2: have are going up and their bills are going up.

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Speaker 1: Everything to do with the cost of living in America

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Speaker 1: that they will absolutely refuse to address. What a fucking

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Speaker 1: weekend this dude had, Like do you think.

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Speaker 2: That then opened him up to the idea of being

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Speaker 2: inspired by film? And then he's later that weekend see

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Speaker 2: on AMC. Let's catch a flick. Yeah, he's like a

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Speaker 2: bridge over river. Kuhi, we need we need one of those.

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Speaker 2: What I just need a.

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Speaker 1: One of the most iconic rivers.

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Speaker 2: I was just talking to the Crown Prince as I

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Speaker 2: call him Lawrence of Arabia, some of you call him

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Speaker 2: something else, but.

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Speaker 1: I mean his sons were talking to the Crown Prince.

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Speaker 1: His sons were on a Did you see that story

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Speaker 1: that they were just on a two week heater across

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Speaker 1: them Trump boys just did like a grift tour where

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Speaker 1: they're just like adding billions and billions of dollars or

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Trump Dubai then like people are using crypto

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Speaker 2: so honest. But again, like, yeah, these people truly are

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Speaker 2: Daddy's the president. We fuck it all, Like what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 1: First term, we were like, but the emolument's clause And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this is a note to people running to

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Speaker 2: oppose this shit. Maybe also say these people will be

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Speaker 2: held to account and actually, ah.

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Speaker 1: M, yeah, I mean now that they have made it

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Speaker 1: so that you can just arrest whoever the fuck you want,

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Speaker 1: maybe you should. Maybe that would be a smart message

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Speaker 1: for uh whoever run a lot of them. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're already falling, We're already sliding. It's like a keys.

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Speaker 1: You can't be in the middle of the water slide

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Speaker 1: and be like never mind, right right, right, Yeah, let's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're back.

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Speaker 1: And uh so Newark Airport doesn't work anymore. This is

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Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, I don't know, man, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: first thing that happened is air traffic controllers at Newark

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Speaker 1: get the vaccine, get your vaccines while you still can't

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Speaker 1: get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well,