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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the

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Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty, I know

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Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Yetty. So we've got a former al

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Speaker 2: kaieda guy in charge. Now, what does he have planned

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Speaker 2: for the new Syria. I'm assuming it's some taliban asque

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Speaker 2: brutal fundamentalists to dystopia.

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Speaker 3: There must be legal framework that protects and ensures the

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Speaker 3: rights of all, not a system that serves only one sect.

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Speaker 4: I asked God Almighty that this be a conquest free

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Speaker 4: of revenge, but a conquest entirely of mercy and love.

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Speaker 2: Conquest of mercy and love. I think that's how Taylor

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Speaker 2: ended the aerostour.

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Speaker 3: Wait that.

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Speaker 1: The new leader of Siria's is swifty.

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Speaker 2: How many terror groups is that guy in?

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Speaker 1: That will be so interesting to watch develop. Is it

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Speaker 1: going to become a multi sectarian blood bath Islamist nightmare

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Speaker 1: for the next seventy five years?

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Speaker 2: Or this?

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Speaker 1: Does this guy mean what he says? You know, I

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Speaker 1: want to get back into that, or I could do

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get into that later. The idea of what

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Speaker 1: should happen next in Syria, but I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: to this. This is I'm going to take you on

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Speaker 1: a multi point journey here. Start over here, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: end be over there briefly, but then over there is

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Speaker 1: over there.

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Speaker 2: You'll enjoy it, trust me. So I love this.

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Speaker 1: Laura Powell, who's an attorney, tweeted this the other day.

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Speaker 1: You can't from the you can't make this up, this

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Speaker 1: stuff up file. A misinformation expert at Stanford one, Jeff Hancock,

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Speaker 1: build the State of Minnesota six hundred dollars an hour

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Speaker 1: to prepare an expert declaration on the dangers of AI

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Speaker 1: AI generated content. He swore, under penalty of perjury, that

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Speaker 1: after it was discovered that the declaration indeed contained fabricated sources,

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Speaker 1: AI to write the declaration. Six hundred dollars an hour

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Speaker 1: to talk about the dangers of AI generated content, and

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Speaker 1: he shows up with a screen written by AI that's

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Speaker 1: almost you know what, it's almost so funny it's worth

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Speaker 1: him doing that. But as she points out, and I

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Speaker 1: agree completely, if there is a moniker a title that

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Speaker 1: leads you to immediately conclude that the person's a fraud,

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Speaker 1: it's either fact checker or misinformation expert. Somebody calls himself

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Speaker 1: a misinformation expert. I know they're there to sell me something,

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Speaker 1: to offer some sort of dishonest snow job. Speaking of AI,

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Speaker 1: I found this amusing. Beckett Adams was writing in the

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Speaker 1: National Review about how for normal, healthy people they go

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Speaker 1: through stages of grief, and his premises for the people

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Speaker 1: stupid enough to have trusted a midwin career bureaucrats on

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Speaker 1: and scrupulous as Joe Biden, there's a sixth stage just

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Speaker 1: before acceptance, delusion, and he gets into the really.

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Speaker 2: Odd theories of why.

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Speaker 1: That Biden could have served for one thing, and how

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Speaker 1: people are shocked that he hunted that he I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: that he pardoned Hunter, even though he was completely consistent

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Speaker 1: with his entire career. He's been dishonest, a hack, a backslapper,

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Speaker 1: you know, with no real principles, and that was utterly,

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Speaker 1: that I thought was so funny having to do with Ai.

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Speaker 1: And he goes into the fact that so much of

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Speaker 1: the media, and we played you these clips, was just

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Speaker 1: just crowing about the fact that Joe Biden said he

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Speaker 1: such an incredibly honorable man, a paragon of justice and

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Speaker 2: And then he turned around and he was lying the

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Speaker 2: whole time. But so enter the delusion.

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Speaker 1: CBS's view co host and supposed political insighter and commentator

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Speaker 1: Anna Navarro attempted to defend the pardon last week by

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Speaker 1: arguing that many presidents, including America's twenty eighth commander in chief,

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Speaker 1: have issued such edicts. Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother in law,

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Speaker 1: Hunter debuts, she remarked on social media, but tell me again,

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Speaker 1: how Joe Biden is setting precedent. We actually got an

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Speaker 1: adamant email from a listener about this, mentioning that Woodrow

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Speaker 1: Wilson pardoned his brother in law. Hunter debts, Well, if

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Speaker 1: you've never heard of this incident, it's because it never happened.

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Speaker 1: There is no Hunter debuts, Wilson never pardoned his brother

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Speaker 2: It's pure fabrication.

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Speaker 1: In a fevered scramble to exonerate Biden for his objectively

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Speaker 1: examples of similar presidential pardons, and the AI tool then

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Speaker 1: It's such a head scratcher of a phenomenon too.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It just invents stuff anyway, and Navarro uncritically shared the

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Speaker 1: results on social media because she wanted so badly for

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Speaker 1: And then then she she later blamed uh, chat GPT, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Twitter sleuths, thanks for taking the time to provide context.

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Speaker 2: Avide context.

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Speaker 1: You claim something utterly fanciful to defend the indefensible.

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Speaker 2: But the great part of this is and.

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Speaker 1: I'm quoting who, and I say this is beck At Adams.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing isn't that a robot hallucinated a presidential

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Speaker 1: pardon from and with a name like Hunter debts. But

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Speaker 1: none of this sounded out of place. To a woman

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Speaker 1: who's paid handsomely to explain the news in US politics

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Speaker 1: to television audiences. One can't help but wonder whether even

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Speaker 1: the names huge ass or Amanda hugging kiss would have

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Speaker 1: set off alarms in Navarro's head. Oh, that's beautiful, And

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Speaker 1: then then he points out huge ass.

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Speaker 2: A classic.

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Speaker 1: Points out that Esquire political columnist Charles Pierce the absolute

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Speaker 1: dimmest burnout in the commentary business. Here I did something

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Speaker 1: arguably more embarrassing when he wrote an entire article promoting

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Speaker 1: a similar pardon fantasy. The article has since been completely

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Speaker 1: retracted from Esquire.

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Speaker 2: The one thousand.

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Speaker 1: Plus words story originally titled a president shouldn't pardon his son? Hello,

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Speaker 1: anybody remember Neil Bush? Claimed that and we got an

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Speaker 1: email on this too, claimed that former President George H. W.

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Speaker 1: Bush pardoned his son over the savings and loan scandal.

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Speaker 1: Article sub had read, nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidents by

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Speaker 1: the fact that presidency by the fact that he pardoned

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Speaker 1: his progeny the moral shut the f up about Hunter Biden, Please,

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Speaker 1: except hw never pardoned his son Neil. So immediately after

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Speaker 1: leads us through various tales of AI dishonesty intersecting with

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Speaker 1: And I know dissecting the election is so last month,

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Speaker 1: but I thought this was absolutely extraordinary about lefty voters.

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Speaker 1: So who did this study? Well, there it is. Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I got a computer glitch. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to sign up. They did a big poll slash

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Speaker 1: study of voters explaining what happened with the election or

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Speaker 1: and the most common, of course, now the website is

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Speaker 1: locked up, the most common explanation from Harris voters for

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Speaker 1: why she lost was misogyny, sexism. That was number one,

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Speaker 1: not the economy or the economy under Trump, not inflation,

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Speaker 1: And I just find that absolutely extraordinary. And I agree

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Speaker 1: to elect a woman president just so we wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: try to reduce the size of the government, reduce the debt.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Hell, I don't care if she's a woman or non

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Speaker 1: But that's the number one explanation of why our side lost. Wow,

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Speaker 1: is that delusional? Speaking of that sort of thing? Brad

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Speaker 1: Penny acquitted in New York. Thank goodness, some great commentary

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Speaker 2: A lot to squeeze in. Hope you can stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Heh y, how you doing? Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 1: You're thinking of picking up an A and G sweatshirt

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Speaker 1: Probably want to order it today Armstrong and Getty dot com. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where'd go the Oh, it's under the the Penny Daniel

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Speaker 1: Penny acquittal stuff, give us forty six. This is the

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Speaker 1: head of New York's Black Lives Matter, After or just

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Speaker 2: People want to jump up and choke us. Hey, kill

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Speaker 3: How about we do the same when they attempt to

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Speaker 1: He went on to say, Daniel Penny, you're not safe

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Speaker 1: Essentially, and I got no coverage threatening violence against a man.

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Speaker 1: People in general because they didn't like the verdict ought

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Speaker 1: is honorary Kleinsman, race, hustler, fraud, merchant. Ebram X Kendy

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Speaker 1: on leashing your screen the screed the other day.

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Speaker 4: I don't think.

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Speaker 3: White people worldwide have really reckoned with how much their

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Speaker 3: own personal identity is shaped by constructions of whiteness, and

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Speaker 3: how much that construction of whiteness prevents uh, white people

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Speaker 4: Really be able to connect to people who don't look

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Speaker 3: And it's whiteness that prevents that. Right, And when and

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Speaker 3: Uh that that I think hopefully this, this, this film

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Speaker 1: Of all the deceptive sales techniques the US government is

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Speaker 1: So, now let's talk about what happens to your money

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Speaker 1: First of all, the money that goes its taxed out

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Speaker 1: it goes into a huge account called the Social Security

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Speaker 1: Trust Fund. But here's the kicker. The government routinely raids

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Speaker 1: There's talking Congress about saving Social Security. I've introduced and

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Speaker 2: To all of us.

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Speaker 1: It affects all of us directly financially. You'd think you

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Speaker 1: The history of the Social Security Act, which sadly must

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Speaker 1: I retweeted it, of course. But what's interesting about this

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Speaker 1: they would most of them say, oh, it's a nightmare,

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Speaker 1: total nightmare.

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Speaker 2: But you just can't.

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Speaker 1: Get the voters to a place of understanding adequate to

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Speaker 1: then explaining why you've got to change it and in

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Speaker 1: what way it's a real failing of democracy or something.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this even as I'm talking. I mean,

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Speaker 1: especially when you look at the size of the entitlements,

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Speaker 1: the share of the federal budget that is the entitlement programs,

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Speaker 1: and how they're obviously screaming toward a cliff and the

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Speaker 1: system is indefensible at its birth, it was utterly dishonest

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Speaker 1: the moment it was.

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Speaker 2: It's like Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

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Speaker 1: It's discouraging that we can't get any momentum behind fixing

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Speaker 1: this stuff. And I really like Mike Lee. Maybe he's

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Speaker 1: a bit of a tilter at windmills. But these are

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Speaker 1: windmills that are going to ruin the country, so I

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Speaker 1: appreciate his awe his efforts anyway.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, with compound interest.

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Speaker 1: If you just bought a CD, remember those, not ali

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Speaker 1: like a music CD, a certificate of deposit like automatically

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Speaker 1: renewed at some very modest nineteen nineties level interest rate

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Speaker 1: or something like that, you would have many, multiple, many

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Speaker 1: multiples of your Social Security benefits. Anyway, It's frustrating. Elections

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Speaker 1: have consequences. I guess vote for people who are willing

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Speaker 1: to be honest about this stuff. Ah, this is apropos

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Speaker 1: nothing but gets again to the topic of government action

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Speaker 1: in action. This is el capon El capon from Portland,

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Speaker 1: which is a hell of a funny screen name. A

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Speaker 1: capon is like a neutered chicken, right, it's a gelding.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I know that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's to make them like fatter and yummier

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Speaker 1: to eat. I don't know why cutting off their nards

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Speaker 1: does that, but it does. Ask a chicken farmer, why

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Speaker 1: you're you asking me? Got this note? I recently attempted

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Speaker 1: to help my ninety year old wheelchair bound mother in

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Speaker 1: law to get her attempting to help her get her

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Speaker 1: real ID, which will be required to board US airplanes

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Speaker 1: after May the twenty seventh of twenty twenty five. This

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Speaker 1: was a nine to eleven thing, right, and it's got

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Speaker 1: delayed year after year after year after year, to the

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Speaker 1: point of absurdity. Nine to eleven will have been twenty

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Speaker 1: four years prior to the actual implementation of this if

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Speaker 1: it actually happens anyway, Getting back to L. K. Pond's note,

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Speaker 1: it's trying to get his nine year old wheelchair bound

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Speaker 1: mother in law her real ID. We provided her birth certificate,

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Speaker 1: current California ID, her last marriage certificate, and several utility

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Speaker 1: bills to prove her address. She was born in the USA. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: although she never committed a crime, has never been a

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Speaker 1: member of any subversive group, she was denied a real ID.

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Speaker 1: Why well, her first marriage as a teenager this is

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Speaker 1: seventy plus years ago, was an elopement and we were

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Speaker 1: unable to provide a valid marriage certificate from that. What

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Speaker 1: would that be nineteen forties marriage? Even though we all

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Speaker 1: had the aforementioned proof of her identity and citizenship. When

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Speaker 1: I asked the Santa Monica DMV agent if it would

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Speaker 1: be easier to get a real IDEA if I wheeled

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Speaker 1: her up through the southern border.

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Speaker 2: The woman just glared at me.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, though what I asked about is likely true, as

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Speaker 1: it turns out, US citizenship is not required for a

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Speaker 1: real ID. In other words, illegal aliens who have no

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Speaker 1: American certified proof of identity can get one. WTF What

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Speaker 1: exactly is the purpose of the real ID and the

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Speaker 1: idea that a ninety plus year old American citizen can't

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Speaker 1: get one because of some paperwork problem with a marriage

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Speaker 1: that took place when Truman was striding the halls of

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Speaker 1: the White House. It's just incredibly frustrating. But it reminds

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Speaker 1: me of the Social Security discussion and the bullet train,

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Speaker 1: the bullspit train in California and other things. What is

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Speaker 1: as he signs off? What exactly is the purpose of

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Speaker 1: the real ID? To that, I would answer, go ask

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one, Go ask the year twenty oh two,

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Speaker 1: Go ask Dick Cheney. But it got started and we

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Speaker 1: decided we needed it, and no government program ever gets ended.

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Speaker 1: So your poor nine year old granny is gonna what

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I have to take amtrack. Oh faye, eh,

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Speaker 1: sorry to bring you down. I have to laugh to

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Speaker 1: keep from crying. We'll finish strong next day.

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Speaker 2: With Katie Michael. Have you heard about Scrim the Dog?

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Speaker 2: I have not. Do you know Scrim the Dog? Scrim?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: I find this story charming in a way, just because

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Speaker 1: it's huge in New Orleans and nobody else knows about

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00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: it or is talking about it really, And I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: I miss your big box America makes me insane. You

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00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: go to every town in America. Every town looks the

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Speaker 1: same now. It didn't used to be that way. Every

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Speaker 1: town had its own department store and convenience stores and

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00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: restaurants and holes in the wall and the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Now it's just this ugly corporate mess. So I don't

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Speaker 1: suggest you shoot a healthcare executive over it. Maybe just

531
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Speaker 1: to get a canoe and enjoy vacation in the woods.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, this is so uniquely American. This is a

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Speaker 1: seventeen pound mutt, a funky looking dog too, not like

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Speaker 1: an ugly dog contest winner, but funky looking thing. A

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Speaker 1: couple adopts it from a shelter. Two hours later it

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Speaker 1: escapes jeez, and so they put up posters, help us

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Speaker 1: find our dog, Scream the dog. The Thing's been captured

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Speaker 1: and escaped many times since, dozens of failed captures, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of sightings, thousands of dollars in rescue efforts, a widely

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Speaker 1: broadcast detainment, and then a more recent escape out of

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Speaker 1: a second story window. Every Neworlean Indian has an opinion

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Speaker 1: about Scrim. It's become a craze. This dog.

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Speaker 2: Wait, hang on back he jumped out of a second

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Speaker 2: story window. Yes, yes, I see in the video.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this funky looking dog who is admittedly kind

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Speaker 1: of in a comeete way, very photogenic. Now, every half

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Speaker 1: of New Orleans is like, hell bent, it's become their

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Speaker 1: great cause. Oh my god, there is flying out of

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Speaker 1: the window and smacking in the lawn, then runs away.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Half of New Orleans is like, we've got to do

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to find Scrim. There's there's these women

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Speaker 1: primarily who are donating like thousands of dollars in all

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Speaker 1: of their free time to try to rescue Scrim. And

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Speaker 1: then the rest of New Orleans is like, there's so

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Speaker 1: many f and straight dogs on the street.

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Speaker 2: What are you people doing?

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Speaker 1: Kill the thing or ignor it, or let it run away,

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Speaker 1: just forget it.

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Speaker 2: Don't kill Scram.

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Speaker 1: He's cute.

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Speaker 2: I see a picture of him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anybody's actively trying to kill the thing,

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Speaker 1: But there are other women who are saying, instead of

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Speaker 1: spending so many resources on this one dog, we should

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Speaker 1: probably be funding the public animals shelters.

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Speaker 2: If we care about dogs this much. Well, now we've

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Speaker 2: got to find Scrim.

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Speaker 1: Help Scrim, save Scrim.

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Speaker 2: Oh, people are stray. Look for the barcessities, a simple

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Speaker 2: bare necessities like final thoughts to and anther show.

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Speaker 1: I mean the bairncessities on the Mother Nature's recipes, like

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Speaker 1: final thoughts from our hosts Jack and Joe. Here's a

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Speaker 1: woman who spent about ten thousand dollars from her own

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Speaker 1: pocket and other fundraisers on rescue efforts.

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Speaker 2: And gear for one dog. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the

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Speaker 1: cruise left to wrap things up for the day. There

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Speaker 1: he is our technical director, Michaelangelo. Michael, what's your final thought?

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Speaker 2: You know, Jack really does make his life hard.

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Speaker 1: He was telling me that he has two full pies

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Speaker 1: and a full cheesecake at home.

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Speaker 2: Just sitting there. I'm thinking that is torture.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, well I would know what to do with that.

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Speaker 1: It started, Katie Green are esteemedn't use woman. As a

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Speaker 1: final thought, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to nose dive into this Scrim thing. I'm

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Speaker 2: seeing scrim t shirts, scraw bugs. It's a crazy.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 1: That gall who spent ten thousand dollars on rescuing Scrim,

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Speaker 1: educated herself in, tranquilized her dark, shooting and trained and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Says I'm a Cajun, so I'm a good shot.

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Speaker 1: Evidently, one of our volunteers shot out the windshield of

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Speaker 1: a rescue van, so maybe they're not such a great shot.

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Speaker 1: But now the story of Scrim will be following it

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Speaker 1: for you. Armstrung and Gedddy wrapping up another grueling for

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Speaker 1: our workday. Go to armstrong geddy dot com. Pick up sweatshirt,

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Speaker 1: order it for Christmas. God bless America.

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Speaker 2: I'm strong and gette.

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Speaker 1: They're way better at words, Oh my words.

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Speaker 2: It is time for us to do what we have

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Speaker 2: been doing in that time as every day pre cool

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Speaker 2: matter of fact. But it's also a bob. It's a

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Speaker 2: bobcat is the thing. It's thank you.

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Speaker 4: All and it's always everybody else.

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Speaker 2: I love you all that high note. Thanks all very much,

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty