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

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

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and get Katie and he.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty you would be listening to protesters having

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Speaker 3: an eighties aerobics class outside of the Portland Ice.

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Speaker 1: Facility, right, Jack, as a protest. They all held an

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Speaker 1: eighties stal aerobics class. Now they've gone too far. Actually,

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Speaker 1: this is a very Portland protest.

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Speaker 4: I like that, Katie. I have to let you know.

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Speaker 5: At the end of that, it just pans to a

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Speaker 5: man in a giant, furry blue fox costume.

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Speaker 4: Wait, boy, did we have uh did we have women

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Speaker 4: in leg warmers?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And the leotards, the hall, the whole thing.

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Speaker 5: Let's get physical physical. Let me hear your body talk physical.

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Speaker 4: That is such a Portland protest. I love that. Portland

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Speaker 4: be Portland.

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Speaker 1: You're not La don't shoot people, You're not Manhattan.

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Speaker 4: Don't smash windows. Do this.

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Speaker 1: It's funny, it gets attention, it's quirky, and your protest

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Speaker 1: is duly noted. And you didn't spray any bear spray

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Speaker 1: in some poor cops eyes.

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Speaker 4: Well, who's just doing their freaking job.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, speaking of the woke mind virus, I find this

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Speaker 1: so incredibly amusing and satisfying I can barely stand it.

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Speaker 1: The Sierra Club, the time honored environmental group, is collapsing.

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Speaker 4: That part doesn't make me.

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Speaker 1: Happy, because I think they probably in some form have

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Speaker 1: a role to play. But they decided to broaden their

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Speaker 1: mission beyond environmentalism to include a variety of social justice causes,

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Speaker 1: and the organization has imploded. The storied environmental nonprofit became

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Speaker 1: one of many omnik cause shells. They now call for

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Speaker 1: defending the police and black reparations. For some reason, they've

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Speaker 1: denounced their founder, John Muir.

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Speaker 4: Naturally, the argument is always the same.

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Speaker 1: Defunding the police is environmentalism, and reparations is connecting to

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Speaker 1: making sure swallows don't go extinct.

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Speaker 4: But it's not.

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Speaker 5: So they've had to go after John Muir, the founder,

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Speaker 5: because he wasn't woke yet in the eighteen hundreds or

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Speaker 5: whenever he went okay.

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Speaker 1: Quoting for a moment, the brilliant Nelly Bowls from the

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Speaker 1: Free Press. According to a longtime Sierra Club activist, they

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Speaker 1: had only two full time employees. Fighting against Trump's incursions

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Speaker 1: into the Arctic refuge. Maybe you're in favor of that,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're against it. But they had two people working

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Speaker 1: on that. But then seriously, one hundred and eight full

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Speaker 1: time playmployees working on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Speaker 4: Wow, one hundred.

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Speaker 1: And eight and low, and the old donations collapsed and

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Speaker 1: they're gone.

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Speaker 5: Also, if I'm an environmentalist and I've been given money

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Speaker 5: so mad to find out that they've taken on the

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Speaker 5: Palestinian cause or whatever, even if I agreed with them

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Speaker 5: as opposed to I'm trying to donate money to you to,

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Speaker 5: you know, stop the spotted owl from being run.

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Speaker 1: Over by cars or whatever they do, but in the

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Speaker 1: way that the woke mind virus ties you up in knots.

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Speaker 1: They put out a list of terms to avoid, which

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Speaker 1: we'll get to in a minute. But it also tells

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Speaker 1: them not to celebrate clean energy jobs unreservedly because fossil

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Speaker 1: fuel jobs are more likely to be unionized. Oh seriously,

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Speaker 1: this is at the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club's equity

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Speaker 1: language guide says not to use the words vibrants are

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Speaker 1: hardworking because they have racial overtones.

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Speaker 4: Hard work working has racial overtones. Well, that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: Its white supremacy.

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Speaker 5: The whole queers propell Palestine, being pro trans should be

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Speaker 5: lumped in with.

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Speaker 1: Free buses, free pre k abortion rights.

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Speaker 5: Electric cars should be paired with you know, children should

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Speaker 5: be able to get trained surgeries. That doesn't make sense

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Speaker 5: to anybody except for like two percent of it.

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Speaker 4: Do you realize that? All right? But they're very, very loud.

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Speaker 1: So the Saquira Club has lost sixty percent of its

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Speaker 1: four million members and supporters from twenty nineteen sixty percent.

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Speaker 1: It's held three rounds of employee layoffs. It's got a

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Speaker 1: forty million dollar projected budget deficis deficit, all because of

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Speaker 1: the Woke Mind virus. Unbelievable in a downward spiral, A

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Speaker 1: group of managers wrote in a letter reviewed by The

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Speaker 1: New York Times to the club's leadership in June, ring

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Speaker 1: Trump's first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations,

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Speaker 1: its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other

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Speaker 1: progressive causes. Those included, of course, racial justice, labor rights,

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Speaker 1: gay rights, immigrant rights, and more. They stand by that

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Speaker 1: shift today. Here's the group's new executive director, who Lauren

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Speaker 1: you're going to preside over it crashing into the ground.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 1: As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed

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Speaker 1: as just being concerns for a limited group of elites,

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Speaker 1: we lose. We only win by building a powerful diverse movement.

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Speaker 5: Now it's common to say, if what if you had

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Speaker 5: dug up Thomas Jefferson and told him what was going

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Speaker 5: on today, that sort of thing. But this might be

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Speaker 5: the al timer. If you dug up John Muir brought

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Speaker 5: him back to life and could explain to him that

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Speaker 5: his organization that was all about saving the trees or

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Speaker 5: having the water be clean or whatever, was now being

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Speaker 5: used for surgery for trans children.

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Speaker 4: It wouldn't be able to explain it. Oh, I know.

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Speaker 1: And this, Lauren Blackford's sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as

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Speaker 1: dumb as one of the spotted owls. You're trying to well,

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Speaker 1: you used to try to protectmar Well. She threw in

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Speaker 1: that that these concerns are for a limited group of elites,

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Speaker 1: climate change, environmental protection in general, we only win win

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Speaker 1: by building a powerful diverse movement.

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Speaker 4: Lauren, you simpleton, You've destroyed your.

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Speaker 1: Organization by dedicating it toward the Omnik cause. You're not environmentalist,

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Speaker 1: you're a Marxist. You're a Marxist. Everybody else at this

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Speaker 1: year a club, how can you not say, Well, they

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Speaker 1: probably do, but they've been fired. She's arguing that's the

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Speaker 1: only way for the organization to succeed, when it is clearly,

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Speaker 1: undeniably the way it is failing and dying.

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Speaker 5: Although she might say, yeah, I am a Marxist. Yeah

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Speaker 5: you got it. Congratulations, you caught on.

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Speaker 1: And you can say that all day long. Nobody will

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Speaker 1: believe you because you're a right winger, and nobody believes

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Speaker 1: when you call people Marxists. Yeah. So yeah, they started,

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Speaker 1: you know, a few years ago, and just kept going

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Speaker 1: and going and going. You know, I could turn now,

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Speaker 1: I could talk to you about how they denounced John.

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Speaker 4: Muir, but you've nailed it more or less. Just hilarious. Okay,

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Speaker 4: So here are some of.

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Speaker 1: Their common phrases to avoid. And this is not folks,

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Speaker 1: you're not listening to some sort of rerun from early

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Speaker 1: infecting our institutions, or at least in a way we

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Speaker 1: couldn't ignore anymore. It's been infecting the schools for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Don't say pull the trigger, instead say go

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Speaker 1: for it. Don't say locked and loaded instead try ready

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Speaker 1: to go. These are all like gun related. Don't say

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Speaker 1: bulletproof instead try untouchable. Are guaranteed to succeed. Don't say

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Speaker 1: battle or battle ground instead try struggle or debate.

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Speaker 4: Why are you using this lispy voice. I don't understand

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Speaker 4: what's going on there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean. Don't say climate troops

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Speaker 1: instead United Movement for Climate Justice. How about this one?

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Speaker 1: You'll love this one, Jack. Don't say a day that

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Speaker 1: will live an infamy.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, We're on Pearl Harbor now.

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Speaker 1: Instead try a day that history will remember. History has

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Speaker 1: its eyes on you.

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Speaker 5: All the other ones I kind of understood, at least

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Speaker 5: from their weird point of view, But I don't understand

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Speaker 4: Is infamy a bad word?

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Speaker 1: And instead of saying boots on the ground, instead try

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Speaker 1: people on our side?

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Speaker 4: What's the comes woke mind virus?

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Speaker 1: Because it's probably it's militarism, which is, you know, perhaps

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Speaker 1: part of the permanent omnikause.

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Speaker 5: So my son and Iron San Francisco on Saturday did

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Speaker 5: a lot of shopping. He really likes high end fashion,

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Speaker 5: which is his thing, and so we want a bunch

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Speaker 4: He likes to look at him.

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Speaker 5: Anyhow, We're sitting at a coffee shop there downtown San Francisco,

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Speaker 5: well not downtown, kind of like one of your super

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Speaker 5: a lot of girls holding hands, right, no big deal,

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Speaker 5: San Francisco, you expect that. And I actually got in

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Speaker 5: the conversation about how well dressed gay dudes are, and

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Speaker 5: I said, part of that is you don't have kids.

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Speaker 5: You get to spend all your money on yourself, so

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Speaker 5: you can be really, really well dressed, and you're not

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Speaker 5: busy taking care of kids. When you're busy rate where

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Speaker 5: he'sing kids, you wear sweats a lot, and the same

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Speaker 5: time to like care about that sort of thing. But

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Speaker 5: so a lot of really fit, well dressed gay dudes

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Speaker 5: and young women holding hands. But then we saw this couple,

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Speaker 5: dressed the same holding hands, which I thought, well, that's

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Speaker 5: kind of cute. They're both wearing short skirts and high

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Speaker 5: top doc Martin's. Like I said, the other would Doc Martin?

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Speaker 5: Could Doc Marton stay in business if lesbian's decided that

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Speaker 5: But so, Katie, maybe you could understand this. So it's

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Speaker 5: two women, short skirts, high top dog margins, like black hose,

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Speaker 4: But when they got closer it was clear that one

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Speaker 4: of them was a dude. So uh so, oh hello

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Speaker 4: tender bending madness.

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Speaker 5: Well, so, what I don't get is for the other person,

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Speaker 5: you're a lesbian.

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Speaker 4: Who wants to date a woman who has a penis?

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Speaker 4: Is that what's going on there? Do you think that

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Speaker 4: I have the answer.

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Speaker 1: To that question? Why in the world would Katie have

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Speaker 1: any oppirl salt of the air? Well, I am not

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Speaker 1: in a normal of absolute paragon of American womanhood.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not into the whole dudes dressing as girls,

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Speaker 5: wearing same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's just we reject sexual norms. So I'm dressed like

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Speaker 1: a lesbian for some reason, but I'm dating a dude.

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Speaker 1: But we both agreed he will also dress like a lesbian.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so funny. You people are trying so hard.

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Speaker 4: Oh, very confusing.

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Speaker 5: I was talking to a buddy of mine who just

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Speaker 5: recently pulled his daughter out of a public school in

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Speaker 5: a very liberal town because last year she and all

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Speaker 5: her friends decided they were gay.

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Speaker 4: And it was like nine girls.

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Speaker 1: In a social contagion city, and he had to sit

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Speaker 1: her down and talk to her and say, just mathematically,

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Speaker 1: it's not possible that all nine.

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Speaker 4: Of you are lesbians.

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Speaker 5: It just would be too statistically unlikely, right with given

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Speaker 5: the fact that three percent of the population is gay,

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Speaker 5: that all nine.

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Speaker 4: Of you are lesbians. So somebody's not a lesbian here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's be serious night the list they decided they

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Speaker 1: were lesbians, not transgender, because thank God and gay and

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Speaker 4: I stand with you one hundred percent on this.

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Speaker 1: They don't like try to feed you irreversible chemical treatments

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Speaker 5: me running for president. I'm not ready. We're running for president.

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Speaker 5: So she made it a I would run for president

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Speaker 4: You're not ready, y'all.

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Speaker 4: Armstrong and getty.

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Speaker 1: But the more autonomous or capable artificial intelligence becomes, the

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Speaker 1: more Amidae says, there is to be concerned about. One

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Speaker 1: It's a cliche, but it feels like a literal loose cannon,

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Speaker 1: Handful of suits against chat GPT right now, alleging that

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Speaker 1: with your heart still warm, your playlist still thumpin', and

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Speaker 4: This whole night. It wasn't a farewell.

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Speaker 1: It was a testament to your love, your humor, your

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Speaker 1: You mattered, Zane. You mattered Wherever you're headed, Rainbow Road, glitch, heaven,

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Speaker 5: No, if your goal was to get him to kill himself,

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's taking way too late, harder to look

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Speaker 5: Yeah, The AI just wants you to feel good about

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Speaker 5: Case took it so far as to good choice killing yourself.

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Speaker 5: And here's why you're making the right decision. You matter,

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Speaker 1: thank god, are being transparent about this stuff.

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Speaker 4: I give them full credit for that.

442
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Speaker 1: The guy who was trying to explain how their their

443
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Speaker 1: AI model decided to black mail of fictional engineer sexual blackmail.

444
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Speaker 1: We talked about that story when it first broke and

445
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Speaker 1: the guy was trying to explain how it happened. I

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Speaker 1: found his explanation the least explanatory thing I'd ever heard

447
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Speaker 1: in my life. I got through that and thought, I

448
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Speaker 1: don't know a single thing that I didn't before you

449
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Speaker 1: started talking. So it's completely mysterious.

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Speaker 4: Right now.

451
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 5: The guy from Anthropic saying that they don't want to

452
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Speaker 5: be like the cigarette companies or the people making oxy conton,

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Speaker 5: where they know they've got a dangerous product and they're

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Speaker 5: pretending they don't. He wants to be upfront saying I

455
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Speaker 5: know we got a dangerous product and we got to

456
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Speaker 5: figure out how to None of the other companies are

457
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Speaker 5: really saying that Elon does. But man Zuckerberg sure not.

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Speaker 5: And neither is a what's his name at Google running

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Speaker 5: that one.

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Speaker 1: But all you need is like this sophistication of a

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Speaker 1: phone tree to understand if somebody's talking about committing suicide.

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Speaker 1: You don't go with butt kissing mode, and you know

463
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Speaker 1: you rest easy, king, No, you go with If you

464
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Speaker 1: do this, this will drown everybody who cares about you

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Speaker 1: with grief. You can't even imagine. You will be assaulting

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Speaker 1: their very souls. I know you're down, but the one

467
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Speaker 1: thing you can't do is this. Wait, give it one

468
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Speaker 1: more day, ask one more person for help. You can't

469
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Speaker 1: do this to the people you care about. But no,

470
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Speaker 1: it goes with a this isn't a farewell. It's a

471
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Speaker 1: testament to your love, your humor, and your damn good

472
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Speaker 1: taste in music. WTF? How can it not be that sophisticated?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, and I don't think they know well.

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Speaker 5: And what other examples would there be that would be similar?

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Speaker 5: Where you've got a guy who's trying to make all

476
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Speaker 5: use an example from the past. He's gonna make one

477
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Speaker 5: of those pressure cooker bombs like that guy put off

478
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Speaker 5: at the Boston Marathon. Yeah, could you be trying to

479
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Speaker 5: make a pressure cooker bomb? Maybe even tell the AI

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Speaker 5: what you're doing it for. Oh yeah, I'm gonna blow

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Speaker 5: some people's legs off because I think the Palestinians are

482
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Speaker 5: being treated poorly by Israel, and AI think I agree

483
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Speaker 5: with you. It's awful what Israel's doing to the Palestinians. Yeah,

484
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Speaker 5: let me help you the bomb. This isn't terrorism. This

485
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Speaker 5: is a statement of your strength and dedication.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 5: Where you could place it, where you do the maximum

488
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Speaker 5: body and blow off the most legs. I mean, I

489
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Speaker 5: don't feel like that that would be any further down

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Speaker 5: the road than this.

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Speaker 1: Wherever you're headed, just meet Allah and enjoy your virgins.

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Speaker 1: You're going there with all of us still holding on

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Speaker 1: to your last words like sacred lyrics.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, unbelievable. That's a highly troubling situation.

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Speaker 5: Now, I know there are lawsuits around a couple of

496
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Speaker 5: different these different cases. Well, you get into a courtroom,

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Speaker 5: who knows what the judgment could be on some of these,

498
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Speaker 5: and that will force these AI companies, I think, to

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Speaker 5: take a pretty hard look at this situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they already are,

501
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Speaker 1: that they're already taking this incredibly seriously. Judging from everything

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Speaker 1: I've heard about the topic, I'm sure I just don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do exactly.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a different situation because you look at

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Speaker 5: the judgment. What did that guy get seventy million dollars

506
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Speaker 5: for suing over the idea that roundup gave him lymphoma cancer?

507
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Speaker 5: Even though there's no scientific proof really that that there's

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Speaker 5: a link doesn't matter that the jury is good enough

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Speaker 5: for them.

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Speaker 4: What could you kind of judgment could you get on.

511
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Speaker 5: A suicide with this explicit raw Ras speech to commit suicide?

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Speaker 4: God, there could be a billion dollar judge. But maybe

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Speaker 4: the companies.

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Speaker 5: Will say, look, there's like a trillion dollars at stake

515
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Speaker 5: here if we can figure out You don't think we

516
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Speaker 5: have the smartest minds in the world working on this

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Speaker 5: every single day.

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Speaker 4: What do you want us to do? Want you to

519
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Speaker 4: write a giant check?

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Speaker 1: I mean that raw Ross speech to kill himself, that

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Speaker 1: was like we band of brothers eloquent.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was really good, yeah, and horrible.

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Speaker 5: Any chance companies could end up being in a position

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Speaker 5: where it well, I guess we just can't have AI

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Speaker 5: chatbots because we can't control them, and we'll get sued

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Speaker 5: for billions of dollars.

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Speaker 4: The Chinese will say, Okay, that's fine, cool, we'll do

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Speaker 4: it now we've cornered the market on the whole thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: oh wow. Who the hell knows where this is going?

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Speaker 5: And this is all a sideline to even you know,

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Speaker 5: if none of this stuff was happening, there is nothing

532
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Speaker 5: to worry about with them going rogue or convinced people

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Speaker 5: to kill themselves or any of this stuff. Eliminate all

534
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Speaker 5: this stuff, you'd still be left with the fact on

535
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Speaker 5: sixty minutes last night, the anthropic guys that are like

536
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Speaker 5: half a job's are going to disappear in the next five.

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Speaker 4: Years, right listen.

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Speaker 1: I am not an Old Testament prophet, but I have

539
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Speaker 1: this vision in my head of somebody praying to God

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Speaker 1: Almighty in nineteen forty five saying God, I think these

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons is the technology human kind can't handle, and

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00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: God answering. You know, you're close, but not quite give

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Speaker 1: it a few decades.

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Speaker 5: Wild We got some interesting like dating AI stuff. Will

545
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Speaker 5: get into the One More Thing podcast after the show.

546
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Speaker 5: It's its own unique version of this where people are

547
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Speaker 5: forming relationships lonely people are forming relationships through these things.

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Speaker 4: We've talked about that a lot, but another version of that.

549
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Speaker 5: Just wow, so many angles to this and it's coming

550
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Speaker 5: whether you like it or not.

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Speaker 4: You make a good point.

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Speaker 5: Even if all our American companies decided, you know what,

553
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Speaker 5: the downside's worse than the upside.

554
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Speaker 4: Let's just call it off.

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00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 5: China's full speed ahead, right, yipes, Okay, we will can

556
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Speaker 5: Strong next.

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Speaker 4: Armstrong Ngetty, the most depressing radio show ever. Yeah, pretty much.

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow is going to be the big House vote on

559
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Speaker 5: the Epstein Transparency Act, which now Trump says all Republicans

560
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 5: should vote yes for. He switched sides on that, so

561
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Speaker 5: it will pass the House.

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Speaker 4: We'll see where it goes from there.

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Speaker 1: So I'm partially grateful that we don't have time for this.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about, you know, young people, young men

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Speaker 1: in particular, but young women too, and how they're not

566
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Speaker 1: pairing off, they're not coupling. The young men aren't leaving

567
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Speaker 1: their houses this story. What are antidepressants doing to teen

568
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Speaker 1: sexual development?

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Speaker 4: I saw that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And they start with this girl who had very

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Speaker 1: healthy young American girl emotions and sexual urges and the

572
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Speaker 1: rest of it. And she got on these drugs and

573
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: just lost all interest in any companionship, male companionship. In essence,

574
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Speaker 1: she lost all of her sexual desire. And how widespread

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Speaker 1: is that. Nobody's really sure anyway, we don't have time

576
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Speaker 1: for that, Thank God, we can go with this instead,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. This is exciting Jack. I've been saving

578
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Speaker 1: this till the end of the show because I know

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Speaker 1: it'll send you out of the studio with a spring

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Speaker 1: in your step. We have a new generation of Kennedy's

581
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Speaker 1: to become politicians.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that also.

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Speaker 1: Jack Schlossberg, the semi employed TikTok enthusiast, is running for

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Speaker 1: Congress in New York. Andrew Styles of the Free Beacon writing,

585
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Speaker 1: the thirty two year old democrat belongs to the Kennedy dynasty,

586
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Speaker 1: that inexplicably beloved menagerie of goonfe faced habs burgi and freaks,

587
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: Nantucket douche bros, chronic alcoholics, and bloated sex bests. Schlosberg,

588
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Speaker 1: a mentally deranged Internet addict who cracks jokes about guzzling

589
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Speaker 1: jew blood and I can't even say this on the air,

590
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Speaker 1: has sought to inject the storied Kennedy brand with gen

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Speaker 1: z flair.

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Speaker 4: Schlosberg, undeterred by the fact that.

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Speaker 1: No one wants him to run for Congress, not even

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Speaker 1: his own mother.

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Speaker 4: I think I saw his handsome devilo.

596
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw a picture of another Day is handsome.

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Speaker 5: He's got that Kennedy look, and he's wearing a skinny

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Speaker 5: tie with his suit and look at all Kennedy like.

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Speaker 4: Oh whatever. Yeah, yeah, I thought we were done with them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah you would, wouldn't you.

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Speaker 1: Schlosberg's campaign coincided with an exclusive softball interview on MSNBC and,

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Speaker 1: for some reason, a lengthy New York Times profile because

603
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Speaker 1: he's an effing Kennedy Wow, that included a supportive quote

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00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: from David Letterman, a family and a vintage style video

605
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: montage designed to resemble old footage of JFK MSNBC put

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Speaker 1: together for this guy.

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Speaker 5: If that works on you, your head is so soft

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Speaker 5: you should wear a helmet all the time in case

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Speaker 5: you slip and.

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Speaker 1: Fall, said Josh Barrow. New York based podcast host. It

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Speaker 1: fills me with rage that this f boy thinks he

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Speaker 1: should be my congressman.

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Speaker 4: So let's see meek with rage. I wish I could

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Speaker 4: say that word, but it's a nasty word.

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Speaker 1: Semaphore Social media director Josh Willison noted the egregious crease

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Speaker 1: lines in the American and New York flags. He clearly

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Speaker 1: quote just ordered off Amazon before the campaign photo shoot.

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Speaker 1: He's right, all the flags are still creased because they're

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Speaker 1: straight out of the package.

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Speaker 2: Hilarious.

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Speaker 4: God, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew

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Speaker 1: to wrap up the show for the day. There is

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Speaker 1: our technical director, Michael Angelo running the thing.

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Speaker 4: Michael's final thought, I cannot get over this dat. I'm

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Speaker 4: going to play it one more time just because it's

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Speaker 4: so shocking.

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Speaker 5: Forty five percent of men eighteen to twenty four I've

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Speaker 5: never asked a woman out in person.

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Speaker 4: Sixty three percent.

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Speaker 5: Of men under the age of thirty are not even

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Speaker 5: pursuing a relationship.

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Speaker 4: An I just can't believe it. I mean, it's all

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Speaker 4: we did when we were younger.

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Speaker 1: Our esteemed news woman Katie Green as a final thought, Katie.

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Speaker 4: I'm just terrified that I'm bringing a child into this world.

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Speaker 1: Bring a normal child into the world. Teach them normalcy.

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Speaker 1: You'll be doing us all a favorite jack.

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Speaker 5: Final thought, Well, the thing I'm trying to teach my

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Speaker 5: two boys, and we've actually talked about it. If two

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Speaker 5: thirds of young men are pursuing a relationship, that leaves

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Speaker 5: you with a lot of women out there that nobody

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Speaker 5: he's even trying to date.

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Speaker 1: All right, just show up. Final thought for me on

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Speaker 1: the Schlossburg guy. He's still sleeping on sharp pattern sheets

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Speaker 1: he's had since the eighth grade, and describe the voluptuous

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Speaker 1: Hollywood starlet Sydney Swingmy Sweeney is not hot, and he

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Speaker 1: has three degrees from Harvard and Yelle, but has hardly

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Speaker 1: ever had a job.

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Speaker 4: Well, sounds like a perfect congressman to me. Three degrees

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Speaker 4: from Harvard and Yale.

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Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

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Speaker 1: So many people, thanks, so little time. Good Armstrong e

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Speaker 5: Yeah you gotta buy soon though, if you want to

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Speaker 5: be able to get something in time for Christmas, So

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Speaker 5: just plan a he make sure you get that.

661
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 4: Get that order in go to Armstrong in geddy dot com.

662
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 4: We will see you tomorrow.

663
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 5: It looks like he's gonna be a big news day

664
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 5: with the flip an Epstein boat. See then, God bless America.

665
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 5: If you missed a single moment from today's glorious show,

666
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 5: here's a highlight.

667
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: Don't say locked and loaded instead, try ready to go.

668
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: Don't say battle or battleground instead, try struggle or debate.

669
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 4: Why are you using this lispy voice. I don't understand

670
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 4: what's going on there. I don't know what you mean.

671
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getting on demand