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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 Joke, Getty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 3: A growing number of gen Z men are moving back

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Speaker 3: in with their parents, taking over household shores and calling

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Speaker 3: themselves trad sons, replacing the old name Failures.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've come across that trad sun thing quite a

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Speaker 4: few places. But that's a good joke. Oh boy, failure

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Speaker 4: to launch.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I can't go into detail. We're dealing with

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Speaker 5: some family dynamics right now involving young English person who's

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Speaker 5: money management borders on the surreal. The kid who bought

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Speaker 5: the magic beans on the way home that turned into

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Speaker 5: the beanstock magic beans would have been a better idea

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Speaker 5: than this. There are times I think financial acumen is

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Speaker 5: at least half genetic. M some people, it's way harder

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Speaker 5: to teach them. You know, I've got one kid who

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Speaker 5: scrimps and saves same household as another kid who well,

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Speaker 5: it's difficulty even get the concept to stick.

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Speaker 2: But anyway back to you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was talking to a parent the other day

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Speaker 4: who had bought their twenty year old or something like

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Speaker 4: that a car to have to drive to be able

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Speaker 4: to get to work, blah blah blah. With an agreement,

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Speaker 4: you're going to make the payment and change you on

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Speaker 4: stuff like that. The kid did not make the payment

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Speaker 4: or change ou or anything like that. So the parent,

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Speaker 4: after delaying longer than they feel like they should have,

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Speaker 4: finally just sold the car from underneath them and now

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Speaker 4: they're like taking the bus everywhere. But anyway, my experience

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Speaker 4: is the hard edge of reality is the only thing

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Speaker 4: that made me improve my financial acumen. Yeah, that's been

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Speaker 4: my own personal experience that often works. Just came across

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Speaker 4: this headline the IAEA says there's going to be a

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Speaker 4: worldwide oil glut in twenty six Sorry, climate change activists.

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Speaker 4: Gas prices are going to go down. People are going

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Speaker 4: to keep driving cars driven by the greatest energy source

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Speaker 4: that's ever been developed on planet Earth, you know.

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Speaker 2: On that topic.

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Speaker 5: I saw a headline maybe I can find it real quickly.

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Speaker 5: It was essentially everyone is doubling down on renewable energy

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Speaker 5: except the US, and it clicked in my head with

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Speaker 5: the clarity it hasn't before. You could rewrite that headline

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Speaker 5: the world or they mostly just meant Europe, but is doubling.

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Speaker 4: Down on the current generation of renewable power technology. I

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Speaker 4: was looking at a product not long ago, a consumer product,

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Speaker 4: and I thought brand new buggy.

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Speaker 5: Wait a year, and the United States, I think, to

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Speaker 5: a large extent, has said, yeah, the current stuff just

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Speaker 5: isn't dependable enough. It doesn't make enough power, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: store enough power. And look at Europe's moribund economy. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they've sacrificed themselves on the altar of renewable energy, the

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Speaker 5: current technology, and it's not good enough.

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Speaker 2: Man Burn, baby burn.

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Speaker 4: Things are getting serious up in here. Joe dropped in

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Speaker 4: a moribund on us.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Apparently this is not when this isn't hijinks around here.

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Speaker 4: This is we're getting tares that suck as one of

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Speaker 4: the biggest headlines while we are off for a couple

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Speaker 4: of days honoring Columbus's discovery.

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Speaker 5: And this covered America. Can you imagine the first human

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Speaker 5: to ever see these shows?

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Speaker 4: What's your joke that you say every single year.

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Speaker 5: Oh, the Indians are standing around saying you discovered it.

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Speaker 2: We're here.

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Speaker 4: Oh you always say, oh, you want to walk into

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Speaker 4: a Walmart and say I have discovered this Walmart right

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Speaker 4: and claim it on behalf of Queen Isabella.

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Speaker 5: You know, it would be funny if we have like

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Speaker 5: new listeners, especially you know, to the left of center,

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Speaker 5: to go on and on winking at the audience.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, you know the.

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Speaker 5: Folks would know we're kidding, but just to go on

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Speaker 5: and on about how Columbus came to a completely untamed

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Speaker 5: and then he settled it.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, the biggest story that happened, will we're off

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Speaker 4: maybe is Trump hitting China with one hundred percent tariffs

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Speaker 4: on all products from China, all one hundred percent tariffs.

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Speaker 4: That's what he announced just a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 4: He was quoting in his truth social post China's unheard

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Speaker 4: of controls on rare earth minerals, which are sinister and

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Speaker 2: It is sinister in hostile.

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Speaker 4: I don't know where morality plays into it, but it

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Speaker 4: But it got Trump so worked up that he avowed

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Speaker 4: to hit back with one hundred percent tariffs on all

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Speaker 4: I'm not exactly sure what that means. Then, forty eight

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Speaker 4: hours hours later, calming down a little bit, maybe Trump

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Speaker 4: posted President Jijiping of China was only having a bad moment.

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Speaker 4: Mister Trump said on a social media Sunday, don't worry

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Speaker 4: about China.

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Speaker 2: It will be fine.

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Speaker 4: He reassured his followers with he wants to help China.

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Speaker 2: Not heard it. Don't worry about China, it will be fine.

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Speaker 4: Uh So, I don't know where we are, but China

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Speaker 4: has declared they're not going to allow us to have

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Speaker 4: any of these rare earth minerals that we need for

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Speaker 4: AI and making fighter jets and all these different things.

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Speaker 4: The fact that China controls like ninety four percent of

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Speaker 4: rare earth minerals on planet Earth and we somehow allowed

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Speaker 4: that to happen, yipes, is a.

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Speaker 5: Discrible working to change that, but it's going to take

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Speaker 5: zillions of dollars and years and years of effort.

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Speaker 2: To do it.

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Speaker 4: It's it's a nearly impossible conundrum we're in.

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Speaker 5: And we're going to talk more about this at the

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Speaker 5: bottom of the hour. How China is trying to hack

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Speaker 5: into all of our systems. Big towns in small counties

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Speaker 5: and died hospitals and governments and water plant treatments and

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Speaker 5: power grids and everything, everything, everything, everything They want to

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Speaker 5: have a kill switch. They're engaged in overt psychological warfare

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Speaker 5: against the American people. They're militarizing the entire region or

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Speaker 5: where they're kicking around.

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Speaker 4: We are at war with them, oh absolutely, and utterly

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Speaker 4: dependent on each other. For Tree, we are going to

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Speaker 4: feature sixty minutes. Their first story about all that coming

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Speaker 4: up in about twenty minutes, So I got more to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, speaking of the rare earth thing, just a

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Speaker 5: quick note. These so called they're called rare earths. They're

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Speaker 5: not actually rare, they're but they're difficult to extract because

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Speaker 5: they're scattered and mixed among other rocks and minerals.

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Speaker 2: I thought this would be fun, Michael. Which one of

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Speaker 2: these is an actual rare earth.

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Speaker 5: Substance? And which did I just made makeup? Okay, I

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Speaker 5: wouldn't have any eye, Jack.

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Speaker 2: You don't get to way in because I know you

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Speaker 2: took a lot of chemistry. Is it? Which one did

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Speaker 2: I make up?

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Speaker 4: Dysprosium or a lacrium.

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Speaker 2: And China has it and we need it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: say a lacrium. You made that up. I just made

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Speaker 5: Dysprosium is atomic number sixty six on the periodic table.

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Speaker 5: If tech industry were the tech industry where a bakery,

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Speaker 5: dysprosium would be like baking powder. It's used in small quantities,

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Speaker 5: but essential for enabling electric car motors, wind turbines, military systems,

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Speaker 5: and computer chip machinery.

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Speaker 4: So was China just the first to recognize whether the

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Speaker 4: future of everything is these rare earth minerals? So we

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Speaker 4: need to either make deals or capture the land of

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Speaker 4: or mine ourselves enough of this to be Did they

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Speaker 2: That out before us or what? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: One of the great advantages of being a dictatorship number

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Speaker 5: one decisiveness and number two they couldn't give half a

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Speaker 5: crap about the environment right, or a climate change, or

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Speaker 5: worker's rights or the number of people who die in

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Speaker 4: The point if China decide, if somebody tells Jijiping, you know,

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Speaker 4: there's a whole bunch of dysprosium under that mountain over there,

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Speaker 4: he doesn't have to do a five year long environmental

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Speaker 4: impact study to decide if they can do any mining.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sir.

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Speaker 5: The miners' unions are suing us on viron mental grounds

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Speaker 4: Which might be I was thinking about with this with

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Speaker 4: a different story, might be an indication of maybe that

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Speaker 4: system long term does work better. As horrifying as.

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Speaker 5: That is, well, I wouldn't say long term. I would

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Speaker 5: say at times, dictatorships veer between being incredibly efficient and

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Speaker 5: almost hilariously inefficient.

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Speaker 2: To see the Soviet Union.

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Speaker 5: Although the Chinese took communism and they showed you know,

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Speaker 5: Stalin how to do it, they are amazingly effective.

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Speaker 4: Right now, that's a very frustrating story. Well, we're in

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Speaker 4: an impossible position. One hundred percent tariffs is not sustainable, though,

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Speaker 4: is it for even like a week on everything from China?

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Speaker 5: Oh no, no, it's it's a you're gonna do that

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Speaker 5: because China declared just not to get too far into

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Speaker 5: the weeds. But if a product derives more than a

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Speaker 5: tenth of a percent of their value from rare earth stuff,

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Speaker 5: you've got to get specific permission from the Chinese commerce

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Speaker 4: So different story, quick follow up. You remember the story

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Speaker 4: from last week the guy that got caught hoping to

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Speaker 4: break into Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's home and abduct and

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Speaker 4: or kill the justice in his family right, who then

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Speaker 4: declared that he is a woman, and that is believed

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Speaker 4: that he got the light sentence because he is trans.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't come across this.

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Speaker 4: This is from the This is a quote from the judge,

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Speaker 4: Judge Robinson, try to wrap your head around these sentences,

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Speaker 4: this passage.

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Speaker 2: Clark, that's the.

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Speaker 4: Dude who decided he is a woman who wanted to

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Speaker 4: kill a Supreme Court justice. Clark attempted to catch straight

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Speaker 4: herself by tying a shoelace around her penis and scrotum

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Speaker 4: and cutting off her scrotum with a pair of nail clippers.

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Speaker 5: Number one nail clippers not the right tool for that job.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the right tool makes the job much yer.

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Speaker 5: How every carpenter knows that. How do you have a

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Speaker 5: phrase that includes the two words back to back her penis?

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Speaker 4: I know Clark attempted to castrate herself by tying a

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Speaker 4: shoelace around her penis and cutting off her scrotum with

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Speaker 4: a pair of nail clippers.

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Speaker 5: A judge wrote that that is astonishingly idiotic.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Katie, I just don't know many females with those parts.

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Speaker 5: Well, exactly, yes, exactly that is you know, I've run

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Speaker 5: into vanishingly few distinguished career of coupling. Is that incredible

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Speaker 5: that that's where we are, that's where they are?

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Speaker 4: Well, some people are very few people, and a lot

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Speaker 4: of people were afraid to not be there, like a

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Speaker 4: year ago.

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Speaker 2: You can't say her penis.

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Speaker 5: No, no, herpess is that?

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Speaker 4: Uh alk Balowin's wife's name. Trying to remember planet just

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Speaker 4: past Jupiter? Oh yes, uh anyway, her scrotum, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 4: Attempted to cut off her scrotum with nail clippers. Nail clippers. Okay,

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Speaker 4: now you're getting back to the plan, which is not good. No,

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Speaker 4: it's not speaking of bad plans. Country stars Zach Bryan

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Speaker 4: decides to go all bud light that controversy coming up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big deal here.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know it's and I know nothing about

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Speaker 5: country music and AI companies doubling and tripling down on

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Speaker 5: sex spots.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, where the prophet is? I want to talk

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Speaker 4: So they're trying to convince you you're a good person,

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Speaker 2: What did they target?

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Speaker 6: They targeted water, they targeted electrical power, infrastructure, transportation are

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Speaker 4: We're talking about the Chinese targeting us in all kinds

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Speaker 1: The surprise, Tim Hawked, is that China is targeting not

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Speaker 4: I think it's, well, it's unconscionable. Hey, yeah, okay, that

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Speaker 2: That's not fair.

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Speaker 4: What a clever way to get around the whole kind

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Speaker 4: nobody's really wanting to cross that barrier. But what if

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Speaker 4: So back to sixty minutes. They've been at this for

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Speaker 6: So there is a daily contest that is going on

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Speaker 6: There's no advantage to be gan economically, there was no

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Speaker 4: So clear what's going on. Have to be a genius

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Taiwan thing is a likely scenario. But they

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Speaker 5: When might they need them? It's hard to say, but

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Speaker 5: Everybody hearing that this reported say, wait a minute, how

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Speaker 1: Nick Lawler is general manager of the Littleton, Massachusetts Electric

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Speaker 2: His town has ten thousand residents.

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Speaker 1: Can you think of any reason that China would target

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Speaker 4: That's the exact question I had for the FBI when

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean not a specific reason, but in a

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Speaker 2: Ellie, he doesn't talk.

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Speaker 4: Really, Let's let's write it out with this, then we

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Speaker 1: How much of all of this is controlled remotely by computer?

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Speaker 2: Alive?

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Speaker 1: In his water treatment plant, Lawler showed us tanks of

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Speaker 2: If you had control of these tanks.

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Speaker 1: You've got control of Littleton, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: You can poison the water. You can poison the water.

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Speaker 2: That is stunning.

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Speaker 4: So two hundred, maybe a thousand, who knows, We probably

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Speaker 4: don't know what they're gonna do. Can you imagine how

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Speaker 4: they would do with the stock market. Please please, that's

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Speaker 5: No, you see my point? Yeah, oh yeah, it need

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't think you'd do that over bringing the tariffs down.

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Speaker 5: I would assume you're hanging on to this for something bigger. Well,

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Speaker 5: although once you establish we have complete power over your society, yeah,

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Speaker 5: maybe you keep that under wraps for a little while.

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Speaker 5: But why wouldn't that be good three weeks later when

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Speaker 5: it was about the South China Sea, You know, would

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Speaker 5: we say, oh, no, we've learned to live without lights

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Speaker 5: in the internet.

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Speaker 2: No, we'd be every bit is vulnerable. They'll use it

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Speaker 2: over and over again.

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Speaker 4: I don't think this is likely, but if they wanted

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Speaker 4: to combine that with an actual attack, like to try

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Speaker 4: to just actually militarily defeat us, that'd be a heck

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Speaker 4: of a thing.

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Speaker 2: Note to self stuck up on AMMO.

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Speaker 5: Uh Yeah, we are as vulnerable as I think any

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Speaker 5: foe has ever been. I mean hamas guys trotting around

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Speaker 5: with not hamas Hesbulla guys kicking around with that they

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Speaker 5: thought were just pagers are less vulnerable than we are

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Speaker 5: as a society. I hope good people are getting to

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Speaker 5: the root of this. But what can be done at

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Speaker 5: this point is the are the good guy?

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Speaker 2: Where's?

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Speaker 5: And I don't have a tenth of the expertise I

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Speaker 5: need to answer this question, but I think some of

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Speaker 5: y'all might. Where is the battle between the good guys

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Speaker 5: and the bad guys at this point? In keeping our

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Speaker 5: systems secure or rooting out the evildoers when they're in

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Speaker 5: the systems.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously that would be top top secret information. But

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Speaker 4: as they pointed out on sixty minutes, it's really expensive

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Speaker 4: in some tiny little town to try to root the

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Speaker 4: Chinese out of your computer systems, put in a new

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Speaker 4: computer system that's got all the most modern security to

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Speaker 4: try to keep China from getting back in. It's a

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Speaker 4: very very expensive thing to do. It's we have to

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Speaker 4: do it. There's no other option.

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Speaker 5: It's really a tear it down and build it up

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Speaker 5: agains absolutely, and as I mentioned earlier, is pretty clever.

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Speaker 5: China didn't get in there and put in some sort

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Speaker 5: of spywear or something like that that you could eventually detect. No,

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Speaker 5: they just have the password and the log in, and

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Speaker 5: if they ever need it the log in, mess with

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Speaker 5: the chemicals and make your water poison. And I would

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Speaker 5: guess that it's more than just having a password. They

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Speaker 5: have access to, you know, every keystroke of various employees

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Speaker 5: or whatever, because passwords change.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, and who knows how they got in.

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Speaker 4: Might be the guy that worked at the water plant

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Speaker 4: was on TikTok with his company phone.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 5: I need to reach out to some military sources. If

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Speaker 5: all of a sudden we had zero cell phone service

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Speaker 5: in the United States, could the military continue to function?

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine the panic that would exist nationwide, given

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Speaker 4: this will happen though. Don't you think I'll save this

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Speaker 4: for after this commercial? Oh I gave my answer already, Michael,

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Speaker 4: edit that out when it airs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I'll look at it this way, scale of one

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Speaker 4: to ten, ten being absolutely yes. What's the chances that

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Speaker 4: our cell phone, drone launch on air bases from the

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Speaker 4: land they bought around our military institution, something like that

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Speaker 4: in the next ten years? Uh ten, I'm a ten.

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Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, I mean there are a number.

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Speaker 5: Of different levels of attack. But if you if you're

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Speaker 5: a fan of history, you know there have been various

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Speaker 5: acts that have been done.

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Speaker 2: That our government or whatever government has.

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Speaker 5: Evolved, doesn't directly attribute to the evildoer, because if they did,

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Speaker 5: there would be open warfare and people would be howling

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Speaker 5: for vengeance. I can completely picture a shijin Ping saying

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Speaker 5: send a message to the Americans, and you know, those

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Speaker 5: many options that we've just been talking about. He exercises

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Speaker 5: to some degree or another, just to send a message.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're in this trade war thing over the

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Speaker 5: rare earth materials and Trump just announced one hundred percent tariffs.

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Speaker 5: It's obviously playing a bit of chicken. But why wouldn't

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Speaker 5: you throw in a little Okay, tough guy, you're that tough,

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Speaker 5: are you. Let's let's just take down the lights in Dallas.

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Speaker 2: What are we going to do? Bomb them?

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Speaker 5: Take down the lights in Wuhan. Probably don't have the capability.

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Speaker 2: I hope we do. That's what I said about.

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Speaker 4: It's such a clever way to get around the whole

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Speaker 4: nuclear weapon conundrum. Right, Wow, what a time to be alive.

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Speaker 4: I hope you found that interesting. I sure did. Chilling, terrifying.

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Speaker 2: What was the thing you teased?

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Speaker 4: I was excited about, completely different, important, different flavor here.

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Speaker 5: Country singer Zach Bryan following the bud Light Hand a

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Speaker 5: book for stardom in Modern America, How to screw with

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Speaker 5: the core of your audience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been on this story for a while, been

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Speaker 4: paying attention to it, stay tuned. So I've been following

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Speaker 4: this Zach Bryan's story partially because I don't remember an

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Speaker 4: artist or song that in real life I came across

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Speaker 4: as often as him, so many women of different backgrounds

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Speaker 4: and lifestyles that are so into his music. He's got

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Speaker 4: away with touching women. That's something in the Orange song

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Speaker 4: is just I don't know women dig it a lot.

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Speaker 4: And he writes actual lyrics, unlike most country artists who

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Speaker 4: just have like a computer program that cranks out the

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Speaker 4: same freaking crap, and I mean crap over and over again.

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Speaker 2: He is not that. But he stepped in it. How

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Speaker 2: did he step in it? Recently?

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Speaker 5: Bear dogs, pickup trucks, et cetera. Ah Yeah. He previewed

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Speaker 5: his new song bad News on Instagram last week, featuring

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Speaker 5: lyrics that were a not so subtle dig against Ice

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Speaker 5: and President Trump. Uh bye, I heard the cops came

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Speaker 5: cocky mother efforts, ain't they? And Ice is gonna come

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Speaker 5: bust down your door. Try to build a house. No

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Speaker 5: one builds no more. But I got a telephone. Kids

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Speaker 5: are all scared and all alone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if he stepped in it the way

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Speaker 4: some people think he stepped in it based on for instance,

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Speaker 4: some things Marjorie Taylor Green said over the weekend. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if you saw that, but she's talking about

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Speaker 4: we got to do something different here. I mean my constituents.

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Speaker 4: We got a lot of people just doing regular work.

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Speaker 4: Part of the communities that I represent that you know,

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Speaker 4: are here illegally and have been for a long time.

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Speaker 2: This whole round and people.

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Speaker 3: This is from.

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Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green, who's as maga as you can get,

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Speaker 4: and I think her and Zach Bryan are a certain

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Speaker 4: segment of you know, that part of America. He is

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Speaker 4: from smalltown Oklahoma, I mean, self produced his first two albums,

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Speaker 4: became a YouTube sensation, and then got booked by a

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Speaker 4: record label. He's one of those kind of people. But

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Speaker 4: I think he's representing the same kind of thinking that

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Speaker 4: Marjorie Taylor Green was talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll wash down.

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Speaker 5: Here mumbo jumbo with a nice cold bud light with

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Speaker 5: Dylan mulvaney and WelCom Paaran Oakes, Jack No, I see

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Speaker 5: your point exactly. And for the record, super glad Trump

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Speaker 5: and company of sealed the border. It's astounding the extent

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Speaker 5: to which illegal immigration has just stopped.

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Speaker 2: Could have been done all along time, right.

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Speaker 4: Which puts yeah, exactly a lie to the whole Biden Harris,

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Speaker 4: what could we do? We're constitution, we need the Republicans

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Speaker 4: need to pass a bill. That's why we can't. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 4: that's funny. Trump was able to like take it from

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Speaker 4: the biggest migration in human history to zero people crossing

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Speaker 4: in a couple of months.

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Speaker 2: An amazing achievement. And they were liars and incompetent.

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Speaker 5: But my point is, for years and years, we as

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Speaker 5: a country, like every level of government, sent the message,

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Speaker 5: come on in, we need the workers, we need the

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Speaker 5: young people, we need workers. And a lot of people

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Speaker 5: are looking at the folks who heeded that call and

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Speaker 5: have followed the law and worked hard and look at

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Speaker 5: America as the land of opportunity and saying, wait a minute,

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Speaker 5: we can't just heave them out now. It's not right.

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Speaker 5: It might be the law, but it's not right. You know,

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Speaker 5: the truth is somewhere in there, somewhere in the middle,

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Speaker 5: probably right. Yeah, And I hear you people yelling at

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Speaker 5: the radio. They're here legally kick him out, but.

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Speaker 4: Politically as opposed to legally, the fact that you have

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Speaker 4: MTG and Zach Bryan on the same page with this,

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Speaker 4: and they're both people of the right. Is that's that's powerful,

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Speaker 4: that's got to get Trump's attention. He usually has his

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Speaker 4: finger on the pulse of that sort of thing.

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Speaker 5: Right, How big a deal is Country singer Buddy Brown,

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Speaker 5: I do not know, okay, because I was gonna say

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Speaker 5: he takes some pretty good shots at Zach, But you know,

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Speaker 5: if it's to cite an old guy rock reference or too,

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Speaker 5: if it's like Tommy two tone taking a shot at

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Speaker 5: Mick Jagger, I mean, nobody cares.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: I have a feeling whoever wrote that story just needed

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Speaker 4: to have some quotes from somebody to make it seem

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Speaker 4: very exciting.

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Speaker 5: He did unleast this line though, that I thought was

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Speaker 5: pretty good. He reminds me of a middle school desk

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Speaker 5: inked up an unstated.

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Speaker 2: That's a good line. Okay.

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Speaker 5: China's coming at us with psychological warfare as well. We

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Speaker 5: ought to talk about that, some of the ridiculous things

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Speaker 5: about seeing being said about the peace deal in the

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Speaker 5: Middle East, some interesting.

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Speaker 2: Cryptocurrency news all on the way.

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