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Speaker 1: Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show Buck

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Speaker 1: is still in Taiwan. He may be flying back. That's

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Speaker 1: a long trip. I'm not sure exactly where he is,

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Speaker 1: but I know he interviewed the president of Taiwan and

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Speaker 1: he will be playing that for you on Monday. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure telling you much about what he has learned in

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Speaker 1: his overseas trip. We have got a loaded show with you.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of different breaking news stories that we

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Speaker 1: are going to be tracking during the course of today's show.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the shutdown is still ongoing. The stock market

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Speaker 1: does not care. Some positivity to start off the day

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Speaker 1: on Friday, record highs across the board in the stock

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Speaker 1: market again. So if you are out there and you

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Speaker 1: just bought SNP five hundred index funds and you've said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the politicians are going to do,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just going to invest in American companies, Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: you have got more money than you ever have had

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Speaker 1: in the history of your four oh one K. The

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Speaker 1: stock market has continued to set new highs over the

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Speaker 1: past year. And remember it was only back in April

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Speaker 1: that all of the experts told you that the economy

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Speaker 1: was collapsing because of the decisions that President Trump had made. Instead,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, learn it they were wrong. The Dow to

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Speaker 1: a record high today as we are all talking, the

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Speaker 1: Nasdaq to a record high, and the S and P

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Speaker 1: five hundred all two record highs, along with many of

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Speaker 1: the stocks out there, including Nearly although it's come back

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Speaker 1: down a little bit. Tesla. Remember when Mike Walls, sorry

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls, whatever the heck his name is, the governor

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Speaker 1: anybody else get really excited when they see that Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk company stock is going down? Yeah, good move. I

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Speaker 1: hope you sold all your stock, you moron. Because Tesla

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Speaker 1: has continued to set new highs as we are rolling

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Speaker 1: through the early days of fall. So that is going on. Memphis.

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Speaker 1: I love this. I do think that if this were

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Speaker 1: a city where people paid more attention to from a

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Speaker 1: I know Rush talked about the drive by media all

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Speaker 1: with microscopes basically just leaning right over and looking at

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Speaker 1: is actually an incredibly successful and positive story. Of course,

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Speaker 1: not getting very much attention at all, there is to

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Speaker 1: and there are a bunch of things I want to

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Speaker 1: There was a reporter arrested who is getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention. They are now investigating somehow. The Portland police

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Speaker 1: He is going to join us. Nick Sorter is his name.

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Speaker 1: In many ways, you feel like from the insanity out

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about this in the context of

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Speaker 1: its messaging is being unheard. It's that its message is

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Speaker 1: Long range, this is a very self defeating proposition, because,

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Speaker 1: This is true of anything in life that is really great.

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Speaker 1: At some point in time, you forget how important it

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Speaker 1: is to have solid foundational values in place, because solid

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Speaker 1: foundational values work so well that you can start to think, hey,

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Speaker 1: what if we just didn't care about this anymore. The

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Speaker 1: ultimate flaw of capitalism is capitalism works so well people

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Speaker 1: start thinking that other forms of government might work too.

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Speaker 1: All these kids that are mostly having their rent paid

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Speaker 1: for by mom and dad living in New York City

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Speaker 1: because they can't afford their own rent, They have no

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Speaker 1: economic basis in reality whatsoever. But Mam Donnie looks like

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Speaker 1: the kind of person that they think should be their politician.

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Speaker 1: This is how Kamala's entire career happened. Kamala Harris was

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Speaker 1: smart enough to realize, hey, you know, the average left

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Speaker 1: wing California voter wants someone who looks like me to

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Speaker 1: be in a position of prominence in this state. And

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Speaker 1: she wrote that almost all the way to the White House.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Kamala Harris has ever done well

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Speaker 1: in her entire life, but she looks like the kind

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Speaker 1: of person that makes rich white women feel better about

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Speaker 1: themselves in California, and she can win an election based

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Speaker 1: on it. Mom, Donnie looks like the kind of person

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Speaker 1: that rich white liberals want to represent them in New

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Speaker 1: York City, and then he shows up at the places

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Speaker 1: that they care about, conversant in the pop culture language.

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Speaker 1: And you may think it's ridiculous that this thirty four

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Speaker 1: year old socialist Ugandan out of nowhere is suddenly showing

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Speaker 1: up with a rose telling New York City that he

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Speaker 1: should be their mayor. But according to the gambling markets

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Speaker 1: right now, he's at ninety percent likelihood to win. He's

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Speaker 1: really good at marketing himself. He's got a genius for

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Speaker 1: selling the product, and the product is him, and it's

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Speaker 1: awful and everything that he supports is wrong. But there

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Speaker 1: is no alternative for him in New York City right now.

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Speaker 1: And I got to give him credit because again, a

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Speaker 1: lot of you are going to say, oh, this is Cringeoe,

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Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. You're not the target. You're not the target.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who watches The Bachelor, I bet the Bachelor in

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Speaker 1: New York City. I bet the people watching The Bachelor

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Speaker 1: in New York City vote Democrat ninety ten. It's an

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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly young female audience. They see Mom Donnie with that rose,

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Speaker 1: he'll take care of the city just like he would

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Speaker 1: take care of me. And they go vote for him.

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Speaker 1: And then meanwhile, a bunch of people who don't understand

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Speaker 1: how to compete in the modern cultural wars are just

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Speaker 1: sitting around like, I don't know who cares about the Bachelor. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did just elect the most successful Republican twenty first

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Speaker 1: to a large extent because he was on a reality

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Speaker 1: television show. You can say a lot of things about

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. People get mad sometimes when he comments on

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift getting engaged, or when he comments on what

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Speaker 1: the NFL kickoff rules are. You go to people where

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Speaker 1: they are and that's how you win. And Mom Donni's

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Speaker 1: showing up on the freaking Bachelor. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: any politicians ever done an ad like this before. And

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Speaker 1: it's gonna work. And New York City is in trouble

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Speaker 1: because Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo, neither one of whom

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Speaker 1: has a chance at all of winning. Are both gonna

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Speaker 1: end up in a what's it like when you're It

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Speaker 1: reminds me of like a fight where you're both wrestling

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Speaker 1: and you're sinking underground. You're both just gonna drown, and

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Speaker 1: the guy's just sitting in the boat, not even having

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Speaker 1: to get in a fight with you. You're both wrestling

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Speaker 1: with each other as you slowly sink underwater to see

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Speaker 1: That's kind of the metaphorical sense of what I have

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Speaker 1: for where New York City is headed. And again I

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Speaker 1: give credit to mom Donnie, not because he's right on

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you. Let's see we got a bunch of calls.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Bob in Minnesota. Bob, what you got?

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Speaker 2: Hey been listening since nineteen ninety two? Love the show.

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Speaker 2: Two things First, one on the on capitalism. You got

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Speaker 2: to put your yourself in the mind of a twenty

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Speaker 2: five year old in New York City. Capitalism doesn't work

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Speaker 2: for them. Tuition has been too high, inflation, rent, everything else.

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Speaker 2: They don't know capitalism, the capitalism they know doesn't work

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Speaker 2: for them, So why not try something else. I'm sixty,

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Speaker 2: I get it, but a twenty five year old, we

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Speaker 2: really need to put ourselves in their mind. That's fine

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Speaker 2: for that one, and then go ahead.

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Speaker 1: No, you go ahead, finish your second point, and then

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Speaker 1: I'll react.

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Speaker 2: The second point. I got a story for you that

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Speaker 2: I gave Rush about the reach of your program that

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Speaker 2: he didn't understand. Open line Friday, if you want it,

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Speaker 2: go ahead.

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Speaker 1: No, go So, look, we try to have open line Fridays,

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Speaker 1: get as many people to talk. What is your story

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Speaker 1: about the reach of the program?

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Speaker 2: All right? Nineteen ninety two Clinton got elected. I was

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Speaker 2: driving a submarine in the Navy. Well underneath the ocean.

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Speaker 2: We put an antenna up and I'd be driving the

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Speaker 2: boat and I'd get buzzed by the captain. Come left

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Speaker 2: thirty degrees, come right twenty degrees, come left ten degrees.

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Speaker 2: Steer this course. For the next three hours, he was

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Speaker 2: copying the rush Limbaugh program from several hundred feet under

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Speaker 2: the oceans.

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Speaker 1: That is amazing. That thank you so much for the call.

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely incredible. We never forget we see the data.

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Speaker 1: Tons of you listen on bases overseas and we are

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a snapshot into home for so

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Speaker 1: many of you, and we don't forget that. I don't

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Speaker 1: disagree about the twenty five year old. Here is the problem,

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Speaker 1: and certainly the older you get, the more you understand it.

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Speaker 1: A twenty five year old doesn't understand the larger scope

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Speaker 1: of life because you think you understand everything at twenty five,

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Speaker 1: but your life experience is actually very very much limited.

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Speaker 1: I saw a study recently and I thought it was

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Speaker 1: really well done. And it doesn't mean that it's true

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Speaker 1: for everybody. But you know what age decision making peaks.

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Speaker 1: You think about athletics, most of us were probably the

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Speaker 1: best strongest version of ourselves. If you're male around twenty

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Speaker 1: seven or twenty eight, that's if you continue to work out,

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Speaker 1: you think about where talent kind of goes, and you

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Speaker 1: think about athletics. For instance, Tom Brady, you try to

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Speaker 1: play till you're forty five, and you just try to

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Speaker 1: balance it all out at Decision making peaks on average

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Speaker 1: at fifty seven years old. Well, why is that there's

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Speaker 1: a study. This is on average. There's people who are

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Speaker 1: older that are smarter. There's people who are younger. Average

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Speaker 1: age best decision making fifty seven because you have lived

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Speaker 1: long enough to have learned by fifty seven, and you

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Speaker 1: have not lived so long that your overall brain function

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Speaker 1: has began to decline. Most people peak at fifty seven

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Speaker 1: years old. Twenty five year olds. They need thirty two

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Speaker 1: more years of life experience to understand how much they

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Speaker 1: didn't know when they thought they knew it all more

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Speaker 1: Next