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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 Getty, arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Getty, and now he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 2: And to that end, I have created the brand new

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Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Go perhaps you've heard of it.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps, thank you, Elan. You're working very hard. He didn't

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Speaker 2: need this. He didn't need this.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Everybody here, even this side, appreciates that.

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Speaker 1: I believe.

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Speaker 2: They just don't want to admit that. Just listen to

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Speaker 2: some of the appalling waste.

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Speaker 1: We have already.

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Speaker 2: Identified two billion dollars from HHS to provide free housing

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Speaker 2: and cars for illegal aliens, Forty five million dollars for diversity,

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Speaker 2: equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, forty million dollars to

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Speaker 2: improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows what that is. Eight million dollars to promote.

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Speaker 3: He goes on and on with a whole bunch of

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Speaker 3: other good stuff that I'm happy they've cut out.

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Speaker 1: Sedentary migrants. Get off your ass what nobody knows what

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Speaker 1: that is? That's hilarious. And you know what one thing

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Speaker 1: I noticed during the speech last night I took one

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Speaker 1: for the team and watched like an hour of it,

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Speaker 1: was that Trump is so used to his raucous rallies

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Speaker 1: where people yell constantly while he's talking. He is utterly

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Speaker 1: unflapped by heckling. He doesn't care at all. He just

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Speaker 1: either addresses it or keeps going. It's up to him.

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Speaker 1: Very good at that.

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Speaker 3: I think that fits in with something Paul mcgala, who

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Speaker 3: helped Bill Clinton get elected back in the day.

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Speaker 1: He was on CNN yesterday showmanship. It is his great gift.

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Speaker 3: His guy's a great showman, but he understands better than anybody,

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Speaker 3: probably even better than Ronald Reagan, how to command attention.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's a TV star.

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Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan was an actor, but that's different than being

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Speaker 3: a standing up in front of a live crowd all

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Speaker 1: Right, Even he's just a showman through and through, and

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Speaker 1: even when Trump was ninety percent just a real estate developer,

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Speaker 1: he was the showman real estate developer. And other guys

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Speaker 1: who went about the gig more quietly and probably more

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Speaker 1: you know, effectively, or made more money. We're ill, I

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Speaker 1: was saying Trump's not that big a deal, but he's

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Speaker 1: a big deal when it comes to brand building.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, what I wanted to bring up was the the

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Speaker 3: cutting waste thing in the doage thing. And I'm annoyed

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Speaker 3: by the cynics who say this is a drop in

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Speaker 3: the bucket, it's a rounding error, it will make no effect.

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Speaker 3: Oh I care. I want to deal with the real

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Speaker 3: debt and deficit.

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Speaker 1: Sure, the structural stuff is, they say.

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Speaker 3: I do want to deal with that, But why would

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Speaker 3: I not be in favor of getting rid of this

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Speaker 3: wasteful stuff.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't get that.

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Speaker 3: And I've been saying I've been saying for years, but

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Speaker 3: I said last week, just like in a parallel universe

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Speaker 3: or if I could come back in life, one thing

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Speaker 3: I'd like to try to do is, starting at age eighteen,

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Speaker 3: just try to get government money. I think if you,

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Speaker 3: if you put effort into it and work the system

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Speaker 3: and just paid attention to the news and saw where

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Speaker 3: the big chunks of money were going, you could fake

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Speaker 3: up a board or an organization or a charity or

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Speaker 3: a whatever and get big.

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Speaker 1: Chunks of that money so easy.

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Speaker 3: And I think there are millions of people across the

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Speaker 3: country that do that at the county, state, and federal level.

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Speaker 1: That's all they do. Well, right that Stacey, I know

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Speaker 1: that sure, Like that Stacy Abrams organization we talked about.

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Speaker 1: I think it was last week or early this week.

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Speaker 1: They got twenty million dollars as Biden was going out

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Speaker 1: the door. And their name is like it's a random

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Speaker 1: hip woke word generator string together of social green justice

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Speaker 1: Fairness coalition. Well, I'm allowed to get into doing anything

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Speaker 1: or nothing some of that.

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Speaker 3: Barry Weiss tweeted this out yesterday, this story, and it's

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Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff. The Department of Justice is

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Speaker 3: investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. It's a twenty seven

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Speaker 3: billion dollar program that was part of Biden's seven hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act, which we all

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Speaker 3: know was the New Green Deal called the Inflation Reduction Act,

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Speaker 3: and everybody fell for it. Well people didn't fall for it,

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Speaker 3: but it passed. Created in the spring of twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: three and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund

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Speaker 3: was supposed to be a first of its kind program

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Speaker 3: to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it

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Speaker 3: considered historically left behind. Man, there's a lot of phrases

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Speaker 3: there that make you want to grab your wallet. But

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Speaker 3: Barry Weiss goes on to say, but it appears that

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Speaker 3: little of the twenty seven billion dollars revitalized anything except

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Speaker 3: the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with

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Speaker 3: former Obama and Biden administration officials. The Biden administration used

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Speaker 3: so called climate equity, another phrase that makes me want

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Speaker 3: to grab my wallet. Make sure nobody steals it. The

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Speaker 3: Biden administration used so called climate equity to justify handouts

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Speaker 3: of billions of dollars to their far left friends Lee Zelden,

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Speaker 3: for instance, the Trump administration's new EPA administer told the

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Speaker 3: Financial Press, it's my utmost priority to get a handle

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Speaker 3: on every dollar that went out the door in this

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Speaker 3: scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds.

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Speaker 3: This shrawujah, this rush job operation is riddled with conflicts

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Speaker 3: of interest and corruption. A Free Press investigation reveals that

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Speaker 3: of the twenty seven billion, twenty billion was rushed out

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Speaker 3: the door. This is what you were talking about to

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Speaker 3: eight nonprofit groups after Biden lost the election, but before

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Speaker 3: Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it

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Speaker 3: on a secretly recorded video. It was akin to tossing

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Speaker 3: gold bars off the Titanic.

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Speaker 1: It is grafted, pure and simple, and titanic amounts of it.

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Speaker 3: I remember when these big trillion dollar deals passed and

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Speaker 3: Steve Hayes of the Dispatch said, they're going to be

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Speaker 3: unraveling for decades where this money went and how much

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Speaker 3: was just ripped off because there's just so much When

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Speaker 3: you have a trillion dollar deal, there's just so much money.

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Speaker 3: A billion here or it's certainly fifty million here or there,

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Speaker 3: nobody'll ever hear about. I mean, it's got a rise

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Speaker 3: to the level of billions before the lever even make

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Speaker 1: But like sure, if you consider that a trillion dollars

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Speaker 1: is one thousand billion, but.

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Speaker 3: Some individual guy ending up with, you know, twenty million dollars,

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Speaker 3: it would set you for life.

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Speaker 1: Nobody will ever uncover that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, back to this, the eight groups were allocated sums

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Speaker 3: ranging from four hundred million to six point nine billion.

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Speaker 3: Several of them were formed in August twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: just one month after the grant applications went live. In

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Speaker 3: the large nine and ten figure grants would be up

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Speaker 3: for grabs.

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Speaker 1: The board. We are idiots. I too, I've gotten in

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Speaker 1: on that. I know. That's what I'm talking. I should

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Speaker 1: have designed a fake organization in an afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Please, so this passes, you get wind from your friends

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Speaker 3: in Congress or whoever it is. That man, they've got

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Speaker 3: like one hundred billion dollar fund. They got to get

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Speaker 3: out the door. So you form some forty board the

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Speaker 3: save the planet from from greenhouse gas and help the

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Speaker 3: trans Commission. And you know me and my kids are

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Speaker 3: on it, and my parents and and if you're friends

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Speaker 3: with the righteo, they send fifty million dollars your way.

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Speaker 1: Throw the word equity in there. It's just it's all powerful. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors,

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Speaker 3: people with connections to Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent

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Speaker 3: Democrats as you mentioned, like Stacy Abrams. These are some

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Speaker 3: of the biggest grants to individual organizations in American history.

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Speaker 1: And in your tax dollars, you bust your ass all

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Speaker 1: week long. You look at your gross pay and your

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Speaker 1: net pay. That's where it went. Now, do we have

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Speaker 1: you tune in so we can make you angry. No,

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Speaker 1: not per se, but somebody needs to be angry about this.

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Speaker 1: We can't de fleeced. Like if you are complacent in

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Speaker 1: the face of thievery, this egregious. You deserve the thievery.

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Speaker 3: Would this be investigated, It's being investigated by the Justice Department.

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Speaker 3: Would this be investigated if Kamala had won?

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Speaker 1: Of course not. That's hilarious. I know why I even

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Speaker 3: But the idea that when they've they had these twenty

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Speaker 3: billion dollars that rushed out the door after the election,

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Speaker 3: but before Trump took office, and some of these boards

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Speaker 3: were invented, you know, days after this happened, and they

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Speaker 3: got right anywhere between as she said, here road here

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Speaker 3: between four hundred million and six point nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: They exist to receive the money. That's why they exist.

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Speaker 1: It's horrifying. It is the only way that you can

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Speaker 1: combat this is to be against taxes. It's your only

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Speaker 1: Who the rich going to pay their fair share of this?

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Speaker 1: S no kidding, God dang.

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Speaker 3: It, it's so frustrating.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it makes you so cynical.

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Speaker 3: Does it make you feel okay about cheating on your taxes?

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it wouldn't if.

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Speaker 3: You can, we certainly don't suggest that on any level. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: push it as hard as you can.

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Speaker 3: Among things, we can get to this hour, quite a

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Speaker 3: bit of polling. Your snap polling came out last night

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Speaker 3: In the speech, Trump was presidential, entertaining, inspiring, unifying, divisive.

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Speaker 1: on a lot of things. Everybody knows that, but as

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Speaker 1: a celebration of the progress and rallying the country behind

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Speaker 1: the things he's trying to do that we all agree on,

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Speaker 1: eliminating government waste, getting men out of women's sports and

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Speaker 1: women's private places, all that stuff. I thought he presented

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Speaker 1: it in a very down to earth, easy to digest way.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was very effective. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I saw Jeff Greenfeld, he wrote a piece for Politico

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Speaker 3: fairly praising of Trump's speech from his standpoint, I mean,

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Speaker 3: because a smart pundit, if you're not just a naked partisan,

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Speaker 3: you would say, I mean, you would say, even if

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Speaker 3: you hate Trump, I hate Trump. I hate everything he's doing.

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Speaker 3: But that was good for him. That was a win

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Speaker 3: for him, which is I saw a number of people say, oh,

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Speaker 3: that's what everybody on the Dispatch said last night. Dispatch

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Speaker 3: is a conservative publication. If you don't know what website.

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Speaker 3: None of them like Trump, but they all thought it

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Speaker 3: was a net win for Trump.

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Speaker 1: Definitely last night.

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Speaker 3: Politico writing today, the actual headline is giving Bingo Democrats

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Speaker 3: silent protest against Trump falls flat. That's the everybody holding

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Speaker 3: up the little signs that say various things. Looking at

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Speaker 3: the signs, must steals, save Medicaid, protect veterans.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just false.

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Speaker 3: One of the problems with those signs I saw pointed

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Speaker 3: out on social media was they were so easily mimable.

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Speaker 3: It takes very little pharoshop skill to change those signs

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Speaker 3: into all kinds of ridiculous things that a lot of

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Speaker 3: people write, right, I'm a moron or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Well, and the great grand standing moment at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the thing where al Green, the ancient lunatic who

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Speaker 1: even Democrats wish would die. They don't say that on

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Speaker 1: the record, of course, but they want it, the fact

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Speaker 1: that he was the big grand standy I'm against Trump leader,

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Speaker 1: an ancient lunatic shaking his cane. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: beyond parody. It was the stuff of like a really

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Speaker 1: good Saturday Night Live sketch.

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Speaker 3: Well, an ancient lunatic I'd never heard of. And I

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Speaker 3: follow politics more closely obviously than most people do the

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Speaker 3: pulling on that. Seventy six percent of people approved of

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Speaker 3: carrying that old guy out of there. I was hoping

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Speaker 3: he was gonna like shove one of those dudes or like,

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Speaker 3: you know, make a real.

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Speaker 1: Scene, right, try to turn it into you know, the

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Speaker 1: Selma March or something like that, because that was the thing.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how I was gonna go because it

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Speaker 1: was so obviously performing, right, I mean, it was new

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Speaker 1: he was gonna get kicked out for that.

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Speaker 3: He was told Stopper, he'll get kicked out, and he

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Speaker 3: kept on with the hopes that he would get kicked out.

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Speaker 1: Right, exactly, it was just so according to an obvious script.

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Speaker 1: Mostly it was eye rolling and chuckling at the whole

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Speaker 1: idiotic exhibition. And then Annie went on. Trump went with

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Speaker 1: a speech.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, AnyWho, that's that. Nobody will even remember. It happened

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Speaker 3: by Friday.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the getting kicked out of the speech now the

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Speaker 1: whole speech. Yeah. The only effect it might have is

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Speaker 1: it was a bigger audience than usual for look at

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Speaker 1: the crazy s we've found in the budget, or trying

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Speaker 1: to save your taxpayer dollars. That part was really effective.

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Speaker 1: Could nudge the needle We've.

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Speaker 3: Got such big stories, like real stories going on right now.

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Speaker 3: The tariff thing, depending on how long that lasts, that's

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Speaker 3: going to be the talk of the country if it

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Speaker 3: lasts very long and people start seeing significant price increases.

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Speaker 3: And then the whole Ukraine Russia thing, which could go.

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Speaker 3: Who knows how that's going.

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Speaker 1: To turn out, and that might just be a single

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Speaker 1: theater of the alleged greater scheme to switch away from

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Speaker 1: the American led rules based international order to more spheres

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Speaker 1: of influence great nations, old timey way to arrange the globe.

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Speaker 3: Am I right that Trump said We're going to get

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Speaker 3: Greenland last night? I don't know I read that up there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we have that we have that clip, Penson,

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Speaker 3: but I read it up on the sorry one about it.

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Speaker 3: Trump said to Greenland will be ours. Oh, here you

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Speaker 3: go seventy six.

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Speaker 2: And I also have a message tonight for the incredible

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Speaker 2: people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine

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Speaker 2: your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you

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Speaker 2: into the United States of America. We need Greenland for

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Speaker 2: national security and even international security, and we're working with

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Speaker 2: everybody involved to try and get it, but we need

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Speaker 2: it really for international world security. And I think we're

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Speaker 2: going to get it one.

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Speaker 1: Way or the other. We're going to get it one

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Speaker 1: way or the other. Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 2: We will keep you say, we will make you rich,

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Speaker 2: and together we will take Greenland to heights like you

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Speaker 2: have never thought possible before.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just to install fifty million space heaters around to

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Speaker 1: warm the place up, that'd be a start. Well, it

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Speaker 1: reminds me of the Panama strategy where he's talking about

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Speaker 1: taking the canal back by force. And yesterday, if you

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Speaker 1: didn't hear this, we mentioned it lay Dish in the

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Speaker 1: show that an American company, well black Rock Investments, that

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Speaker 1: the investment giant had bought the port facilities at either

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Speaker 1: end of the canal from the Hong Kong based company

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Speaker 1: that had been running them. So you know, and I've

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Speaker 1: said this from the beginning, he's angling toward an enhanced

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Speaker 1: security agreement with Greenland and it's Danish overlords. I can

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Speaker 1: hardly see the road with the heat rising up on

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Speaker 1: the horizon. Panama, Wow, Greenland.

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Speaker 3: So he actually wants Greenland, though I don't think this

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Speaker 3: is just a point and I as a what a

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Speaker 3: territory or whatever. We would make it like something like

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Speaker 3: what Guam is or something. But I've read a number

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Speaker 3: of pundits that I was surprised that were like, all in, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we should absolutely find a way to get Greenland. It's

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Speaker 3: very important to the future of the safety.

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Speaker 1: Of the world and everything like that. Now, but I

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Speaker 1: agree completely for the record.

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Speaker 3: It's not up to the green Greenlanders, is isn't it

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Speaker 3: up to the Danes? Don't they own Greenland or someone?

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Speaker 1: Well, they've got a pretty good right of self determination

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Speaker 1: to the extent that I understand the Danish system. I

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Speaker 1: understand a nice Danish with a cup of coffee. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the people of Greenland decide there faith.

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Speaker 3: The population of fifty six thousand. Buy them each car,

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Speaker 3: vote for it. I'll buy a car. Well, it cost

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Speaker 3: us nothing. Why are you so belligerent? You are the

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Speaker 3: ugly American. This disgusts me.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's going to happen. Here's all Trump is saying.

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Speaker 1: And this goes again to the here's our sphere of influence,

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Speaker 1: there's your sphere of influence. We won't screw with yours.

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Speaker 1: You don't screw with ours. New world order that they're

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Speaker 1: talking about building. We have to have Greenland to protect

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Speaker 1: the Arctic Circle and the northern shipping and military passages.

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Speaker 1: And it might be some sort of protectorate status. It

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Speaker 1: might just be here's what he's going for, a one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent certain alliance with Greenland or Denmark, or we

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Speaker 1: own it so that we always know it's on our

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Speaker 1: side in our sphere of influence, in whatever shape that takes.

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Speaker 3: You want Santa under the control of the Chinese, We

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Speaker 3: need Greenland?

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Speaker 1: Is that what you want? I was reading some really

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff about Greenland the other day. Do we have

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Speaker 1: time for this? I find that hard to believe. Uh

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Speaker 1: what No, I was super interesting. If you're into mining logistics,

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Speaker 1: and you know me mining logistics, getting the crap out

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Speaker 1: of the ground there may be one of the most

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Speaker 1: logistically daunting tasks anybody's ever imagined. Giant mining company after

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Speaker 1: mining companies looked into it, seen the enormous wealth to

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Speaker 1: be extracted and said no.

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Speaker 3: But couldn't we not literally bribe them, like give you

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Speaker 3: a car, but make it clear to him your economy's

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Speaker 3: going to be so different if you come under the

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Speaker 3: sway of the United States, You're all going to be.

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Speaker 1: Wealthy for one thing. Yeah, if we could promise them that,

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Speaker 1: I think we can. Can we sure? What do you

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Speaker 1: know about mining logistics? Nothing? And I wasn't reading about

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Speaker 1: it the other day and the adults are talking all

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Speaker 1: right here? Who are twenty six twenty point games this year?

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Speaker 1: Lebron col for three twenty two seasons, forty years of age,

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Speaker 1: what contests fifty thousand and two.

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Speaker 3: Points is already the leading scorer in NBA history. Now

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Speaker 3: he is by a lot, hitting fifty thousand points. Nobody

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Speaker 3: thought that would ever be possible. It helps if you

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Speaker 3: start when you're eighteen and are really really good, but.

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Speaker 1: Until you're sixty five. Apparently that seems to be the plan.

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Speaker 3: He's forty, and they are in first place in their division,

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Speaker 3: and they got one of the best players in the

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Speaker 3: NBA to join him, and he's young Luka Doncic, and

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Speaker 3: they're gonna be a finals contender.

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Speaker 1: That'll be fun to watch. I think.

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Speaker 3: I was just watching some news, and you know how

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Speaker 3: during COVID, people weren't going into studios, so guests on

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Speaker 3: TV were doing their thing from home, which was new,

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Speaker 3: but it is continued. A lot of people or organizations

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Speaker 3: have decided, what do we make an you drive clear

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Speaker 3: across New York or DC, or fly across the country

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Speaker 3: or whatever to be in the studio when you can

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Speaker 3: just do it from home. And then also the whole

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Speaker 3: not only am I not gonna throw on a suit,

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Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna throw on a decent shirt.

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Speaker 1: Or put away the cereal bowl on the counter behind me.

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Speaker 3: It's just amazing how many people just don't care.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not sure it matters. So what difference does

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Speaker 1: it make? Yeah, it's funny. I've done enough of that.

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Speaker 1: I've tried to come up with a perfect background, you know,

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Speaker 1: the right books and the right look and all that. Eh.

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Speaker 1: Then I see some like great pundits whore and this

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Speaker 1: is true a lot in DC. You see their background

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Speaker 1: and you realize, oh, you have much more influence than

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Speaker 1: money because they're you know, doing their shot from a

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Speaker 1: very very modest basement room there in Dcah. Hey, I

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Speaker 1: want to mention this.

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Speaker 3: So I met brought up on the show yesterday that

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Speaker 3: Dolly Parton's husband died of all weird stories, but she

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Speaker 3: had been married to the same guy for sixty years

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Speaker 3: and met him when at the laundromat when she was eighteen.

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Speaker 1: He saw her devil too. I've seen pictures back in

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Speaker 1: the day.

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Speaker 3: He saw him for the first saw her for the

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Speaker 3: first time, thought I'm going to marry that girl. And

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Speaker 3: he did two years later, and they stayed married the

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Speaker 3: whole time, and very happily married from all accounts from

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Speaker 3: both of them. But this, yes, interesting. Yesterday I saw this,

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Speaker 3: tweeted out Carl Dean. That's Dolly Parton's husband. Married young,

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Speaker 3: gave zero fs about fame and fortune. He laid us

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Speaker 3: asphalt for a living. He ran an asphalt laying company

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Speaker 3: for sixty years, married to a very famous woman. Zero

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Speaker 3: Facebook posts, zero tweets, ten for ten life legend. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just so somebody you had no interest in putting his

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Speaker 3: opinion out there about everything that happens in the world,

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Speaker 3: or any opinions about anything. Just gonna live my life.

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Speaker 3: I don't care how famous I could be or how

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Speaker 3: much attention I could get.

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Speaker 1: I just don't care. Worked hard and loved a woman,

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Speaker 1: It's all right. Why don't more people do that? You'd

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Speaker 1: be happier. Lust for fame is difficult to explain. It

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Speaker 1: seems to be damn near Universe. We do four hours.

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Speaker 3: If you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and

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