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Speaker 3: This guy's crangef That guy's Trump is so good. I

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Speaker 3: squirrel's widow. So you or what were you just talking about?

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Speaker 3: You were talking about what.

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Speaker 4: How race has been deemphasized in a big hurry in

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Speaker 4: American politics. I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because

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Speaker 4: it's semi useful, but it's all about class and all

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Speaker 4: about economic aspiration.

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Speaker 2: Really yeah, So a couple of things on that.

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Speaker 3: Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is,

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Speaker 3: tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the

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Speaker 3: lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot

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Speaker 3: listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub

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Speaker 3: rational factors like your race, or your gender, or your

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Speaker 3: sexisting or your sexual orientation or something like this, then

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Speaker 3: nobody would ever be able to change their mind. You

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Speaker 3: exploded the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope. So,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. They're almost, well, not almost almost always

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Speaker 3: always it's always overstated after every election of my life,

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Speaker 3: every presidential election, of how things have changed permanently in

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Speaker 3: some way. But this has got to be a nod

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Speaker 3: toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting. Ian

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Speaker 3: Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also,

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Speaker 3: globalism has been an abject failure. Benefiting a small group

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Speaker 3: of all leads to the expense of broader populations across

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Speaker 3: the West. Yeah, it varies from country to country, but

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Speaker 3: that's certainly the way it feels to the average person.

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Speaker 3: So you're being you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman,

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Speaker 3: But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like.

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Speaker 4: Well, right, yeah, and it's.

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Speaker 2: A complicated set of interactions.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, if the manufacturing jobs can be done more

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Speaker 4: cheaply over there, and you become the paper shuffling people

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Speaker 4: because you're really good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever. Well,

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Speaker 4: those jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the

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Speaker 4: well arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the

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Speaker 4: guys running the ships mostly it rises their you know,

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Speaker 3: And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies

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Speaker 3: all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism.

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Speaker 3: The United States is not unique, explaining you know why

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Speaker 3: people abandon some of their race politics for just uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, my own pocketbook.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's a delicate balance if you go very

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Speaker 2: It's it's a miserable failure.

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Speaker 4: But to completely ignore the question of a your people's

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Speaker 4: standard living and be your national security.

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Speaker 2: But here's an honest here's an honest.

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Speaker 4: Question, because we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and

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Speaker 4: commuter chips or or whatever is an idiotic thing to do.

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Speaker 3: Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having

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Speaker 3: so much bigger chunk of the national wealth, and it's

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Speaker 3: always been true, but that you made way more money

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Speaker 3: don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence

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Speaker 3: Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying more anyway,

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Speaker 2: But are they Yeah, but they're paying way more but

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Speaker 3: So are these all these stats on the Wall Street

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Speaker 3: helps you hurts you more than helps you now? But

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Speaker 3: so are all these stats about income and wealth lagging indicators.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's gonna all this is going to catch up.

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Speaker 3: To those numbers at some point because like I'm yes,

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Speaker 3: I'm not super big on pushing my kids to go

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Speaker 3: the whole college fund, like a lot of parents as

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Speaker 2: Over my dead body would they not.

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Speaker 3: But now now I'm like, why would you go to

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Speaker 3: college unless you have these specific things you want need

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Speaker 3: do in the world. But again, these all the stats

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think part of that is that the when was

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Speaker 4: it that the boom in number of people getting college

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Speaker 4: The people who were at the earlier edge of that

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Speaker 4: cases in their peak earning years, oh, peak wealth accumulation years.

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Speaker 4: Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know

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Speaker 4: a large number of college graduates will be in a

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Speaker 4: world where a lot of people are college graduates, and

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Speaker 4: they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a definite example of how it could be

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Speaker 3: way a lagging an indicator, because if you're going to

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Speaker 3: way lagging into There's just no way that's still going

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Speaker 4: It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes

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Speaker 4: now economical they technically technologically, I mean, so a quick

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Speaker 4: in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and

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Speaker 4: less about race, thank god, and more and more about

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Speaker 4: policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 4: surprise we got Time magazine. We're not like any Newsweek perverts.

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Speaker 4: We were a magazine fan. Good Lord, I walk into

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Speaker 4: somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else goes on here

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Speaker 4: that I find? Devil worship, animal sacrifice, God knows anyway.

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Speaker 4: But we would get Time magazine every week, and I

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Speaker 4: But I remember three news stories from the seventies distinctly now.

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Speaker 4: One Vietnam unavoidable, two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation.

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Speaker 4: I remember the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it

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Speaker 4: being the major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune,

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Speaker 4: which we got at least on Sundays. As I recall

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Speaker 4: all about inflation, asking my parents what is inflation. They

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Speaker 4: would try to explain it to me. And we've talked

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Speaker 4: trying to crush inflation by raising interest rates so high

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Speaker 4: that mortgages were sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen

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Speaker 2: Can you believe that like putting your house on your

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Speaker 4: But getting back to the piece in the journal, then

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Speaker 4: I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They

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Speaker 4: quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for or Brock

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Speaker 4: twice Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections, He's back Trump.

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Speaker 4: He said economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote

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Speaker 4: this time. He and his wife are raising three kids

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Speaker 4: on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at

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Speaker 4: Target WHOA. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic,

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Speaker 4: when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done

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Speaker 4: more for the American people, he says, as post to

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Speaker 4: the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also

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Speaker 4: said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting

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Speaker 4: particularly inflation is if inflation is high, as I've said

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Speaker 4: many times, nothing else matters.

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Speaker 2: And they mentioned where is that? I thought I was

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Speaker 4: They mentioned that all sorts of alleged experts were in

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Speaker 4: all sorts of media there is at times tried to

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Speaker 2: He said, this is a college guy.

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Speaker 4: Uh explained down to the decimal point to argue that

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Speaker 4: inflation wasn't really hurting people and that voters' concerns about

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Speaker 4: immigration were unfounded. Explain that to mister Ramirez. Explain that

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Speaker 4: to the black construction worker Aaron Waters, who we talked

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Speaker 2: What a load of crap.

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Speaker 4: You're not scared at the grocery store when you see

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Speaker 4: the bill and think how the hell am I going

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Speaker 4: to pay my rent?

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Speaker 2: You think you are?

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Speaker 4: And I keep reading that wages have actually caught up

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Speaker 4: to inflation. Do you know anybody here saying I've got

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Speaker 4: such a giant race since a pre pandemic, I'm making

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Speaker 4: twenty percent more.

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Speaker 3: There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more.

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Speaker 3: There's just now like.

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Speaker 2: Average out including a hedge fund guys.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how you twist the

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Speaker 2: statistics to get that.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think I know a single person who

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Speaker 3: would say that that was true for them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in

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Speaker 4: a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 4: which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story,

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Speaker 4: every single damn one of them, talks about the economy

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Speaker 4: and their job and inflation. That's what it takes to

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Speaker 4: take the gasoline out of the engine of it's all

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Speaker 4: about race.

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Speaker 2: Halle freaking Loujah.

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Speaker 3: One more kind of economics thing I came across that

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Speaker 3: I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What

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Speaker 3: does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a

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Speaker 3: taxpayer money housing and urban development with this quote in there?

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Speaker 3: Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the

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Speaker 4: So it's so unspeakably horrible or inappropriate, I think, right.

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Speaker 2: It's too dark.

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Speaker 3: It ends with him holding the hand of a little

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Speaker 4: So you have this from Jason Riley, who's a great

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Speaker 4: Enthusiastically about how wonderful teachers unions are and that everything

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Speaker 4: to get to, and we have a lot of great

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Speaker 4: teachers who listen to the show and communicate to us

445
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Speaker 4: and blow the whistle on some of the more insane

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Speaker 4: progressive things that are taking the place of math and

447
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Speaker 4: in our schools. The genderbread person which I'm always hammering

448
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Speaker 4: about because you know, California is a particular interest because

449
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Speaker 4: that's where the show is based, and the perversity in

450
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Speaker 4: California schools is just it's heartbreaking. But anyway, Wall street

451
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Speaker 4: journal with a big piece. Teachers are burning out on

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Speaker 4: the job, and the subhead is student behavior and mediocre

453
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Speaker 4: pay are taking their toll from lefty media. It's always

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Speaker 4: about the pay. It's always about money, and there's such

455
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Speaker 4: a lack of understanding and wisdom. Maybe it's that progressives

456
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Speaker 4: so fill the newsrooms that that's the only point of view.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of journalists are young these days because

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Speaker 4: it doesn't pay very well.

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Speaker 2: But there is such a lack of wisdom.

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Speaker 4: If I have a fun, rewarding, joyful job and I

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Speaker 4: get the summer off, I would accept that rate of

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Speaker 4: pay at X. If I have a miserable, discouraging, heartbreaking job.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna work for that low level pay. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna want a hell of a lot more to keep

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Speaker 2: showing up. Very good point.

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Speaker 4: Student behavior problems, cell phones in class, anemic pay that's

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Speaker 4: not really true, and artificial intelligence powered cheating are taking

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Speaker 4: their toll on America's roughly three point eight million teachers.

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Speaker 4: On top of the bruising pandemic years. The sheriff teachers

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Speaker 4: who say the stress and disappointments of the job are

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Speaker 4: worth it has fallen twenty one points in the last

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Speaker 4: couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Doubt that.

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Speaker 4: As recently as twenty eighteen, over seventy percent of teachers

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Speaker 4: said the stress was worth it. Now it's forty two.

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Speaker 4: In surveys and interviews, teachers are most any.

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Speaker 3: Place you work, as they is, they layered in more

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Speaker 3: administration to wherever you work. Did that make things more

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Speaker 3: enjoyable or less enjoyable? Where you work well?

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Speaker 4: And we're going to get to the you know, it's

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Speaker 4: more than frustration, it's being physically at risk. In surveys

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Speaker 4: and interviews, teachers are most often pointing to a startling

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Speaker 4: rise in students' mental health challenges and misbehavior as the

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Speaker 4: biggest drivers of burnout. In the Rand Corporation survey, student

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Speaker 4: behavior was the top source of teachers job stress.

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Speaker 3: A lot of that, I guarantee you is that whole

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Speaker 3: restorative justice thing where they have no ability to deal

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Speaker 3: with it.

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Speaker 2: That's the next sentence.

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Speaker 4: You're absolutely right to quote a high school math teacher

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Speaker 4: who says he saw student behavior deteriorate seriously, let yet

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Speaker 4: his school drew more lenient in administrating administering consequences.

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Speaker 3: How is the country not aware of what a failure

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Speaker 3: this restorative justice thing is.

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Speaker 4: I know, because nobody talks about it in the media.

496
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Speaker 4: And this poor son of a gun, so he's dealing

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Speaker 4: with all this frustration. And then his district, Kansas City

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Speaker 4: Public Schools shout out, Kansas City eight cities were a

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Speaker 4: privilege to be on. They rolled out a new policy

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Speaker 4: last year. Teachers could not give students a zero for

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Speaker 4: an assignment even if they didn't turn it in and

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Speaker 4: didn't make any effort to.

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Speaker 2: It is to laugh. I mean, that is so funny.

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Speaker 2: It is funny, It is hilarious. So say that again.

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Speaker 4: You can't get a zero even if even if you say,

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Speaker 4: not only did I not do the assignment, mister Gerald,

507
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Speaker 4: you should shove it up your arms.

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Speaker 2: He cannot give you a zero for that assignment.

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Speaker 4: You've got to get at least like a see one

510
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Speaker 4: of the things I got when I got into teaching.

511
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Speaker 4: My one thing was about learning and love of learning,

512
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Speaker 4: he says. In the end, it was less about the

513
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Speaker 4: learning and more about babysitting. He left teaching this summer.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah. And they go into a great deal

515
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Speaker 4: of detail, with many, many examples of classroom stress and violence,

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Speaker 4: lack of consequences for bad behavior, A stort of justice.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look it up, well, don't look it up, because.

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Speaker 3: Their description of it won't be accurate as to what

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Speaker 3: actually happens.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: It is the recipe for no discipline and a bullies paradise.

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Speaker 2: It is, it is. It is tragic for the children

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Speaker 2: and the teachers.

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Speaker 4: And it's part of oh yeah, absolutely true, and it's

525
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent part of the neo Marxist We're going

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Speaker 4: to break the system. We're going to call everything racist

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Speaker 4: until we control it. And they do control the schools

528
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Speaker 4: to a large extent now, and anybody who stands in

529
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Speaker 4: our way will call them a racist until we have

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Speaker 4: imposed our philosophy on whatever institution you're talking about, from

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Speaker 4: public schools to corporations, to the United States government to

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Speaker 4: the military for instance.

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Speaker 3: By the way, in Kansas City, we're on FM, so

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Speaker 3: people can really enjoy our pipes.

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Speaker 4: I have nothing to add to that. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know. I'm looking at the clock. I

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Speaker 4: came across another account a number of school districts in

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Speaker 4: oh it was Virginia and one other state in which

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Speaker 4: far fewer than half of the children were at the

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Speaker 4: minimum level in English, and it was less than a

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Speaker 4: third in district after district were not at the minimum

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Speaker 4: level for math. We sometimes talk about proficiency. This was

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Speaker 4: the well the minimum, and the vast majority of kids

544
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Speaker 4: are nowhere near it. And if you say I got

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Speaker 4: to get my kid out of this school, the forces

546
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Speaker 4: of the left, from Joe Biden, Kamala Harrison down will

547
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Speaker 4: tell you you're a rasist for some reason. Be you're

548
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Speaker 4: attacking public schools trying to take resources away, You're a

549
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Speaker 4: bad person and a bad parent.

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Speaker 2: It's crazier that this isn't a bigger issue. It is.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely is.

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Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Fretti the Armstrong and Getty Show show.

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Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, Friends.

554
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Speaker 4: Another great Alvis Huxley quote sent along by loyal listeners.

555
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Speaker 2: Zabo.

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Speaker 4: Is he like a master of the pan fluid or

557
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Speaker 4: a magician or what?

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's the screen name is Zabo.

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Speaker 4: By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation,

560
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Speaker 4: the democracies will change their nature. The quaint old forms, elections, parliament,

561
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Speaker 4: Supreme courts and all the rest will remain. Democracy and

562
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Speaker 4: freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile,

563
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Speaker 4: the ruling oligarchy, and it's highly trained to lead of soldiers, policemen,

564
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Speaker 4: thought manufacturers, and mind manipulators will quietly run the show

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Speaker 4: as they see fit.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 5: Oof.

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Speaker 3: Zabo does sound like a off the main drag Vegas

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Speaker 3: magician show. We couldn't afford Copperfield, so we went to

570
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Speaker 3: see Zabo.

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Speaker 4: It was pretty good, pretty good. The galley Soden half

572
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Speaker 4: was like seventy. She was wearing a sensible pantsuit.

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Speaker 2: Mail bag.

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Speaker 4: Trump us a note with your mail bag at Armstrong

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Speaker 4: in getty dot com. We're having printer problems.

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Speaker 3: So it lisn't name somebody in America that's not having

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Speaker 3: printer problems.

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Speaker 2: That's a good point.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna get to Mars and people still can't make

580
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Speaker 4: their printers work at home or at work.

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Speaker 2: I still I like to orchestrate it.

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Speaker 4: I arrange it carefully, so it may be a little

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Speaker 4: haphazard today. But guys, I was reading, Oh this is

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Speaker 4: from a loyal listener, a frequence correspondent power Law. I

585
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 4: was reading Kamala Harris got five billion dollars for lecture

586
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Speaker 4: school buses. They're slowly hitting the road. Proponents say the

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Speaker 4: bus is whose initial cost about three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 4: five thousand dollars apiece. Is that will boost US manufacturing

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Speaker 4: and bring cleaner air for Americans, reduced planet warming emissions,

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Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. The story never gets around to

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Speaker 4: even attempting to actually quantify and compare the cost of

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Speaker 4: the buses to the benefits derived from them.

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Speaker 2: For example, if the key.

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Speaker 4: Benefit is reduction in global warming, how great is the reduction?

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Speaker 4: What benefits will come from it? I fear both answers

596
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Speaker 4: are negligible. Oh yeah, absolutely, we can't afford to spend

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Speaker 4: billions for negligible benefits. But to some of the cost

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Speaker 4: doesn't seem to matter. It's practically a religious issue.

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Speaker 2: Correct. That is absolutely well written. Yeah, yeah, well, said Pellow.

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Speaker 4: As always, let's see Frank talks about chronic pain and

601
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Speaker 4: how to deal with it. Then he says, now, some

602
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 4: pain is completely different. I've had kidney stones and that

603
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Speaker 4: requires a different strategy altogether while walking around inside of it,

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Speaker 4: as Jack mentioned, makes total sense to me. I take

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Speaker 4: a similar but opposite approach. First, I congratulate God on

606
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Speaker 4: creating something so exquisitely perfect the pain. Then I imagine

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Speaker 4: him and I standing side by side and observing and

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Speaker 4: admiring the pain. That and a little demorroll do the trick.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm so glad of dodge the kidney stone

610
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Speaker 4: stone so far. When I had my gallbladder attack, I

611
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Speaker 4: was trying to try to apply some sort of pain

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Speaker 4: stuff I'd heard before my life. But I wasn't so

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Speaker 4: much pain I couldn't even think. Oh yeah, and then

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Speaker 4: you know what did the trick?

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Speaker 2: Morphine? Morphine is what really worked. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: A special request for this the most election of our

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Speaker 4: lifetime from JT and Livermore. Even though we only have

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Speaker 4: about three weeks to go into the most election of

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Speaker 4: our lifetime, the weekends are so boring. So I have

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Speaker 4: a special request, for the good of the country and

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Speaker 4: for the sanity.

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Speaker 2: Of your audience.

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Speaker 4: Can you please do your show every day, including weekends,

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Speaker 4: until the winner is announced.

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Speaker 2: Please, selection of our lifetime. It is the most election

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Speaker 2: of our lifetime. Well, thank you for that obviously underhanded compliment. JT.

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Speaker 4: I tell you what, if you own a shotgun and

628
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Speaker 4: you can get it into the studio and you can

629
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Speaker 4: level it at me, prepare yourself to see my blood

630
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Speaker 4: spattered on the walls. Because you have to shoot me

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Speaker 4: before I do a show on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: But thank you.

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Speaker 4: Let's see. Oh this is good David and Oakland who

634
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Speaker 4: writes now and again, and it's always a little like this.

635
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Speaker 4: You're a Pennis thing. How disgusting are you trying to

636
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 4: be trendy? You guys dip below the belt and come

637
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 4: off as desperate to be cool and with it. I

638
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 4: turned the dial having no interest in the part you

639
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: were alluding to. You just couldn't help yourself. And I

640
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 4: wonder how dense and dumb you can be. Do you

641
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 4: really think this is cutting edge stuff?

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Speaker 2: What are they talking about? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Did we do There's some reference to genitalium, perhaps in

644
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Speaker 4: the One War Thing podcast?

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Speaker 2: Do you remember Handsome something penis related? From Friday? David

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Speaker 2: has been so much lately it all blends together, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a good point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, David writes occasionally makes it clear that he just

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Speaker 4: despises us.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, vanishes back into the woodwork.

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Speaker 4: Barbaric Joe you mentioned the other day, there's no fixing stupid.

652
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 4: The only example I can think of, writes Daniel where

653
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 4: stupid was fixed was the Scarecrow and the Wizard of Oz.

654
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Speaker 4: So can we get Kamala Harris to crack open a

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Speaker 4: bud light and sing? If I only had a brain,

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Speaker 4: I don't see that happening. And then finally this from

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Speaker 4: Tammy with two ease controversial Tammy. I don't recall what

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Speaker 4: prompted me to google Katie Green this weekend, but I did,

659
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Speaker 4: and I landed on her YouTube with the Blue Angels

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Speaker 4: number one is a woman. I pictured her as a brunette,

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Speaker 4: but she's a cute blonde. I'm a hetero woman, not

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Speaker 4: creepily hitting on her, just saying two. I've only heard

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Speaker 4: snippets of Jack's experience with the Blue Angels. Three, Jack

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Speaker 4: and Katie could talk about their flights, So David and Oakland.

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Speaker 4: If he didn't like penis talk, he's gonna love vomit talk,

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Speaker 4: so stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, did you.

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Speaker 4: Find it upsetting digestively the flight at two instances?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Breast of it now? I was fine.

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Speaker 3: I filled both of the vomit bags completely full. Oh really, yes,

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Speaker 3: For a while they were calling me two sack Jack

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Speaker 3: because I got off the plane holding both bags and have.

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Speaker 2: Some good pictures like trophies.

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Speaker 3: However, I did drink the night before and eat unfortunate.

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Speaker 2: Food tie food, as I recall, Yes, I.

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Speaker 3: Went out to a tie restaurant and drank when they

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Speaker 3: said don't eat anything spicy or drink.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you did that, yere, because rules do not apply

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Speaker 2: to me. No, not. What do you use? Some sort

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Speaker 2: of sheep? Exactly, armstrong and getty