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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, Ketty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 3: President Trump announced this twenty five percent tariff on all

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Speaker 3: cars not made in the United States.

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Speaker 4: He says that these.

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Speaker 3: Tariffs kick in on April second, and the United States

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Speaker 3: will start collecting on April third.

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Speaker 2: So just a couple of days away from twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent tariffs kicking on cars that aren't made in the

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Speaker 2: United States in theory, So if that happens, I have

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Speaker 2: no idea what that's going to do to the car market.

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Speaker 2: Neither does anybody else or she spends on how long

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Speaker 2: it lasts too, But wow, that's something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if our folks flooding to the various

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Speaker 1: German car brand dealers to get in under.

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Speaker 2: The wire or what. Well you you understand this stuff

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Speaker 2: better than me, so well that that will make all

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Speaker 2: cars more expensive, right one all cars can Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of depends when you're talking

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Speaker 1: about tariffs and their effect on consumer prices, just because

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Speaker 1: of the different nature of different products, price elasticity. You know,

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Speaker 1: how much competition there is domestically, there's just a bunch

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Speaker 1: of factors. But yes, it will make all cars more expensive. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's cars and part a little or a lot. And

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Speaker 1: I was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I

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Speaker 1: had a screen captured because which is pretty interesting. Tesla

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Speaker 1: is one hundred percent every bit of it made in

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Speaker 1: the United States. That's why we're setting fire to them,

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Speaker 1: jack we Liberals.

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Speaker 2: Then next you get to Ford, which is like seventy

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Speaker 2: five percent everything in the United States, and a couple

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Speaker 2: percentage of parts come from Mexico and Canada. Then some

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Speaker 2: stuff that comes from somewhere else. But then it just

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Speaker 2: it goes goes on down the road to where you

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Speaker 2: get to stuff that ain't ain't nothing made in the

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Speaker 2: United States with the different car makers, so it varies

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Speaker 1: Well, and a lot of the foreign you know makers

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Speaker 1: have gigantic plants in the US, so it's it's tough

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Speaker 1: to know just by the name or you know, yeah

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Speaker 1: it's Hyundai Korean. Yeah, but they've I think they have

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Speaker 1: a giant plant in Tennessee or something anyway, so that'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see unfold. It's all a bit chaotic,

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Speaker 1: if it's moving toward actual, more reciprocal tariffs, therefore lower

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Speaker 1: tariffs eventually.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see that.

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Speaker 1: Plus, the Supreme Court needs to weigh in on whether

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Speaker 1: Trump can actually do what he's doing, citing in a

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Speaker 1: national emergency of of a fentanyl Therefore, we must put

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Speaker 1: a twenty five percent tariff on vmw's.

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Speaker 2: God, I made a purchase yesterday. I just I can't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. There's some obstinacy in me driving this.

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Speaker 2: This is a Tesla brand vehicle that is like the Ultimates.

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Speaker 2: You go ahead, and I'm gonna and I'm picking it

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Speaker 2: up this weekend, and I'm gonna pull into my neighborhood

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Speaker 2: where there are people who still have Harris Walls signs

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Speaker 2: in their yard. Shame on you. And if your neighbor

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Speaker 2: gets a Tesla. At this point, I feel like it's

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Speaker 2: a deliberate message. I don't know. I just love the

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see how this plays on. I

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Speaker 2: have a feeling I'm gonna get keyed within a week

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Speaker 2: in my tires slash. I better carry spare tires in

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Speaker 2: the in the bed, or you know, have your car

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Speaker 2: on constant video mode. It is automatically there's an upgrade. Yeah, yeah, okay, great.

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Speaker 2: You know there's no way to prove this. I'm just

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Speaker 2: thinking out loud. Harris Walls was almost certainly, and I'm

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Speaker 2: scanning my memory banks now, almost certainly the lowest IQ

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Speaker 2: ticket in the history of American politics, presidential politics. I

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Speaker 2: could kick most of their ass. I could kick most

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Speaker 2: what you mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, and part of the left wing, yes,

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Speaker 1: most of them, ask and then then the word salad somalier.

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Speaker 1: Supreme Kamalo was at the head of the ticket. I mean, seriously,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to dig deep. I mean, Buchanan was a

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Speaker 1: bit of a paced eater. But anyway, uh speaking of the.

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court is that was very childish though, I think,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mock this sort of thing. I like

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Speaker 2: two thirds wanted the vehicle anyway, but the extra third

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I honestly, honestly though, I get what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: We're all fighting back against the woke mind virus. The

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Speaker 1: neo Marxists in ways great and small to the of

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Speaker 1: our ability. And that's a that's a signal of defiance. No,

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Speaker 1: I am not going to bow down to you in

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 1: It's a little odd, but it's a tip of the cap.

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Speaker 1: Look at you, go, yeah, look at you all right.

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Speaker 1: So we don't just go over the news here and

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Speaker 1: talk about it and try to bring you perspective.

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Speaker 2: That's most of what we do.

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Speaker 1: But this is more of a thinking thing here. The

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court is going to be looking at some cases

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Speaker 1: having to do with jerry mandering, drawing of congressional districts.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Mandering is the old timey expression that means drawing

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Speaker 1: up congressional districts intentionally in a way to gain political advantage.

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Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with the term, and if you

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Speaker 2: were told in third grade, is illegal, yeah, absolutely unconstitutional

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Speaker 2: and moral, et cetera. We throughout the quote last from

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Speaker 2: Joseph Stalin. The people who cast the votes don't decide

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Speaker 2: an election. The people who count the votes to well.

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Speaker 1: You could add to old Joe's wisdom here, the people

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Speaker 1: who draw the districts due And I remember this from

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Speaker 1: college when I was studying this stuff. Hearing what you're

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Speaker 1: about to hear, and as a wee lad of eighteen

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Speaker 1: nineteen years old, I had exactly the same reaction to

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Speaker 1: it now that I did. Then I'll lay it on you.

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Speaker 1: So a couple of days ago, Monday felt like groundhog Day,

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Speaker 1: rights a legal analyst.

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Speaker 2: It's the Editorial Board Journal.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there's yet another redistricting challenge, this one from Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: And they say, if the Robe de nine are tired

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Speaker 1: of reviewing state maps because they're asked to over and

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Speaker 2: North Carolina was.

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Speaker 1: A big case recently and several others, they could declare

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Speaker 1: racial gerrymanders unconstitutional. Stop now, I have a feeling you're thinking,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. You

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Speaker 1: can draw congressional districts to achieve a specific racial outcome.

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Speaker 2: How does that.

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Speaker 1: Square with Title two or nine or whatever, all the

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Speaker 1: you know, the Civil Rights Act, all that stuff. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's where it gets nutty. So Louisiana, like all the states,

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Speaker 1: If states weigh race too heavily, they run a foul

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Speaker 1: of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. But if they ignore race,

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Speaker 1: they can be sued for violating Section two of the

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Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana has hit it both ways. First,

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Speaker 1: you have progressives challenging the House map that the Republicans

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Speaker 1: drew up after twenty twenty because it included only one

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Speaker 1: that would be seventeen percent. Right, Blacks make up thirty

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Speaker 1: percent of Louisiana's voting age population, and the plaintiff's reasons

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Speaker 1: that reason that two districts should be majority black, which

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Speaker 1: would make it thirty four percent of the districts. In essence,

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Speaker 1: what Section two says. It doesn't establish a right to

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Speaker 1: proportional representation. You don't have to demonstrate that, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: of the districts are majority black, and they'll always vote

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Speaker 1: for black folks. If I might depart from the facts

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Speaker 1: here for a second, what is this assumption that black

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Speaker 1: people have vastly different interests in electoral outcomes than white people.

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Speaker 1: Where does that idea come from? Why would they I

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Speaker 1: would like good schools and opportunities to have a job

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Speaker 1: in a neighborhood where I'm not going to get passion

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Speaker 1: But the liberal plaintiffs cited the High Court's terrible nineteen

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Speaker 1: that test requires minority populations to be large, compact, and

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Speaker 1: politically cohesive to constitute a majority minority district, and that

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Speaker 1: white votes sufficiently as a group to defeat of minorities

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Speaker 1: preferred candidate. Blah blah blah blah blah. Can't we just

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Speaker 1: get rid of this crap now, as like simple geographic

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Speaker 1: districts is possible that have the same population in them

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Speaker 1: and not these snaking, weird, manipulated districts. Is there anybody

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Speaker 1: who looks at that other than partisans who just want

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Speaker 2: Nice job with that district? Yeah, I know, doesn't every

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Speaker 2: American look at them and say, what the hell is that?

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Speaker 2: I spent most of my life, like I said, learning

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Speaker 2: they didn't do that until we know. I got into

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Speaker 2: talk radio and started paying more attention and seeing how

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Speaker 2: various districts I've lived in were drawn, and that's absolutely

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Speaker 2: what happens all across the country. Yeah, so, Brett Cavallar.

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Speaker 2: They work together to make sure they most The way

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Speaker 2: they set this up is they want like ninety percent

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Speaker 2: the other ten percent. That's the plan of the two

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Speaker 2: major parties. It's an excellent point. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, god bless him, suggested during the oral arguments

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Speaker 1: that one way to deal with this is to reverse

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Speaker 1: that idiotic Jingles case in our Gingles in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: six and hold that Section two prohibits any consideration of race.

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Speaker 1: The Court's long said that race based remedial action must

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Speaker 1: have a logical end point, meaning the Supreme Court during

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Speaker 1: its progressive years, said yeah, yeah, we're going to take

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Speaker 1: this essentially affirmative action stuff. But you're right, it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: a chance anyway that the end point with our excellent,

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Speaker 1: mostly conservative spring Court is nearing. I certainly hope. So

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Speaker 1: the way to get less racism is to have less racism.

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Speaker 2: Go get them soups. So Russia launched a huge drone

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Speaker 2: attack on Karkivan, Ukraine today, and European leaders are having

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Speaker 2: a big meeting about bolstering Ukraine. Side that they're continuing

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Speaker 2: to talk about European troops in Ukraine. Is there anyway

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Speaker 2: Putin's gonna put up with that. I wouldn't think so.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, they're actually talking about putting troops in Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: like French, German, British.

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Speaker 1: Wow y strong opinion on this. I will withhold it

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Speaker 1: until we were actually discussing it.

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Speaker 2: Twenty six teams kick off the Major League Baseball season today.

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Speaker 2: That's most of them as it is opening day. Got

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Speaker 2: some stats on that that are interesting. Among other things.

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Speaker 2: On the way, arm Strong and Yetti, here.

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Speaker 5: Are some tips on how to get your breakfast. It's

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Speaker 5: he to research beforehand. You know the layout of the

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Speaker 5: first floor of the hotel that you're going into, and

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Speaker 5: go to the elevators first, look like you belong.

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Speaker 6: There, but also look like you don't.

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Speaker 5: Need to be there, Like it's an inconvenience for you

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Speaker 5: to be there, just looks so busy.

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Speaker 6: Be on the phone.

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Speaker 5: The clipboard goes a long way. I'm already planning where

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Speaker 5: I'm going for breakfast next week, please grab stuff not

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Speaker 5: for yourself, the pre wrapped bagels and fru.

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Speaker 6: People always eat food.

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Speaker 2: So that's a TikToker explaining how to steal basically, how

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Speaker 2: to get free breakfast at hotels when you're not staying

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Speaker 2: at the hotel. And yeah, I think we all know

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Speaker 2: you could do that. There's all kinds of things I

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Speaker 1: The lying, lying she wolf of Marxism was dragged before

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Speaker 4: Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: is good and moral and to be a good person.

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Speaker 1: You're down with trans illegal immigrant rights. But anyway, not

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Speaker 1: to get distracted by that point. They are wildly wildly

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Speaker 1: left and a you know, wholly owned at least ideologically

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Speaker 1: subsidiary of one party.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, how about eighty We haven't heard that yet. Representative

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Speaker 2: Cloud asking a question.

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Speaker 9: Now you are here managing NPR, which is in part

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Speaker 9: federally funded, can we expect that you will bring the

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Speaker 9: same lack of reverence for truth to your management of NPR.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Congressman.

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Speaker 8: First of all, I do want to say that NPR

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Speaker 8: acknowledges that we were mistaken and failing to cover the

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Speaker 8: Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner our current

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Speaker 8: editorial leadership WUHAN, We recognize that we were reporting at

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Speaker 8: the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence

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Speaker 8: is worthy of coverage and have covered it.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, The WUHAN lablink was always leak, was

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Speaker 1: always the most obvious explanation. The Brits knew it, the

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Speaker 1: Germans knew it, CIA knew it. You know, I want

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Speaker 1: to we can finish up with Mike Cloud here. Then

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Speaker 1: I want to play the MTG stuff, which looks pretty

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Speaker 1: good Marjorie Taylor Green. And in fact, I think that

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Speaker 1: really ought to go first, because she references the screed,

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Speaker 1: the TED talk that Catherine Mayer gave that said the

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Speaker 1: truth is a distraction from accomplishing what we're trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 2: So ear's MTG in seventy six.

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Speaker 10: In twenty twenty one, you called the First Amendment the

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Speaker 10: number one challenge in American journalism because it makes it

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Speaker 10: hard to crack down on bad information. You said in

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Speaker 10: a TED talk that our reverence for the truth might

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Speaker 10: be a distraction. You've also expressed support for deep platforming

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Speaker 10: individuals you.

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Speaker 2: View as fascist.

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Speaker 10: Who do you think should be charged with cracking down

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Speaker 10: on so called bad information? Is it NPR? Is it

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Speaker 10: the government? Is it you, Miss Mar?

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Speaker 8: Congress Woman, Madame Chair, thank you so much for the

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Speaker 8: opportunity to address this.

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Speaker 6: I know the youth.

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Speaker 10: Is it Is it up to you a MPR to

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Speaker 10: crack down on bad information or decide the truth? Answer

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Speaker 10: the question yes or no, Miss.

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Speaker 8: Mar, absolutely not. I'm a very strong believer in free speech,

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Speaker 8: and I believe that more.

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Speaker 10: Your your public statements say otherwise.

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Speaker 6: Ms Marr.

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Speaker 10: In twenty twenty one, when speaking at an Atlantic Council event,

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Speaker 10: you said that when you were CEO of Wikipedia, you

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Speaker 10: took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation during

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Speaker 10: the COVID pandemic. In the twenty twenty election, you said

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Speaker 10: you censored information through conversations with government. Which governments were those,

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Speaker 10: Miss Mahr the Biden administration?

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Speaker 8: Yes or no, Madam Cher, Wikipedia never censored any information.

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Speaker 10: These are your public statements.

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Speaker 2: Mess Now. She called the BFMTG congressman on purpose or

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Speaker 2: was that just a sign? And I think that was

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Speaker 2: just a slip of the tongue. She saw the guns

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Speaker 2: and thought, wow, bad built bush body. All right, that's

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Speaker 2: enough of that.

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Speaker 1: I would just you know, you know, kudos to in

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Speaker 1: MTG for doing a pretty good job. I would have

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Speaker 1: just laid out that Ted Talk quote and the First

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Speaker 1: Amendment quote and said, explain.

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Speaker 2: Yourself, yeah, no kidding, Well, for instance, and I'll just

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Speaker 2: read this part Representative Fallon. I don't know who that is,

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Speaker 2: but ask this question. In twenty twenty, NPR branded Hunter

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Speaker 2: Biden's laptop story a waste of time. I remember that.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff

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Speaker 2: about the Russian collusion hoax? I don't know, she said,

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Speaker 2: twenty five times, said Representative Fallon. How many times did

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Speaker 2: NPR interview Chairman Comber about the Biden impeachment inquiry in

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Speaker 2: the Biden family's illicit business dealings? I don't know, she said,

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Speaker 2: zero times, twenty five times for Adam Shiff, zero times

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Speaker 2: for Comer between June and November of twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: and PBS's News Hour used the term far far right

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two times far left six times.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned that.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen any examples of political bias right congressman

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Speaker 1: or woman.

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Speaker 2: And after laying out the percentage of negative coverage for

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Speaker 2: the GOPS versus positive countite of Democratic conventions, she said,

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Speaker 2: I believe they work hard every day was her reasonablise,

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Speaker 2: which is always good.

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Speaker 1: If you go through her long list of public statements

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Speaker 1: through the years, many of them quite detailed. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not like she was had a bumper sticker that

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Speaker 1: said sometimes the truth gets in the way.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she gave a speech about it.

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Speaker 1: You can come to no conclusion other than that she

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Speaker 1: is a neo Marxist bent on tearing down the institutions

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Speaker 1: of the United States of America and the Western world

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Speaker 1: in general, and then she lies about it shamelessly and

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Speaker 1: egregiously with a smile on her pretty face there in Congress.

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Speaker 1: The idea that she is running a government supported broadcast

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Speaker 1: organization is abhorrent. It's so crazy that normal people. I

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Speaker 1: think it can't be as crazy as it feels, because

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Speaker 1: something that insane would never get that far.

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Speaker 2: But it has one thing I don't know about the organization,

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Speaker 2: like the whole.

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Speaker 1: You have dudes beaten the hell out of women in

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Speaker 1: women's in girls' sports. How could something that insane be happening.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to question my own perceptions. It must not

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Speaker 1: be as obscene as it seems to me.

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Speaker 2: No, it is. It is that obscene. You're right. One

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Speaker 2: thing I don't know about the organization, maybe you do so,

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Speaker 2: Like if you listen to NPR anywhere in the country,

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Speaker 2: like a big chunk of the hour is the national

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Speaker 2: Like everybody's hearing the same thing on every station, and

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Speaker 2: then there's your local version jumping in and like the

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Speaker 2: local version in San Francisco is just is insane like

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Speaker 2: you would expect it to be. But does the does

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Speaker 2: the national version have any role in that? They should,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they should be able to say, hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know you're you're part of the NPR family. You

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Speaker 2: can't go this far with your your local segments being

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Speaker 2: just completely nut job.

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Speaker 1: I don't do that, and I don't know. I mean no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they feel like they should. And even

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Speaker 1: if they did, it would never be for being too

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Speaker 1: far left.

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Speaker 2: I mean, come on, that's almost funny. Well, I got

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Speaker 2: to believe that the national view, as we're hearing from

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Speaker 2: the person in charge, certainly gives cover and license to

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Speaker 2: the you know, all the San Francisco's of Seattle's the

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Speaker 2: las of the world. Well, whatever city you're in, it's

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Speaker 2: the most left news you've got anywhere on the radio.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what city you're in. It's just something.

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Speaker 2: I mean. And uh. And the fact that our the

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Speaker 2: local one I listen to, is running promos right now,

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Speaker 2: their fund their fundraiser this time of year, and all

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Speaker 2: their promos are, you know, keep misinformation at bay. And

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Speaker 2: then they have quotes from people saying in this splintered

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Speaker 2: media universe. It's so important that we have a trusted

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Speaker 2: news source, And like, are you freaking buying news source?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I've heard those promos. Yeah, I mean that's that's nuts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people are deranged. You've lost your grasp of reality.

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Speaker 2: If you believe it. If you're lying, well then you

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Speaker 2: know you're being good at being Marxists. I guess uh,

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Speaker 2: any thought I'm less my last thought. Uh, Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: we are. We always try to be fair.

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Speaker 1: We are unquestionably unabashedly conservative. We are trying to promote

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Speaker 1: conservative values and to some extent, candidates because we think

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Speaker 1: it's better for the country. All right, now your turn.

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Speaker 1: Say what you're doing. Just be honest about it. If

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Speaker 1: you're if you're a flaming lefty, say I'm a flaming lefty,

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Speaker 1: and then let your ideas stand up against mine. Let's

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Speaker 1: get it on.

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Speaker 2: Text line four one five two KFTC.

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Speaker 8: Hair lossow men are like, how do you want to

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Speaker 2: Are skinny involved?

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Speaker 8: Wow?

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Speaker 6: Ah?

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Speaker 2: I uh, I just came across a sleep thing. I

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Speaker 2: sleep aid advertisement and I am, for whatever reason, sleeping

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Speaker 2: the worst I've ever slept in my life, and I

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Speaker 2: don't have the slightest idea why. And it's really really annoying.

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Speaker 2: Never been a great sleeper, but this is just it's

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Speaker 2: like it's horrible now, just horrible. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: it is, and I don't want to and I want

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Speaker 2: to get into drugs and stuff like that. All I took.

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Speaker 2: The terrible things you've done finally caught up with me.

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Speaker 2: The guilt. I just saw an ad for these Oslo

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Speaker 2: sleep buds. They're three hundred bucks. They're supposed to be great.

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Speaker 2: It's not noise that's keeping me awake though, pretty sure,

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Speaker 2: so I don't need you, old man. I don't need

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Speaker 2: to plug my ears.

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Speaker 6: It's not age.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it is either. I'm doing terrible probably yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not guilted, shame, completely different emotion. Two days ago,

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Speaker 2: I laid in bed for an hour and a half,

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Speaker 2: just laid there. That's the worst, is among the worst feelings.

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Speaker 2: Easy sleep whatever that is. AnyWho have you tried getting bombed?

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Speaker 2: I have ill asleep like a baby. I was looking

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Speaker 2: at these various products. She got the Oslo sleep buds

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Speaker 2: if it was noise, I would look into that. But

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Speaker 2: it's not the Manta sleep mask with sound. It's two

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Speaker 2: hundred bucks. Looks it's a little too I'm a gimp

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Speaker 2: like mask, I mean, like covers your whole head and

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Speaker 2: plugs your ears and everything like that. I'm afraid somebody's

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Speaker 2: gonna sneak in the middle of the night and take

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Speaker 2: my virginity. I mean, I would I even know anybody

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Speaker 2: who was in the house with this thing on. Well,

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Speaker 2: how terrible was that kid? I'm gonna sleep worse now

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Speaker 2: that's gonna be in my head. Cut a wrong back.

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Speaker 2: But the thing I've never heard answered before is why

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Speaker 2: can I sleep like a baby in the afternoon? And

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Speaker 2: I don't get to do that very often with my

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Speaker 2: lifestyle and homeschool and kid and everything like that. But man,

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Speaker 2: if I get the chance to lay down at one o'clock,

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Speaker 2: I can sleep like I'm dead for a couple of hours.

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Speaker 2: Why only in the afternoon. That doesn't that belie the

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Speaker 2: other things that might be causing my sleep problems at night?

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're nocturnal.

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Speaker 1: Now the immediate response would be, well, you can't sleep

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Speaker 1: at night because you're napping in the afternoon, But I

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Speaker 1: know that's a rare.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't get the nap in the afternoon very often. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm exhausted when I go to bed, exhausted. But have

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Speaker 2: you ever heard an answer for that? Why you can

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Speaker 2: sleep a certain part of the day like a rock?

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Speaker 2: If you can't, if you're if you're struggling with sleeping

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Speaker 2: all the time. Okay, that's one thing. Then it could

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Speaker 2: be age, diet, blah blah blah, who knows what it is.

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Speaker 2: But if certain times of the day you can sleep

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Speaker 2: like a rock, you can at night? What is that?

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Speaker 2: Does anybody know your circadian rhythms are off? Oh? Uh,

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Speaker 2: you gotta eat Greek yogurt. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 2: what I do about that. Uh, dancing, that's the only

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Speaker 2: way to get your rid of dancing. Text line four

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Speaker 2: one five two nine five KFTC. If you can sleep

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Speaker 2: great in the afternoon but not at night, what is that?

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Speaker 2: Text line four one five two nine five KFTC. I

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Speaker 2: actually want the answer.

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Speaker 1: And it's important you wear really tight Lululemon pants while

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Speaker 1: you're dancing.

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Speaker 2: I'm not wearing the gimp mask plug in my ears.

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Speaker 2: How could you sleep well? Knowing that you know, somebody

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Speaker 2: could drive a car into your house and you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: know it. It's not comfortable. Armstrong and Getty