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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, Katty Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jetty I know he Armstrong and Yetty, a writer.

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Speaker 2: For the nineteen ninety show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, is

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Speaker 2: now saying that it was a mistake to cast a

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Speaker 2: as the Yellow Ranger, and he really regrets having a

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Speaker 1: Wow Wow Wow, play the Tesla Saturday Night Live joke

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Speaker 1: for me. Michael.

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Speaker 2: Tesla is reportedly having trouble selling cyber trucks, partly due

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Speaker 2: to its slogan cyber truck what if Kanye was a car?

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Speaker 3: Oh you weren't here Friday. I gotta do this later.

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Speaker 3: The track list for Kanye's latest album.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, no, oh, It's amazing. Oh I don't

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Speaker 3: So it's tax Day, so I want to just mention

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Speaker 3: some tax things and trying to figure out how to

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Speaker 3: present this because I've got a bunch of numbers here,

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Speaker 3: you're listening to them on the radio. How do I

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Speaker 3: how do how do I present it in such a

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Speaker 3: way that you can comprehend it since you can't look

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Speaker 3: at it, or you don't just start thinking about something else.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, it's these tax myths from the Manhattan Institute,

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Speaker 3: and some of them are taking a shot at some

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Speaker 3: of our favorite conservative tax myths that, for instance, tax

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Speaker 3: cuts pay for themselves.

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Speaker 1: They haven't yet.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's never been an example where the revenue

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Speaker 3: that came in from increased uh, you know, economic activity

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Speaker 3: matched the amount you cut by.

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Speaker 1: Taxes, right.

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Speaker 4: I think it's strong in our recommendation to say that

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Speaker 4: they partly pay for themselves, where tax increases do nothing

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Speaker 4: but screw the economy, right.

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Speaker 1: And that doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 3: And I'm all for people keeping their own money, so

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Speaker 3: it doesn't have to I mean, you keeping your money

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Speaker 3: have to fund the government mostly, as Joe pointed out

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Speaker 3: last hour, we got to cut spending clearly. But anyway,

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Speaker 3: I wanted to get to this one because this is

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Speaker 3: shouldn't be. The middle class pays higher tax rates than

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Speaker 3: the rich. And you've heard versions of this your entire

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Speaker 3: adult life, including the fourth ridgest man in the world

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Speaker 3: Warren Buffett, who famously said, why do I pay lower

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Speaker 3: And I don't know why he went along with it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's got to do with you know, he

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Speaker 3: hasn't taken his money out yet, so he hasn't realized

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Speaker 3: the capital gains. Blah blah blah blah blah. So Jessica Ridle,

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Speaker 3: writing for the Manhattan Institute, says, this is spectacularly false,

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Speaker 3: the idea that the middle class pays higher tax rates

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Speaker 1: And there's all kinds of numbers here I could use.

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Speaker 3: Within income taxes, the lowest earning forty percent pay a

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Speaker 3: the lowest forty percent, the median earning family pays an

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Speaker 3: But there's all kinds of different ways to break this down.

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Speaker 3: Our tax code is incredibly progressive. It's gotten more progressive

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Speaker 3: which is the opposite of what you generally hear from lefties.

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Speaker 3: What would be the best example of that. Since nineteen

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Speaker 3: seventy nine, for instance, the share of income taxes paid

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Speaker 3: do you present this in such a way that most

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Speaker 3: but what do I care?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: The problem is when you only have a small percentage

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Speaker 4: Right, that's the biggest My opinion, intentional and always has

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Speaker 4: shortest put in the history of political golf.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you just stick them with it.

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Speaker 4: They should pay for you, And you're thinking, okay.

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Speaker 3: Right, if the bulk of people feel like their taxes

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Speaker 3: paying the sort of taxes that Europe pays. The whole

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Speaker 3: the middle class.

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Speaker 1: The tax rates for the middle class.

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Speaker 3: In Europe are way higher than they are for the

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Speaker 4: Right, But if you can sell people on the notion

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Speaker 4: that damn rich guy who who doesn't pay as high

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Speaker 4: mean that is that is so easy to get people

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Speaker 4: to jump on board. It is an absolutely cost free

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Speaker 4: demagoguing and you know, chunk of dishonesty, but people love

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Speaker 3: Let's see if I can say this slow enough that

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Speaker 3: you can take it in. Last year, the top earning

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Speaker 3: twenty percent, the top fifth of taxpayers, paid just under

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Speaker 3: two trillion dollars in income tax. That next quintile, the

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Speaker 3: next twenty percent of people write above, and you're still

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Speaker 3: doing well. You know, if you're in that second twenty

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Speaker 3: the next twenty percent paid two hundred and twenty eight billion.

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Speaker 3: The remaining sixty percent of earners paid a collective income

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Speaker 3: tax of ninety billion dollars. Wow, the bottom sixty percent

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Speaker 3: paid ninety billion in taxes, the top twenty percent paid

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Speaker 3: two trillion. So when you say when are the rich

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Speaker 3: gonna pay their fair share? What the hell are you

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Speaker 3: talking about? What would the fair share be?

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Speaker 5: Right? Right?

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Speaker 4: Again? It's the easiest demagogaury in the history of demagogaury

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Speaker 4: getting people to buy into it. The less you try

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's about as hard to sell.

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Speaker 4: As that we're gonna spend like lunatics and we'll tax

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Speaker 4: him instead of you, and you'll get the benefits.

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Speaker 3: So Ridel rights that the Biden White House contributed to

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Speaker 3: that billionaires pay an average rate of eight percent. Well,

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Speaker 3: fact that when they finally realize their their wealth, when

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Speaker 3: they take it out, they're gonna pay oh way, way

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Speaker 3: way by a hyderd percent. Then that yeah, you can

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Speaker 3: it's just not accurate.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's.

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Speaker 3: A set of facts that lie way more than they reveal.

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Speaker 1: And you know, but it works.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, it's such an easy issue to demagogue.

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Speaker 3: Elon Musk does not pay taxes at the rate of

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Speaker 3: somebody who has four hundred billion dollars or whatever he has.

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Speaker 1: If he took it all.

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Speaker 3: Out, he would, though, I mean, if he cashed it

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Speaker 3: all out of the stock market, he absolutely would, right right,

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Speaker 3: which is why the left is so desperate to tax

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Speaker 3: income from them at this point, which it would be

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Speaker 3: insidious and trust me, would creep down to you in

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Speaker 3: yours soon enough. But well, right, So, the the way

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Speaker 3: the middle class gets taxed so heavily in Europe is

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Speaker 3: mostly vat value added taxes that they have in all

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Speaker 3: class the hardest because the richer you are, the less

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Speaker 3: you care about another you know, a sales tax basically

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Speaker 3: on everything, and do the liberals want to go there?

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Speaker 3: Do they want to go there where the middle class

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Speaker 3: is paying the bulk of taxes because that's the way

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Speaker 3: they do it in Europe where they have their you know, socialist.

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Speaker 1: Heaven that. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I just I don't see any winning this battle because

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Speaker 4: the misperception is so widespread.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going to happen in this Do you think

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Speaker 1: we're just going to play it clear and they'll run

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Speaker 3: Ground with yes, with with claiming that the rich don't

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Speaker 3: play pay fair share and that the reason we're so

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Speaker 3: far in debt is because billionaires get all the tax breaks.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's so as he said, it's a spectacular lie.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not just misleading, it's the opposite of true. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the rich many many multiples. Yeah, the rich are paying

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, correct.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, It's just if I were to convince a fairly

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Speaker 4: unsophisticated voter, you know, speaking of quintiles, like eighty percent

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Speaker 4: you were to propose to that eighty percent, you know,

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Speaker 4: roughly the deal I described that we will spend like lunatics,

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Speaker 4: you will benefit from it, and we will tax him

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Speaker 4: because he isn't paying his fair share. That eighty percent

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Speaker 4: of voters would vote for that proposition over and over

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Speaker 4: and over again till the day they are.

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Speaker 1: In the grave.

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Speaker 4: It is the easiest sales proposition in the history of mankind.

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Speaker 1: I have given up. I've despaired again.

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Speaker 3: The top twenty percent paid two trillion, the next twenty

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Speaker 3: eight billion, the bottom tens well, the bottom sixty percent

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Speaker 3: paid ninety two billion dollars in taxes last year. And

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Speaker 3: their fair share?

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Speaker 1: And think that's gonna fix things. It'd be awesome if

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Speaker 1: it was true. If it was true, it'd be fantastic,

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Speaker 1: because you know what fix is.

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Speaker 3: It fixes me getting into office. So you need to know, God,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna run out of money and then and then

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Speaker 3: and then everything's gonna suck and could suck for the

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Speaker 3: rest of history in the United States. We just won't

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Speaker 3: be a powerful dynamic able to defend ourselves nation because

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Speaker 3: of this lie that we hear over and over and

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Speaker 3: over again.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, and a couple of others that are it's

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Speaker 4: cheerful sidekicks.

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Speaker 3: This is where No, we can just grow our way

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Speaker 3: out of our debt. We're enjoying nihilist Joe on tax

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Speaker 3: Day this year.

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Speaker 4: Not a nihilist, I'm a realist. No, you've described exactly

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Speaker 4: what's going to happen, Honey. If we keep buying new

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Speaker 4: cars and vacationing in Hawaii every year, we're going to

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Speaker 4: be dead broke in three years.

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Speaker 1: That is correct. Yes, And where are we going this

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Speaker 1: year for vacation? Hawaii? Hawaii? Yeah? How are we getting

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Speaker 1: to the airport in our new car? All right?

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Speaker 4: Standing by my racing It's justter bending madness coming up

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Speaker 4: later in the hour.

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Speaker 1: We're breaking a little late.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure we can squeeze it in the next segment,

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Speaker 4: but we'll try.

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Speaker 2: It was reported that several White House officials are refusing

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Speaker 4: Congratulations to the brave transgender athlete who nabbed first place

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Speaker 4: of Education, personnel, district superintendents, education college professors, and drag

443
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Speaker 4: queens from around the state. We're attending this conference, and

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Speaker 4: we mentioned one session that's all about building LGBTQ plus

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Speaker 4: organizations and schools and helping kids transition. Again, these are

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Speaker 4: school administrators going to seminars on how to help kids transition.

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Speaker 3: Because that's your job at a school to help kids

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Speaker 3: deal with their gender issues.

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Speaker 4: And Jack, as you always point out, they're not teaching

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Speaker 4: the kids to read and write and do math would

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Speaker 4: be and failing miserably at their core job.

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Speaker 3: I would be against this even if they were scoring

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Speaker 3: at ninety percent of a proficiency and reading a math,

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Speaker 3: but it's not. So they failing at the main thing

455
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Speaker 3: and doing this, which is pretty hard to take.

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Speaker 4: And the California Globe is pointing out that they have

457
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Speaker 4: a session titled combating transphobic Legislation with inclusive sex ed

458
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Speaker 4: and at that attendees will be filled with disinformation to

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Speaker 4: pass on to the kids from independent consultant Van Jones,

460
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Speaker 4: a woman pretending to be a man. The most disturbing

461
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Speaker 4: information Jones will present is to skirt laws to provide

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Speaker 4: students with disinformation on puberty blockers.

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Speaker 1: And I'll summarize, they're.

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Speaker 4: Teaching the kids that the puberty blockers and the massive

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Speaker 4: hormone treatments have no permanent effects, will not change their

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Speaker 4: bodies for the rest of their lives. That is a

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Speaker 4: myth in a right wing conspiracy, and that it's absolutely

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Speaker 4: fine to do that as a child.

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Speaker 1: It is repulsive and evil.

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Speaker 3: It's sick, and it's even more amazing given the fact

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Speaker 3: that Europe has gone the other direction now because usually

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Speaker 3: your lefties they look to Europe for guidance on everything,

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Speaker 3: but not on this one. I guess they feel like

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Speaker 3: Europe's wrong. I guess, well, right, or they just ignore

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Speaker 3: that it's happening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And the final note, and I have believed for a

478
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Speaker 4: long time that LGB could would really do itself a

479
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Speaker 4: favor by divorcing itself from the T plus minus over

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Speaker 4: the power of three crowd. It used to be just

481
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Speaker 4: LGB lesbian, gay, bisexual people said, hey, quit beaten honus

482
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Speaker 4: and denying us jobs and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 5: I know several in the LGB world that one hundred

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Speaker 5: percent agree with you.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'm absolutely joining with the sane people I've

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Speaker 4: talked to of that same orientation to express this. But so,

487
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Speaker 4: the San Francisco Pride Month Parade festival organization has been

488
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Speaker 4: leaning harder and harder.

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Speaker 1: Into its activist identity.

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Speaker 4: Quoting Richie Greenberg also in the California Globe, it's turned

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Speaker 4: what was once a jubilant remoration into a sanctimony soapbox.

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Speaker 4: It's theme for this year, queer joy is resistance. Reeks

493
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Speaker 4: of the signed are the kind of self righteous sloganeering

494
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Speaker 4: that turns a party into an uncomfortable, biased, scolding lecture,

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Speaker 4: but now with a gaping budgetary whole threatening its June

496
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Speaker 4: twenty eighth to twenty ninth extravaganza. Estimates fear the shortfall

497
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 4: could reach two of about two thirds of its operating

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Speaker 4: costs because the organization has recently lost about three hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand dollars in corporate sponsorships from corporate heavyweights like Comcast, Meta,

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Speaker 4: Anheuser Busch, local wine producers. That sort of thing. It's

501
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Speaker 4: not just a budgetary hiccup. It's a big flashing neon

502
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Speaker 4: sign that even the most progressive enterprises can't outrun the

503
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Speaker 4: consequences of their own ideological bullying. And then they go

504
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Speaker 4: into the bud Light story again to summarize this, because

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Speaker 4: we don't have a ton of time, although it's very

506
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Speaker 4: very well written. The absolute far far end of radical

507
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Speaker 4: leftism that is represented by turning little boys into little girls,

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Speaker 4: having them play in sports drag Queen's entertaining kiddergarteners. The

509
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Speaker 4: rest of it, I mean, the percentage of human beings

510
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Speaker 4: that thinks that's appropriate or cool is tiny, and these big,

511
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Speaker 4: giant corporations have realized, Wow, look at who we're in

512
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Speaker 4: bed with, no pun intended, and they're saying, yeah, no,

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Speaker 4: we can't do that anymore. So the increasingly scolding, hyper

514
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Speaker 4: radical Pride organization is realized the money spigot has run dry,

515
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Speaker 4: which I thought was interesting. It's a gender bending madness update.

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Speaker 4: Do we have a clothes on that that would probably

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Speaker 4: be a good idea?

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Speaker 3: You got you gotta have you gotta have a cap there?

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Speaker 1: What do you call it? Just hang mad? Yeah? I

520
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: kept hearing about this thing called we'll get this right.

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Speaker 1: When we actually do this.

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Speaker 3: Over and the actual show begins, Jack, I find myself

523
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Speaker 3: wondering this, Do you have more of those fabulous and

524
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Speaker 3: fascinating tax myths for us? I do, and then we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk to a tax attorney in hour three

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Speaker 3: about where things are tax wise in America.

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Speaker 1: Right now on this tax day, April fifteenth.

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Speaker 3: I know, I personally wrote the biggest check I've ever

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Speaker 3: written in my life a week ago.

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Speaker 1: It's very fun.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, jee, thank you, especially knowing how well it's

532
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Speaker 3: spent with a variety of things that Doe just pointed

533
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Speaker 3: out to us. I'm hoping my money somehow accidentally went

534
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Speaker 3: to a battleship that we actually need as opposed to

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Speaker 3: a trans opera in Ireland or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Or more likely, and I will bore you with this

537
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Speaker 4: at some point because you can't stop me. More likely

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Speaker 4: it went to an able bodied, stoned guy who just

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Speaker 4: doesn't want to work, who gets medicaid from your taxes.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's able.

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Speaker 4: Bodied mail not working choice live in quite a nice lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got way too many of those, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: The video vows to spend a half a trillion dollars

544
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Speaker 3: building AI servers in the United States.

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Speaker 1: Yes, better or worse, among other things we can talk about.

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Speaker 1: Stay here more hilarity from our friends at the Babylon BA.

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Speaker 7: I came to this country with nothing but the clothes

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Speaker 7: on my back and a dream, a dream that I

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Speaker 7: could come here and commit many, many crimes. But the

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Speaker 7: Trump administration deported me, and now my dreams of killing

551
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Speaker 7: many people and committing much crime have been shattered.

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Speaker 1: I am as sad.

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Speaker 7: I thought America was a place where you could freely

554
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Speaker 7: traffic drugs maybe some people as well. I also came

555
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Speaker 7: here to rob do some cocaine. I also want to

556
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Speaker 7: do non crime things like see a chokichiese, go to

557
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Speaker 7: a dyer's game, but mostly all the crime stuff. I know,

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Speaker 7: I'm being deported thanks to President. I've only killed five people.

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Speaker 7: There was so much more I wanted to do, so

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Speaker 7: many dreams yet to be dreamed.

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Speaker 1: Wow. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. Uh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah. I was a little uncomfortable with that, frankly. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean because, as we all know, there have been

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Speaker 3: some illegals here that have committed horrible crimes, and amazingly

565
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Speaker 3: there are cities and states that want to protect them

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Speaker 3: from being booted out of the country. That's insanity, m

567
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Speaker 3: But the vast majority of people who are coming into

568
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Speaker 3: this country illegally are just why.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you want to live here? And they want to work.

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Speaker 3: But that's that's the I think that's the under layer

571
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Speaker 3: of that bit was that the dreams and aspirations of good,

572
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Speaker 3: hard working people are being applied to criminal gang members

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Speaker 3: and rapists and murderers right to defend them from being

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Speaker 3: deported or ice cooperated with local authorities. They're being portrayed

575
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Speaker 3: by the Left. Is honest, hardworking murderers who just dreamed,

576
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Speaker 3: beautiful dreams of committing crimes in this country.

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Speaker 4: How dare you turn them over to ice. I think

578
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Speaker 4: it's subtle, but it's good, Yes, Katie.

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Speaker 5: Just to give a visual this guy had an MS

580
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Speaker 5: thirteen tattoo on his forehead and when he said I

581
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Speaker 5: am as sad, he pointed at a tear drop tattoo

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Speaker 5: on his face.

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Speaker 1: Killer. So just a visual forum. He was clearly one

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Speaker 1: of the bad ones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Hey, hardworking people find a way that they

586
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Speaker 4: can apply and stay if they follow the law, and

587
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Speaker 4: that's fine.

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Speaker 1: They love this country. Hey, we're fellow Americans. Welcome.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna break the law though, you're gonna ship you

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Speaker 4: a hell out to that recreation complex in El Salvador.

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Speaker 3: We've had a number of textures say they thought you

592
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Speaker 3: were interviewing RFK Junior today. Now that's me, Jack Armstrong.

593
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Speaker 3: I just have some sort of disease. This might be

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Speaker 3: my last disease. I told my son last night when

595
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Speaker 3: I went to bay, I said, you can have my

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Speaker 3: watch if huh in the morning, I'm I've passed.

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Speaker 1: Don't let the dog eat my toes, yes, and don't

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Speaker 1: let the dog eat me. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I know I sound bad, but the key is I

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Speaker 3: feel as bad as I sound I feel. Or where

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Speaker 3: I was complaining earlier about the baby Boomer generation, the

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Speaker 3: worst generation in American history, around the whole tax thing

603
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Speaker 3: on this tax day and how we ended up in

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Speaker 3: a situation where we spend more than we take in

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Speaker 3: and we're just comfortable with.

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Speaker 1: That and we're just going to continue it. Both parties

607
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Speaker 1: seem to be fine with that. Just real quick.

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Speaker 4: How about the generation that says that said we like

609
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Speaker 4: having slaves, we want to keep having slaves.

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Speaker 1: That was a pretty bad generation. What was What did

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Speaker 1: I see yesterday? It was so good. I saw a

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Speaker 1: comedian somewhere. Was that on Saturday Night Live?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I was on Saturday Night Live? Comedian on Saturday Live.

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Speaker 1: It was a bit during the news and as one

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Speaker 1: of the new cast members. I mean, he was talking

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Speaker 1: about how.

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Speaker 3: We treat the whole uber door dash sort of world

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Speaker 3: and around. You know, they're obviously struggling, they got a

620
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Speaker 3: crappy car, they come up to your.

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Speaker 1: Door in the rain, whatever like that. You're just mad

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Speaker 1: that they weren't faster. You give them three bucks? He said.

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Speaker 3: It's clearly he said, it clearly proves that, you know,

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Speaker 3: the whole slave thing. A lot of us would have said,

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Speaker 3: you know what, this is pretty andy. Wow, Wow, this

626
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Speaker 3: was a spanic guy. Uh the way we you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I had a point I was gonna make.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was. It's a cold medicine. Oh.

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Speaker 3: The whole baby boomer thing was around taxes and how

630
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Speaker 3: we've gotten ourselves into this situation and just culturally, it's

631
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Speaker 3: amazing to me that this happened, But it seems to happen.

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Speaker 3: A society that's willing to spend beyond their means in

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Speaker 3: their own.

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Speaker 1: Lives allows the government to do that.

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Speaker 3: It just seems to be the case in the society

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Speaker 3: that didn't. Our parents didn't spend beyond their means, didn't

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Speaker 3: allow the government.

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Speaker 1: To do it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thriftiness for our entire history as people was not

640
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Speaker 4: viewed as a strategy.

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Speaker 1: It was viewed as a moral question right, and that

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Speaker 1: went out the window for a lot of different reasons.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk about later. If you miss a seconment

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Speaker 1: gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty