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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.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Getty enough,

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Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 1: The Kentagon says of Ron fired missiles, that American Navy

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Speaker 1: destroyers trying to cross the strait of her moves, and

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Speaker 1: that the US fired back, striking Iranian military facilities and

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Speaker 1: command locations. Central Command describes the American strikes as self defense.

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Speaker 1: In an interview with me tonight, President Trump called them

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Speaker 1: something else, a love tap.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it be fired with ran still long?

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 3: It said they trifled with us today, we blew them away.

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Speaker 2: If there's no ceasfire, you're not gonna have to know.

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Speaker 2: You didn't have to look at one big glow coming.

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Speaker 4: Out of Iran, and they better sign their agreement fast.

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Speaker 3: So they fired on our ships yesterday. We blasted the

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Speaker 3: crap out of them, including hitting a bunch of targets

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Speaker 3: in Iran, including in Tehran the Capitol. And Trump said

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Speaker 3: it was a love tap, and the ceasefire is still

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Speaker 3: on for whatever reason, maybe it's just my own brain.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you don't do this.

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Speaker 3: But whenever the news reports thees I ran fired on

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Speaker 3: US ships. The United States fired back, you know, destroying

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Speaker 3: the small boats or something like that. I pictured being

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Speaker 3: a very short little exchange, but for instance, the one

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Speaker 3: that happened yesterday was four hours long.

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Speaker 2: Or something like that. Was that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they never let you know what a Syrian that's

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Speaker 3: a pretty serious battle, it seems like to me. Right,

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Speaker 3: just for the record, having heard that clip, what I

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Speaker 3: said last hour, I'd like to revise because these shots

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Speaker 3: back at them were much more significant than I was

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Speaker 3: led to believe by the accounts I saw in red

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Speaker 3: because I accused the President of not escalating properly to

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Speaker 3: discourage that sort of activity.

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Speaker 2: But it sounds like, yeah, just it was getting bad information.

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Speaker 3: Well, we had a bunch of targets within all of

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Speaker 3: Iran in addition to the blasting, the crap out of

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Speaker 3: the boats and rocket launchers that fired at a ship's

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Speaker 3: in the first place. So a couple of things that

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Speaker 3: I didn't know. There are currently more than seventy tankers

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Speaker 3: that the US forces are preventing from entering or leaving

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Speaker 3: Iranian ports. Seventy tankers that want to go through either

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Speaker 3: for various countries or Iran's help. But according to this report,

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Speaker 3: Iran had two big tankers that got out through some

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Speaker 3: little portion that's actually Pakistani waters that we don't have

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Speaker 3: the right to control. And the tankers got out with

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Speaker 3: five million barrels of oil each. They got out and

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Speaker 3: they delivered the oil, which probably made Iran money, but

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Speaker 3: we didn't a lot to come back in. So we

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Speaker 3: are firing on those tankers that are trying to get

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Speaker 3: back in. And as Joe said, they're not going to

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Speaker 3: get their debosit back.

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Speaker 5: Can't get your deposit back on your tanker because we've

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Speaker 5: got to rense out your tanker before you return it.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: It was three three over two days, and over the

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Speaker 3: past two days, three cargo empty National Ordian tanker tankers

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Speaker 3: got out the US Navy blockade through some economic zone

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Speaker 3: that we don't have the right to blockade. And then

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Speaker 3: two of the three tankers were sited on satellite trying

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Speaker 3: to return.

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Speaker 2: And or blast them.

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Speaker 3: So where this is going.

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Speaker 2: I was listening to.

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Speaker 3: An analyst on one of the cable news channels, and

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Speaker 3: every analyst has a completely different story, and I don't

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Speaker 3: know if they're driven by their politics or their own

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Speaker 3: just assessment of things or whatever. But it ranges from

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Speaker 3: we're completely being embarrassed and pants on the world stage two.

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Speaker 3: Iran is about to collapse and this is the exact

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Speaker 3: right thing to do, and only Donald Trump could do it,

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Speaker 3: and you know, and everything in between. But one analyst

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Speaker 3: who didn't seem to have an actra grind, said this

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Speaker 3: could very easily, especially with the UAE being hit in

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Speaker 3: the last couple of hours, This could explode into the

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Speaker 3: biggest war in Middle Eastern history in an instant if

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Speaker 3: the United States gets engaged again and Israel says, well,

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Speaker 3: if everybody's bombing and we're gonna go back to taking

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Speaker 3: out the enemies we've been wanting to take out forever,

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Speaker 3: the UAE starts flying planes in bombing Iran because they

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Speaker 3: said that's enough. Saudi Arabia decides they need to do something.

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Speaker 3: It could it could go nutty so fast. That's always

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Speaker 3: been true in the Middle East, but extra true now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It finally dawned on me why I'm losing enthusiasm for

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Speaker 5: following this day to day and even trying to understand

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Speaker 5: what's going on, And it's that there doesn't feel like

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Speaker 5: there's any progress to a conclusion, because anything that is

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Speaker 5: progress toward a conclusion seems to be cloaked in a

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Speaker 5: lot of secrecy, these mysterious negotiations that are going on,

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Speaker 5: And so the tit for tat attacks don't ultimately mean anything.

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Speaker 3: I don't think, No, I don't. I don't think the

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Speaker 3: tit for tat things uh mean much either. But I

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Speaker 3: do think Iran continuing to fire on the UAE, I

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Speaker 3: got to believe at some point they're gonna say that's enough,

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Speaker 3: We've got to defend ourselves.

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Speaker 5: Here's the question that I don't expect you to answer.

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Speaker 5: Are they egging their neighbors in the US on for

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Speaker 5: the cataclysmic fight is foretold in the their interpretation of

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Speaker 5: the Qur'an?

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Speaker 2: Right? I mean, why else?

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Speaker 5: Well, because you're trying to raise the economic pain level

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Speaker 5: of the world in general, So they call on the

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Speaker 5: US to stop. But the way they're beating the hell

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Speaker 5: out of the UAE is just, well, it seems to

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Speaker 5: me a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they disagree.

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Speaker 3: Well, and if the reports are true that they fired

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Speaker 3: on a Chinese ship, what the hell? What do you

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Speaker 3: think a clearly flagged Chinese ship? If Iran fired on

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Speaker 3: that what the hell they thought they were accomplishing.

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine.

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Speaker 3: But a little more about the battle coming out yesterday,

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Speaker 3: the sea battle that we were in. That wasn't just

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Speaker 3: a tit for tat exchange for fire, I suppose in

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Speaker 3: the overall scheme of things it was, but it lasted

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Speaker 3: many hours. Ten sailors have been were wounded, five are

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Speaker 3: missing after the engagement US sailors. Oh really yeah, Oh

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Speaker 3: that's what the current report is. Holy, this is a

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Speaker 3: full on battle. Yeah, wow, where there I have no idea.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's against the uh vastly reduced Iranian navy too.

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Speaker 5: Reminds me how dangerous war is in particular naval battles.

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Speaker 3: Well, and how reduced their navy is, or their stockpile

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Speaker 3: of rockets or their nuclear program. Getting to your point

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Speaker 3: of what do we know and what do we not know?

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Speaker 2: No idea.

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Speaker 3: The Washington Post with that story this week about all

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Speaker 3: of the American stuff that got hit bases and rocket

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Speaker 3: launchers of hours and all that, just different sort of

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Speaker 3: stuff that hadn't been reported before. Rand did a better

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Speaker 3: job of fighting back than we had ever heard. I

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Speaker 3: have no problem with keeping that a secret in the

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Speaker 3: midst of a war. But yeah, there's so much we

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Speaker 3: don't know, and we're not going to find out for

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Speaker 3: a long time. I just hope it doesn't go nutty

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Speaker 3: and throw the world economy into a depression.

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Speaker 2: And all that. But I guess we all hope that.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking at the fact that Israel and Hesbala are

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Speaker 5: going at it, hammer and tongs in northern Israel slashes

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Speaker 5: southern Lebanon, and I don't know, there's part of me

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Speaker 5: that wonders whether the only way to end all this

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Speaker 5: stuff is for it to go big.

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Speaker 3: Could be actually, that was one analyst's argument, we're putting

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Speaker 3: off the inevitable. I think that that's what NBS was

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Speaker 3: telling Trump on the phone the other day.

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Speaker 2: It's got to happen now.

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Speaker 3: Now's the time we take out Iran, that that regime ends.

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Speaker 3: Now is the time. They'll never be a better time

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Speaker 3: to end that entire regime. So let's do it, which

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Speaker 3: he might be right. The other biggest story of the

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Speaker 3: day that actually got more attention is all the UH

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Speaker 3: passengers that got off that ship full of coca virus

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Speaker 3: and it's transmittable official name, but go on, and so

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Speaker 3: they had got a bunch of men gotten off the

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Speaker 3: ship over the last two weeks various ports, and some

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Speaker 3: of them have traveled back to the United States with

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Speaker 3: a contagious, very deadly disease. So that was the headline

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Speaker 3: story everywhere. It's not very contagious. It's pretty hard to get.

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Speaker 3: It's very deadly. It's almost the opposite of COVID, where

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Speaker 3: if you were in the same giant room as someone

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Speaker 3: with COVID, you caught it, but the chance of it

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Speaker 3: killing you is almost zero unless you were very old.

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Speaker 3: This is the opposite. The chance of catching it if

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Speaker 3: you're near someone who has it is very low. But

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Speaker 3: if you get it, chance to get your affairs in order, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: chance of dine's pretty high.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she's a heck of a thing. Well, you're not

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Speaker 5: going to get freaking Haunta virus.

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Speaker 2: You're just not. You're not. You're not.

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Speaker 5: What are you to do to catch it? Have sex

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Speaker 5: with them? Exactly? The rat?

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Speaker 2: No, no, the rat, the person.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, you probably have to just breathe the same

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Speaker 5: air as them for a while. But you're not on

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Speaker 5: the cruise ship. If you're listening on the cruise ship,

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Speaker 5: I apologize, you're not in an enclosed space with either

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Speaker 5: rodent feces or somebody who's full blown infected.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're trying to track down all the people that

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Speaker 3: got off the ship, that returned home and everybody they've

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Speaker 3: right right.

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Speaker 5: My understanding is the people who got off the ship

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Speaker 5: got off of it weeks ago though, And I haven't

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Speaker 5: heard of any you know, explosion of COVID and various

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Speaker 2: Well, that reminds me.

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Speaker 3: The Babylon b had a funny headline yesterday Doctor Fauci

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Speaker 3: reports amazing results and gain a function research at his

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Speaker 3: new cruise ship laboratory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty funny. That's good. I like that one.

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Speaker 3: The world of bowling is being stood on its head,

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Speaker 3: and you think you don't care because you don't bowl

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Speaker 3: must correct. It's a really interesting capitalism story. It's a

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Speaker 3: lawsuit that's going on against the big bowling companies. And

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Speaker 3: sometimes sometimes the realities of capitalism are just you know,

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Speaker 3: they aren't they aren't. They aren't, they aren't the result

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Speaker 3: you want. But ultimately it's the best system ever. But

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Speaker 3: your old bowling alley that you used to go to

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Speaker 3: and the way you liked it might be coming to

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Speaker 3: an end if it hasn't already. On the other hand,

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Speaker 3: and I'll get to the story coming up next, dour

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Speaker 3: and it's got to do with capitalism. Our next segment,

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Speaker 3: how busy is it? Usually when you go into that

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Speaker 3: bowling alley once every two years in bowl there's like

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Speaker 3: nobody there.

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Speaker 5: Our our favorite bowling alley was was super busy?

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Speaker 3: Was it?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at least I think that's an.

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Speaker 3: Anyway you left two pins are too far apart. You

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Speaker 3: can't pick up that spare Okay, watch me. We had

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Speaker 3: a lot more on the way. Stay here.

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Speaker 1: Strong.

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Speaker 4: shopping for that perfect Mother's Day card. And while there

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Speaker 3: But so, I thought this was a really interesting story

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Speaker 7: That. Since you didn't earn that, you have to create

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Speaker 3: Actually, if Elon Musk invents the first like really viable

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Speaker 5: Or what their point of view, and it's utterly unsupportable

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe a better example would be Bill Gates, who

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Speaker 5: should be spread out among people, all people.

444
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Speaker 2: So we don't really have time for this.

445
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 5: I wanted to get into it, but how the far

446
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 5: left tapped into a money machine in the Free Press

447
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 5: really to Shaa, who's a moderate Democrat writing about how

448
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 5: the right kind of populists on the left now are,

449
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 5: it's as if they have rented the US Mint and

450
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 5: are printing money as fast as they possibly can. There

451
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 5: is money pouring into the far left radical crowd, donations

452
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 5: from ten dollars to two hundred. Generally speaking, it's enormously profitable.

453
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 5: But I wanted to get to this instead, which also

454
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 5: happens to be from the Free Press, but it's written

455
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Speaker 5: by Gary Saal Morrison it's called the terrorist mind. There

456
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 5: is literary and historical precedent for the normalizing of terrorism,

457
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 5: and he goes into the current the situation, but he

458
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 5: describes the Russian terrorist movements which began in the eighteen seventies,

459
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 5: which seems a long time ago, but you know, we

460
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 5: were only a few years away from cars and planes.

461
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Speaker 5: It had reached prodigious dimensions by the beginning of the

462
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Speaker 5: twentieth century. Between October of five and the end of seven,

463
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Speaker 5: some forty five hundred government officials and about the same

464
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 5: number of private individuals were killed or injured in terrorist attacks.

465
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Speaker 5: Newspapers included supplements entirely devoted to assassinations and expropriations. In

466
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Speaker 5: the town of Belostock, now Byallastock, one terrorist group consisted

467
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Speaker 5: entirely of school children. The most evocative story of the

468
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 5: routinely violent climate of the time concerns the newspaper reporter

469
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Speaker 5: who asked his editor whether to run the new governor's

470
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Speaker 5: biography and was told save it for the obituary.

471
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Speaker 2: And who were these terrorists?

472
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Speaker 5: Except in rare circumstances, they came not from the oppressed

473
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Speaker 5: working class or peasantry, but from the ranks of the

474
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Speaker 5: highly educated or prominent, resorting to terror in this time

475
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 5: and place became almost mundane, unexceptional. Many were the offspring

476
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 5: of the very people who supplied targets, while a few

477
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 5: were mentally unbalanced. Most were either inspired by ideology, the

478
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 5: three or the sheer thrill of killing, or both. Young

479
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 5: men or women, when asked their intended career, often answered terrorist,

480
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 5: an honored I, dangerous profession, often a family trade. Commentators

481
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 5: spoke of revolutionism, that is, revolution apart from one what

482
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 5: might follow it as a goal in itself, along with

483
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 5: art for art's sake, this was terror for terror's sake.

484
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 5: And he said, well, he writes a parallel suggests we

485
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 5: may be at the early stages of the Russian experience,

486
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 5: and it comes readily to mind, as in Russia, alleged

487
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 5: recent murders and attempted murders have been anything but uneducated.

488
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Speaker 2: And he cites the.

489
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Speaker 5: Murder of poor Brian Thompson, the recent White House correspondence,

490
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 5: dinner shooter, and several others, and some of their idiotic reasoning,

491
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Speaker 5: which we've gone through pretty thoroughly. But like the dinner shooter,

492
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 5: do you think when I see someone raped or murdered

493
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Speaker 5: or abused, I.

494
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 2: Should walk on.

495
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 5: So no, his answers, no, I'm going to kill some people,

496
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 5: and then he goes into the October seventh attacks, where

497
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 5: within hours thirty four Harvard student organizations rushed to express

498
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 5: their approval. Such thinking results not from mental imbalance, ignorance,

499
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Speaker 5: or rationality. On the contrary, issues from ideologies claiming to

500
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 5: advance social justice and viewing murder not just as morally permitted,

501
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 5: but as morally necessary. Somebody had to do it, As

502
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Speaker 5: a Alan explained, I don't see anyone else picking up

503
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 5: the slack, and he cites other historical examples, Mao's China, obviously,

504
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 5: where it became very very in vogue for a while

505
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 5: to be it's times literally murderous radical, and then it

506
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 5: goes away.

507
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that book about the Cuban Revolution that I've been reading,

508
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 3: Cuba Libra that I'm listening to is really good gat

509
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 3: and it's amazing how educated and well to do so

510
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 3: many of the leaders were, including Chae Guevera, who was

511
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 3: a doctor if he didn't know that, and Fidel himself,

512
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 3: who grew up incredibly wealthy compared to the surrounding area

513
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 3: and was highly educated.

514
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: He was a lawyer.

515
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 5: I've read a fair amount of Dostoevsky and love him

516
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 5: as an author, but I had not read Demons. I'll

517
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 5: just read you what the author writes. The world's greatest

518
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 5: political novel. Dostoevsky's Demons examined the beginnings of the terrorist

519
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 5: movement in the eighteen seventies. The novel portrays the revolutionaries harshly,

520
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 5: but not so harshly as the smug, cowardly liberals who

521
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 5: apologized for them, both because liberal support allows the radicals

522
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 5: to succeed and because terrorism reveals what is already implicit

523
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 5: in some liberal doctrines. But he writes, whereas most nineteenth

524
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 5: century thinkers imagined that the twentieth century would create universal

525
00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 5: humanitarian progress, Dostojevsky, and only Dostoevsky, predicted it would, on

526
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 5: the contrary, in gender a political system more oppressive than

527
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 5: any before. He foresaw in detail what we've come to

528
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 5: call totalitarianism.

529
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: Well, he was a revolutionary himself. He hung out with

530
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 3: that crowd and was sentenced to death. Then they didn't

531
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: shoot him as a trick, But so it's a hell

532
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 3: of a trick. Yeah, he was actually up against the

533
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: he was standing up at the pole blindfolded. Ready, aim, Okay,

534
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 3: we're not going to kill you. Think about it the

535
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 3: next time. Getting pretty against he went, He went against

536
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 3: the party line. It's hitting pretty close anyway. He knew

537
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 3: what pants.

538
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 5: Closed, certainly, Yeah, I'd say, yeah, yeah, Well, so he

539
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 5: was describing the movement from the inside, just like Orwell was.

540
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 5: And you know, maybe I'll conclude with my one of

541
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 5: my favorite eldest Huxley quotes that I love so much

542
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 5: I haven't pinned in the studio. The surest way to

543
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 5: work up a crusade in favor of some good cause

544
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 5: is to promise people that they will have a chance

545
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 5: of maltreating someone, to be able to destroy with good conscience,

546
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 5: to be able to behave badly and call your bad

547
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 5: behavior righteous indignation. This is the height of psychological luxury,

548
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 5: the most delicious of moral treats.

549
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems to be a human nature thing. Huh.

550
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 5: That's what we're seeing among the young people right now

551
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 5: in some of the old revolutionary chic radical chic jackasses,

552
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 5: just like Jack is describing Guevera and Castro. It's or,

553
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 5: as Matt Taibi described it so beautifully, the upper class

554
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 5: twits promoting revolution space.

555
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Speaker 3: We hit a milestone with our debt over the weekend.

556
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: Way to Go, Everybody, Way to Go America. We are

557
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: the number one country on Earth. I'll hold off on

558
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 3: that for a while though, because we can't go all

559
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: serious depressing stuff, especially on a Friday. We got lots

560
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: of other things to get to. Um, gonna be a

561
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 3: jazzy day. I think it'll be jazzy about ready to

562
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: switch on the Dakria machine and start making dakeries. I

563
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 3: don't know what flavor we should go with this week.

564
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: We got all kinds of different fruit here.

565
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 5: Michael is on a low carb diet and he's proposing

566
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 5: Hamburger flavor.

567
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

568
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 5: I can make sugar veto that in a bakery. Hey,

569
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 5: back to your point about not being too heavy in

570
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 5: the rest of it, and I should have actually said

571
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 5: this out loud. Part of my reason in bringing this

572
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 5: up is that the world hasn't gone crazy per se.

573
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 5: All good sense and decency is not vanishing. This is

574
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 5: a bizarre tendency of human beings that this burbles up

575
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 5: every so often. Yep, you gotta fight it. You got

576
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 5: to push it back, and it'll probably go away again.

577
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 5: Can you not have sugar even from fruit?

578
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: Mike, I can eat fruit. Yeah, okay, so they don't count.

579
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: I just have to watch the amount, gotcha? Sure? Interesting?

580
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 5: Maybe like sweet and sour pork doakeries, because that's got,

581
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 5: you know, some sweetness to it.

582
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: No, Jack, you love sweet and sour porn. I don't know.

583
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 3: Why you're up.

584
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: I don't know how I like your dacri con. But

585
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 2: put it in the green papers now? The pineapple white?

586
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: Is that color? That's not a good color for a dickery.

587
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: That's the port I stay here.

588
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 3: Tonight, March Madness is expanding the NCAA, announcing the men's

589
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 3: and women's tournaments will go from sixty eight teams each

590
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 3: to seventy six beginning next year. Okay, so are they

591
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: gonna keep the same So I don't know what the

592
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: math is on that, But you know a sixteen has

593
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 3: never beat a one? Are you gonna have like a

594
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: twenty four has never beat a one and is never

595
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 3: not lost by more than less than fifty?

596
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: Is that what it's gonna end up being? Or is

597
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 2: that they're gonna do it, gonna have like twenty four

598
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: playing game? I don't know. I don't have any ideas,

599
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: and I'm.

600
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 3: Not interested enough to look into it. We do have

601
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 3: some breaking news that I don't want to get bogged

602
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 3: down on. Maybe we can talk about it later. But

603
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 3: the Virginia Supreme Court just struck down the democrats redrawn

604
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 3: house map, which is a big positive step for Republicans

605
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 3: because that was going to be among the worst germandering

606
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: in the country, but not the worst. The worst exists

607
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 3: already in several other states and has for years, and

608
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: nobody talks about it. Is if this is a brand

609
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: new phenomenon anyway, Like I said, I didn't want to

610
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 3: get bogged down. Now I'm bogging us down. Bogger, I'm

611
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 3: a bogger. A couple things came across this meme yesterday

612
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 3: that I thought it was funny. As a single guy

613
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 3: who drives a cyber truck, somebody had a picture of one.

614
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of things in my life, but

615
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 3: I've never seen a female passenger in the seat of

616
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 3: a cyber truck. God admit, I've worried about that. I

617
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 3: ever get a big date I pull up to their

618
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 3: house in that I think there's like a better than

619
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty chance They're like that it's a negative

620
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: rather than a positive.

621
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Speaker 2: It's like, oh wow, that's what he drives.

622
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 5: Well, if you consider your date diving behind the couch

623
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 5: and pretending they're not at home to be a negative,

624
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 5: then yeah, yeah, that's negative.

625
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 3: I have to rent a car if I ever go

626
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 3: on a date. Why does this car have Florida plates?

627
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: It just does Another thing I came across. I think

628
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: I told the story a couple of weeks ago. But

629
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 3: my son was choking, just mysteriously every single night. It

630
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: was really quite scary and horrible. And it lasted for

631
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, and we saw five different doctors.

632
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 3: Then I kind of went away and we don't know why,

633
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 3: which is disturbing because obviously could come back anyway. A

634
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: friend of mine, who worked in the medical field in

635
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: a variety of things, said did he need to get

636
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 3: his esophagus stretched? I said, ah, I said, is that

637
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 3: a thing? He said, yes, My ex father in law

638
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:47,719
Speaker 3: had it done once a year. Get your esophagus stretched?

639
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 3: Please put me under for a week. Where do you

640
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 3: go that same shop? In them all little pierce your ears?

641
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 3: And or do they they do they jam something down

642
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 3: there that's like small and then gets like a baseball bat,

643
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: like it's bigger. As it gets flared on, they stretch.

644
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 2: It's about big enough. Actually, we'll see in a month.

645
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well yeah, I can picture of the device.

646
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 5: The ladies are familiar with them.

647
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 3: That's not a process I want to get done. Never

648
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 3: seen a woman in a passenger seat of a cybertarky.

649
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 3: I don't think I have either, actually, now that I

650
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 3: think about it, not of her own free will, right not?

651
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: Who wasn't bound? So that is a pretty big deal.

652
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 3: The Virginia Supreme Court knocking down that redistricting thing. I

653
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 3: wish I definitely wish Congress would step in and say, okay,

654
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 3: we got to have some rules here around redistricting to

655
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 3: that that that makes it not ridiculous.

656
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't know that that's going

657
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Speaker 2: to happen.

658
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 5: I no more mid decade redistricting is a popular thought.

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Speaker 2: Just slow down the frenzy.

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Speaker 3: We did cross a line with debt this week where

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Speaker 3: where it's never happened like this other than wartime or

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Speaker 3: during the pandemic, and it is really bad news and

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Speaker 3: nobody is talking about it in Washington, d C. What

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Speaker 3: did we talk about it today. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: we'll get to it, but it's really the only story

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Speaker 3: that matters. But nobody's talking about it. Are the Jews

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Speaker 3: controlling the Department of Homeland Security, and a bunch of

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Speaker 3: other things. As Tucker Carlson claims, no no is the answer.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned for hour three Armstrong and Getty