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Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio Welcome Together Everything, So don't don't. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: isn't the year just as bad or worse? Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: my name is Cody Johnson. Welcome to the Worst Year

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Speaker 1: Ever Podcast. I am Robert Evans and you're right. Cody

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Speaker 1: came out swinging like you gotta give it to no

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Speaker 1: ramp up, just just dove right into that cold water,

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Speaker 1: straight out of the gates. Katie Stole here. I agree,

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Speaker 1: champing at the bit to fuck some ship up. New

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Speaker 1: opened with you know, open, real strong for it. So

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Speaker 1: it's gotta gotta follow up. Yeah, you gotta raise the

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Speaker 1: game warmed up. A crowd is really going for it.

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Speaker 1: I think I guess we should start by talking about

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Speaker 1: one of the two major things to happen this year.

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Speaker 1: There was, of course, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol,

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Speaker 1: and then, in an equally significant national event, the mayor

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Speaker 1: The Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, is trash. You may

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Speaker 1: know him from that time when he got tear gassed

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Speaker 1: by the FEDS in order to make a campaign ad

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Speaker 1: while also tear gassing thousands of people throughout the city

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Speaker 1: for weeks prior to that. I do know him from that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not great. So people found out that he has

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Speaker 1: been continuing to eat out at restaurants, often with people

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Speaker 1: who are not in his immediate household, um, which you're

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Speaker 1: not supposed to do as a part of the lockdown orders,

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Speaker 1: and often not abiding by social distancing because he's rich

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to stop going out to fancy

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Speaker 1: him and yelling at him. At one point, an activist

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Speaker 1: touched him on the shoulder and he that he was assaulted. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's a big old baby. And the other day a

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Speaker 1: man came up to him and the former mayor of

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Speaker 1: Portland whose name is Sam Adams um and who also

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Speaker 1: was trash um and who Ted desiring Yeah like the beer,

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Speaker 1: like the beer, and um, the two of them were

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Speaker 1: eating and this guy talk started, you know, talking to

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Speaker 1: them pretty calmly, but like critically, like saying that he

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Speaker 1: was he's ship mayor basically and Ted Wheeler despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that Ted was there with another person and that

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Speaker 1: this other person that he maced was like five ft five,

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Speaker 1: much smaller than him, and not at all being physically

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Speaker 1: aggressive based on any of the evidence that exists, Ted

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Speaker 1: mased him and threw a water bottle at him, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: the guy confront him about it? Was the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's a ship mayor, that he, for one thing, that

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Speaker 1: he was not social distancing, and that he was eating

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Speaker 1: and most of us are not doing, because there's a

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Speaker 1: horrible leg I think I I wasn't wearing a mask either.

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? No? No, no, no, no, I we don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't really know. That's what Ted claims. But it

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Speaker 1: happened already, Yeah, because Ted's a liar, UM, so I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Uh, it could be a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: letter of the law, Ted Wheeler committed a Class A

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Speaker 1: misdemeanor by assaulting somebody. Now. I don't think he'll get

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Speaker 1: any criminal charges because he's a rich mayor, um. But

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Speaker 1: it is funny, particularly that he threw a water bottle

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Speaker 1: of force incidents, and they repeatedly claimed that like they

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Speaker 1: funny that the mayor who is the commissioner of the

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Speaker 1: That's the tale as all as time every protest you

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Speaker 1: same person, being the mayor the mayor. Uh, it's very funny.

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Speaker 1: And I you know who knows it would be neat

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Speaker 1: but that was the closest I've gotten to respecting him

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Speaker 1: a fist fight. Let's fists a consensual fist fight. This

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Speaker 1: formal fist fight with me. He does listen to this show,

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Speaker 1: so he's huge fan, huge fan of the pod. We

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Speaker 1: await your response. Two great friends of the pod are,

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Speaker 1: of course Ted Kazinski and Ted Wheeler, the two teds

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Speaker 1: we calls, we're shooting for cruise. We're hoping cruise. My

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Speaker 1: money is on Robert trialified Combat live streaming for charity.

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Speaker 1: Yes we will, Katie. Yes, I don't know you're about

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Speaker 1: to say something. I was waiting on that on that

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Speaker 1: fun update from the City of Portland's a fun update, Robert,

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Speaker 1: do you have um enough information to talk to us

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Speaker 1: a bit about Tacoma and what happened there over the weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we're still in a very um to the

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Speaker 1: best of my knowledge a kind of uncertain states. So

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Speaker 1: basically what happened is like this is for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but like people there's like a big

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Speaker 1: doing people gathering to do ship with cars that isn't

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Speaker 1: In Tacoma, I think they were just doing burnouts and stuff,

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Speaker 1: Believably disturbing. It's very bad um. The cops claim that

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Speaker 1: if you were surrounded by a mob trying to break

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Speaker 1: if you have no other options. And number one, there's

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Speaker 1: Like it's not it's not great, but you can make

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Speaker 1: you really get down to it, you can argue. People

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Speaker 1: And then the cops showed up and somebody got ran

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Speaker 1: interesting how that keeps happening every day? Yeah, it's really rad.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible. Um. She is running for governor after uh,

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Speaker 1: a hero. From her ad, she's a hero. She opens

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Speaker 1: products and services. Nice. Now let's pivot to the news.

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Speaker 1: This was bad. I'm rusty here. No, it's great. Successful pivot.

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Speaker 1: Now we're talking about the news. Now we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the news, the news. I want to bring something up

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Speaker 1: again before we roll in, because I've seen this spread

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and it's it's inaccurate. People are particularly left

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Speaker 1: Twitter is going off about how Joe Biden has invaded

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Speaker 1: Syria or sent a bunch of troops into Syria, or

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Speaker 1: escalated in Syria. That hasn't happened. Um. Video of a

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Speaker 1: convoy carrying supplies into Syria from Iraq was initially shared

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Speaker 1: by the Syrian government because they don't want US troops

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Speaker 1: in northeast Syria. UM, and people started flipping out that

436
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Speaker 1: Biden is escalating or like invading Syria. That has not happened.

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Speaker 1: Trump never left Syria. We continue to have hundreds of

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Speaker 1: troops in Syria the entirety of the time Trump was there.

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Speaker 1: All they're doing is protecting oil now as opposed to

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Speaker 1: protecting oil and protecting some civilian populations. UM and throughout

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Speaker 1: the entire Trump administration. Because we had troops in Syria,

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Speaker 1: we would send in supplies and that's all that that

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Speaker 1: video is. There is no evidence that Biden has changed

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Speaker 1: in any way at this point US policy in Northeast Syria.

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Speaker 1: Someone just shared a video of a convoy of supplies

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Speaker 1: going into the country. So if you had an issue

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Speaker 1: with Trump being in Syria, you have the same issue

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Speaker 1: with Biden. But nothing has changed. Like there's no new

449
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Speaker 1: alteration at this moment there about with Joe Biden and

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Speaker 1: international affairs. But hold off on this one. Wait for

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Speaker 1: him to do something new as opposed to continue to

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Speaker 1: send supplies to the troops that never left. He's all

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, agree at him for the Venezuela ship,

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Speaker 1: for inviting one Guido to his inauguration and repeatedly trying

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Speaker 1: to um recognize an Alley as the elected leader of Venezuela,

456
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Speaker 1: a guy who is not the elected leader of Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: There's like Maduro trash and didn't win legitimately either, but

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Speaker 1: Guido Guido Shure didn't like it's fucking it's nonsense. It's

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Speaker 1: the same ship we did with Taiwan and the Republic

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Speaker 1: of China. UM for the years, Like it's this thing

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Speaker 1: America does where it's like we don't like the leader

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Speaker 1: of this country. Um, let's pretend a different group of

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Speaker 1: people are in charge and this this will work out

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Speaker 1: for us somehow. We're really good at that. Yeah, it's nonsense.

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Speaker 1: We're really good at that position. Yeah. Well, and it's

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Speaker 1: very selective. It's not like it would be one thing.

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Speaker 1: It would still be dumb, but it would be one

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Speaker 1: thing if it was just a principled stance. We took

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Speaker 1: on all dictators. But we are happy to talk with

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Speaker 1: Eddowin of Turkey. We're happy to talk with what's this funk?

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Speaker 1: The the guy the president of Hungary? Who or bon?

472
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Speaker 1: Who's all but a dictator in name? We talked. We

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Speaker 1: worked with a bunch of fun. We love working with it.

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Speaker 1: We love arming dictators, We love helping dictators crush left

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Speaker 1: wing rebellions. We just decide some dictators we will pretend

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Speaker 1: aren't the real the actual leaders of their countries, because

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Speaker 1: there we don't like those particular dictators. Yeah, it depends

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Speaker 1: on what they can do for us. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 1: a sign that Biden is probably going to try some

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Speaker 1: facory with Venezuela. Um, but I guess we'll see. Oh absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like, well, we can talk about a

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Speaker 1: secretary of state at a different time. But he's gonna

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do a lot, he's gonna do a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. He's gonna he's gonna up a bunch of ship. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: General Lloyd Austin, Austin, we got Austin, we got blinking well, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's not, let's not Lloyd Lloyd Austin. We've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of Raitheon money coming in. Okay, Like we don't

488
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Speaker 1: want to really well, which is which is why we're

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Speaker 1: so thrilled that we have a representative of from Raitheon. Finally, finally,

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Speaker 1: administration hands to directonduit from us to them, from us

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Speaker 1: to Raytheon. Yeah, And I think, you know, representation is

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Speaker 1: obviously incredibly important. And I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: Raytheon Americans who didn't feel represented before and now they

494
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Speaker 1: have a direct line to the halls of power. And

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Speaker 1: that's huge for Raytheon Americans. Proud Raytheon American, Proud Raytheon

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Speaker 1: Americans is the kind of identity politics I can get behind.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pivot here to talk about COVID stuff. Does

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Speaker 1: that good? It doesn't, It shouldn't seem good, but fair

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Speaker 1: and they're a balanced Yeah, guys hate to break it

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Speaker 1: to you, but we are still in a pandemic and

501
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: it's weird. I've been talking about this with friends and

502
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: on these shows as well. It does things feel lighter

503
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: since the inauguration in some way on Twitter, or at

504
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: least it did last week. You know, you felt a

505
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: little sense of relief, but then you're like, oh, yeah,

506
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: there's still this giant anvil hanging over all of our heads,

507
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: so let's talk about that. UM. You probably saw this

508
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: on Twitter. But as of Monday, UH California and Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom UM has lifted its stay at home order, which

510
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Speaker 1: is shocking and terrifying for all of us in many ways.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a few weeks ago, we were still

512
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Speaker 1: being considered the epicenter. UH. And yes, statewide UH numbers

513
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Speaker 1: in California are improving, but they're still awful. They are

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Speaker 1: still way worse than previously also unacceptable levels. UM. So

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Speaker 1: it's difficult, and it's difficult. That's putting an understatement. It's infuriating. UM.

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Speaker 1: I found this fun little l A Times article was

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Speaker 1: just the most appalling headline. Newsom's abrupt COVID nineteen reopening

518
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Speaker 1: brings high risks for California but also potential economic rewards

519
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Speaker 1: and very very infuriating, because that's that's it, the nutshell,

520
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: isn't it. This is probably bad, but rewards. Who doesn't

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Speaker 1: like economic rewards? Are never even closed indoor malls, never

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Speaker 1: even closed indoor malls. And well, it's not like the

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Speaker 1: virus spreads indoors, guys, No, no, no, The virus only

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Speaker 1: spreads when people hang out with their friends, not when

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Speaker 1: they hang out with products and services which are incapable

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Speaker 1: of spreading disease. Yeah, the only thing that spreads. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, here's a quote from that terrible headlined article

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Speaker 1: you see. Berkeley epidemiologist Dr John Schwartzberg said he feared

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Speaker 1: lifting the stand at home order was premature because the cases,

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Speaker 1: while declining, remained very high. He said it might make

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Speaker 1: more sense to wait a few weeks until cases go

532
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: down further in California can begin reopening with a lower baseline.

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Speaker 1: He noted that after last year's spring and summer surges,

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Speaker 1: California failed to bring its case numbers to a low

535
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Speaker 1: level before reopening. That meant that when the next surge hit,

536
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: it became even bigger than the one before it. It's

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Speaker 1: we're climbing this Mountain. We go two steps up, and

538
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: we just take one step back, and we take two

539
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: steps up from there and one step back, and we

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00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: just keep having more cases. See. I love it if

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Speaker 1: we were taking two steps forward and step back, because

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Speaker 1: that's steady progress. But that's not that's not what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a lot better than we were two and

544
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Speaker 1: a half weeks ago, but we're doing compared terrible compared

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Speaker 1: to three months ago. We need to knock these cases

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Speaker 1: down so we get more and more people vaccinated. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to a safer environment much more quickly. Now. I

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Speaker 1: think it's important to be honest about the situation, which

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Speaker 1: is that California is not monolith here. We've got different

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Speaker 1: regions that have different needs and different people here. There's

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Speaker 1: people there, and more people than the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: nations on Earth. It's like there's not a one size

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00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: fits all approach to this that works for California and

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00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: our Democrat That's one of the consistent, tremendous problems with

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00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: California is you have huge chunks of the country's landmasks

556
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: whose lives have nothing in common with the lives of

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Speaker 1: people in San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, who

558
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: decide every election. But they're like, well, I guess let's

559
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Speaker 1: push a gas tax that will be fine for me

560
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: and affordable for me and improve my air quality, but

561
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: be financially ruinous to farmers in the valley or in

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Speaker 1: fucking the north Central Mountain area. And I'm never going

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Speaker 1: to think about that because they're they're shitty hicks. And

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00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. It's like, let's let's it's It's

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00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: the problem with American democracy writ large, where you you

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Speaker 1: have either because of the way the electoral college is

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00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: set out, these less populated rural areas getting to force

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Speaker 1: their will on everyone, or the city is getting to

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Speaker 1: force their will on everyone, and it just kind of

570
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: escalates every Number one, it never works very well. And

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Speaker 1: number two, it just escalates everybody towards violence because one

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Speaker 1: way or the other, a huge chunk of the country

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Speaker 1: is fully enraged that they don't have a voice. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: I don't know a system of libertarian municipalism. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: and so I I understand that um approaching this is

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00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: it's a very tricky, delicate dance for politicians. But you

577
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: don't just lift the whole state at once when different

578
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: regions are still drowning. Um, we barely have any I

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Speaker 1: c U space. I believe it's better I don't have

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00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: these because something like yeah, I mean it's it's truly

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Speaker 1: unbelievable to improve the I mean a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: a minimum. A friend of mine summarized it in like

583
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,720
Speaker 1: a really interesting way. It's like if your sports team

584
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: has lost the last games and then they win one

585
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: game by one or two points, You're still worried about

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Speaker 1: sports team. You're still worried about the team. They're not

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00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: doing great. Um. Also, our vaccine rollout here is a joe.

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00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean, people are finally getting their parents in. Why

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Speaker 1: is it my grandma who's an Assistan living, who's eighty

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00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: nine years old? Guy in the vaccine? Why does this

591
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Speaker 1: is living? Get no information from the city. I have

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00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: some good news. Gavin Newsome just removed essential workers from

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00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: the vaccine priority was just about to no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I mean it's gruesome. A brown, black and

595
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: brown communities are being devastated right now because they're comprised

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Speaker 1: at essential workers. Also, like we talked about, I believe

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Speaker 1: on this show with you, Robert, the demographics l A

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Speaker 1: has the biggest population of multi families sharing uh in residences.

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Speaker 1: All of this is just one of the major problems

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with right That that is particularly hit Los

601
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Speaker 1: Angeles but is hitting everywhere is that, as a result

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00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: of the economic collapse, a lot more people than ever

603
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: are living multiple families to a household because people aren't

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Speaker 1: able to make rents and moving with their parents and

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00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: moving with friends or whatever. So it just it's all

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00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: compounding each other. And it's all made much worse by

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Speaker 1: the fact that we refused as a country to have

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Speaker 1: any kind of meaningful aid. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it

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00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: all comes back down to that. But then so I

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Speaker 1: was already at like a level, but then that uh

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Speaker 1: amplified when I read this New York Times article, which, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the New York Times at

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Speaker 1: length soon, so forgive me, we have issues with them,

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Speaker 1: but also here's this article. Um, don't forgive me. I

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00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: don't need to ask your forgiveness. First. Talking about the

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Speaker 1: New York Times is that they simultaneously are always fucking

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Speaker 1: up and also always doing some of the most important

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Speaker 1: terism in the world. And both of those things occur

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Speaker 1: in within the same paper. It's very, very frustrating. I

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Speaker 1: say this only because we had planned to talk about

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Speaker 1: New York Times this week, but we're going to push

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Speaker 1: it off for an in depth media episode. Um. But yes,

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Speaker 1: there's this article about how vaccinations aren't enough, uh titled

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Speaker 1: why vaccines alone will end the pandemic. Um. It is

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00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: common sense, but basically it lays out that at this

626
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: point we're in too deep to just rely on vaccinations

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Speaker 1: to save us. In some places like Vermont where the

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Speaker 1: infection rate is very low, yes, vaccines can be very

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Speaker 1: and will be very effective. Um. And this isn't to

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Speaker 1: dismiss the efficacy of vaccinations in general. It's too to

631
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Speaker 1: underscore just how badly we've been doing society and there

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Speaker 1: they just don't exist. They just don't exist. Um. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Bernie Sanders used to take out JF sure and

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: like vampires and werewolves and ship um but that's different.

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Speaker 1: But Yes, the places that have bungled the COVID response

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Speaker 1: thus far, meaning a lot of the country where infections

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Speaker 1: are running rampant, It takes a real coordinated, coordinated effort

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Speaker 1: to continue, you know, social distancing, mass wearing, aggressive testing

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Speaker 1: likely throughout summer um. Let's see social distancing, masking and

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Speaker 1: other measures should remain in place until late July, and

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Speaker 1: that may be optimistic, said Dr Shaman. Otherwise, yet another

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Speaker 1: resurgeon of the virus is possible. There are people who

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Speaker 1: are going to want to relax the controls they have

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Speaker 1: in place. If we start thinking we've got a vaccine,

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Speaker 1: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. We

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00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: can stop in a couple of months. That's way too soon.

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Speaker 1: Lifting restrictions in early February, after most healthcare workers and

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Speaker 1: nursing home residents are set to be vaccinated, would still

649
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: mean far more infections than in the infections in the

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Speaker 1: long run than keeping restrictions in place until mid March UM.

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Speaker 1: The article goes on to illustrate how prematurely reopening now

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Speaker 1: such California is inching towards doing it is doing. You know,

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Speaker 1: it will likely kill about twenty more people than if

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Speaker 1: we maintained current practices, and it's just upsetting. Also, I

655
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: think we should talk about COVID mutations real quick. Not

656
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Speaker 1: to be alarmist, but it all factors into this. You know,

657
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of talk and dismissal of them

658
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Speaker 1: in a way because it's really hard to go down

659
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Speaker 1: that what if path. But ultimately, you know, COVID does

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Speaker 1: mutate fast, and we have different variants popping up all

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Speaker 1: over the world. Some of them are proving to be deadlier,

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Speaker 1: more contagious, and there is a concern that the vaccine

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00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: will become less effective against these strains. Now right now,

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Speaker 1: that is not proven to be true. It does seem

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Speaker 1: to be less effective with some of them, but it

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Speaker 1: still works um, But we're just gonna need to take

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Speaker 1: some more time to collect data on that. But the

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Speaker 1: real reason I'm saying this is that it's going to

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Speaker 1: continue to evolve, and there is a potential that it

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Speaker 1: evolves past our vaccine, and and there are ways to

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Speaker 1: handle this. They are continuing to work on the vaccine.

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Speaker 1: Um there will be booster shots, but again, as we

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Speaker 1: are struggling to get a handle on this, that is

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Speaker 1: a very real concern, even as we're in the process

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Speaker 1: of vaccine sacinating everybody. So what are we doing California,

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Speaker 1: What are we doing? America? And the UK? America? Both

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00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: of these, both the United States and the UK in particular,

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Speaker 1: have decided let's become a petri dish. To allow the

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Speaker 1: coronavirus to evolve as quickly as possible into something that

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Speaker 1: we can't possibly handle. Um. And the end result of

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Speaker 1: this is going to be that the coronavirus will never

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Speaker 1: be We won't ever get over it. It will alway

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Speaker 1: it will be a may a seasonal thing that kills

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Speaker 1: more people than the flu ever did, that never leaves,

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Speaker 1: and will contribute to the breakdown in both of our

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Speaker 1: societies because our governments again refused to take any kind

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Speaker 1: of corrective action because it would have probably led to

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Speaker 1: the result of a whole bunch of Americans being like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it kind of looks like, uh, socialist

690
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Speaker 1: style policies. Uh maybe helped a lot, and I like

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00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: getting two thousand dollars a month, and maybe that's the

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Speaker 1: thing we could do forever. But instead of doing that,

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Speaker 1: we're going to crash the economy and kill probably millions

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Speaker 1: of Americans. And I don't know, I'm very pessimistic as

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Speaker 1: a result of the fact that we seem to be

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Speaker 1: refusing to let this get beaten, which it could have

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Speaker 1: been in three months. Yeah. Um. In the same day,

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Speaker 1: in the same day, it was like the coverage was, hey,

699
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: maybe you should wear two masks instead of one. Oh hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe we should start thinking about a booster for the

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Speaker 1: vaccine all Californias reopening. Yep, and again you should be

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00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: doubling up on your mask. I've started wearing I wear.

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00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 1: I have a double layer cloth mask and a double

704
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: layer fabric or paper mask. I wear both now. Whenever

705
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: I go out like that seems to be like, fuck it.

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00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: If you've got a respirator, throw that funk around. If

707
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: you were getting tear gas last year, use a respirator

708
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: like it's this new fucking this new version of the

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00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: virus is real goddamn bad, um, very scary, and it

710
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: just it mutates so so quickly. Um. Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's gonna at the rape. Any virus does if you

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00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: let it spread unchecked. You know. That's like I mean,

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Speaker 1: you should just seeing variants everywhere. Though I've ever heard them,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a parable or whatever you

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Speaker 1: been called the story the Sword of Damocles mm hmm,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't know if it's from the Bible or whatever.

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00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: It was. This it was there's this king and he's

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Speaker 1: got sitting above his throne. The idea that like the

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00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: king should never rest too easy on his throne. There's

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Speaker 1: this sword hanging from a string, and you never know

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Speaker 1: when the sword is gonna fall and like kill you.

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Speaker 1: And the coronavirus is our sort of damocles, and we

723
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Speaker 1: were like, what have we used that string as a

724
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Speaker 1: shoe lace. That's that's that's the fucking United States. It's God,

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00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: damn it, God damn it. I think we need to

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00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: take another break. I think we need to take into

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00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: the break. We gotta cool off and reconvene. Yeah, we

728
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: gotta chill out, getting the cool zone. Buck up, good thing,

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Speaker 1: Everything do those ads were fun? We're back now, Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: shall we talk about Kelly and Conway. She's on all

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Speaker 1: of our Twitter feeds right now. Yeah, it seems like

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Speaker 1: a good way to end and George Conway. That is

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Speaker 1: my real important point I want to make today as well.

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Speaker 1: If you guys missed this on Twitter, I actually don't

744
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: know exactly what happened. Kelly Anne apparently tweeted then deleted

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Speaker 1: a nude photo Claudia. She fleeted some child of her daughter.

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Speaker 1: And I think this happened because she took confiscated Claudia's

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Speaker 1: phone and then took the pictures and somehow, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's a nightmare. This girl is suffering so much abuse,

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Speaker 1: she's sixteen. The thing that I and you you mentioned

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Speaker 1: George Conway, and that sticks out to me because we

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Speaker 1: not we the present company, but so many people on

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Speaker 1: the left. I'll say, you know, celebrate George Conway as

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00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: the resistance hero. You know, Lincoln project all that. He's

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Speaker 1: just a big of a I mean, he is trashed,

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00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: but in this situation, he's just as responsible for the

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Speaker 1: abuse that's happening in his household as his wife. Take her.

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Speaker 1: If you're really a good guy and hate your fucking

758
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: wife as much as you pretend to take your daughter

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00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: and run, like save your daughter, divorce your Nazi wife.

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00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: And but here he's a grifter. He's just he and

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Speaker 1: Kelly Anne have no moral issues between with with each other.

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00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: I actually they're just trying to grift both ends of

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Speaker 1: the spectrum while abusing their daughter. And it's fucking horrible.

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Speaker 1: My heart goes out to that poor kid. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: who has by the way, done everything right, who has

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Speaker 1: done the only things that she could possibly do in

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Speaker 1: this situation, which is trying to get out word of

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Speaker 1: what's happening to her because her parents are rich and powerful,

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Speaker 1: which means that she cannot She is will like it

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Speaker 1: is impossible for CPS to do anything because CPS is

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00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: actually the platform they gave you, those assholes. Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Seen her connecting with like other uh influencers like Tanamo

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00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: Joe who's also suffered a lot of traumatic child to

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Speaker 1: use and just people reaching out to try to help her,

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00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: but not her parents, not her parents. It's it's heartbreaking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's sucking up. It seems very clear going through some

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Speaker 1: pretty profound abuse and would probably just be a lot

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Speaker 1: better off if she could crowdfund rent for an apartment

779
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: for like a year and like just cool the funk

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00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 1: out as she finishes becoming an adult, like fuk away

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00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: from those parents. They're not helping. I agree. Just what

782
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: else we got? It's just disgusting. Impeachment articles have been

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00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: filed sent to the Senate. I mean, senators said, no,

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Speaker 1: leave him alone, leave our big boy alone. So culture, Yeah,

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00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: impeachment is the zenith of cancel culture. I heard from

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Speaker 1: Matt Gates. I believe. Yeah, it's impeachable person to quote.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, struggling here. Twitter has permanently banned the

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Speaker 1: my pillow guy. Yeah, finally the only only responsible branch

789
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: of the US government. Twitter. Did I see that Trump

790
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: snuck his way back on Twitter? Kind of? He's the

791
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 1: former office of the president Ship. Yeah. It hasn't started

792
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: doing anything yet that I've seen, but I guess we'll

793
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Speaker 1: see if this is the fourth time he's tried to

794
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: evade his band. Was it you that called it Twitter

795
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: whack a mole? Somebody did? And I love that. Yeah,

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00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, it wasn't me, but yes, that is

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00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: what happened. And that day, the day that Trump repeatedly

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Speaker 1: tried and failed to get back on Twitter. Was legitimately

799
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Speaker 1: the funniest thing I've ever seen, extremely funny, just constantly

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Speaker 1: trying trying at I wonder, I wonder what his actual

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00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: altar is though. Yeah, he's definitely he's definitely lurking. He's

802
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: definitely lurking, and I think he's probably going through some

803
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: pretty hard withdrawals, Like I don't know if he's going

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Speaker 1: to survive this. Yeah, no, it's the worst thing that's

805
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: ever happened to him. It is eerie in a way

806
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: to not have eyes on him, do not like, what

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00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 1: are you up to? It's going to take a minute

808
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,439
Speaker 1: when you when you hear your cat like knocking over

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00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: water glasses and you allow it to stop, and then

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00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: you don't hear your cat for a while and you

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Speaker 1: can't see it, and you're like, what the funk are

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00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: you up to? You fucking can't do. It's something that's

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00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: how I feel like keeping like, Okay, I'm not going

814
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: to find it from Twitter. It's just gonna take some

815
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 1: time for us to get him out of our system. Yeah,

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00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean Twitter is much better now. It's still terrible,

817
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: but it's so much better. Be yes, just enough yeah,

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Speaker 1: we should talk about Biden. Uh private prisons thing. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say, like to talk about that a little bit,

820
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: A thing that is simultaneously good and also not nearly

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Speaker 1: what people think. It is, like the fifteen dollar minimum

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00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: wage thing, right, where it's like minimum wage going up

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00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 1: to fifteen dollars um. It's when when they're that's so frustrating,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just yeah, it's it's we're cutting closing

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00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: some private prisons, but only about like eight percent or so,

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Speaker 1: whereas we're keeping we're allowing the Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 1: and ICE to continue using private prisons, which is a problem.

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Speaker 1: Majority of private prisons are for that. Yeah, the vast

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Speaker 1: majority of private prisons will not be affected by this um.

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Speaker 1: Which doesn't mean it's it's not nothing. But like everything

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Speaker 1: that Biden does that's kind of good, it's not nearly

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Speaker 1: as good as you would think if you read the

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty words summary, right, it's not it's again,

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like all this Biden ship, it does

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Speaker 1: these things and they're like they're mostly performative. We'll explain

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Speaker 1: it more. What he's doing, well, I mean he's reversing

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Speaker 1: an order that Trump that Trump did like this is

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Speaker 1: the Trump uh troum reverse in Obama order to pan

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Speaker 1: private prisons. Um. And then so Biden is reversing that

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00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: reversal um and uh maybe just like reverting it back

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00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: to that point is definitely not enough of a thing. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's a it's like a signal and performative

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00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: thing of like, well, no, no, this is progress. So

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Speaker 1: well it's not progress. You're just reversing the thing that

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Speaker 1: you reversed. I do love people on I've seen a

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Speaker 1: few people on Twitter. Biden has undoing everything that Trump

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Speaker 1: left us, all the improvement. You know what he did

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Speaker 1: undo is a price cap on insulin. Yes, yeah he did.

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Speaker 1: Did he actually go through with undoing that? I thought

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Speaker 1: it was reviewed. The insolent rule that Trump was trying

851
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Speaker 1: to do never actually got implemented. Yeah, So basically Biden

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Speaker 1: did like a blanket like we're getting we're undoing all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that he did. Um, and that was included. Um,

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Speaker 1: they might review it ideally the yeah. Yeah, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: in the next week or so they'll actually review that

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Speaker 1: and be like, well, maybe maybe insulin should be cheap

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Speaker 1: for people. It's insulin and um, and you're right, this

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Speaker 1: is the kind of thing that is. It's it's the

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Speaker 1: other spacies of thing where it's like maybe not as

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Speaker 1: bad as it seems, because they might actually, like it

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Speaker 1: did never go through and they might decide to like

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Speaker 1: actually keep put those price cameras. I guess we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, hopes are pretty pretty low on a

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Speaker 1: lot of this stuff, but it's important to be you know,

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Speaker 1: as as accurate as as possible filtering through the frustration. UM.

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Speaker 1: But even then, like the and the private prison thing again,

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Speaker 1: it is it is just a reversal of reversal UM

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Speaker 1: doesn't do nearly enough because again like most of these

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Speaker 1: private prisons are not the ones that uh that are

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Speaker 1: being banned um. And also like it's being presented like

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Speaker 1: it's uh, he's uh or end of private prison contracts

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Speaker 1: for these private prisons um as part of a racial

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Speaker 1: equity push, and like that's not what that would do,

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Speaker 1: Like a racial equity push would be like to like

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Speaker 1: prison and like, yes, dismantle ice, um. You know, anyone

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Speaker 1: in prison for so many different different things, released them,

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Speaker 1: expunge the records things like that, UM, and I will

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Speaker 1: reverse reverse the war on drugs that Biden was a

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Speaker 1: huge part in implementing. Like all this stuff is just

880
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Speaker 1: not he's not doing it. And you know, I have

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Speaker 1: two lines. One would be if Biden actually were to

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Speaker 1: end the war on drugs, or at least do everything

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Speaker 1: a president can to end the war on drugs. He's

884
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Speaker 1: obviously like there's a number of things that the president

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Speaker 1: can't do. We can't like unschedule the drug or something.

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Speaker 1: And uh, if he were to actually dismantle ice, um,

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Speaker 1: I would. I would spend an entire day standing in

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Speaker 1: front of a government building with a sign that says,

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Speaker 1: you know what Biden did better than I thought he would,

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Speaker 1: better than my problem. Right now, that is a promise,

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00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: the commitment that Robert will do if that happens, the

892
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Speaker 1: entirety of the daylight hours, I will stand in front

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Speaker 1: of a government building with a sign that says, you

894
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Speaker 1: know what Biden did better than I thought he would.

895
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Speaker 1: So it's a big deal because you don't get up early.

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Speaker 1: I don't get up early. And if Joe Biden wants that,

897
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Speaker 1: all he's gonna do is just man alce get other

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Speaker 1: people out there with me, you know, like you just

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Speaker 1: man alights. Joe yeah. Yeah. M hmm, okay, good luck

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Speaker 1: doing that show. I don't think I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: get up early this year. Yeah. I think you're good.

902
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Speaker 1: I think you can sleep. Yeah. Wow, well I think

903
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: that does it for us today. So if he's going

904
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Speaker 1: to take the rest of the day off, I know it.

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Speaker 1: Just brave, you know. I have some exciting personal news.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that that I think I'm excited about. After

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Speaker 1: like eighteen months of not being able to get into

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Speaker 1: or focus on, like a video game, I finally got

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Speaker 1: into a video game again, which is so nice because

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Speaker 1: now I have something to do besides work and getting

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Speaker 1: and sitting in a chair thinking about PTSD. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's an Age of Wonders, one of the New

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Speaker 1: Age of Wonder sequels. Um, don't know anything about that,

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Speaker 1: but I'm thrilled for you. It's taken a long time.

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Speaker 1: I've got a wreck. I have been struggling. I love

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Speaker 1: to read. I love a series of books. I like

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Speaker 1: my sci fi and my fantasy and any kind of

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Speaker 1: a series of books. Though really I think you really

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Speaker 1: dive into but a lot of them are bad, and

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Speaker 1: I've been struggling. But I just I've working my way through. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the name of the trilogy is.

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Speaker 1: The first book is called The Fifth Season, and it

923
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Speaker 1: is extraordinary. I highly recommend it to everybody. You go.

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Speaker 1: Award winning all three books in the series, loving it.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to go read for an hour. I

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Speaker 1: will check that out head you read the expanse codie

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Speaker 1: no I should. I'm gonna oh fu. Yeah, once you

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Speaker 1: finished this, You've got that is my very favorite science

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Speaker 1: fiction I'm going on really pretty much. Ever, It's wonderful, wonderful,

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Speaker 1: wonderful stuff. I wrote it down and I underlined it

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Speaker 1: three times. Yeah, how does he? Have you watched the show?

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Speaker 1: How does that hold up? I I watched like the

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Speaker 1: first episode or two. I just couldn't get into it.

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Speaker 1: But like, I think, because I like the book so much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard for me to enjoy a show

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Speaker 1: when I've read the book. Usually generally, honestly, the only

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Speaker 1: case where I loved the books first and then liked

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Speaker 1: the film or TV version is The Lord of the Rings. Um.

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, I just generally can't get into the

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Speaker 1: speaking of which, apparently pre production early talks for a

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Speaker 1: Harry Potter TV show for HBO Max I Gotta, I

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Speaker 1: gotta go, so got she's taking the day off. More

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Speaker 1: needs to be said about how Harry Potter and Lord

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Speaker 1: of the Rings are opposites, because the entire premise of

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Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings is that, no, there's no

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Speaker 1: such thing as a chosen one. There's just a bunch

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Speaker 1: of like, flawed, imperfect people. And the only way to

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Speaker 1: accomplish anything is for those flawed, imperfect people to support

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Speaker 1: each other through their imperfections. Uh. And the the ultimate

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Speaker 1: enemy of the entire world and of all life itself

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Speaker 1: is power. Um, that's that's the story of the Lord

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Speaker 1: of the Rings. Where's the story of Harry Potter? Is

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Speaker 1: special boy superpowers? We need a special boy, Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: need we need a special boy with special blood. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: special boy, special blood as opposed to power is the

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Speaker 1: enemy of all life. Yeah. Also, um, there's a race

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Speaker 1: of bankers. Yeah, there's a race of Not to say

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Speaker 1: that they can't complicated racial stuff, but also he wrote

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Speaker 1: it in like nineteen to any as opposed to writing

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Speaker 1: in in the late nineties, and can we just end

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Speaker 1: on gang off forever goodbye? Ever? So dull everything, so dull.

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Speaker 1: It's a Get I Tried. Dan Worst Year Ever is

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