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Speaker 1: From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is

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Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or

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Speaker 1: learn this stuff they don't want you to know. A

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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,

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Speaker 2: my name is Noah.

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Speaker 1: They call me Ben. We're joyed as always with our

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Speaker 1: super producer Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagett. Most importantly, you

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Speaker 1: are you. You are here that makes this the stuff

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Speaker 1: they don't want you to know. Welcome back to our

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Speaker 1: weekly strange news program. If you are hearing this the

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Speaker 1: evening it publishes, it is Monday, March the second. Can

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Speaker 1: you guys believe it? February just came and went like.

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Speaker 3: Boil? Boy? Did it ever? In like a lion, out

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Speaker 3: like a lamb? Or that's March. February has been weird though. Man.

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Speaker 3: I had a therapy session this morning, and I realized

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Speaker 3: that February bums me out. Do other people get bummed

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Speaker 3: out by February? I think it's just the cold in

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Speaker 3: the wet for.

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Speaker 1: Me sure, and the various obligations in the West, you know.

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Speaker 1: First off, congrats to everybody who survived Valentine's Day, if

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Speaker 1: your partner told you they didn't want anything, they were

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Speaker 1: probably kind of lying. So kudos to all of us

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Speaker 3: Congrats for having a partner. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also right, Yeah, We've got so much weird stuff going on.

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Speaker 1: We're of course gearing up for the Epstein Files. We've

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Speaker 1: got some news about technology, We've got some news about

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Speaker 1: company script, We've got some worldwide and localized, very strange news.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we start with this one. Do you guys have

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Speaker 1: robot vacuum cleaners?

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Speaker 3: It did? I put big googly eyes on it. My

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Speaker 3: ex partner did, uh, And we called him something like

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Speaker 3: Hubert or you know, anthropomorphized the little guy. He was

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Speaker 3: real dumb. I think I've mentioned it was not even

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Speaker 3: a proper roomba, and I have spoken and evangelized on

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Speaker 3: behalf of Shark. But let me tell you their robot

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Speaker 3: floor vacuums not so good, but their stick vacuums excellent.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Matt, I have to tell you we recently on

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History did a deep dive into the history of

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Speaker 1: vacuum cleaners.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's fun. I remember doing that for Infamous Inventors

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Speaker 2: slash Stuff of Genius.

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Speaker 3: It sucked. Oh, I know, I know, it was a

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Speaker 3: little longer nose, but it was begging for it. Ben,

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Speaker 3: what was the term that you coined for the international

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Speaker 3: cabal the vacuum cleaner cartels?

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Speaker 1: Yet this was breaking news for us. I am probably

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Speaker 1: the first person to speak in public about a secret

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Speaker 1: society a corporations called Big.

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Speaker 3: Suck, Big Suck. Yep.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff going on in the world today,

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Speaker 1: so it's easy to miss those sorts of conspiracies. Luckily,

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Speaker 1: we have some breaking news from a guy named Sammy

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Speaker 1: Adoufol who recently was working with his robot vacuum cleaner,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to make it possible for him to

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Speaker 1: operate this thing using a PlayStation controller. Pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Well, wait, now that's possible. They didn't. They operate that

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Speaker 3: many sub that imploded with a PlayStation controller? They did? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: when we did our live show on sound at National Sawdust,

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Speaker 3: I whipped out a PlayStation controller and used it to

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Speaker 3: control some audio software. You can map those controls just

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Speaker 3: about anything, So I really hope he found success with

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Speaker 1: Sammy did find success. That's the thing he was working

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Speaker 1: with a brand of robot vacuum called the Dji Romo.

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Speaker 1: And he said, Okay, I'm going to figure out how

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Speaker 1: When he tried to reverse engineer the protocol used by

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Speaker 1: Romo to communicate with its servers, it didn't just let

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Speaker 1: him access his own little vacuum bought. It gave him

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Speaker 1: access to around six thousand, seven hundred other robot vacuums

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Speaker 2: So he could control them.

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Speaker 1: He was able to get the information from them, so

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Speaker 3: the cloud. Yes, against people's perhaps common knowledge.

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Speaker 2: But what we're saying is anyone on the company side

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go over to the verge. This is this

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Speaker 1: So Sean Hollister reports on this. He's a senior editor

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Speaker 1: founding member of the Verge, and what we what we

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Speaker 1: see is that he could access the information and to

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Speaker 1: your question, Matt, he could remotely control these if he win.

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Speaker 1: He tested this out by contacting a friend who also

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Speaker 1: use any of these robots ip address to find their

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Speaker 2: Cool.

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Speaker 3: Tragic comedy. Tragic comedy. That's what I was trying to

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Speaker 3: compart with. Man, Guys, are we.

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Speaker 1: Cooked, Well, we're cooking for sure.

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Speaker 3: We're cooking with grease as my partners.

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Speaker 2: Ben. Every time we do an episode, a story about

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Speaker 2: a new thing that has some kind of spying capabilities,

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Speaker 2: if if you just happen to want them to have that.

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Speaker 2: As a bad actor, I just think about our phones

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Speaker 2: and our computers. It's just in our cars, our footwaight

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh and uh and your vacuum cleaners and your refrigerators. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe your dishwashers. Uh, probably some sex toys. At some point,

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Speaker 3: To be a new, modern, updated punchline to the old

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Speaker 3: is your refrigerator running joke? Is the refrigerator running? Well,

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Speaker 3: that is definitely spying on you. It's but spirited.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this so we also have so much more

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Speaker 1: Not to sound too much like a luddite or knucklehead

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Speaker 1: We think everybody should be very careful with the so

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Speaker 1: And speaking of invasive and weird, we're gonna pause for

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Speaker 1: a word from our sponsors, and then what say we

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Speaker 1: get to some more strange news.

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Speaker 3: And we're back to the shared techno healthscape that we

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Speaker 3: all occupy here in Atlanta, Georgia, which is turns out

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Speaker 3: little something called Weeimo. Have you guys seen the waimo

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Speaker 2: No, I like it.

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Speaker 3: You're out a little bit more out in the sticks, Matt.

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Speaker 3: But here here in the city, these guys everywhere I'm

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Speaker 3: messing with you. Matt. You're trust me, you're better off

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Speaker 3: for it. You've got a little bit of separation from

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Speaker 1: I've seen some deliveries. I saw someone I won't say

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Speaker 1: get hit, but get bumped while a weimo was Because

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Speaker 1: so I see a lot of waymo's. I saw one

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Speaker 3: Not a fun robo fist bump kind of way.

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Speaker 3: Keep that. Why did they run? That's like a.

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Speaker 2: You could get money out of that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess they had. You know, everybody has their

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Speaker 3: What's that the whole scenario, the trolley conundrum or whatever. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's sort of like what you know, this this AI

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Speaker 3: an interesting inverse of it though, Ben for sure and

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Speaker 3: back about like all these waymos that were stuck in

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Speaker 3: still very much a going concern for food and various

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Speaker 3: So now the humans that work for door Dash, they've

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Speaker 2: It's just so discouraging. Yeah, anyone on this planet that

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Speaker 3: For humans because they're selling us on this utopia or

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Speaker 3: That one went a little longer than I realized it would.

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Speaker 1: Has the time come? Should we text the Pope? I

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Speaker 3: four particular locations near the Pentagon. He said that US

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Speaker 3: war officials are aware of the open source monitoring that's

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Speaker 3: going on on a link that appears to tip their

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Speaker 3: hand a little bit as far as operating procedures and planning,

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Speaker 3: citing a CIA pizza order and a former franchise owner's observations.

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Speaker 3: We'll just leave that one there, and then I just

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Speaker 3: want to end my segment today. Also on hag Zeth,

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Speaker 3: have you guys seen this video that's making the rounds

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Speaker 3: as being a picked apart by eagle eyed weightlifting enthusiasts

443
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Speaker 3: and conspiracy theorists on the Internet of Pete Heggzeth supposedly

444
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Speaker 3: bench pressing three hundred and something odd pounds surrounded by

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Speaker 3: a bunch of dude bros clapping him on and giving

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Speaker 3: him the old you know, thumbs up and high fives

447
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Speaker 3: and all that, and you know, he does it. He

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Speaker 3: benches it, and he drops it down, he gets up

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Speaker 3: and pumps his fists and you know, gets fist pumps

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Speaker 3: all around the room. Well, a lot of these folks

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Speaker 3: that are kind of picking the video. Up part are

452
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Speaker 3: saying that there is no way in hell that that

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Speaker 3: was actually the amount of weight that he claimed it was,

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Speaker 3: for various reasons, one of which is the fact that

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Speaker 3: the bar. I don't know, if y'all have watched weightlifting videos,

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Speaker 3: you probably have benched yourselves. But if you've got a

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Speaker 3: lot of weight on that bar, the bar bends. It's

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Speaker 3: designed to do that. It is designed to flex a

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Speaker 3: little bit when you have that much weight on it,

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Speaker 3: and in the video of Hexath doing this feat of strength,

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Speaker 3: the bar does not bend. Number two. The thing that

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Speaker 3: gets pointed out a lot is there are clips on

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Speaker 3: the sides of the bar, and if you've spend any

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Speaker 3: time in the gym, you know that if you have

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Speaker 3: like a little bit of weight on the thing and

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Speaker 3: it can slide around, you want to put these little

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Speaker 3: clips on it to keep it from sliding off. But

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Speaker 3: if you have that much weight, adding even a little

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Speaker 3: bit of extra weight in the form of those clips

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Speaker 3: is kind of silly, and also so much weight, they're

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Speaker 3: not going to slide off, They're going to stay put,

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Speaker 3: So you don't do that. These things are clipped, which

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Speaker 3: is apparently a bit of a red flag. And third,

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Speaker 3: the rack. When he drops it on the rack. I've

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Speaker 3: seen ab videos of folks with this much weight dropping

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Speaker 3: in on the rack, the entire rack shakes, even if

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Speaker 3: it's bolted down to the ground. That much weight, when

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Speaker 3: you drop it back on the you know, the little shelf,

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Speaker 3: the hooks, whatever you call them, the entire rack shakes.

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Speaker 3: And speaking of shaking, another red flag was apparently when

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Speaker 3: you look at hegsth his arms and his weightlifting form,

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Speaker 3: which also has been kind of punked on a little bits,

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Speaker 3: they're not shaking when you're when you're bringing down that

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Speaker 3: much weight, and you see videos of seasoned weightlifters doing it,

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Speaker 3: you see this kind of tensing and shaking of the biceps,

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Speaker 3: and none of that is happening. So the the Internet

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Speaker 3: seems to think that heg Zeth actually faked this bench

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Speaker 3: press demonstration.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts uh, I don't know if I'm watching the right

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Speaker 2: one or not. It is definitely Pete he in a

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Speaker 2: Camo shirt doing a bench press. There are three weights

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Speaker 2: on either side, a big.

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Speaker 3: Fast boys, big leg like thick black ones.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, you know, you imagine they're pretty heavy. He's

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Speaker 2: also got a spotter behind the bench that appears to

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Speaker 2: be a child, I'm not kidding. Appears to be a

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Speaker 2: young boy, like a high schooler maybe spotting him. And

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Speaker 2: I just wonder, when you're dealing with that kind of weight,

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Speaker 2: and a bench press in particular, it's just so dangerous

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Speaker 2: because things can happen, right, and you need somebody who's

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Speaker 2: spotting you that can actually handle that much weight, right.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, maybe I'm watching the wrong one.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Let's just I'm just look, there's just a lot of folks,

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Speaker 3: you know, taking this apart frame by frame, a lot

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Speaker 3: of very seasoned weight training, you know, enthusiasts and trainers

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Speaker 3: and jim rats that seem to be calling foul on this.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know. I wouldn't put it past him.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit of an odd thing to lie about,

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Speaker 3: but I can't help it be a little bit convinced

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Speaker 3: by some of these critiques.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe he's just swollen dude. Maybe the dude is

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Speaker 2: like super strong, maybe even huber strong.

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Speaker 3: Cool enough, But I mean that's a lot, dude, three

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Speaker 3: point fifty or what's it supposed to be?

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Speaker 2: Three fifteen three fifteen mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know. What my max bench presses. It's

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Speaker 3: not really something that I do a ton these days.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know, man, It's just I've seen videos

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Speaker 3: of much larger dudes than him trying this for this

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Speaker 3: much weight, and you see their arms kind of tensing

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Speaker 3: up and uh and shaking a little bit. Not to

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Speaker 3: mention the audio if it's you know, the real audio

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Speaker 3: from the room. When he plops that thing back down,

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Speaker 3: it barely makes a sound. And in other videos I've

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Speaker 3: seen it, people mentioned that much. It is a deafening

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Speaker 3: sound when it gets returned back to the rack. That's

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Speaker 3: all I got, guys, I don't know. I just thought

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Speaker 3: it was interesting. It's definitely a bit of a conspiracy

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Speaker 3: going on around the internet regarding, you know, potential weight

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Speaker 3: training fraud. Jo, why don't we take a quick break here,

532
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Speaker 3: a word from our sponsor, and then we'll come back.

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Speaker 3: We do have another slightly more important thing that's going

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Speaker 3: on with the Secretary of War that we'll get into

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Speaker 3: near the end of the show, but let's say quick break.

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Speaker 3: We're right back with more strange news.

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Speaker 2: We have returned, just reminding everyone today is March second,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, at least when this is ringing within

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Speaker 2: your ear holes. We are recording what you're hearing within

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Speaker 2: those ear holes. On February twenty fifth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: And guys, just to point this out here, as you know,

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Speaker 2: stamping history. Last night, the President of the United States

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Speaker 2: set a record for the longest State of the Union

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Speaker 2: address in history. We did it, uh you know Michigan. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've been is done.

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Speaker 1: They figured it out in that speech State of the

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Speaker 1: Union ten ten No notes, good hustle.

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Speaker 2: One of the most divisive when it comes to rhetoric

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Speaker 2: in the room being thrown at either side. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: matter who you support, just knowing when half of the

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Speaker 2: room is super angry and the other half is they

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Speaker 2: just couldn't get enough of it. It is weird to

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Speaker 2: see that kind of divide within the country and it

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Speaker 2: just doesn't feel very good. So you know what we need?

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Speaker 1: What do we need?

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Speaker 2: We need to bring everybody together and that is what

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Speaker 2: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wants to do. So we're jumping

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Speaker 2: to a story from NPR. This was published on February

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Speaker 2: twenty first, twenty twenty six. FCC calls for more patriotic

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Speaker 2: pro America programming and run up to two hundred and

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Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary. Got to read a tiny bit from this

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Speaker 2: just so we understand what that means. The Federal Communication

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Speaker 2: Commission is urging broadcasters to air more patriotic and pro

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Speaker 2: America content in honor of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary

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Speaker 2: of the of the Declaration of Independence. This is a

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Speaker 2: statement issued on Friday, February twentieth by that FCC Chairman

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Speaker 2: Brendan Carr, who described the quote Pledge America campaign as

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Speaker 2: a way for broadcasters to align themselves with the Salute

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Speaker 2: to America twenty fifty task force that was put together

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Speaker 2: by the executive branch of the government. Currently, Carr said

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Speaker 2: the country's broadcasters should use their national reach and ability

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Speaker 2: to inform and entertain audiences by upping programming that celebrates

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Speaker 2: the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the

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Speaker 2: historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration today.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like the kind of space that would have usually

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Speaker 3: been occupied by a nice PBS series, you know, some

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Speaker 3: kind of documentary historical thing, you know, Ken Burns or

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Speaker 3: something like that. But ye, what they're describing sounds a

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Speaker 3: little more propagandastic to me.

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Speaker 1: That it's interesting too, because if you go to Freedom

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Speaker 1: to Fifties website, which is cited in this NPR article,

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Speaker 1: then you're immediately taken to an official White House dot

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Speaker 1: gov site that has a countdown to the two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary. And guys, if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: when you when you first visit the site, you get

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Speaker 1: a pop up that says join the Golden Age or

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Golden Age, and you can put your

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Speaker 1: email it.

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Speaker 3: If you put on the special glasses, it turns into

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Speaker 3: a doomsday clock.

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Speaker 2: Oh, don't put those on. Don't put those on there.

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Speaker 1: Let me read it. Oh it says, oh, they consume

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Speaker 1: freedom is slavery. Okay, well I'm going to take these off.

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Speaker 1: Hush because a lot of people I thought looked human violation.

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Speaker 2: Let's continue here, because the programming that you're talking about, nol.

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Speaker 2: I see both of you, guys, and I agree. In

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Speaker 2: the website, you can see the official release here from

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Speaker 2: the office of Chairman Brendan Carr. If you want to,

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Speaker 2: you could find it and the official stuff about the celebration.

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Speaker 2: But the programming you're talking about Noel is something that

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Speaker 2: is going to happen. This is one of those tent

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Speaker 2: pole things. Right before Brendan Carr said anything, before the

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Speaker 2: FCC did anything, before there was an official two fifty celebration,

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Speaker 2: you know that the government is saying that we're having broadcasters,

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Speaker 2: people who make podcasts, people make TV shows, Netflix shows,

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Speaker 2: all this stuff. They see this tent pole, oh, a

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, they are going to make

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Speaker 2: programming without being told that's going to celebrate this because

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Speaker 2: people are we are all going to be interested in

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Speaker 2: watching that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: At the very least a new Netflix like collection.

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Speaker 1: I love that point, Matt, because it's a thing that

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Speaker 1: would happen organically. It's the country's birthday. Why not celebrate.

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Speaker 1: We love birthdays here.

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Speaker 2: And it's a big old birthday. We're getting up there

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Speaker 2: with the Roman birthdays right hold on it last.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying we check out our episode.

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Speaker 1: Check out our old episode where we got super into

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Speaker 1: the theories of this one historian who proposes that empires

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Speaker 1: tend to have a lifespan of about two hundred to

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 2: It's cool, it's cool. It's fine, doesn't mean it's very chill.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have a lot of fun. Everything's great.

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Speaker 2: So speaking of programming, though, let's get back to the

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Speaker 2: official statement, because car suggested that today's broadcasters, everybody, everyone

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Speaker 2: including us, also includes starting each day with the star

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Speaker 2: spangled banner or perhaps the pledge of allegiance. Now we've

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Speaker 2: spoken about this before, this concept of programming, someone programming

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Speaker 2: us to do something. Let's say every day when we

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Speaker 2: get into class and we sit down in our seats,

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Speaker 2: and then we look up at a symbol, and then

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Speaker 2: we say words that are meant to pledge our allegiance

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Speaker 2: to both that symbol and to God. It's an interesting concept.

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Speaker 2: Look up, whitest kids, you know, pledge of allegiance. That

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Speaker 2: is a hats off to all of you guys who

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Speaker 2: created that. But just think about that for a moment.

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Speaker 2: There are other concept here of potentially highlighting local sites

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Speaker 2: of significance, national and regional histories, maybe national park Service things, anything,

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Speaker 2: airworks of canonical US composers from back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Here's maybe the most important party. It sounds like I'm

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Speaker 2: saying that the FCC chairman is saying we have to

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Speaker 2: do this, he's not. According to the statement, radio and

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Speaker 2: TV organizations are under no obligation to participate in the

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Speaker 2: FCC's initiative. Quote, broadcasters can voluntarily choose to indicate their

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Speaker 2: commitment to the Pledge America campaign.

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Speaker 3: Sign some kind of loyalty pledge. Like what are we

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Speaker 3: talking here? We know there's been a bit of a

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Speaker 3: fraud relationship with broadcasters and the current FCC.

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Speaker 2: Well, hey, maybe this is an olive branch. Just just

651
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Speaker 2: sign sign your pledged to do this and we're cool. Well, hey, guys,

652
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Speaker 2: I say that we start signing, we sign this thing,

653
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Speaker 2: we start talking about stuff in America's history on our

654
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Speaker 2: strange news episodes. So if you don't mind, I'd like

655
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Speaker 2: to begin.

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Speaker 1: Here's our first volunteer before we get conscripted.

657
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Speaker 2: We are volunteering.

658
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Speaker 3: Don't talk about the inconvenient bits though, Matt, don't go there.

659
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Speaker 2: We are voluntarily choosing to indicate our commitment to the

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Speaker 2: Pledge America campaign. Here we go on this day in history,

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Speaker 2: March second, nineteen seventeen, a very significant day. That's when

662
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Speaker 2: the twenty eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson,

663
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Speaker 2: signs the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of nineteen seventeen,

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Speaker 2: officially granting birthright US citizenship to anyone born in Puerto

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Speaker 2: Rico from April eighteen ninety nine onwards.

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Speaker 3: Even that awful, bad bunny, I'm just kidding, yeah, bunny,

667
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Speaker 3: I'm just speaking, just putting car lands of our time.

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Speaker 2: I think that's an amazing thing that happened in American history,

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Speaker 2: and we should just uh, well, don't don't look up

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Speaker 2: the full history of Puerto Rico in the United States

671
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Speaker 2: Relations and then all of that history, because you maybe

672
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Speaker 2: won't like that so much when it comes to celebrating

673
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Speaker 2: US history. But hey, that single act is something we

674
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Speaker 2: can celebrate.

675
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Speaker 1: You gotta look for the wins.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Well, we've been hearing a lot of talk

677
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Speaker 3: in terms of selective reporting of history that is sanctioned

678
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 3: and or you know, pushed forth by the current administration.

679
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: They're co opting of a lot of official timelines. For example,

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Speaker 3: even I believe the Smithsonian they encouraged to get rid

681
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 3: of the depressing slavery parts, you know, Like I mean,

682
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 3: there's been a lot of that kind of rhetoric. I

683
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Speaker 3: just see, is there some of that involvement in this

684
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Speaker 3: or is that just sort of implied, like paid the

685
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Speaker 3: image of America that best serves this level of pride,

686
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Speaker 3: and let's not dwell too much on any of the

687
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Speaker 3: nasty bits.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who, I don't know, it feels as though

689
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Speaker 2: that's what it is. They cite Schoolhouse Rock as a

690
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Speaker 2: classic example of the type of programming they're looking for.

691
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Speaker 2: Schoolhouse Rock. We all remember that that was around the

692
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Speaker 2: two hundredth birthday of the United States. It was not

693
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Speaker 2: nobody was told to make Schoolhouse Rock. That was a celebration.

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Speaker 2: That was something that was chosen. There is stuff in

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Speaker 2: there within Schoolhouse Rock that would be considered very patriotic,

696
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Speaker 2: but there's also subversive stuff in there if you watch

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Speaker 2: it with a keen eye. I think that's that is

698
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Speaker 2: maybe the essence of the United States, right like that,

699
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Speaker 2: that concept of let's talk about this, but let's be

700
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Speaker 2: a little honest with ourselves. And that's that's of course,

701
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Speaker 2: maybe not the official governmental stance being honest with folks.

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Speaker 2: Sorry y'all, but you had.

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Speaker 1: Good animators, and good animators are always going to be

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Speaker 1: good animators and good authors are always going to be

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Speaker 1: subversive to some level, right that they're allowed to. They're

706
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Speaker 1: pushing the Overton window of what can and cannot be

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Speaker 1: discussed publicly and to the point about propaganda, that's kind

708
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Speaker 1: of what we're dancing around. That's the ask from the FCC.

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Speaker 1: And congrats to everybody who has the eminem earworm in

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Speaker 1: their head every time you hear fcc 're right there

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00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, the most important, one of the most important points

714
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Speaker 1: that I hope we can all agree with, folks, is

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Speaker 1: that whether you are a country or an individual, you

716
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Speaker 1: ultimately are the story that you choose to tell yourself.

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Speaker 1: You are the author of that. So your question then

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Speaker 1: becomes an ethical or a moral crossroads. How to your point, Matt,

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Speaker 1: how honest do you wish to be about your story?

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Speaker 1: And what do you want people to come after you

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Speaker 1: to take from it? To what degree are you comfortable

722
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Speaker 1: embellishing and lying to that well?

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Speaker 3: And in Germany, for example, it is an absolute point

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Speaker 3: of national pride and a sense of responsibility from the

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Speaker 3: government and from let say, museums, and a lot of

726
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 3: the support for the arts to highlight and own one

727
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 3: hundred percent the failings of the German government, you know.

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Speaker 1: And also not seeing the first verse of the national anthem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know about that then, but I wouldn't

730
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Speaker 3: be surprised. All I do know is that, you know,

731
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Speaker 3: in going to various museums that highlight certain cultural aspects

732
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Speaker 3: of the history of Germany, they like, there's one in

733
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Speaker 3: particular that the founder of was absolutely a mega, mega

734
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Speaker 3: Nazi sympathizer, and they there's a whole plaque in the

735
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Speaker 3: when you walk in describing that fact and how this

736
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Speaker 3: is problematic, and and they very much. I mean, there's

737
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Speaker 3: even a whole concept and a delightfully long German word.

738
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Speaker 3: I believe it's bevangen Heights, Bevautegung that refers to this

739
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Speaker 3: collective responsibility and appreciation and acknowledgment of the horrors of

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Speaker 3: the Holocaust and the mistakes that they made as a country.

741
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Speaker 3: It seems like the only way to be otherwise you're

742
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Speaker 3: doomed to kind of repeat those mistakes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, and I want to I want to clarify there

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Speaker 1: the only the third Stanza of the National Anthem of

745
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Speaker 1: Germany is sung today. The first Stanza is discouraged due

746
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Speaker 1: to its association with the Nazi Party. And I think

747
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Speaker 1: that's cool and not a propagandistic issue at all. That's

748
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Speaker 1: just like, let's say we don't want to own that

749
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Speaker 1: in terms of like making it part of our national

750
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Speaker 1: identity in that respect, but that's different than acknowledging and

751
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Speaker 1: openly discussing and critiquing the failings of the past. That's

752
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, that's like varying something. That's just being respectful.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing. It's exactly not illegal

754
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Speaker 1: to do so. They're saying this is part of history. However,

755
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Speaker 1: we're not going to dance to this salt.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: The function of the national anthem, as we also discussed

758
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Speaker 3: recently on an episode of Ridiculous History, is to is

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Speaker 3: meant to kind of put forth the spirit of what

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Speaker 3: the nation is and represents. Like I believe it was,

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Speaker 3: there was a divide between uh to Slavic countries, Czech

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Speaker 3: Republic and oh geez, I'm totally forgetting the other one,

763
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Speaker 3: but they once had a shared national anthem. When they split,

764
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Speaker 3: they sort of split the national anthem too, to represent

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Speaker 3: each of their individual perspectives and cultural identities. So to

766
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Speaker 3: your point, then, I think leaving that out it much

767
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Speaker 3: better represents the current reflection of that national identity, Whereas

768
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Speaker 3: what we're doing here seems to be a lot of

769
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Speaker 3: window dressing.

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Speaker 1: This is also interesting because again it's a voluntary call

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Speaker 1: before conscription of media occurs. Right, And and I've got

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Speaker 1: to ask you, Matt, just to confirm for me, the

773
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Speaker 1: FCC is not paying people for this. They are paying

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Speaker 1: companies for this. They're asking them to or they're advocating

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Speaker 1: for a positive pro America set of content. But if

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Speaker 1: they did pay them, would they pay them in freedom dollars?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Ben, freedom dollars? You are making a reference to a

779
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Speaker 2: brand new company script that the US military is rolling

780
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Speaker 2: out at Fort Hood with their new forty two bistro,

781
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Speaker 2: the exciting new campus style dining venue. This designed a

782
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Speaker 2: mirror a modern university dining experience. It's operated by the

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Speaker 2: Compass Group.

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Speaker 3: It's a concept, Matt. It's it's a dining concept.

785
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Speaker 1: It's a concept of a plan.

786
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Speaker 2: Okay, that is correct, and we're going to talk about that.

787
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Speaker 2: But I just want to put this here really quickly

788
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: for people who just happen to hear this part. We're

789
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: talking a lot about the German military. There were referencing

790
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: back to the US military World War Two quite a bit.

791
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Speaker 2: If you want to look up the Guardian and then

792
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: ben Quinn qui n n look up a little title

793
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Speaker 2: something he wrote on February fifteenth, British and German military

794
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 2: chiefs press moral case for rearmament, and it's all about

795
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Speaker 2: how Britain and Germany need to be prepared for war

796
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 2: with Russia, so they need to spend billions and billions

797
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: of dollars building war machines and preparing troops and systems

798
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 2: to fight Russia. I would just say there's probably a

799
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 2: bigger thing that's gonna come our way pretty soon that

800
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: it does have to do with Russia, but there are

801
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: a lot more folks involved, and who's going to be

802
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 2: on what side. It's going to be crazy. It'll be

803
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Speaker 2: fun and horrifying.

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Speaker 1: Spin it up.

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Speaker 2: Neil Yeap, speaking of spinning up militaries, let's just jump

806
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Speaker 2: back over to Fort Hood. Check out Army dot Mill

807
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: and you'll find this Army launches revolutionary campus style dining

808
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 2: to modernize soldier fueling. This is just a it's not

809
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: even really a story. It's just it's almost a press

810
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,479
Speaker 2: release putting out there that they're these new things called

811
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Speaker 2: freedom dollars that troops will be using. The equivalent of

812
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 2: around thirty nine US dollars per day where they can

813
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 2: walk into this place, they can order breakfast, use some

814
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Speaker 2: of their freedom dollars, swipe a little card, and then

815
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: go do all the stuff you're doing for that day.

816
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 2: They come back for lunch, swipe your card again, and

817
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: then come back for dinner, swipe it again, and you

818
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: can use it at any time throughout the day. You

819
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: have an allotment of thirty nine dollars US in freedom dollars,

820
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Speaker 2: which are not actual dollars.

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Speaker 3: What are they tied to? What's the value of them

822
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Speaker 3: tied to? Is it like Tiether coin or something like what?

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Speaker 3: I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's tied to the soldier's pay. So the way

825
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 2: it functions, it's like just giving them money but not

826
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Speaker 2: having to actually deal in real money. It's very strange

827
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Speaker 2: because then the transaction comes basically when I guess Compass

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Speaker 2: Group and whoever's operating the whole system there takes money

829
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Speaker 2: out of each one of those individual soldiers pay just

830
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Speaker 2: through maybe the larger organization as one bulk sum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about Compass Group, because Compass Group is

832
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: a big deal contractor a lot of US in the

833
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: audience will be familiar with them because they are what

834
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Speaker 1: you would call a food service support services company. So

835
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Speaker 1: kind of like how a lot of civilian restaurants use

836
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Speaker 1: Cisco to give you all their like staple products and

837
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,439
Speaker 1: you know, the go to stuff. Pumpus Group is deep, deep,

838
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: deep in the cafeterias of the fighting forces and the messholes.

839
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Speaker 1: And it sounds like their big improvement here, or their

840
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Speaker 1: big innovation we could call it, is to change the

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Speaker 1: old system where you would swipe a card and you

842
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: would get a set, you know, lunch tray. You would

843
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Speaker 1: basically get a lunchible type thing. You didn't get to

844
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: choose and pick different stuff. You would just get your

845
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: steak and lobster and say beat me here, Dylan. Oh,

846
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: we're going to war with a rod. That's why they're

847
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: feeding us so well today. Now the thing is, which.

848
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Speaker 3: Did come down recently. I believe a recent menu was

849
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Speaker 3: reflecting those options.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes, sir. Now the thing is, or it

851
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: appears to be, the innovation that you have. Essentially this

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00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: per dium right based on your rank, and you can

853
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Speaker 1: spend it on individual items. If you decide to skip breakfast,

854
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: that allotment rolls over to lunch. If you decide to

855
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: skip lunch, you can really go go nuts with your

856
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,439
Speaker 1: freedom dollars at dinner, but it does not roll over

857
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Speaker 1: to the next day.

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Speaker 3: I still don't understand. I'm sorry if I'm being a

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00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 3: bonehead about this. It's sort of like your your commissary

860
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Speaker 3: account in prison.

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Speaker 1: A little bit not a bad comparison. The commissary accounts

862
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Speaker 1: would roll over.

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Speaker 3: Has this real money and when your and your family

864
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 3: members can deposit money into that account on your behalf, yes,

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Speaker 3: so it's okay. So it's not like that. That's the

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Speaker 3: part that's confusing me, Like, I just don't understand where

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Speaker 3: this imaginary money is coming from and why what is

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Speaker 3: the value of of being this token rather than just

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Speaker 3: like a bank account, like a special bank account, like.

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Speaker 2: My kid's lunch account at school. You know, it's making

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Speaker 2: the system more efficient. That's the same reason why your

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Speaker 2: kid has a lunch account. Just when your kid goes

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Speaker 2: up in orders food. When my kid goes up and

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Speaker 2: orders food, you just swipe thing. It takes the money

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Speaker 2: out of that specific account and your transaction is done.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't actually come out of a bank account or

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Speaker 2: anything like that. It's it's all enclosed in one system,

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Speaker 2: and it's kind of the same thing for this. It's

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Speaker 2: basically easier for the forty two b STRO to function

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Speaker 2: in that way. I think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And also on a microcosmic scale, right you're let's

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Speaker 1: say you're in the armed forces, you go to forty

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Speaker 1: two b stroke. Before this innovation, if the if the

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Speaker 1: mess was serving Okra, you would still get it on

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Speaker 1: your trade even if you hated Okra. But now at

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Speaker 1: least the advertised appeal is now you can say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't like Okra, so I'll take my but dollar

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Speaker 1: thirty five worth of Okra and roll that over to

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Speaker 1: lunch and I'll get an extra potatoes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, quick is no for you'd be a case of

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Speaker 3: DA But I fully understand that. I think that that

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Speaker 3: choice is cool and obviously a positive future for you know,

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Speaker 3: uh service folks. But I don't understand who is it

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Speaker 3: benefiting that it is this this ephemeral token that isn't

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Speaker 3: like an actual dollar.

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Speaker 2: It probably saves some kind of money somewhere within the

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Speaker 2: chain because rather than having that money transferred to you know,

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Speaker 2: each individual soldier's account or something to to then come

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Speaker 2: out of that account. And you know, if you think

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Speaker 2: about that loop that would occur now and basically anyone

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Speaker 2: who was there at Fort Hood who is going to

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Speaker 2: be a part of this program, they money from the

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Speaker 2: US government's allocated for those troops right for their pay

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Speaker 2: just goes directly into this account. I think that's honestly.

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Speaker 2: I think it's efficiency. I think that's all it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're saving money on the accounting back end. Will

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Speaker 1: they lose money on food waste that remains.

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Speaker 2: To be seen?

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Speaker 3: Probably that's a little suspicious, is all. There's somewhere, there's

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Speaker 3: someone somewhere along the chain that's benefiting from this, and

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Speaker 3: I don't fully understand who it is, and doesn't seem

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Speaker 3: it's the Compass Group. Yeah, well okay, maybe that'd be obvious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, it's a giant contract involved. There lots

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Speaker 2: of money involved. You to read more about it if

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Speaker 2: you head on over to Army Dot Mill there. It's

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Speaker 2: also posting a lot of other places. They give you

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Speaker 2: some of the more detailed like in the back end,

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Speaker 2: why it's happening and how the contract is functioning. If

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Speaker 2: you are a super hungry soldier, you can pay real

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Speaker 2: dollars for more stuff, and if you find yourself as

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Speaker 2: a super hungry soldier, we hope that you find some

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Speaker 2: freedom dollars. Freedom isn't free, it's about thirty nine dollars

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Speaker 2: each day. We'll be right back afterward from our sponsors.

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Speaker 1: And we have returned folks. Our weekly Strange News segment

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Speaker 1: is running a little long, which is a beautiful problem

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Speaker 1: to have because there's so much stuff we did not

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Speaker 1: get to. We do want to let you know that scientists, eggheads,

928
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Speaker 1: boffins have a bold new plan to catch three I

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Speaker 1: at lists, but you have to act fast. It takes

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Speaker 1: a lot of money, and we're not talking freedom dollars,

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Speaker 1: So please go over to LiveScience dot com to check

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Speaker 1: that out in full. Big thanks to Matthew Williams, the

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Speaker 1: journalist who wrote that on February twenty first, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: One of the other big stories that we didn't get

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Speaker 1: to today is the story about the Department of Justice,

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Speaker 1: the continuing saga of Jeffrey Epstein. It turns out that

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Speaker 1: the my fellow Americans, the folks you pay to uphold

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Speaker 1: the law in the Department of Justice, might be in

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Speaker 1: a cover up.

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Speaker 3: No no, just like.

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Speaker 1: I know it's kirk. I know it's very on brand

942
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Speaker 1: and on the nose for me to propose a conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: But according to Steven Fowler, who just published a fascinating

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Speaker 1: exclusive on NPR, the US Justice Department has withheld, removed,

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Speaker 1: also known as destroyed, some of the Epstein files, specifically

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Speaker 1: related to the current president of the United States.

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Speaker 3: We're not talking about just redacted. We're talking about these

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Speaker 3: exists in certain inventories of the pages, but the versions

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Speaker 3: that were released they've been omitted entirely. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some of these files, as we know, have not

951
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Speaker 1: been made public despite a law explicitly mandating their release.

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Speaker 1: MPR was able to look at multiple sets of the

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff we really dig into, folks think of it,

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Speaker 1: like the metadata of these documents. They found unique serial

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Speaker 1: numbers that appeared before and after these fifty missing pages

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Speaker 1: of FBI interviews. To be quite clear, this was the

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Speaker 1: FBI speaking with at multiple occasions. A woman who accused

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Speaker 1: current President Donald Trump of sexual abuse when she was

959
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Speaker 1: a minor said this happened multiple times. The FBI spoke

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Speaker 1: with her at least four times that we know of.

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Speaker 2: It's reminded me of Gosh, Chrit I don't know, guys,

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Speaker 2: you have to chog my memory here. Isn't there a

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Speaker 2: court case about a certain executive branch leader who had

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Speaker 2: a bunch of documents and was handling classified documents?

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Speaker 1: Sadly you're gonna have to narrow that down for us.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wait, that's been most of the Well, I

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Speaker 2: note there was one who was president before the last

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Speaker 2: one who had this whole thing. And then there's something

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Speaker 2: about a guy who died in prison when he was

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Speaker 2: I can't remember it all.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting that you say that. I still think

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Speaker 1: we should round up everybody named Jeff just to check in.

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Speaker 1: But we do have a response from the White House

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Speaker 1: from spokeswoman Abigail Jackson speaking to MPR in reply to

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Speaker 1: their investigation, which is pretty terrifying and you should look

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Speaker 1: it up. Jackson told MPR, quote, just as President Trump

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Speaker 1: has said he's been totally exonerated on anything related to Epstein,

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Speaker 1: and by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with

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Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein's Democrat friends,

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Speaker 1: President Trump has done more for Epstein's victims than anyone

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Speaker 1: before him. The quote goes on, but I'll.

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Speaker 3: End it there. Yeah, he definitely did stuff to Epstein's victims,

984
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Speaker 3: that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that too much?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just know, man, what a thing to say.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm sorry. It's just hard to stomach

988
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 3: that level of obfuscation where it's like you're saying, you

989
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: accuse the other side of that with you yourself, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, guilty of we changed the history, right. It reminds

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Speaker 1: me of that old joke from back in the Pentagon.

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00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: We don't lie, just sometimes the truth changes. Don't let

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Speaker 1: the wool get pulled over your eyes, Sheep and wolves alike.

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Speaker 1: I know we didn't. We haven't dug into this yet,

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00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: but we hope that you join us for our upcoming

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Speaker 1: episode on the continuing Epstein File revelations. There's a lot

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00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: going on. This will probably be a pretty disturbing deep

998
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Speaker 1: dive for all of us, and we.

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Speaker 3: Have to do it.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, we would love to hear your take

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go on back to the beginning of the episode.

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Speaker 3: I had a friend whose dad was a vacuum salesman,

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