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A Tough Call...Or Is It? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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Speaker 1: A tough call, or is it? It's one more thing.
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Speaker 1: I'm strong and getty.
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Speaker 2: One more thing.
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Speaker 1: So I'll top off this story with my tale that
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Speaker 1: I've told many times on the air of jumping in
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Speaker 1: the midst of a bar fight and realizing I was
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Speaker 1: saving the wrong person at the end getting my favorite
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Speaker 1: leather jacket covered in blood. Anyway, this happened on a
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Speaker 1: United Airlines flight. This is not the least bit funny.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen this story? Maniac flyer viciously beats deaf,
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Speaker 1: nonverbal passenger until cavin is splattered with blood. No good
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Speaker 1: listen to this.
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Speaker 3: This is horrible.
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Speaker 1: A brutal beatdown happened about two hours into a United
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Speaker 1: Airlines flight from San Francisco to Washington Dulles yesterday. It
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Speaker 1: started when a forty four year old got up to
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Speaker 1: use the bathroom. His name is Everett Chad Nelson. We
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Speaker 1: should know this person's name. While returning to a steaton,
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Speaker 1: Nelson stopped at seat twelve F for some reason, and
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Speaker 1: without notice, began physically attacking a sleeping male passenger by
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Speaker 1: punching him repeatedly in the face until blood was drawn
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Speaker 1: and spewing around the cabin. The next thing I know,
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Speaker 1: I heard these blood curdling screams, says one woman who
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Speaker 1: was in a row behind her. He was just very
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Speaker 1: violently and very aggressively, just pumling the guy who was
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Speaker 1: in the window seat, who was in front of me.
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Speaker 1: And it was vicious. This wasn't like a barroom. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to throw a couple of punches. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: was a vicious pumbling. Listen to this part. Was there
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Speaker 1: no dude around who would do anything about this? Nelson
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Speaker 1: rained blows on the defenseless man for a full minute
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Speaker 1: before a good samaritan jumped in and ripped him off.
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Speaker 2: The victim. A minute's a long.
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Speaker 1: Time, Oh, I mean that's a long I mean five seconds,
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Speaker 1: ten seconds, twenty seconds is a long time for you
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Speaker 1: to be thinking, show I do something?
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Speaker 2: Is anybody going to do something? What is going on?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, blah blah blah. A minute.
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Speaker 4: People wonder how many people? I wonder how many people
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Speaker 4: pulled out their phones? Though, to take a video right
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Speaker 4: is common. Now We've all seen videos of that.
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Speaker 1: Somebody's getting the crap beat out of them, somebody defenseles
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Speaker 1: a child, even I've seen these. Everybody's got their phone out.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's willing to do anything about it. Everybody's willing to
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Speaker 1: video it. Nielsen rained down blows for a minute. Nelson
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Speaker 1: split the man's nose nose open, causing blood to splash
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Speaker 1: over the seat, the cabin wall, the window, and all
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Speaker 1: over the close of the people around. Victim was left
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Speaker 1: with two black eyes. A doctor who happened to be
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Speaker 1: on board treated the man. So I don't really know
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Speaker 1: much more about this, but I'm just surprised.
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Speaker 2: Was there no dude around to do something?
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Speaker 1: I mean, because if you've got a violent lunatic like that,
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Speaker 1: he might who knows he's going after next? Something's got
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Speaker 1: to be done. Where were they where the stewardesses? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got a taser. Yeah, you can't have somebody being
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Speaker 1: that crazy for a full minute. There's got to be
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Speaker 1: some way to stop it, because it could be doing
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Speaker 1: anything trying to open the door, beating somebody trying to
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Speaker 1: get out of the cockpit. Don't I thought we Post
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven had ways to deal with crazy people.
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Speaker 3: Did we have any clue what this dude? What Branda crazy?
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Speaker 3: He is?
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Speaker 2: Not what's going on there?
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Speaker 3: Because it sounds like he needs to be in prison
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Speaker 3: for the rest of his days.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it does.
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Speaker 3: Attacking a sleeping man and beating him bloody. He's obviously
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Speaker 3: a psycho, he's obviously got mental problems with some sort,
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Speaker 3: but he's dangerous. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Uh so the guy was asleep according to this report,
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Speaker 1: so it's hard to imagine.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: That's just craziness.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Oh, speaking of a similar fare, and this is a
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Speaker 3: grim Grim podcast, I'd like it to be known that
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Speaker 3: I Joe was not in charge of this too, grim.
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Speaker 3: But Daniel Penny's homicide trial has begun in New York.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember Daniel Penny, the former marine who put
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Speaker 3: the lunatic in a chokehold who was menacing passengers on
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Speaker 3: a New York City subway train? When was that? Was
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Speaker 3: that last year or so? Last spring? Penny, who happens
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Speaker 3: to be white, was indicted by the infamous Alvin Bragg,
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Speaker 3: not long after Bragg indicted Donald Trump in the farcical
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Speaker 3: case that was tried earlier this year, and Annie McCarthy
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Speaker 3: points out of the National Review, there's a symmetry here.
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Speaker 3: The Progressive Prosecutor project is mainly about two things. Using
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Speaker 3: government's law enforcement apparatus against the political enemies of progressive Democrats,
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Speaker 3: a whole lawfair thing, and converting the justice system into
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Speaker 3: a racialized morality play, not just law and order, but
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Speaker 3: oppressors and oppressed. And here's something you have not heard
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Speaker 3: in the mainstream media discussion of this case, which is
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Speaker 3: desperate for the white guy mean to black guy narrative,
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Speaker 3: because it was so hot there for the summer of
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Speaker 3: George Floyd Neely, the dead guy Jordan Neely, who absolutely
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Speaker 3: had mental problems. He was a mentally unstable career criminal.
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Speaker 3: He had over forty arrests to his name, thirty plus
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Speaker 3: of them, and I wish I had this number in
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Speaker 3: front of me.
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Speaker 2: I think it's thirty.
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Speaker 3: Two of them. Of his forty arrests were for assaulting
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Speaker 3: people on subway trains. Wow, you get to just keep.
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Speaker 1: Doing that over and over and over again, like three
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Speaker 1: dozen times, or probably way more than that, because we
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Speaker 1: all know you get caught and arrested for like one
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Speaker 1: fifth of the things you do or something statistically.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you have to commit many crimes to be
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Speaker 3: arrested and be arrested many times to be convicted on average.
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Speaker 3: But so this guy was menacing all these passengers and
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Speaker 3: threatening him and screaming, I don't care if I go
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Speaker 3: to jailing and a blank you up the rest of it,
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Speaker 3: and Penny and others leaped to the defense of the
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Speaker 3: women and children and oldsters that this guy was threatening,
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Speaker 3: like you're talking about on the plane. And Penny put
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Speaker 3: the crazy guy in a so called choke hold, which
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Speaker 3: actually doesn't choke you. It makes you pass out because
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Speaker 3: pressure on your carotid artery anyway, And he held him
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Speaker 3: in that hold until authorities could get there, and the
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Speaker 3: guy ended up not being breathing anymore, and he's dead.
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Speaker 3: It's it's terrible. You know, you don't get the death
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Speaker 3: penalty for being an a hole on subway, but it
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Speaker 3: was clearly an accident. But Alvin Bragging Company are trying
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Speaker 3: to portray this mister Penny is some sort of racist
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Speaker 3: lunatic of course, and of course the victim quote unquote
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Speaker 3: the victim's family is trying to complain that this is
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Speaker 3: all about race and everything, which is just an idiotic
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Speaker 3: thing to say.
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Speaker 1: That's horrible. So it'll be interesting to see how this
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Speaker 1: turns out.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, Neily had the synthetic cannaboid K two
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Speaker 3: an illegal narcotic in his body can trigger hallucinations, and
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Speaker 3: violent behavior can also prompt rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, seizures,
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Speaker 3: and death. So anyway, the good news is mister Penny,
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Speaker 3: his legal defence fund has raised lots and lots of money.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 3: So I'm hoping A. He is acquitted and b he
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Speaker 3: has not rendered a destiny because of it.
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Speaker 1: So back to my story. I started the podcast with,
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Speaker 1: I'm at a bar, Kadie, you are the only one
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Speaker 1: who has heard this story already. And I'm sitting at
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Speaker 1: a bar. It's hardly anybody there. I think there's like
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Speaker 1: four people in the whole bar besides the bartender. And
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Speaker 1: I hear a fight a commencing behind me. As a
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Speaker 1: guy who spent many a time in the kind of
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Speaker 1: bars where fights happened.
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Speaker 2: It was, that's not shocking to me at all.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I worked at a bar where there were
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Speaker 1: multiple fights every single night. Oh yeah, but I see
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Speaker 1: if I turn around and there's this older guy getting
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Speaker 1: his ass beaten by a younger guy, and I jumped
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Speaker 1: on top of the younger guy, and I'm rolling around
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Speaker 1: and I pull him off, the older guy, and then
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Speaker 1: the bartender comes around the corner, and we get the
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Speaker 1: younger guy out and he ends up going out the
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Speaker 1: door or something like that. I don't remember what happens
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Speaker 1: after that anyway, One I got blood all over my
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Speaker 1: favorite leather jacket, which ruined it. And Two I found
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Speaker 1: out later that the older guy absolutely had an ass
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Speaker 1: kicking coming. I don't remember what it was, but it
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Speaker 1: was something horrible he had done. Oh, the younger guy
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Speaker 1: was absolutely in the right. And as my brother said,
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Speaker 1: who used to manage a bar where fights happened all
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Speaker 1: the time, What the hell are.
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Speaker 2: You doing getting in the middle bar?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you never have any idea what's going on
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Speaker 1: or how it's going to turn out.
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Speaker 4: Or if somebody has a knife or a gun or
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Speaker 4: well yeah, okay, but that's usually not the case.
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Speaker 1: God does dander over for you, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I thought I was being a good smart and
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Speaker 1: turned out I saved. I kept a young guy, younger
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Speaker 1: guy from beating an older guy who had it coming.
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Speaker 3: Well, now to ask or state what everybody's screaming at
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Speaker 3: their speakers indoor earbuds, compare and contrast that with the
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Speaker 3: airplane thing and what you're saying about, how did nobody
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Speaker 3: jump in.
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Speaker 1: I think that's yeah. Airplane's different than a bar. For
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Speaker 1: one thing, I mean, fights happened all the time in bars.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a fight in an airplane.
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Speaker 3: But if you're reading a magazine, watching a movie or something,
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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden you realize there's a physical
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Speaker 3: frekus going on. I could easily see, not knowing who's who,
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Speaker 3: or what's going on, or what ied it, I.
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Speaker 1: Would be impossible for me to stop myself from jumping
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Speaker 1: in and stopping that guy from raining down blows on
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Speaker 1: someone who's just sitting there. Well, described to me the
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Speaker 1: situation where it would be justified for this guy to
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Speaker 1: be beating him like that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm just saying you couldn't see what was
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Speaker 3: going on. You wouldn't be sure what was going on.
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Speaker 3: You've been on plenty airplanes. You can't see what the
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Speaker 3: hell's going on four or five ten rows in front
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Speaker 3: of you. I just tan to be a guy swinging,
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Speaker 3: but that's all you'd see.
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Speaker 1: Well, but what there's somebody closer than that that would
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have.
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Speaker 3: But two stories are not as distinct as you seem
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Speaker 3: to think they are.
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Speaker 1: I would I would not be able to stop myself.
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Speaker 1: And I can't even imagine a scenario where you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: absolutely be in the right to stop the one guy
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Speaker 1: from pumbling the other guy.
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Speaker 2: Who was asleep.
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Speaker 3: Katie, would you like to weigh in here, or or
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Speaker 3: let's get your brother Jeff on the line. I can wait.
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Speaker 1: He will be the judge. No, I'm ever doing that
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Speaker 1: in my life. I don't care if I'm sixty five
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Speaker 1: years old. I'm not gonna watch some guy beat down
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Speaker 1: somebody else and just stand there never doing it.
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Speaker 3: You're not watching it. That's the point. You can't see
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Speaker 3: what's going on on an airplane. All you see his
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Speaker 3: motion in front of you, So you would be leaping
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Speaker 3: into a situation where you only had half an idea
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Speaker 3: what was going on.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm assuming I'm closer.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming I'm not in seat ninety five and this
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Speaker 1: is the second row.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair enough, all right, it's clear.
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Speaker 2: And I'm muly been that's a minute.
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Speaker 3: I admire that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So you see commotion going on, you're gonna get
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Speaker 4: up out of your seat, walk up and kind of
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Speaker 4: like see what's going on, and then decide to jump
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Speaker 4: in is that you know, are you gonna.
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Speaker 1: I think if you were more than a couple rows back,
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Speaker 1: I don't even know if you would have the slightest
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Speaker 1: idea what was even happening.
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Speaker 3: That's right, I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: But if you like, we were right there.
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Speaker 2: Like the roll behind them, like all these people that
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Speaker 2: were being.
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Speaker 3: Course sitting next to the guy. Oh, one hundred percent
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Speaker 3: agree with who.
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Speaker 1: Saw what was happening? The guy who's asleep and the
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Speaker 1: guy came up and just started being on him for yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: you are.
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Speaker 3: Fully cognizant of it. But you know that's a fairly
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Speaker 3: limited number of people on the airplane. But you know,
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Speaker 3: with that cave yet, Yeah, I agree with you.
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Speaker 2: Michael.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember when we used to call Jack Captain Freedom?
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: Can we think of a fanciful scenario where the guy
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Speaker 1: might have the beating coming.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of one.
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Speaker 1: Like he had just told him he was sleeping with
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Speaker 1: his wife, and the guy said, I got to go
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom and call him down. And then he
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Speaker 1: comes back and says, you know what, I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to put up with you sleeping with my wife and
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Speaker 1: goes to beaten on him.
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Speaker 3: He's always been. You don't have this guy didn't take
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Speaker 3: any vows to hear your wife did so quit beaten
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Speaker 3: on him.
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Speaker 1: No, yeah, that doesn't work either. There's got to be
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Speaker 1: there's got to be one I could come up with.
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Speaker 1: He's the person who sexually abused you as a child,
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Speaker 1: your whole life, and you ended up sitting next to
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Speaker 1: him on a plane and you held it in through
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Speaker 1: half the flight.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm trying to come up again.
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Speaker 3: Let the record show I've tried to lighten it up.
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Speaker 3: Now we're into child sex molestation, say something lighter. So
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Speaker 3: you were gambling on the plane, You're playing cards, and
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Speaker 3: he cheated, and while he was napping, you decided, no, no,
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Speaker 3: this is this is bad. Okay, So Captain Freedom, it
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Speaker 3: was when you called if you see something, say something
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Speaker 3: Las Vegas Airport?
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Speaker 4: Was it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an embarrassing story.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't remember it. That you saw guys,
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Speaker 3: Middle Eastern guys loads of truck.
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Speaker 2: Right, and he might have just been tan. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Why would a Tan guy load a truck if not
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Speaker 3: for you know, Islamic supremacist reasons.
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Speaker 1: This was actually New Year's Eve in Las Vegas two
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Speaker 1: thousand and one, So this is months after nine to eleven. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I made the stupid decision of going to Las Vegas
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Speaker 1: where the security was so tight you couldn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: Finally went just back to the hotel room with like,
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Speaker 1: there's no point in being here.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't even walk through a casino. There were so
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Speaker 1: many cops in here, and if you stop for a second,
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Speaker 1: keep moving, keep moving. It was just horrible because they
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Speaker 1: were so worried about a terrorist attack in Vegas. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I get back to the cheap, crappy hotel. Man, it's
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Speaker 1: not like I meant some luxury casino. I'm at the
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Speaker 1: motel six and I'm drinking beer and looking out my
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Speaker 1: window and I see a van back up to a
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Speaker 1: lower floor and a bunch of tan guys. But they're
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Speaker 1: loading something in or out.
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Speaker 2: Of the van.
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Speaker 1: That's why I called my one, Jack.
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Speaker 2: Yes he was.
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Speaker 3: He was protecting America, Katies, Captain Freedom, protecting America.
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Speaker 1: Oh God, God out.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they're staying at the room.
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Speaker 1: It's their luggage.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it could be lots of things.
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Speaker 3: Oh Jack, Italian guys trying to get their luggage into
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Speaker 3: their their van. What's the matter, help me with the suitcase.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my lowest moment. That was Captain Freedwey's most.
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Speaker 3: That's the sound we used to always play.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, I mean, I appreciate where you were coming from,
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Speaker 4: you know, trying to save the planet and.
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Speaker 3: All, you know, at the risk of running a foul
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Speaker 3: of the tangent police tangent on a tangent on a tangent.
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Speaker 3: If you ever watched old timey TV shows and movies,
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Speaker 3: whenever they had to like portray Indians or Poncho Villa's
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Speaker 3: army or whatever, it was usually Italian guys. Yeah, because
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Speaker 3: they're kind of sort of olive skinned and they'd layer
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Speaker 3: a little makeup on that. But if you're familiar with
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Speaker 3: Italian Americans, you're like, that Indian chief's name is Demucci,
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Speaker 3: that's the actor's real name.
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Speaker 2: You're not fooling me.
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Speaker 3: So it's probably a bunch of a bunch of Italian
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Speaker 3: guys loo in Maasagna for their big New Year's party.
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Speaker 3: You brought the FBI on in the down on them.
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Speaker 1: Well, Happy Halloween, everybody, I guess that's it.