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Prepackaged Opinions and Jokes · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  Same thing every year, one side stands in claps the other side
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  sits still not having any fun. It reminds me of my cousin's
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  wedding. Yeah I give it six months by not
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  to talk about his achievements. He said we pass an
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  infrastructure Bill, we reduce inflation and we finally
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  convinced cam Brady to retire. A bipartisan ship and unity is
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  like as Democrats and Republicans.
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  We have one common goal, mishandled classified.
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  Document this is plausibly live. Well, good morning, good
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  evening, or good afternoon, wherever you are, whatever you
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  do. A lot of things happening in the
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  world. Today, most of them are far
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  beyond our control. You might say.
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  So perhaps it's time we took a pause and a lot about life.
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  But about the laws of gravity, the State of the Union jokes The
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  mail theft politics were the news.
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  Don't touch that dial. Just try to hear me out for a
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  little while so not that you care.
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  But right before the tax done, right for the show this morning
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  I'm finishing up show prep and my text thing goes off my mother
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  fell yesterday again and is now hospitalized and so there's this
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  text thread between my brother and my sister and myself.
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  A me, this text shows up this morning my brother.
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  It says are you sure we're out of grounds?
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  Which my sister immediately responds coffee or burial like
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  brother. I catched forgot that he was on
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  the wrong text read. That's what he said.
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  I was sorry that was on the wrong threat.
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  So I jumped in and said hey I've got a full can of unopened, can
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  of folders in the pantry if you want it to which he informed me
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  that he would never drink anything as provincial as
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  folders. Only drinks, Café Bustelo,
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  which, by the way, is what I'm drinking right now.
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  I love Café Bustelo. but I can't have more than two cups of it
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  because then I could become kind of unfocused, I guess is the
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  best way to put it anyway. Turns out, Café Bustelo, is the
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  coffe coffee of choice of the bomb and family.
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  Don't know why you would care but but there you go.
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  That's what I was dealing with about a minute and a half ago.
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  This idea today that having an opinion without having full
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  information, has become quite normalized.
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  I attribute it to the Magnus effect.
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  What I mean? The USA Today story, Once Upon a
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  Time, Doonesbury was a great idea, great cartoon.
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  But back in the early 80s when USA Today became a thing it was
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  constantly referred to in Doonesbury as Mick news, which
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  is what it was. It was just a headline less than
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  140 characters. Sometimes 250 characters of a
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  story and that was it. Today because of that, Magnus
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  effect, we barely read headlines let alone any actual stories.
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  Stories have been replaced with tweets and with polls.
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  One of the things that drives me nuts is when people take a
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  screenshot of a headline and put it in a tweet or a social media
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  post with no link. So you can even link to the
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  story, you have to draw your entire conclusion about the
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  story. Totally from this picture, the
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  screenshot that has subsequently been posted on social media.
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  And you get poles as well. Did you know that 83 percent of
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  Americans think that blah blah blah?
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  Without any context or any input into it, it's absurd.
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  Now, all that said we all do it but we also all complain about
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  it. We all talk about.
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  How will you don't have all the information yet?
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  How can you have an opinion about something?
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  Well, I try not to my try to get information before I form my
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  opinions. It's not always successful but I
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  try but that's why I have nothing to say about the State
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  of the Union this morning. I did not watch it.
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  Sorry, we had a big to-do last night at the synagogue.
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  I went to that nor did I get up this morning and read the speech
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  because as I told Rod the other day, it is available at
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  whitehouse.gov Didn't have any interest in it.
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  What? I have seen this morning
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  overwhelmingly in my various news feeds aren't even stories
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  about the speech. There's not stories that say,
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  President Biden calls for bold, New Vision with none of that.
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  What I can't are just like you got for the Grammy Awards,
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  reactions to the State of the Union post.
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  That's, that's all I'm seeing stories.
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  So and so reacts to the reaction to but to be honest with you I
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  haven't read those either because Cuz I can already tell
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  you what's in them. If the story where the post
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  comes from the left State of the Union was the greatest state of
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  the unit Eva, you get that. I mean, it's fantastic.
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  This is the best president and this was the best best State of
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  the Union ever. If the person posting it, her
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  writing, it was on the right. It was terrible.
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  It's full of lies and oh, he almost fell asleep while
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  delivering it. Now.
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  Most of these opinions are based solely on headlines, maybe a
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  photograph, maybe it would have right?
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  I would bet you that the vast majority opinions about State of
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  the Union Address last night, were formed long before the
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  State of the Union Address was ever delivered.
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  Now before you send me an email, telling me that I'm wrong
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  because you watched it, I'm sure you did.
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  I want you to listen to something.
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  These are jokes that were told about the State of the Union
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  Address on late night television last night.
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  Quote, it was a tough night for all abidin Stafford's watching
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  from the white house because every time people clapped the
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  lights went on and off. It's the same thing every year,
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  one side stands and claps the other side sits still not having
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  any fun. It reminds me of my cousin's
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  wedding. I'll give it six months.
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  Okay, that one's a little bit funny.
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  Quote. Now, Biden also talked about his
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  achievements. He said we passed an
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  infrastructure Bill we reduced inflation and we finally
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  convinced Tom Brady to retire. So I think that's a great year
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  in his speech Biden called for bipartisan and unity.
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  He was like as Democrats and Republicans, we have one common
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  goal to mishandled classified documents.
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  Now, the thing about those jokes is whether you think they're
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  funny or not is irrelevant to me?
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  Personally, I think they're a little, I don't know, they
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  they're not home run jokes, but then again late night comedy
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  rarely is, but all of those jokes were written long before
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  the speech was even delivered. You understand that all of those
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  jokes were written before the speech was even written?
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  How do we know this? Because they were recorded live
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  before a studio audience hours before the speech was actually
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  given. In other words late night,
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  television isn't really late night television.
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  They recorded earlier in the day.
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  But they have to tell these jokes about the State of the
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  Union Address. Which hasn't been given yet?
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  it's become so predictable and boring that late night, comics
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  and newspapers are writing their articles and jokes before the
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  speech is even given And the reaction stories become Legion
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  because nobody even wants to talk about any actual analysis
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  of the speech because there isn't any actual analysis to
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  give. I didn't watch it.
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  I can't tell you I highest I make some assumptions about the
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  speech, but but I can't give you an actual analysis of it because
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  I'm certain that it was like most State of the Union
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  speeches, which is patting myself on the back telling you
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  what a great job I'm doing. Which isn't what the state of
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  the union is supposed to be about.
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  Don't yell at me. Go read the Constitution State
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  of the Union Address isn't supposed to be a party political
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  but that's what it's turned into.
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  And you got Congress, people wearing pins that have crayons
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  on them. You have behavior.
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  That if that was happening in your kids, fourth grade class,
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  you'd have a fit about, but this has become normal, which is why
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  the jokes, and the Articles can be written long before the
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  speeches ever given because it's Kabuki theater, it's all it is.
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  And of course, the reactions to the speech.
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  Say more about the person giving the reaction.
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  Then they do any actual analysis of the speech, which is What's
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  become the norm? That's become the Mac opinion.
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  Now we just formed the opinion with the, you know, it happened.
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  Here's my opinion about it. And it's not going to get any
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  better folks. It's never going to get any
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  better for the record, my opinion, of the State of the
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  Union right now is a the union is fucked and B, we need to stop
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  these stupid speeches. I'm Bill met with WMV radio, in
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  Melbourne, Florida, where we have a governor that will
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  actually stand for, what's right?
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  My show, airs morning, from 6:00 to 9:00 Eastern everyday.
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  We discussed news, politics and social issues that impact us,
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  all Tuesdays in our 8:00, our date.
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  Joins me for something we call date does history or Dave brings
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  us events from our past. Right now, Collision live, fine.
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  Wmm be of the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back up here in the
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  Kitsap region of Northwest Washington, got an interesting
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  story going on, it's kind of a shocking story because this sort
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  of thing. Doesn't normally happen.
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  But it's got a it's got people up here, debating, some things
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  about. well, vigilantism deadly force, which is a big deal here
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  because we got, you know, we have two major Naval bases here
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  and we even had an incident yesterday.
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  We're two different individuals. Tried to run the gates of the
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  base yesterday morning, right? As the base was opening up for
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  the morning. So the base The Banger base
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  ended up shutting down for about an hour to deal with that.
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  No one was shot in those incidents.
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  Even though these people tried to force their way onto a
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  military installation. The story we have and we do not
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  have all the facts. We do not know what was said.
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  but the story that we have, as we have it, is that a gentleman
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  Notice that there were unidentified persons in a
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  vehicle around the mailboxes of his neighborhood and they
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  appeared to be breaking into the mailboxes.
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  He went out to confront them. Something was said, nobody knows
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  what nobody is clear on what happened. but a brouhaha in
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  sued, In which the homeowner? The gentleman ended up shooting
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  the suspected male Thief to death who killed him right there
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  in the street. The two women that were with
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  him, have disappeared. No one is clear on where they
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  are fact. There's an all-points bulletin
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  out for them. You can see the posts on
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  Facebook and social media and everywhere else.
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  Hey, we need to find these gals. But as it stands right now, the
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  male, the suspected male Thief is dead, And the man who shot
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  him is charged with first-degree murder.
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  Now he is in Kitsap County jail. I think it's a million dollars
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  Bond and has plead not guilty in his arraignment.
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  The story. If the story ended right there
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  you'd go well. Should have shot him.
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  I mean, certainly that's an are certainly that's an arguable
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  opinion. I mean, you know what, what,
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  what do we know? I mean, I was trained in deadly
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  force. I can't imagine the
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  circumstances that would cause me to shoot someone dead over
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  mail. I mean, frankly, if you want
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  those advertisements for refinancing and WinCo, I guess
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  you can have them. But If you think I'm stupid
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  enough to actually send stuff that have stuff sent to me, that
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  is actually valuable to my mailbox.
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  Will, you know, I'm not that dumb.
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  Well, But what was said and we don't know, we don't know what
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  threat was made. We don't know what words were
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  exchanged. We know none of this because the
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  two witnesses have disappeared. By the way, they're not likely
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  to be cooperative. I can't imagine that the two
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  witnesses who were with the suspected male Thief.
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  You know, I can't imagine that they're going to say anything
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  positive about the guy who shot him.
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  If it ended right there, it would be a troubling store.
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  Yesterday afternoon, we learned in our morning paper today just
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  in the paper. It's a website.
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  That the suspected male Thief had been bailed out of Kitsap
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  County Jail, barely, two hours before he was suspected of
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  stealing mail again, and was shot and killed.
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  Furthermore, we learned that the credit card used to bail him
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  out. Of Kitsap County Jail two hours
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  before he was shot and killed. Was a stolen credit card.
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  Does that change how we see the story at all?
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  Does it change how we feel about things at all?
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  This guy. Look, I'm going to go out on a
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  limb here and say this guy was a male thieve and this guy had a
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  long history of this and these two women that were with him,
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  help them? But we don't know what happened
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  or why the shooter thought that he was threatened by this map.
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  We don't, we don't know. Like I said, the Witnesses are
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  unlikely to be cooperative. In fact, as I said there's an
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  APB out for them because they need to help him.
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  But the question is going to be was this really first-degree
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  murder? I mean, my understanding of
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  first-degree murder is premeditated and, you know, I
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  don't know that those was had this guy's metal been stolen
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  before and he was planning to shoot.
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  The got due to the fact that he brought a gun to a male condom
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  conflict. Make it premeditated.
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  I don't know. I, I'm curious about that.
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  I'm curious about what a jury in Kitsap county is going to say
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  about that because mail theft here is a huge deal.
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  I don't know about where you live but here our mail theft has
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  gotten to the point where it's almost a weekly front-page story
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  somewhere. And it seems that law
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  enforcement and government authorities have no interest in
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  doing anything about it at all. It's just a nuisance.
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  It's something there. Their suggestion is don't have
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  your mail sent to your house. Get a post office box. which is
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  a fine suggestion, but Is a little bit, I don't know
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  unconcerned as a come across as unconcerned.
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  Does it come across as we're not going to do anything about it?
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  And as Government bear, any responsibility in the fact that
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  since they're not going to do anything about it, people are
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  going to take matters into their own hands.
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  I don't know what the end result of this is going to be.
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  I have no idea. I just got up this morning in
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  the story. Was that the bail credit card
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  used was fraudulent. And I'm wondering, you know,
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  because obviously the two women bailed him out.
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  Which means that they had the stolen credit cards, now, where
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  did they get them? And are they going to turn on
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  the Dead Guy to save their own skins?
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  Who knows? I don't know where this is gonna
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  go, but it raises. A lot of questions about deadly
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  force. It raises a lot of questions
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  about, you know, what exactly are we paying for in our
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  government? Because they don't seem
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  interested in actually doing the things that the That the people
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  actually need done but in the meantime we're opening up, you
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  know, all kinds of ridiculous programs.
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  The nobody asked for nobody wants but they sound good and
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  they look good on paper. But now there's a guy dead in
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  the street and another guy in jail on a million dollars, Bond.
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  For defending his property. I don't know.
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  We'll see how it goes and we'll keep you up to date on it and
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  the future take the time right now tell the people that matter
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  in your life you love them very much, miss them if they weren't
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  there. So don't pass up.
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  Those opportunities don't want to have that regret plausibly
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  live. I'm Dave Bowman will see you
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  next time.