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What A Year! (LIVE from LA) · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: We only have 100 days left until the 2022 midterms,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to make every one count. We know
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  Speaker 1: to take our Count Me In pledge to volunteer the
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  Speaker 1: weekend of July 31st and become part of our Midterm
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  Speaker 1: Madness program to get involved in the most important elections
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  Speaker 1: in 2022 from the Senate, your local school board.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: This week, we have something special for you. Earlier this month,
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the Crooked family gathered on stage in Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles to present our first ever holiday spectacular called What
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  Speaker 1: a Year, where we raised money for our No Off
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  Speaker 1: Years Fund, which sends money to organizers in battleground states
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  Speaker 1: to register new voters.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to play part of that show here.
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  Speaker 1: What a Year is a funny look back on everything
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  Speaker 1: that happened in 2021 with comedy, games, good and bad takes,
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  Speaker 1: and some music at the end. And if, while you're listening,
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  Speaker 1: you decide you'd like to donate, go to crooked.com slash nooffyears.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Los Angeles. It's wonderful to be with you. We
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  Speaker 4: might be trapped in a blizzard, and we might have
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  Speaker 4: to eat each other's frozen corpses to survive, but if
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  Speaker 4: by luck we do make it out of this icy tundra,
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  Speaker 4: we want to make sure that on the other side,
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  Speaker 4: of that snowbank is still a democracy. So tonight we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be raising money for no off years, our
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  Speaker 4: fund to register voters in the battleground states where those
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  Speaker 4: new voters will make all the difference in 2022 and beyond.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the night, we'll be announcing how
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  Speaker 4: much money we've raised together. So as we look back
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  Speaker 4: on 2021, we're also looking ahead and hoping you'll do
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  Speaker 4: the same. So please donate what you can to help
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  Speaker 4: us support organizations that are on the ground doing the
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  Speaker 4: work we need to be doing all year long. Also,
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  Speaker 4: before we get to our show, we want to thank
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  Speaker 4: our incredibly kind presenting sponsor, of What A Year, Imperfect Foods,
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  Speaker 4: and Bev, which graciously supplied us with a fair amount
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  Speaker 4: of wine. Thank you for doing that. Very nice of you.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready for some reindeer games? Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 2: What A Year.
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  Speaker 4: Some years you ease into, like a warm bath or
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  Speaker 4: a prestige television show in the mid-2000s where a friend says,
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  Speaker 4: stick with it. It really picks up. Not 2021. 2021
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  Speaker 4: is more like Squid Game. We're a few minutes in
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  Speaker 4: and it's like, holy fuck, anything can happen this year.
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  Speaker 2: All bets are off.
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  Speaker 4: People are just getting back from the holidays and what's
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  Speaker 4: that on CNN? Mitt Romney is running for his life
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  Speaker 4: from the Capitol Rotunda trying to evade a murderous group
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  Speaker 4: of baby boomers who met on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: 2021, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: On January 6th, goaded by the president and his fellow
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  Speaker 4: right-wing authoritarians, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt
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  Speaker 4: to stop the certification process. of Joe Biden's victory. It
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  Speaker 4: was the day we came terrifyingly close to America's worst-case scenario,
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  Speaker 4: losing Mike Pence. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West split up
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  Speaker 4: after seven years of marriage, but you know what they say,
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  Speaker 4: when God closes a door, he opens a Pete Davidson.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what that means. I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: that means. Also this year, Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh died.
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  Speaker 5: And I learned....
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  Speaker 4: And I learned that Costco won't print you a cake
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  Speaker 4: for that. Meanwhile, in vaccine hesitancy news, while defending her
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  Speaker 4: reluctance to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Nicki Minaj tweeted about
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  Speaker 4: her cousin's friend's experience of swollen testicles so severe he
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  Speaker 4: was rendered impotent, compelling his fiancée to call off their wedding.
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  Speaker 4: The swelling has continued. As of this recording, the testicles
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  Speaker 4: have destroyed several homes and part of a shopping center.
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  Speaker 4: 2021 was also the year billionaires slipped the surly bonds
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  Speaker 4: of Earth in their cute little penis-shaped rocket ships. Jeff Bezos,
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  Speaker 4: for example, stepped down as the CEO of Amazon to
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  Speaker 4: fulfill his lifelong dream of killing Michael Strahan in outer space.
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  Speaker 4: 2020 was like being trapped in your car by Cujo.
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  Speaker 4: And he's growling, and he's snarling, and he's getting drool
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  Speaker 4: and breath over the windows. 2021 is like, we managed
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  Speaker 4: to get Cujo into a little fenced-in area. We tricked
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  Speaker 4: him with guile and cunning and derring-do. But then every day,
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  Speaker 4: we get another report about how the fence wasn't built
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  Speaker 4: properly and about how some people want to tear down
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  Speaker 4: the fence, that they think a world with Cujo roaming
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  Speaker 4: free is better than one where everyone is safe. And
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  Speaker 4: we get up every day and we just walk by
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  Speaker 4: Cujo as he barks and claws at the creaking fence post,
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  Speaker 4: pushing his evil little face further and further between the bars.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Let him tear down the fence because some people are
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  Speaker 4: too stupid or mean to care? Do you listen to
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  Speaker 4: the people who say we shouldn't even discuss it, embrace
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  Speaker 4: the cynicism that treats us all like a game? Like
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  Speaker 4: the last time Cujo got free, there wasn't blood in
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  Speaker 4: the streets? I don't think so. And in this analogy,
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  Speaker 4: Cujo is self-doubt. Four years ago at this time, we
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  Speaker 4: had lost the White House, the Senate, and the House. Today,
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  Speaker 4: we have all three. That's because we all showed up,
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  Speaker 4: and we have to keep showing up, even when politics
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  Speaker 4: is frustrating or because it is frustrating. That's why we're here.
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  Speaker 4: That's what No Off Years is all about, showing up
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  Speaker 4: and to tell us more. Two people you should listen
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  Speaker 4: to more than us. Please welcome back Dan Pfeiffer, and
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  Speaker 4: you know her from A Day in the Life of
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  Speaker 4: Crooked Media, starring Michaela Watkins, co-starring Shaniqua McClendon. Shaniqua McClendon.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 7: This is the segment of the show where we get serious.
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  Speaker 7: So we are going to talk about why we need
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  Speaker 7: people who worked so hard in 2018 and 2020 to
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  Speaker 7: work just as hard in 2021 and 2022. Why we
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  Speaker 7: need people to be just as engaged as they were
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  Speaker 7: when Donald Trump was walking around the White House coughing
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  Speaker 7: on people. So joining me to help explain the stakes
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  Speaker 7: of this election is Crooked Media's own Shaniqua McClendon, the
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  Speaker 7: woman behind the No Off Years campaign.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Shaniqua, what do you say to people who say,
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  Speaker 7: I knocked on doors, I wrote postcards because Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: was president, but now Joe Biden's president and everything's totally
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  Speaker 7: fine and great.
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  Speaker 8: Everything is not totally fine and great. All of the
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  Speaker 8: things that really got us involved and engaged in 2017, 18,
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  Speaker 8: 19 and 20 are all the same things that we
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  Speaker 8: need to be concerned about now. Trump is gone. But
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  Speaker 8: on January 6th, we saw a bunch of people storm
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  Speaker 8: the Capitol. And even since then, we've seen a lot
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  Speaker 8: of his Supreme Court appointments and other judicial appointments really kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of giddy to get rid of.
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  Speaker 8: Access to abortion, upholding a lot of laws that have
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  Speaker 8: pushed voter suppression. And even at the state level, we've
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  Speaker 8: seen like crazy Republicans just kind of pushing some of
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  Speaker 8: the craziest bills we've ever seen. And that's because now
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump is kind of who they look to for
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  Speaker 8: the kinds of things that they should be doing. And
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  Speaker 8: if we just kind of sit back and let that happen,
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  Speaker 8: things are going to get worse. And the final thing
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  Speaker 8: I'll add, which is part of why we created the
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  Speaker 8: No Off Years program, is we can't think that we're
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  Speaker 8: only supposed to be engaged and involved when elections come around.
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  Speaker 8: That's how we got Trump to begin with, because everyone
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  Speaker 8: was kind of okay with the way things are. And
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  Speaker 8: so That's why we have to keep paying attention and
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  Speaker 8: keep being involved. You know, all the postcards knocking on
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  Speaker 8: doors is great, but we have to be involved year round.
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  Speaker 8: And if not, things are going to get bad. So
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  Speaker 8: that's why we need everyone to participate. And, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I'm really excited to see the money coming in for
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  Speaker 8: no off years. So if you go to crooked.com slash
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  Speaker 8: no off years and donate, that will help us get
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  Speaker 8: money to a lot of the swing states who are
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  Speaker 8: registering voters and who are engaging voters year round so that, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: we don't wake up next year on election day the
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  Speaker 8: way we felt in 2016.
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  Speaker 7: Donate to no off years because things could always get worse.
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  Speaker 7: All right, let's be specific about the threats we face.
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  Speaker 7: So help explain to people watching today what would happen
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  Speaker 7: if the Republicans want enough seats to take the majority
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  Speaker 7: in the House.
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  Speaker 8: So literally, Nancy Pelosi would not be speaker anymore. She
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  Speaker 8: would have to hand her gavel over to Kevin McCarthy. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he is not really interested in governing. He
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  Speaker 8: just wants to keep the crazies happy so he can
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  Speaker 8: stay in power. So he would essentially be giving power
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  Speaker 8: over to Jim Jordan, Representative Gosar, and Marjorie Green Taylor,
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  Speaker 8: and just kind of let them dictate what's happening in
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  Speaker 8: the House. And then that means they'll also start repealing
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  Speaker 8: all the things that Democrats have been working on over
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  Speaker 8: the past two years. The child tax credit that has
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  Speaker 8: helped lift a ton of children out of poverty, and
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  Speaker 8: also if we end up Hopefully, fingers crossed, passing bill
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  Speaker 8: back better. A lot of the provisions that are in there,
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  Speaker 8: Republicans will immediately try to repeal those. And then on
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  Speaker 8: top of all the policies, they'll, of course, try to
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  Speaker 8: impeach Joe Biden. You know, I think there were real
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  Speaker 8: reasons to impeach Donald Trump twice, but they'll find anything,
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  Speaker 8: you know, frivolous to to. try to impeach Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 8: And the other thing I would just add is, in
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  Speaker 8: addition to getting rid of things Democrats have done, we'll
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  Speaker 8: also start seeing a lot of the stuff that's coming
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  Speaker 8: up in state legislatures actually start making it through the House.
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  Speaker 8: Right now, those things can't even get a vote because
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  Speaker 8: Nancy Pelosi is Speaker. But once McCarthy is in charge
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  Speaker 8: and kind of dictating what comes to the floor, then,
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  Speaker 8: you know, more restrictive access to abortion, worse voter suppression
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  Speaker 8: laws will be things that are passing through the House
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  Speaker 8: and landing in the Senate. And, you know, hopefully nothing
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  Speaker 8: happens there in the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: So, in other words, we would be handing over one-sixth
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  Speaker 7: of our government to a group of very stupid, kind
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  Speaker 7: of crazy people who would do bad shit?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent.
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  Speaker 8: You're summarizing everything so succinctly.
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  Speaker 7: But there is one specific threat with the Republican House
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  Speaker 7: that we don't talk about enough, which is what would
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  Speaker 7: happen if the Republicans were in control of the House
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  Speaker 7: after the votes are cast in the 2024 election? What
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  Speaker 7: specific threat would that have?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so we were really fortunate in 2020 that in 2018,
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  Speaker 8: a ton of people put in a ton of work
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  Speaker 8: and were able to get Democrats elected.
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  Speaker 5: We called it a blue wave.
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  Speaker 8: We were able to take control of the House, which
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  Speaker 8: is really important because the House certifies the electoral college votes,
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  Speaker 8: which if Republicans had been in charge, about a third
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  Speaker 8: of them, or sorry, two thirds of them voted against
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  Speaker 8: certifying the election. So if they had the majority, the
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  Speaker 8: election wouldn't have been certified and they would have, you know,
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  Speaker 8: kind of pushed through their attempt to overturn the election.
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  Speaker 8: And so, you know, everyone got really engaged in 2018
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  Speaker 8: and we were able to flip the house. But if we,
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  Speaker 8: you know, instead of seeing a blue wave or even
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  Speaker 8: just holding on to the majority next year and we
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  Speaker 8: see a red wave, Republicans will actually have the power to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, overturn election results that they don't like in 2024.
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  Speaker 7: We obviously have a very narrow margin in the House.
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  Speaker 7: We have no margin in the Senate. What are the
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  Speaker 7: odds that we can keep our Senate majority next year?
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  Speaker 8: Actually, better than the House. All the states that no
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  Speaker 8: Democrat is running to defend a seat in a state
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  Speaker 8: that Trump won last year.
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  Speaker 2: So that's good.
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  Speaker 8: But we have four states where they're extremely competitive races.
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  Speaker 8: So that's Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Nevada. We have
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  Speaker 8: to keep those seats. Like, I don't think there's a
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  Speaker 8: world in which we lose any of those and we
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  Speaker 8: maintain our majority in the Senate. But there's other states
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  Speaker 8: where we actually have an opportunity as well. North Carolina,
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  Speaker 8: which hopefully we don't have any more Cal Cunningham situations there. Wisconsin, Florida,
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  Speaker 8: where Marco Rubio is senator. And then maybe even Ohio, which,
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  Speaker 8: you know, Dan does not agree with me on, but
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  Speaker 8: it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: We'll bring all of our Slack conversations into the live stream.
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  Speaker 7: Makes it seem cool.
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  Speaker 8: That was from an in-person meeting.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, since we're going to try to end on a
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  Speaker 7: positive note here, it's not just that we can keep
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  Speaker 7: the Senate. Could we even expand our Senate by maybe
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  Speaker 7: two seats and then maybe be able to make a
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  Speaker 7: promise to everyone that we will never, ever mention Joe
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  Speaker 7: Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema again?
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  Speaker 8: If we get those two, then yes, we can make
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  Speaker 8: that promise to people.
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  Speaker 6: Although.
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  Speaker 7: If that's not a reason to give to this fund,
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  Speaker 7: I do not know what is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, don't you never want to hear about two
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  Speaker 8: people who definitely don't represent the interests of most of
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  Speaker 8: the country, but specifically Kirsten Sinema doesn't seem to be
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  Speaker 8: representing most of the interests of her constituents. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: not having to bend over backwards for them to piss
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  Speaker 8: us off all the time I'm not gonna go on
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  Speaker 8: my whole soapbox about them too but if we can
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  Speaker 8: get rid of them like we don't have to talk
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  Speaker 8: about them anymore we can actually start passing more progressive
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  Speaker 8: policies out of the Senate so that alone if you
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  Speaker 8: if you don't wanna see you know another curtsy thumbs
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  Speaker 8: down on raising the minimum wage or hear about Joe
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  Speaker 8: Manchin and his boat, then, you know, just donate some
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  Speaker 8: money to the No Off Years Fund at crooked.com slash nooffyears.
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  Speaker 8: And right now we're raising money to get voters registered
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  Speaker 8: in six states that will have a tremendous impact on
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  Speaker 8: us keeping the Senate, but also we're registering new voters
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  Speaker 8: will actually make a difference. These are states where the
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  Speaker 8: margins in 2020 were pretty close, and there's a significant
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  Speaker 8: number of unregistered voters that can make the difference next year.
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  Speaker 7: Before we go, any other races below House and Senate
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  Speaker 7: that people should be focused on and that the NOAA
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  Speaker 7: Fears Fund will be helping?
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  Speaker 8: Yes. So there are so many important races that are
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  Speaker 8: not happening at the federal level. First, governor's races in Michigan, Kansas,
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  Speaker 8: and Wisconsin. Democratic governors are the last line of defense
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  Speaker 8: against Republican-led legislatures, you know, from passing maps to, you know,
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  Speaker 8: voter suppression laws and anti-abortion laws, governors are able to
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  Speaker 8: veto these laws and protect us from, you know, just
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  Speaker 8: the crazy things Republicans want to do. And then specifically
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  Speaker 8: thinking about Georgia last year, I know we don't want
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  Speaker 8: to put him on a pedestal, but having a halfway
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  Speaker 8: decent Secretary of State in Georgia allowed for Trump not
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  Speaker 8: to push through and get the election overturned there. And
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  Speaker 8: so Secretary of State elections and local election official elections
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  Speaker 8: are going to be really important for us to pay
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  Speaker 8: attention to because they will ultimately in 2024 either help
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  Speaker 8: Republicans overturn election results they don't like or be the
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  Speaker 8: protection we have against them being able to do that.
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  Speaker 7: Because repetition is the key to good messaging. You say
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  Speaker 7: one more time where people can donate and where that
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  Speaker 7: money will go.
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  Speaker 8: Crooked.com slash no off years. And it will go to
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  Speaker 8: help crassers, organizers in the states that will have the
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  Speaker 8: biggest impact on us, keeping the Senate and expanding our
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  Speaker 8: margin there and, you know, hopefully keeping the House as well,
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  Speaker 8: but also keeping governors in office and building a good
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  Speaker 8: foundation for 2024.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Our next guests are very impressive people. Please welcome What
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  Speaker 4: A Day's Travelle Anderson and Gideon Resnick with some headlines
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  Speaker 4: that sum up 2021.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, hello, hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everyone, again.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for having us. Like Levitt said, we are
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  Speaker 9: the most impressive people you will ever meet. And we're
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  Speaker 9: going to read three headlines from this year that best
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  Speaker 9: sum up 2021 or at least sum it up pretty well.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, this is from October 22nd. Trump's third act as
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  Speaker 10: a webmaster began on Wednesday with the announcement of his
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  Speaker 10: Twitter clone, Truth Social.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 10: The site will give conservatives a new home on the
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  Speaker 10: internet and will also let Trump have a social media
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  Speaker 10: account without registering his alter ego, Armando Florida. The app
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  Speaker 10: hasn't launched yet, but early signs point to an extremely
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  Speaker 10: strict theme to get into the jargon.
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  Speaker 2: Tweets are called truths.
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Retweets are called retruths.
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  Speaker 9: I'm getting it.
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  Speaker 10: And the news feed is known as the truth feed.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because they do truth over there. Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 10: The platform is just one aspect of a much larger
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  Speaker 10: operation Trump is cooking up called Trump Media and Technology Group,
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  Speaker 10: which will supposedly compete with Disney Plus and Netflix.
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  Speaker 9: And win against them, I might add.
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  Speaker 10: We will soon find out.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: TMTG Plus will specialize in non-woke content, which there's actually
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  Speaker 10: no shortage of since our world has been mostly racist, sexist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I can go down a long list.
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  Speaker 6: For all of human history. That's the truth.
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  Speaker 10: Truth Social isn't even live yet, but its parent company,
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  Speaker 10: TMTG Plus, already values itself at nearly $ 900 million.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that is.
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: Not an overestimate in the slightest.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, have you been paying attention to the news, Gideon?
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: I have, because I have to do it for my job,
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: for which we are really good at and quite impressive.
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: Please donate, once again.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Here is a headline from March 12th. There is a
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: new way for art to be confusing. It has to
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: do with so-called non-fungible tokens, which allowed an image file
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: from an artist called Beeple to sell for 69 million
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: real American dollars at auction yesterday. we missed out, and
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: we will talk about it later. Non-fungible tokens can be
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: thought of like certificates of authenticity that are stored on
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: the blockchain. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin also rely on the blockchain.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: At a time when interest in crypto is skyrocketing, prices
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: of NFTs tagged to art, sports highlights, tweets, and even
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: virtual sneakers are soaring as well. Soon, an NFT of
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: this very image that you are watching will sell for
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: quite a lot of money. Thank you very much.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, but I'm not in that image.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's the right one.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: Don't bid yet.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Make sure you get the right one.
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: To suburban dads in museums scoffing at Rothkos because all
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: they are is colors.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Truly suck on this.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Critics of NFTs say they're valueless and the digital assets
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: they're connected to can often be accessed for free anyway.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: It sounds like a great note from someone who doesn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: want to make 100 million smackaroos.
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: Have you made an NFT yet?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Have you sold one? Have you bought one?
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: I haven't, but I greatly look forward to the profits
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: that will roll in after this fundraiser.
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: And lastly, this headline is from April 5th. Add operating
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: a huge boat to the list of things women can't
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: do without getting harassed. Last month, Egypt's first female ship
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: captain was briefly blamed for the mess at the Suez Canal,
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: despite being on a different ship at the time hundreds
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: of miles away.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Fucked up.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Rumors that the woman caused the crash circulated on social media.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: It's worth noting that women only account for 2% of
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: the world's seafarers. The ocean is an extremely male-dominated space,
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: except for, of course, Little Mermaid and seahorses, who, as
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: we know, transcend gender, as the best of us do.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Shout out.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: As far as who did cause the Suez Canal crash,
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: two investigations are currently underway, and the ship's owner and
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: its insurers could be on the hook for hundreds of
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: millions of dollars. Honestly, based on the mileage everyone got
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: out of this story, I think we owe it to
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: them to start a GoFundMe.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: And that GoFundMe will eventually fund... The NFT that you
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: will buy of this image that you are looking at. Again,
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: thank you for fundraising once more.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: Again, not everyone would say that though. were the year's
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: most important stories but they definitely were stories from this year.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah and that's all we promised to get more opinions
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: on how people are looking back on 2021 we hit
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: the streets let's hear what they all had to say
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: with our man on the street what a day's head
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: writer john milstein.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, what a year. I'm John Milstein, head writer of
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: the What A Day podcast. And most of the time,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: I'm cool with being behind the scenes. It doesn't make
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: me feel bad. For a lot of us, 2021 was
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: a year that sucked ass, balls, pussy, and dick. But
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: I don't want to remember it that way. That's why
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I'm here on the streets of Los Angeles, asking people what,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: if anything, made this year tolerable to just okay. What
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: about the year was good for you?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: It was the best year of my life. My daughter
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: got married, so I was very happy about that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: The husband, could you kick his ass?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Um, maybe.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I switched my jobs because it was like really bad,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: so I got a raise.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: This is actually good information to have for all of
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: our employers. The company that the three of us all
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: work for should take us seriously. Do you remember the
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: five hours when Instagram went down?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: How did you keep yourself from going insane?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I don't really use it that much.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, right, right. Me neither. I don't use it that much.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: I'm only on it all the time. Did you make
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: money on GameStop, like all my toxic male friends?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: You and I, we're smart guys. How the f *
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: * * did we miss out on this?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I don't play into that stuff too much. It gets
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: really complicated.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: The stuff of having a bunch of money? Were there
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: any good birds that you saw in 2021? Yeah, tons.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: The serious birdie was in 2020 when there was no traffic.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: So 2020 was a better year for birding than 2021.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: But you would not say coronavirus was worth it for
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: the birding.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: No way.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Thank God.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Me neither.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Do you know who this is?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: So this man was able to make 100,000 people happy
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: for a day simply by putting on mittens. Do we
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: need politicians to mitten up more? I mean, is that
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: going to be what it takes?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: It was a very cold day.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And he's an older gentleman.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: I bet in the winter of the 1960s, he was
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: wearing mittens. In the 1970s, he was wearing mittens if
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: it was cold. Hard to say whether the consistency of
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: policies is what makes Bernie so popular or if it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: just sort of the consistency of winter wear. This was
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: the most beautiful thing I saw, a visit between our
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: current president, Joe Biden, and his wife, and our former president,
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Jimmy Carter, and his wife. And as you can see,
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Joe Biden seems to have used some sort of magic
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: spell to make him about three or four times the
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: size of Jimmy Carter, probably as a way to scare
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Jimmy Carter out of trying to steal the presidency back.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I love that that's what you gathered from this picture.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: You know, you'd have to be crazy to think anything
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: else with all due respect. They're saying that there are
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: four people who had the best 2021. Do you recognize
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: these four?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, these four.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: This is the Ralphs on Hollywood and Western. What if
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: I told you that I was in this stall eating
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: my lunch alone? You know how sometimes you go to
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: the bathroom to eat lunch because you can't find a
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: person to eat with? Yeah. So I'm there eating my lunch. Meanwhile,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: the four most popular people in the world are out
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: there having a Bacchanalian orgy. One thing that happened in
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: 2021 that was good was that we finally elected a
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: politician who cares about the things that we care about.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: The Hard Rock group Imagine Dragons. Would you mind reading
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: some of these tweets about Imagine Dragons?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Looking forward to your write-up of the new Imagine Dragons album.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Picking up the new Imagine Dragons album on iTunes released today.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Yay!
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Imagine Dragons fans are called fire breathers. And we finally have,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: after so much struggle, a fire breather in the Senate.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Is that a reason to like 2021?
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: One last thing we're doing... We're giving away a t-shirt
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: to the person who had hiccups for the largest number
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: of consecutive days in 2021. Did you have hiccups for
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: any days in a row?
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It usually doesn't last for like, I'd say more than
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: an hour.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Like an hour.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Zero days.
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: I'm really sorry. You lost to the evil president of Brazil,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Jair Bolsonaro, who had hiccups for 10 days that were
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: so bad. He had to go to the hospital. There's
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: no more valiant way to lose than to, honestly, the
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: greatest hiccupper that probably has ever been. If your body
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: is giving you hiccups for 10 days in a row,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: your body knows the score and wants you dead.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Now that I've talked to some people and showed them
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: some photographs that I actually brought here myself, I'm starting
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: to feel less strongly about how bad this year sucked. Sure,
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: there were some people who say that it sucked ass, balls, pussy,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: and dick. There were other people who say it just
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: sucked balls. But there was beauty in 2021 as well.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: And unlike the Carters photographed next to the Bidens, that
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: beauty wasn't small. So let's all remember that. Back to you,
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: what a year.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: And we're back.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Joining us now with a game of Take Survivor, it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Crooked's own Jason Concepcion. And joining him is Jon Favreau,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Louis Vertel, Caroline Reston, and Kendra James. Jason Concepcion.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right. You know what that sound is. It's
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: the drums, the hypnotic drums of Take Survivor, the game
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: where only the strongest takes survives. Joining us today, he
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: is our boss. John Favreau, co-host of Pod Save America.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: John, how are you? I'm pretty good.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: She is a producer, one of the greatest producers that
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: the world has ever seen. Caroline Reston, rest in peace.
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: I was not aware I was on this segment with
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: my boss, so regretting all my answers.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: He is the co-host of Keep It, Lose for Tell.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: And he also... I understand he can name every Oscar
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: winner ever. 1965 Best Supporting Actor.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Martin Balsam in A Thousand Clowns. Have you ever seen Psycho?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: He plays the cop in it. And he used to
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: be George Clooney's father-in-law.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Amazing. Amazing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable stuff. And she is a senior producer here at
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Crooked Media, Kendra James. Kendra, how are you?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Hello. I'm shaken every time I hear him do that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: So here's how it works, folks. If you've ever listened
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: to Take Line, the podcast that I co-host with two-time
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: WNBA champion Ray Montgomery, you know how this game.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Works, but here's how it works.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: There'll be three rounds, three prompts, three questions. Our contestants
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: will give their takes. And then you, the stream team,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: or whatever we're calling the people in the chat, will
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: then vote for the person who is booted from the
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: island each round until we get to the finals, in
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: which case you will vote for the winner.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Everybody clear on what's going to happen here today?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: One of the ruder games. People are actually eliminated. Feelings
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: will be hurt.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: You know, it's, you know, Squid Game, all of that,
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Battle Royale. You know what the deal is. Call of
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Duty Warzone, it's a lot like that. It's ruthless, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: only one take can survive. First question. What is the
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: best holiday gift? Is it a gift card? Is it
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: a sweater? Is it some socks? What is the best
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: holiday gift? John. John.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: A puppy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You're never going to ask for it, but if you
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: get it, you're going to be really excited. You're going
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to keep it. You're going to be overjoyed even though
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you didn't think you wanted it. And it's going to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: be your friend for life. You should give people puppies.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Strong opener.
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: A large cost you will be incurring from that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: A strong opener once again. Caroline, since you have strong
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: feelings about that, what is the best... holiday gift? What
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: is the best gift?
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: So I would say anything that's going to be impacted
• 28:16
  Speaker 13: by the supply chain is the ideal gift. So what
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: I mean by that is like something material, something you
• 28:21
  Speaker 13: can own, something you can wear, something you can touch.
• 28:23
  Speaker 13: And I know the holidays are all about like giving.
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: And it's like the thought that counts. But if you're
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: going to write me a DIY heartfelt letter, save it
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: for Thanksgiving, bitch. The holidays are about asking the people
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: you love to buy you shit. And why would you
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: say no to that? Like, don't deny it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: Accept it. Mom, if you're watching, go to stod-clothing.com. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: want a new purse. Thank you so much.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Anything supply chain, microchips, anything that uses cobalt, that is
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: what Caroline would like for the holidays. Lewis, what's the
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: best gift?
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: First of all, that was like a wrap. I was like,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I can't believe I just witnessed that. Second of all,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: my answer is among friends, which is fancy underwear. It's
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: not something you're necessarily going to buy for yourself. And
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: it brings you closer to your friends because you're both like,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: we're in this together. We want to look fancy. Sex
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: is important to us. We got to look cool. We
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: want to wear silk. But I don't want to buy
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: that for myself necessarily and wait for that in the mail.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So your friends looking out for you being like, you
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: know what? I know what like your cakes look best
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: in and I'm going to buy this for you. It's
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: really intimate and friendly and we all grow from it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Kendra.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: OK, so while I he is my boss, I do
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: have to directly disagree. I do not want a responsibility
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: for Christmas. I don't want a plant. I don't want
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: an animal. Nothing. What I want is for you to
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: do unto me as I would do to myself, which
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: means contributing to my Beyonce fund. I don't know how
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: she moves. I don't know what her plan is, but
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I know that she will drop a ticket to out
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: of thin air, give me money to contribute to that fund,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: or if she happens to do something in December, that's
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: usually not her way, but if she does, I want
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: that ticket. It must be VIP, and I would like
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: to be in front of the stage.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Wow, Beyonce fund.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: The vague idea of Beyonce occurring at any given moment. Exactly.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Well, you have to be ready. She demands preparedness.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App contribute to the Beyonce fund.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: You can do that right now. Let's go to the voting.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: This is democracy in action, folks, and direct democracy, not
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: a republic. This is a direct democracy. Whoever you would
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: like to see booted from this round of Take Survivor,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: please vote for them with hashtag their initials. So hashtag
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: JF for Jon Favreau, our boss. I'm not suggesting you
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: do that. I'm just saying. Hashtag CR for Caroline Reston.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Hashtag LV for Louis. And hashtag KJ for Kendra James. Folks,
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: who's it going to be? Is it going to be
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Jon Favreau who says, how would you like to feed
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: something for 13 years and pick up its shit.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Will it be.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Caroline Reston who says, supply chain folks, you know why
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: the air is so bad in Los Angeles? Because we've
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: got all these container ships off the coast. Maybe that's
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: the reason. She says, isn't that great? Let's contribute to it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Will it be Lewis?
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: That's accurate.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Who says, get me a song, get me something lacy,
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: some nice boxers.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: It's also $ 700 less than a puppy. Oh my.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Still a lot. Free puppies.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: There's free puppies everywhere.
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Or it'll be Kendra James who says, my Beyonce fund,
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: that is the best gift. Tickets to Beyonce, the gift
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: that keeps on giving. The votes are coming in now.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Let's take a look. I can barely see it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Tough for me.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: And who has been ejected? Well, the first boot in
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: this what a year edition of Take Survivor is apparently Mr.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Puppy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Jon Favreau. Jon, what do you have to say?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I'm getting you all a puppy.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: That's what I'm going to do.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Vicious. Enjoy.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Enjoy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Democracy in action. Folks, it's time for round two.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Bye, guys.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Bye. He's crying. It's super weird.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: It's very tough. Much like a puppy after 14 years
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: shuffling off stage. Folks, round two.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Are you ready? Yes.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: What is the best, what's the best holiday song? What's
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: the best holiday song ever written? You can go back
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: in time to something from the American Songbook. You can
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: do something more recent. What's the best holiday song? Caroline,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: what's the best holiday song?
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: The best holiday song is N.
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: Sing's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: Why is that song the best song? Because that song
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: is fucking chaos.
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: You can tell the NSYNC guys just wanted to sing
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: Merry Christmas, and some studio was like, but what if
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: we added Happy Holidays? And they're like, fine. If you
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: go listen to that song, there are about 35 mentions.
• 32:58
  Speaker 13: I counted mentions of Christmas. Three mentions of Happy Holidays.
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: And what I love so much about this song is
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: that it reminds us that the liberals saw on Christmas
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  Speaker 13: is real, and that's what I want to be reminded
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  Speaker 13: of every holiday season.
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  Speaker 5: Can you sing the chorus?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
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  Speaker 3: And we're getting sued.
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  Speaker 11: Three mentions of Christmas there.
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  Speaker 5: Lewis, first of all, 1949 adapted screenplay.
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  Speaker 2: Adapted? Oh, All the King's Men.
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  Speaker 5: Lewis, what is the best holiday song?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good answer if you shop exclusively at Target.
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  Speaker 2: But I think a great answer... for all time is
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  Speaker 2: we need a little Christmas from the musical Mame because
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  Speaker 2: most Christmas songs are just about like, we're in the
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  Speaker 2: holiday season, it's nice, it's snowing outside. This is about
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  Speaker 2: the urgency of Christmas. We need a little Christmas right
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  Speaker 2: this very minute. I want it. You know what I mean?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I want the gifts. I want the Veruca saltness of Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I earn gifts now. And also Angela Lansbury
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  Speaker 2: sings it, and I'm gonna say she's a slightly more
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  Speaker 2: artistic singer than J.C. Chazze or whatever you were throwing
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  Speaker 2: down over there.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hyperventilating.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 11: Unbelievable stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Angela Lansbury, serial killer from, what was her crime show?
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  Speaker 2: Murder, She Wrote. She was a mystery writer, but okay.
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  Speaker 5: She was around a lot of murders. That's all I
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  Speaker 5: have to say about that. It's very, very suspicious. Kendra,
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  Speaker 5: what is the best holiday song?
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  Speaker 3: As you may be able to tell, I am black.
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  Speaker 3: And thus, the best holiday song is This Christmas. It
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  Speaker 3: is also the most versatile holiday song. You have a
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  Speaker 3: Fantasia version. You have the classic Donny Hathaway version if
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  Speaker 3: you just want soulful. If there's a marshmallow on your
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  Speaker 3: Christmas table or your Thanksgiving table, you have the Pentatonix version.
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  Speaker 3: You can also, if your Christmas is happening in hell,
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  Speaker 3: there's the Chris Brown version. There's something for everyone. So
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  Speaker 3: this Christmas, best holiday song, hands down.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, folks. Let's take it to the voters once again.
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  Speaker 5: Stream Team, you know what to do. You're voting for
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  Speaker 5: the person you'd like to see ejected from the island
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  Speaker 5: once again. After round two of Take Survivor, you're voting
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  Speaker 5: with their initials, hashtag their initials.
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  Speaker 2: Who will it be?
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  Speaker 5: Will it be Caroline Reston, who says, and sinks, Merry Christmas,
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  Speaker 5: Happy Holidays.
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  Speaker 11: Good song.
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  Speaker 5: Will it be Kendra, who says, This Christmas, with a
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  Speaker 5: multitude of versions.
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  Speaker 3: There are 30 versions. 30 of them.
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  Speaker 9: One for everyone.
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  Speaker 5: 30 versions, Zannie Hathaway, Fantasia, et cetera. Will it be Lewis,
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  Speaker 5: who says, You want it. You need it. You need
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  Speaker 5: just a little Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: The urgency is what's important, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Who's it going to be, folks? The votes are coming in.
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  Speaker 5: Very exciting. Any least favorite holiday songs up here on
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  Speaker 5: the couch, on the stage?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe It's Cold Outside.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: That's sort of the traditional lib answer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, tough one. Let's see. Oh, my gosh. Well, The
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  Speaker 5: People Have Spoken. And they have said Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake.
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  Speaker 6: Lance Ass.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Joseph Fatone. JC Chassé.
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  Speaker 11: This is disgusting.
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  Speaker 6: This is rigged.
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  Speaker 11: I don't like it.
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  Speaker 5: GTFO. NSYNC. Caroline, what do you have to say?
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  Speaker 13: I feel like all I have to say is everyone
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  Speaker 13: who voted for me is now deprived the joy of
• 36:46
  Speaker 13: ever listening to NSYNC.
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: You go to a club, you're not allowed to listen
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  Speaker 11: to NSYNC. You leave immediately. No more joy for you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Goodbye. Just two Jeopardy champions. No, not champions.
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  Speaker 2: Two Jeopardy losers.
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  Speaker 5: And that, folks, is how you go out with class.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the finals of Take Survivor. What a year edition.
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  Speaker 5: Please give it up one time for our finalists. Kendra
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  Speaker 5: and Louis.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, you didn't bring up the Patti LaBelle
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  Speaker 2: version on YouTube. It's great. You've got to watch that
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: on YouTube if you haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 6: She's wonderful.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Stream team, just going to remind you once again, we're
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: going to be voting for the winner after this round.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: And here is our question. What is the perfect New
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Year's Eve celebration? The perfect New Year's Eve celebration. Louis,
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  Speaker 5: let's start with you.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Here it is. going to bed earlier than
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  Speaker 2: you ever have in your entire life. Don't even participate
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  Speaker 2: in the night. Don't drink a thing. It's 4.30, you're tired.
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  Speaker 2: Get into the bed. Sleep like this. Put your head
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  Speaker 2: between your knees. Don't hear a thing. Don't interact with anybody.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Don't accept greetings. Don't text anybody. Don't look on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get ideas for going out. Don't even remember what
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  Speaker 2: going out is. Just say, I'm a person who needs sleep.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get it now. And then I'll emerge
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: in the midst of this horrible Kafka-esque tragedy we call January.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating January. Think about celebrating January. That's what this holiday is.
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  Speaker 2: Say no.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: My birthday's in January, Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: See, this is what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: That felt personal.
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  Speaker 7: Kendra.
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  Speaker 2: Kendra.
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  Speaker 5: What is the ultimate, the perfect, the ideal New Year's
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  Speaker 5: Eve celebration?
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  Speaker 3: Got to say it's similar to Lewis. I'm at home.
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  Speaker 3: I'm alone. No one's bothering me, not even my husband.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I'm ignoring calls from friends, relatives, loved ones, coworkers. No
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: one's getting in touch with me. I'm in the tub.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I have my iPad set up on the tub tray,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: and I'm watching the compilation video on YouTube. of all
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: the girls trying to hit that note in Astonishing from
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Little Women, the Christopher Columbus part. That's what I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 5: That's ideal.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not watching anything on television. I don't need to
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  Speaker 3: see a ball drop.
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  Speaker 5: Happy New Year's, everybody. Wow.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: I'm 34.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: What do you want from me? Let's give it to
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: the stream team. This is it. This is the big finals, everybody.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: You are voting for the winner. You are voting for
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: your favorite take of what is the perfect New Year's
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Eve celebration. It will be Louis who said, go to bed.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Go to bed. Go to bed right now. Go to
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: bed early.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Coma.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Don't worry about FOMO. Don't open your phone.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: No FOMO. Coma. That's right.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Go right to sleep. You're going to wake up rested.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Everybody's going to look like a zombie, and you're going
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: to feel great. Or will it be Kendra, who very
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: similarly said... Also leave me alone, husband, you too. I'm
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: going to be in the bathroom in the tub watching
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: a compilation video of ladies singing the high note in Astonishing. Folks,
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: let's take it to the votes. It's looking very close
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Not that close.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, we're trying to pump up the suspense.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: And folks, the winner of the first annual What a
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: Year edition of Take Survivor First of all, who won
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: the 1938 Oscar for Best Actress?
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Best Actress.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Betty Davis, her second.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Louis Rattel. What do you have to say?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I think I said it, frankly. Feeling good, endorphins flying
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: through me, up through me. I feel like a poem.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I'm just full of feeling. And we're back.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone watching this stream, thank you so much for your generosity.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: But before we say goodnight, let us leave you with
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: a song. Please welcome to the stage Jenna Bird and
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  Speaker 4: the Crooked Media Gay Men's Chorus.
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  Speaker 2: It's a December 7th miracle. AOC, bless us, everyone.
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  Speaker 10: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, guys. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely. What a show.
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  Speaker 3: Jenna Bird, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 12: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 14: In the first month of this year, my timeline gave
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: to me a mob in the heart of D.C. In
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: the second month of this year, my timeline gave to
• 41:38
  Speaker 14: me impeachment trial two.
• 41:42
  Speaker 15: And a mob in the heart of DC. In the
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  Speaker 15: third month of this year, my timeline gave to me
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  Speaker 15: big stuck vote, impeachment trial two.
• 41:58
  Speaker 16: And a mob in the heart of DC.
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  Speaker 12: In the fourth month of this.
• 42:06
  Speaker 14: Year, my timeline gave to me Biden's biting dog, big
• 42:12
  Speaker 14: stuck boat, beachman trial too.
• 42:15
  Speaker 16: And a mob in the heart of D.C.
• 42:20
  Speaker 12: With more gusto.
• 42:21
  Speaker 14: On the fifth month of this year, my timeline gave
• 42:26
  Speaker 14: to me tug big stuck boat impeachment trial.
• 42:39
  Speaker 16: To end a mob in the heart.
• 42:43
  Speaker 14: Of dc y'all sound beautiful on the sixth month of
• 42:48
  Speaker 14: this year my timeline came to me whale swallowed.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: A guy jay.
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  Speaker 14: Biden's fighting dog, big stuck boat, impeachment trial too, and
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: a mob in the heart of D.C. In the seventh
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: month of this year, my timeline gave to me, billionaires a-launching, whale-swallowed.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: A guy, Dave.
• 43:32
  Speaker 14: Fighting dog, big stuck boat, impeachment trial too, and a
• 43:37
  Speaker 14: mob in the heart of D.C. In the eighth month
• 43:44
  Speaker 14: of this year, my timeline gave to me horse goo,
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: a selling billionaire, a launching whale, swallowed a guy, Jay
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: Biden's biting dog, big stuck, vote impeachment trial too, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: a mob in the heart of D.C. In the ninth
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: month of this year, my timeline came to me. Fake
• 44:17
  Speaker 14: calls a swelling horse, who was sideling Billy Gantt as
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: a launching whale swallowed a guy.
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: Biden's fighting dog, big stuck, vote impeachment trial too.
• 44:35
  Speaker 15: And a mob in the.
• 44:36
  Speaker 12: Heart of D.C.
• 44:40
  Speaker 14: In the tenth month of this year, my timeline gave
• 44:44
  Speaker 14: to me unions a striking fake, balls a swelling, horse
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: goo a standing, billionaires a launching, whale swallowed a.
• 44:54
  Speaker 16: Guy, J.
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  Speaker 5: Lo and.
• 45:00
  Speaker 14: Biden's binding dog, big stud, vote impeachment trial too, and.
• 45:06
  Speaker 16: A mob in the heart of D.C.
• 45:11
  Speaker 14: In the 11th month of this year, my timeline came
• 45:15
  Speaker 14: to me.
• 45:16
  Speaker 17: Britney Spears, a freeing phone, men's a striking feat, balls
• 45:21
  Speaker 17: a swelling horse, who was selling, billionaires a launching, well-swallowed a.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: Guy, yay!
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: Beautiful.
• 45:32
  Speaker 17: Guidance-fighting dog makes the vote.
• 45:36
  Speaker 12: Impeachment trial to.
• 45:38
  Speaker 16: End the mob in the heart of D.C.
• 45:42
  Speaker 12: We made it, everyone.
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: Last one.
• 45:43
  Speaker 14: In the 12th month of this year, my timeline.
• 45:47
  Speaker 16: Came to me. No more a Cuomo's Britney.
• 45:51
  Speaker 14: Spears of green. Mutants are striking. Big balls are swelling.
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: Whores boost the selling. Billionaires are launching. Whales will load
• 46:01
  Speaker 14: a guy every big day.
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• 46:27
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• 46:31
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