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You're Not Batman, You're Divorced | Friday November 28, 2025 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Speaker 2: So let's start today with something especially holiday themed. All right,
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Speaker 2: let me pulled this up. A senior executive at Campbell
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Speaker 2: Soup Company was allegedly caught making disparaging remarks about the company.
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Speaker 1: We're looking at healthy brands, avocado based oil. Healthy. If
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Speaker 2: The Michigan lawsuit claims executive Martin Valley was secretly recorded
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Speaker 2: by a former employee.
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Speaker 1: I don't know he said chicken. It came from a
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Speaker 1: three D printer and you.
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Speaker 2: The meeting was recorded by Robert Garz, a former cybersecurity
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Speaker 2: analyst at Campbell who later filed a discrimination suit against Bally.
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Speaker 2: Guarza said he met with him expecting to discuss salary.
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Speaker 2: He alleges he was later terminated after raising concerns about
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Speaker 2: the executive. Campbell said Bally was placed on temporary leave
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Speaker 2: as the company conducts an internal investigation. Well, there's nothing
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Speaker 2: like leading into a holiday and having one of your
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Speaker 2: top executives being whistleblown all over social media and on
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Speaker 2: the Washington Post. Fascinating there from Campbell's. Also, timing couldn't
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Speaker 2: be better because new from Campbell's just in time for
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Speaker 2: the holiday. Cream of Campbell's executive, full of hate and stupidity,
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Speaker 2: a dash of corporate cover up, and just a hint
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Speaker 2: of racism. If you're wondering where the racism comes in,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. Martin Bally is a vice president and
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Speaker 2: chief information officer at the food giant. He said, hearing
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Speaker 2: a meeting that Campbell's products were highly processed food for
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Speaker 2: poor people, that Indian employees were idiots whom he disliked
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Speaker 2: working with. That's according to the employment discrimination complaint filed
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Speaker 2: by Garza. Garza said in the lawsuit he was fired
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Speaker 2: after telling a supervisor about the comments that he planned
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Speaker 2: to report them to the HR department. So there's your
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Speaker 2: dash of corporate cover up. And then the more hints
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Speaker 2: of racism came when Garza's attorney provided The Washington Post
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Speaker 2: with a lengthy recording other conversation which Bally can allegedly
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Speaker 2: be heard complaining about an incident during which employees could
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Speaker 2: not be reached in a technical emergency, saying, effing Indians
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Speaker 2: they couldn't think for their effing selves. He can also
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Speaker 2: allegedly be heard suggesting that the company suits possibly used
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Speaker 2: bioengineered meat. A statement from Campbell's said these statements, if
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Speaker 2: they were in fact made, are unacceptable. They do not
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Speaker 2: reflect our values and the culture of our company. And
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Speaker 2: they also said, no, we use real chicken in our products.
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Speaker 2: Any claims otherwise or false. Hmm, I can't wait to
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Speaker 2: rip open my can of Campbell's cream a mushroom from
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Speaker 2: my green bean casserole. Well, happy freaking holidays. Sorry, you've
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Speaker 2: got the look of discernment on your face. Do you
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Speaker 2: smell a stinky?
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Speaker 1: I mean the what was he he's the CTO.
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Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, he's yeah, thank you, Jerry Cio, chief information
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Speaker 2: officer and vice president I'm sorry, vice president and chief
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Speaker 2: information security officer at.
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Speaker 1: Campbell, so about as far away as from production as
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Speaker 1: you could be, I am. I always find it interesting,
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Speaker 1: you know, when people take recordings into meetings and then
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Speaker 1: they go, oh, but there's more, Well, why didn't you
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Speaker 1: really more so, either you're blackmailing the company or I
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Speaker 1: don't know it just I mean, the guy's an asshole.
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Speaker 1: He just hurts to be fired. I mean, how long.
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Speaker 2: Does this internal investigation really need to be? I mean,
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Speaker 2: this seems pretty cut and dry. Is that him? Bye?
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Speaker 2: Is it not him? Then you're fine?
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Speaker 1: But I also, I guess I'm at a point now.
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Speaker 1: And you know you can get a can of soup
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Speaker 1: for ninety nine cents. Yeah, I know. It's highly processed.
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Speaker 1: It's m it is what it is.
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Speaker 2: There is something to be said about saying the quiet
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Speaker 2: part out loud is one of the ways to phrase
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Speaker 2: it these days, which is another way of saying, well,
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Speaker 2: we're just I'm kind of saying what we all already know.
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Speaker 2: It's just not really said. It's more understood. I certainly
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Speaker 2: don't expect, you know, some of Campbell's soup products to
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Speaker 2: not be high processed. I mean it's canned food. I
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Speaker 2: mean kind of by definition processed. I also know, and
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Speaker 2: all the mushrooms I have handled in my life, I've
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Speaker 2: yet to see one pump out cream. And if I do,
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna eat it. But I know the soup
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Speaker 2: is tasty and it's an essential ingredient in my green
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Speaker 2: bean cast role. So yeah. The thing is, though, as
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Speaker 2: a high ranking company executive, you're not supposed to be
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Speaker 2: the one that says that stuff. You're supposed to waive
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Speaker 2: the company flag and go rah rah raie gay Campbell
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Speaker 2: not not talk trash about the ingredients and the company
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Speaker 2: to fellow employees, subordinates.
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Speaker 3: No less chief information security officer didn't keep that very secure,
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Speaker 3: did your brother?
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Speaker 2: No, stay in your lane, bro, You need to be
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Speaker 2: worried about the site. Which that's another angle on this story.
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Speaker 2: Campbell's soup has a cybersecurity department. Oh, twenty first century.
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, and then also anything a can
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Speaker 1: that it's gonna last five years, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, it's ninety nine cent cream of something
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Speaker 2: that doesn't typically have cream in it.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not shock regardless if I want soup or
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Speaker 1: have there's a recipe that calls for soup. That's my
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Speaker 1: first you know, I'm probably going towards you grabbing a
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Speaker 1: can of Campbell's mm hm hm.
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Speaker 3: Honestly thought roast it's very important part of the recipe.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean, honestly, at the top of my head,
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Speaker 2: I don't even I can't even think if Progresso or
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Speaker 2: I think that's the only other soup competitor I can
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Speaker 2: come up with. At the top of my head, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if they have cream of product lines or not.
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Speaker 3: No, they're usually like a full blown you know, it's
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Speaker 3: MINNESTRONI it's vegetable beef.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: And that's the other thing about what this guy said,
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Speaker 2: He's like lofing food for poor people. That's what soup is.
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Speaker 2: That's what soup has always been. It's you know, it's
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Speaker 2: it's the table scraps that we got from the monarchs
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Speaker 2: and the rulers and the lords, and then we just
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Speaker 2: throw it in some water or throw it in some
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Speaker 2: stock and tried to make it taste as good as
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Speaker 2: we could.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean chicken stock literally is you know. Oh,
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Speaker 1: they took the bones that the royalty weren't gonna eat,
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Speaker 1: and they pull it stock and took whatever meat was
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Speaker 1: going to be left off the bone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and marketing is not a brand new thing. They
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Speaker 2: called it chicken stock even back then because bone water
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Speaker 2: doesn't sell as well. Sure, that's what it is, but
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Speaker 2: let's not call it what it is. You know. Ah,
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Speaker 2: Campbell's just out of nowhere, just stepping in it. The
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Speaker 2: angle on this that does bother me at a real
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Speaker 2: authentic level is if what this for seeing whistleblower in
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Speaker 2: terms of a Campbell's Soup controversy. But here we are
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Speaker 2: if what this complainant is saying is true that he
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Speaker 2: went in had to have some sort of salary negotiation
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Speaker 2: and he ends up recording the conversation because the executive
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Speaker 2: is just just dogging the company left and right, and
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Speaker 2: he's saying bad things about the Indian employees. And then
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Speaker 2: if it's also true that he went to another supervisor
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Speaker 2: to report it and was fired, that's a severe problem.
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Speaker 2: And that's something that unfortunately is not limited to Campbell's
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Speaker 2: Soup that's something that happens at corporations. I think every
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Speaker 2: single day I've seen it happen where the company you
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Speaker 2: think you might be doing something right, and then about
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Speaker 2: halfway through the entire process you realize, Oh, the company's
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Speaker 2: not helping me. They're just protecting their executive yep. And
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Speaker 2: that's a realization to make.
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Speaker 1: I mean that that is an unfortunate realization. And corporate
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Speaker 1: America and government everything is that a lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of positions could be eliminated. But otherwise, you know,
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Speaker 1: people protect their position by screwing other people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, mm hmm, corporate one on one baby, Uh, I
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Speaker 2: had something else and now I just lost it because
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Speaker 2: I got I got stuck in a memory. What was that?
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Speaker 2: I could something in my ear? Get all. That's an
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Speaker 2: odd flutter in the audio stream. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: that was. Maybe we can fix it and post.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. If there was ever an industry where this rings true.
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Speaker 2: It's the media industry, without a doubt. And the sad
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Speaker 2: thing is, is your only recourse, like this guy, this
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Speaker 2: employee again, if all this is true, his only recourse
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Speaker 2: really is to go to the media and say, all right, look,
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Speaker 2: this is what's happening because I had a problem with
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Speaker 2: this guy, and I went to this guy to say, hey,
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Speaker 2: there's a problem with this guy, and that guy fired
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Speaker 2: me for it. So now that we got corporate cover
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Speaker 2: up type of situation, and the only recourse if you're
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Speaker 2: not being treated fairly by the company is to go
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Speaker 2: to the media. And you got a whistleblow and everyone
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Speaker 2: looks at you funny because number one, you're whistle blowing
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Speaker 2: on Campbell's soup, and number two, it's the first time
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Speaker 2: they've heard you actually say out loud that you work
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Speaker 2: at Campbell's Soup because it's not exactly high on people's
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Speaker 2: LinkedIn profile.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's also there's another factor to this, which is
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Speaker 1: you may not be popular with the company overall because
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Speaker 1: if their employees a lot of them are vested in
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Speaker 1: Campbell's stock, stuff like this tended to be uh, not
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Speaker 1: so good, So you may have cost everyone some money.
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Speaker 2: You said, vested in Campbell's stock.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary is not a position inside any presidential administration
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Speaker 2: that gets much attention unless there's been some sort of
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Speaker 2: tragedy or if he or she wants to tell everyone
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Speaker 2: what to do, especially while traveling over the holidays. And
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Speaker 2: that's exactly what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy did recently out
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Speaker 2: of Prescot on Friends Again.
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Speaker 7: I call this, uh, just maybe dressing with some respect.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 7: You know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
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Speaker 7: and a and a decent shirt, I would encourage.
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Speaker 2: People to maybe I would encourage someone to pay attention
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Speaker 2: to that dangerous sounding alarm in the background. Did anyone
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Speaker 2: else pick up on that?
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Speaker 7: Call this, uh just maybe dressing with some respect. Uh,
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Speaker 7: you know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
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Speaker 7: and a and a decent shirt. I would encourage people
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Speaker 7: to maybe dress a little better, which encourage us, encourages
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Speaker 7: us to maybe behave all a little better.
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Speaker 2: Let's so, I guess the head of the Transportation Department
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Speaker 2: wants to also be the head of the fashion police.
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Speaker 2: This this is what you're focusing on. Well, it's it's
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Speaker 2: it's ahead of traveling season. He's trying to say, you know,
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Speaker 2: the airports are back to normal after the shutdown, and
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Speaker 2: let's all kind of work together and make the you know,
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Speaker 2: the traveling experience as good as possible. I just I
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Speaker 2: do find it ironic though, you know, when it's the
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Speaker 2: freedom the people that say freedom, freedom, freedom, are now
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Speaker 2: telling me how I should dress or what they think
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Speaker 2: I should dress. Like, I'm more libertarian on that on
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Speaker 2: that front where it's like, how about you let me
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Speaker 2: dress how I want to dress, It's not it's a suggestion. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's a suggestion.
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Speaker 1: I mean, as someone who has traveled a fair amounta
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Speaker 1: in the last month. Uh, you know, people dress like
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Speaker 1: shit when they're flying. I mean it looks like people,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're they're going to bed.
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Speaker 2: So going to Walmart at three am.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look good, feel good, act good. I
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Speaker 1: mean I don't. I don't think it's you know, he's
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Speaker 1: not mandating what you can and can't do.
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Speaker 2: He's not mandating it because he can't and he knows that.
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Speaker 2: But he can certainly suggest it, and he can certainly
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Speaker 2: feel in his core that we all should be doing this,
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Speaker 2: and we should do that, and we should act appropriately.
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Speaker 2: Whereas I say, there is a direct correlation between the
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Speaker 2: softness of airline seats and the softness of travelers attire.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we started dressing like crap until the
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Speaker 2: seats on planes got really uncomfortable. So we decided, you
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Speaker 2: know what, I need some cushiony sweatpants on this plane
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Speaker 2: because they keep taking away the foam padding in the chairs.
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Speaker 1: When were plane seats ever comfortable in coach?
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Speaker 2: It's not that they were comfortable, it's just that they've
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Speaker 2: gotten less comfortable.
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Speaker 1: We've gotten less comfortable because they're smaller, not because of padding.
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Speaker 2: No, it's padding as well. They've done they've done this
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Speaker 2: like they'll they've they've made the seat smaller and they
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Speaker 2: decreased the padding on some airlines, so it's like it's
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Speaker 2: noticeably thinner. And I remember flying. I think the first
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Speaker 2: time I flew in a plane was eighty five. I've
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Speaker 2: never flown first class. I don't know. The closest I've
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Speaker 2: come is the big front seat on Spirit Airlines.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 2: While cushiony, it is not first clas on Delta or
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Speaker 2: American and it's certainly not you know, Emirates, So I
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Speaker 2: am very familiar with you know, the coach seats, and
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Speaker 2: I do know that they used to be more comfortable.
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Speaker 2: And he can't mandate to airlines hey make comfany your
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Speaker 2: seats either, So you're right, it's not a massive deal.
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Speaker 2: It's just a suggestion. But I don't like being told
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Speaker 2: what to wear and being looked down upon. I don't
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Speaker 2: like being told what to do at all.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think one has anything to do with
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Speaker 1: the other. It's judgment, that's what it is. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: but that's not Sean Duffy's fault.
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Speaker 2: He's part of the problem the same way apparently you are.
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Speaker 2: Because you're looking at what people are wearing and you're
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Speaker 2: being all judgy and snooty and snotty and stuck up
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Speaker 2: about people wearing pajamas to the airport.
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Speaker 1: Guilty is charged.
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Speaker 2: If I want to wear a snuggie on Spirit, then
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Speaker 2: goddamn it, I'm gonna wear a snuggie on Spirit because
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Speaker 2: that's the only thing that's gonna give me any sense
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Speaker 2: of life because I'm flying Spirit and all I care
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Speaker 2: about is wear shoes. That is universal put your goddamn
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Speaker 2: shoes on and lead and keep them on through the
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Speaker 2: whole flight. Yeah, I don't want your toes on my arm.
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Speaker 2: So in addition to the if you want us to
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Speaker 2: dress more comfortably, make the seats more comfortable, I actually
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Speaker 2: contend you can say, like passengers do wear uniforms to
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Speaker 2: a certain extent, you just don't recognize them. So like
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Speaker 2: you can tell the people that are going on vacation
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Speaker 2: based on what they're wearing. They're wearing the straw hat,
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Speaker 2: they're wearing, the Jimmy Buffett Margueritaville's shirt. They got the shorts.
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Speaker 2: That's probably swim trunks as well. There's your vacationers. You
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Speaker 2: can also tell who's traveling for work. You like, the
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Speaker 2: guy that Seann Duffy's describing their jeans and a decent
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Speaker 2: shirt could be a work traveler. I'll be what you wear,
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Speaker 2: Trey uh. And if there's a like a sport coat
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Speaker 2: blazer situation, definitely traveling for work. And then you can
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Speaker 2: tell who's planning on sleeping on the flight because they
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Speaker 2: have come prepared with their pajamas and the net roll
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Speaker 2: and basically just a human body bubble.
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Speaker 1: I mean let's not forget there once was a dress
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Speaker 1: code to fly mm hmm. And as that has decreased,
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Speaker 1: you have incidents of unruly travelers has increased. Now is
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Speaker 1: there a correlation, I don't know, but that is a thing.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the skank effect. Well, that's where a
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Speaker 2: lot of the problems come from. And a lot of
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Speaker 2: the problems have stemmed from unruly passengers because of alcohol
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Speaker 2: and or drug abuse mixed in, especially with people not
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Speaker 2: like I can't talk, people not like being told what
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Speaker 2: to do. There you go there, it is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because ultimately the one thing people really don't like
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Speaker 1: being told is to sit down and shut them up.
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Speaker 2: That's true, we don't like that, but sometimes.
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Speaker 1: It's needed for all of us.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That's where all of us together. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 2: where the air marshal is supposed to step in.
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Speaker 1: There are no more air marshals.
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Speaker 2: See stop telling us these things. You've taken the fear
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Speaker 2: out of it, and now the pajama clad idiots have
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Speaker 2: run them up.
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Speaker 1: I feel like over the last couple of years the
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Speaker 1: no air marshals has become blatantly obvious.
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Speaker 2: It has, but I mean, come on, you need to
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Speaker 2: you need to pepper one in on occasion and light
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Speaker 2: somebody up that's dressed like a furry in business class,
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Speaker 2: just to set an example. So everyone knows there could
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Speaker 2: be one on this flight, so I should behave accordingly.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why we can't just give
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Speaker 1: the flight attendants tasers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean on paper, that sounds like
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Speaker 2: a great idea, And when you're on the plane, it
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Speaker 2: kind of depends on which flight attendant has it. Because
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Speaker 2: some of them I'd be fine with that. Then there's
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Speaker 2: some where I'm like, oh God, please don't let that
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Speaker 2: person have a taser. That would be bad. It'd get
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Speaker 2: me wrong. I'm not gonna be the one getting taste.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna get a good show. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get some good free in flight entertainment. So bring it on.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just just that sound. It's just but you
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Speaker 1: know what, it's kind of like crime in Texas. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot less why because you don't know who's armed.
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Speaker 2: It's true, it's just the possibility.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just if you just opened up the
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Speaker 1: possibility that one of the flight attendant had a taser,
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Speaker 1: I think people would would would think twice.
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Speaker 2: The threat of retribution can be just as effective as retribution.
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Speaker 2: place because I was trying to remember where I wanted
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Speaker 2: to start today because there's so much good stuff the news.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with this. A school bus driver allegedly drove
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Speaker 2: students while drunk, but he says that's not true because
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Speaker 2: the smell of alcohol on his breath was actually Nike
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Speaker 2: Will Old school night Will. Huh. I'm not driving your
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Speaker 2: kids drunk around town on a school bus. I'm just
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Speaker 2: effed up on Nike Will, just sleepy. How dare you
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Speaker 2: accuse me of something so terrible? I've been driving these
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Speaker 2: kids around, you know, for years, and you're gonna that
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Speaker 2: one actually kicked me right in the gut. Surprisingly, this
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Speaker 2: was not Florida. This is Maple Lake, Minnesota. The school
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Speaker 2: bus driver allegedly drove his students to school while intoxicated,
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Speaker 2: later telling the police the alcohol the students smelled on
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Speaker 2: him was from nik Will. According to documents obtained by
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Speaker 2: a local outlet, School Resource officer for Maple Lake Schools
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Speaker 2: was notified by his student that their bus driver smelled
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Speaker 2: like alcohol. I would like to I hope that they
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Speaker 2: said bus driver smells like mommy.
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Speaker 1: I really do think that's got to be the second
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Speaker 1: visit you make is if you know how old? Did
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Speaker 1: it say how all these kids are? Elementary?
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Speaker 2: The officer contacted the bus company to do charging documents
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Speaker 2: multiple students, multiple students under the age of sixteen. Didn't
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Speaker 2: say how many students.
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Speaker 1: So, if you're a kid and you know what alcohol
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Speaker 1: smells like.
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Speaker 2: Through breath, not just whiffing it out the top of
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Speaker 2: the bottle, but mixed in with you know, human biology, if.
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Speaker 1: You can go, oh, Jack Daniel, single barrel.
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Speaker 2: The bus driver smells like my mom, Stanley or dad
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Speaker 2: or dad at football practice. Yeah, it's a bit of
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Speaker 2: a hint there. So he's in trouble. He's probably not
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Speaker 2: going to be driving kids around anymore, if ever ever again.
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Speaker 2: A woman filed for divorce because her husband decided he
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Speaker 2: was batman. I tell you, you show me a man with
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Speaker 2: a dream, and I'll show you a woman who wants
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Speaker 2: to squash it. The first month of married life for
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Speaker 2: this couple went smoothly, but then the husband started acting
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Speaker 2: completely unhinged. He would regularly roam the house in a
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Speaker 2: Batman costume, force his wife to watch Batman movies, insist
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Speaker 2: on being called Bruce Wayne, and disappear at night whenever
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Speaker 2: he saw lights in the sky that he believed were
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Speaker 2: the bat signal. The last straw came when the woman
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Speaker 2: woke up in the middle of the night to find
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Speaker 2: her husband in a Batman suit, standing in the dark
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Speaker 2: and speaking in a deep brooding voice. After that, she
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Speaker 2: packed her things, went to her parents' house and filed
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Speaker 2: for divorce. I say for richer, for poor sickness and
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Speaker 2: in health. Meet his superhero energy with your own. He's Batman,
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Speaker 2: You be wonder woman.
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Speaker 1: At least she didn't file assault charges on him.
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Speaker 2: Me. That may be the best double n taundured joke
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Speaker 2: slash punchline in the hit story of this program. And
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Speaker 2: I am including every iteration of it, Sir, I am
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Speaker 2: shook right, damn. Look, I don't know you know how
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Speaker 2: they say that I bet so and so is rolling
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Speaker 2: over in their grave. Well, I don't think you can
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Speaker 2: roll over in your grave if you've been cremated. But
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Speaker 2: I would like to think somewhere in a tube six
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Speaker 2: feet beneath the surface of a cemetery in Garland, Texas,
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Speaker 2: a little just occurred.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: All I want to do now is stop the show,
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Speaker 2: go back and pull the audio and just listen to
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Speaker 2: it for the rest of the day, maybe the rest
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Speaker 2: of Black Friday, maybe the whole weekend. All right, well done.
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Speaker 2: If I was wearing a hat, I would tip it
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Speaker 2: to you. If I was wearing a cowl, I would
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Speaker 2: rip it off and go as it is a couple
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Speaker 2: more pieces of things to play with. The World's Strongest
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Speaker 2: Woman is a man.
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Speaker 1: A woman.
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Speaker 2: It's a man man.
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Speaker 1: That ain't no woman. It's a man man.
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Speaker 2: I love twenty twenty five. I know things like this
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Speaker 2: wouldn't make my heart happy, but they kind of do.
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Speaker 2: Jammy Booker was disqualified just days after she destroyed the
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Speaker 2: competition at the Official Strongman Games World Championship in Arlington
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. The Official Games took place number twenty
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Speaker 2: through twenty third in Arlington, featured hundreds of athletes across
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Speaker 2: multiple divisions and competitions, with one of the biggest ones
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Speaker 2: being the twenty twenty five World Strongest Woman Jammy Booker,
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Speaker 2: an alleged transgender athlete was the one who came out
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Speaker 2: on top. However, Jammy was disqualified after the competition, making
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Speaker 2: Andrea Thompson the overall champion, because it turns out Jammy
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Speaker 2: was born a man, and in the rules and regulations
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Speaker 2: for the competition it expressly states you have to compete
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Speaker 2: with the gender of your birth. I know this is
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Speaker 2: a hot topic in the world nowadays, and for some reason,
31:58
Speaker 2: this is you know, split along political ideologies, like everything
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Speaker 2: seems to be these days. I have a simple solution,
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Speaker 2: and please Tray Jerry tell me if this is half cocked.
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Speaker 2: You've got the male division, you've got the female division.
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Speaker 2: And the controversy in these competitions arises when you've got
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Speaker 2: someone that was a man at some point, or was
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Speaker 2: born a man, transitions or is in the process of transitioning,
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Speaker 2: and then competes in the woman's side and just destroys
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Speaker 2: all the female competitors to take the top spot. Right.
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any examples of a female's you know,
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Speaker 2: switching sides and dominating the men, at least not in
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Speaker 2: competitive sports. Can we just have a third category, just
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Speaker 2: have the trans category and let the trans athlete compete
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Speaker 2: against themselves and if you know what, because and here's
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Speaker 2: the other thing to keep in mind, across the world
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Speaker 2: and competitions that happen every single day, the number of
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Speaker 2: trans athletes competing in the opposite division of their birth
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Speaker 2: is extremely small. So if you create a trans division
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Speaker 2: for these competitions, you may have absolutely zero people in it,
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Speaker 2: or you may have one. But at least that's the spot.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's a compromise, it's a solution for everybody,
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Speaker 2: and we can get back to debating things that truly matter,
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Speaker 2: and that is whether or not to wear crocs on
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Speaker 2: an airline.
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Speaker 1: That has been proposed and soundly rejected by the trans community.
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Speaker 2: Because they want to They don't want to be seen
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Speaker 2: as something other than what they're wanting to be. Yes, well,
33:41
Speaker 2: I mean at a certain point you just got to
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Speaker 2: face reality.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think everyone is entitled to be happy, and
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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what it's like to be born
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Speaker 1: and not feel comfortable in your own skin and feel
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Speaker 1: like you want to be someone else. And but one
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Speaker 1: of the things, and quite frankly, it's one of the
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Speaker 1: things that is now, especially in the LGBT community, there
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Speaker 1: has been a trend of you know, because most most
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Speaker 1: trans people want to blend in. They want to be
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Speaker 1: seen as normal, not and and I think this is
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Speaker 1: an unfortunate deal of our age of the time we
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Speaker 1: live in that there are a lot of people who
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Speaker 1: want attention, but toss out the big one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest bullshit things of the last ten years was the
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Speaker 1: notion that there is no difference between sexes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there is, everyone knows it absolutely.
34:35
Speaker 1: And to say that, you know, oh, you know, you
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Speaker 1: grow you grow up as you know, a biological male,
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Speaker 1: and then you decide to switch, well, you still have
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Speaker 1: the benefits, especially if you're post pubescent, and quite frankly,
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Speaker 1: no one prepubescent. Really, kids shouldn't be making this decision.
34:52
Speaker 1: You're you're you have the all the biological effects of
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Speaker 1: being a male, which there is a difference, you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean good and bad by the way, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to the physical traits. Serena Williams
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Speaker 1: is the greatest female athlete ever and one of the
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Speaker 1: top athletes of all time. But you know when she
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Speaker 1: sat there and said, yeah, I would get smoked in
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Speaker 1: straight sex sets by you know, my male counterparts, you
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Speaker 1: have to know that there's a difference.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not putting down her entire gender. She's just
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Speaker 2: speaking honestly about something that for the most part, well
35:30
Speaker 2: basically kind of know. And I'll tell you this right now, Like,
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Speaker 2: I love it when like idiot sports guys or just
35:36
Speaker 2: idiot guys in general say something as stupid as, oh,
35:40
Speaker 2: I could beat Serena Williams in a tennis match because
35:42
Speaker 2: I'm a guy, Bubba. But no, no, you couldn't. Joe Schlub, No,
35:45
Speaker 2: you couldn't. You know, Andy Roddick, Yeah, he probably could.
35:50
Speaker 2: Pete Sampras would probably beat you know, the Williams sisters.
35:55
Speaker 2: I'm not. No, I'm not gonna beat I'm not gonna
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Speaker 2: beat the lowest see tennis player in the world on
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Speaker 2: the female side, I'm not. And so there are exceptions
36:04
Speaker 2: to these rules. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: when you're you know, talking about elite versus non and
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Speaker 2: just male versus female, yeah, come on, common sense common
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Speaker 2: sense can still be a thing without it being against
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Speaker 2: somebody's thing.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, but yeah, I saw you know. And the woman
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Speaker 1: who has now been declared champion, uh yeah, she walked
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Speaker 1: off the podium after this because she was you could tell,
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Speaker 1: just absolutely kind of disgusted and yeah, they worked their
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Speaker 1: ass off for this and then all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: you get outdone by someone who has a biological I
36:50
Speaker 1: just drive, yeah, thank.
36:52
Speaker 2: You, you mean it, because look, and this is the
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Speaker 2: side of the show that we have to bring up,
36:59
Speaker 2: because this is this is what we do. We'll talk
37:01
Speaker 2: about something kind of seriously, but then we have to
37:02
Speaker 2: bring our own twist to stupid on it. And that's
37:04
Speaker 2: what we're going to do here because I have these
37:06
Speaker 2: thoughts and I'm sure other people do as well. When
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Speaker 2: you hear about a story like this where the world's
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Speaker 2: Strongest Woman wins, where the person that won the World's
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Speaker 2: Strongest Woman competition is a man, how'd they do that?
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Speaker 2: Has this person who was born a male that competed
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Speaker 2: in the female division of the World's Strongest Man? Have
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Speaker 2: they gone through the complete change? Has has the wiener
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Speaker 2: been extracted or is it still there? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you know how closely they're checking.
37:36
Speaker 2: Are they giving physicals before they lift weights on stage?
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Speaker 2: But I know in these events they're extremely, extremely difficult, and.
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Speaker 6: I just wonder, like some of these athletes, like how
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Speaker 6: do you keep it contained if you're not fully switched
37:55
Speaker 6: like when you do Like one of these events in
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Speaker 6: this competition was a log lift press, which is basically
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Speaker 6: I think it's like a like a clean and jerk
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Speaker 6: type of thing.
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Speaker 2: And so you're picking up the log like a dead lift,
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Speaker 2: and then you're kind of snatching it onto your thighs
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Speaker 2: and then you're standing up and then pressing it over
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Speaker 2: your head. How do you keep your from flopping out
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Speaker 2: at some point during that heavy lift?
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