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Trying to Explain Away a Big Lie · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: It's practically an instruction video on how to not get
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  Speaker 1: out of a lie. It's one more thing. I'm strong Andy.
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  Speaker 2: One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I found Tim Walls trying to explain away his big
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  Speaker 1: lie about being in China. One of the funniest things
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  Speaker 1: I've ever heard. And so we're going to play that
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  Speaker 1: again for you here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all talking about how soon it will be irrelevant,
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  Speaker 2: but we wanted to hear it one more time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so good. But Katie, you have something first.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So this was a conversation I was having with someone
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  Speaker 4: the other day. I don't know what my problem is,
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  Speaker 4: and I found out that it's more common than I thought.
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  Speaker 4: But somebody can introduce themselves to me and within seconds,
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  Speaker 4: I do not know what their name is, right anymore sure?
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  Speaker 4: And so I went to go to the interwebs to
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  Speaker 4: see what the science.
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  Speaker 3: Is behind this.
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  Speaker 4: And when I went to when I went to type,
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  Speaker 4: why do I forget people's names? Quickly popped up as
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  Speaker 4: like the first predictive text thing. And one of the
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  Speaker 4: reasons was because our brain is scrambling to retrieve words
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  Speaker 4: quickly enough to keep up pace with a conversation with
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  Speaker 4: someone new.
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  Speaker 1: But clearly only for some of us, because we all
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  Speaker 1: know people who pick up names immediately and hang on
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  Speaker 1: to them, right, which is which I'm always kind of
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  Speaker 1: shocked by. Like if I meet somebody and then pretty
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  Speaker 1: soon they hit me with that. So I don't know, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: what are you thinking? I think, Wow, how do you
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  Speaker 1: remember my name?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've all heard the tricks. Repeat it three
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  Speaker 2: times to yourself, or come up with a rhyme. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: there's Jack. He won't attack me remember his name. But
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  Speaker 2: I know it's that I am reckoning with a brand
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  Speaker 2: new person, trying to figure out what sort of person
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  Speaker 2: they are. You know, how's this going to go?
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  Speaker 1: The rest of it? It's just for me. It's just selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: And I decided years ago it's because I'm getting older.
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  Speaker 1: I just go with a I don't remember your name
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  Speaker 1: because I don't care. Oh see, I used Drew as
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  Speaker 1: such a pawn. My husband is such a pawn.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go up to somebody who I know they just
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  Speaker 4: told me their name, and I'll be like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: is my husband, Drew, So I'll go hi, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's a good one. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: go with that. Until you can convince me you're important
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  Speaker 1: enough for me to remember. I'm just not going to
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  Speaker 1: commit this to the limited space I have.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I like your style, you have not earned your
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  Speaker 2: way into my consciousness yet, given I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it's such a bad feeling, especially in certain circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: it's extra awful. You know when when you like have
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  Speaker 1: a lead in that you know it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: somebody you want to remember their name for a long time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like this is the new sales manager or something like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be working together for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you have a big, good idea for me to
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  Speaker 1: remember your name, but it's gone in a second.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, just one.
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  Speaker 2: I've used that strategy many times with my wife, who's
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  Speaker 2: much better remembering names than I am. But you always
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  Speaker 2: run into that person you say, oh, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: my wife, Judy, and they say hi Judy, right, and
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  Speaker 2: either they just don't think to introduce themselves, or they
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  Speaker 2: think you're going to ladies and gentlemen. We're not beasts,
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  Speaker 2: all right, We're human beings. If somebody introduces themselves to you,
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  Speaker 2: or introduces someone else to you, you state your damn name.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I walk up that hard walk. Hey, Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: walk home to the guy's wife and I say, if
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  Speaker 1: you were to scream out your husband's name during sex,
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  Speaker 1: what would you say?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I'm sure that goes well.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, Jim, it's Jim, because while I've decided he does
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  Speaker 2: not rate Jack remembering you do, baby, so talk to me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you just I'm trying to learn at the feet of
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  Speaker 2: the great one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I remember a couple of times in
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  Speaker 1: my life where I've done this with attractive single women,
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  Speaker 1: and I've thought, you're not even gonna try to remember
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  Speaker 1: the name of somebody like this for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you idiots a molva. Yeah, I had ended up being
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  Speaker 1: my wife for quite a few years. I remember thinking
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  Speaker 1: I had been quite interested in her for quite some time,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to wait until somebody said her name
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  Speaker 1: out loud in a different circumstance before I can.
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  Speaker 3: Remember what You just keep going up here and going hey,
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  Speaker 3: you exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You With dudes, you can say, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: of that? Bro? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Dude? Yeah, but all it's women, it's it's harder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you start calling us like sweetheart and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: That's creepy.
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  Speaker 2: You can't eat that, or even like, girl, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think girl, that'd just be weird.
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  Speaker 1: Lady, lady, lady. Human. So you probably know the story
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  Speaker 1: by now. Even if you've heard it, I think you'll
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  Speaker 1: find it entertaining again. The other night in the debate,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Walls got to asked about a problem that's been
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  Speaker 1: dogging him for a while. So he ran around for
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  Speaker 1: big chunk of his adult life, claiming he was there
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  Speaker 1: during the Cientman Square massacre in China in nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the biggest events in world history,
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  Speaker 1: certainly modern world history, and claiming you were there, and
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  Speaker 1: you there have therefore, I guess have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: wisdom insight because of having been there. Is that what
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  Speaker 1: he was trying to do?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's just a fabuloust. He has to enhance every
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  Speaker 2: story he tells.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great meme of the other tens.
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  Speaker 4: It it's a picture of Tim Walls and it said,
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  Speaker 4: so there I was on the bow of the Titanic.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been caught since then with a in a
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  Speaker 1: number of ways showing that he wasn't there at the time.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't have been there at the time, And Margaret Brennan,
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  Speaker 1: to her credit in the debate the other night, brought
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  Speaker 1: it up, and his explanation is the worst trying to
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  Speaker 1: explain a lie ever in the history of trying to
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  Speaker 1: explain a lie. I think surely you've heard.
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  Speaker 2: It by now, but whether you have or have not,
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  Speaker 2: it includes a number of bizarre and misplaced sentence fragments
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  Speaker 2: that don't flow from what he's just said, including are
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  Speaker 2: all time favorite about I'm proud of that service, which
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear. But there are a number of just weird
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  Speaker 2: odds and ends, as if he'd been programmed to spout
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  Speaker 2: certain censuses as sentences but it just didn't come out right.
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  Speaker 2: Is programming failed or the hardware glitched or something?
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  Speaker 4: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: I have more of that, but let's hear it. First.
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  Speaker 5: We want to ask you about your leadership qualities. Governor Walls.
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  Speaker 5: You said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly
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  Speaker 5: Tianamen Square protests in the spring of nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 5: but Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting
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  Speaker 5: that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of
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  Speaker 5: that year. Can you explain that discrepancy your.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, and to the folks out there, it didn't
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  Speaker 6: get at the top of this look. I grew up
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  Speaker 6: in small rural Nebraska town of four hundred town that
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  Speaker 6: you rode your bike with your buddies. Still the street
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  Speaker 6: lights come on, and I'm proud of that service. I
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  Speaker 6: joined the National Guard at seventeen, worked on family farms,
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  Speaker 6: and then I use the gibill to become a teacher,
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  Speaker 6: passionate about it, a young teacher. My first year out,
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  Speaker 6: I got the opportunity in the summer of eighty nine
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  Speaker 6: to travel to China thirty five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to do.
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  Speaker 6: That, I came back home and then started a program
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  Speaker 6: to take young people there. We would take basketball teams,
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  Speaker 6: we would take baseball teams, we would take dancers, and
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  Speaker 6: we would go back and forth to China. The issue
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  Speaker 6: for that was was to try and learn. Now, look,
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  Speaker 6: my community knows who I am. They saw where I
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  Speaker 6: was at. They look. I will be the first to
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  Speaker 6: tell you I have poured my heart into my community.
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  Speaker 3: I've tried to do the.
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  Speaker 6: Best I can, but I've not been perfect, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: a knucklehead at times. But it's always been about that.
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  Speaker 6: Those same people elected me to Congress.
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  Speaker 2: You almost have to divide that up into twelve to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen different snippets and analyze them separately. I mean, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: Michael play just the beginning again, what is the first
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  Speaker 2: sentence out of his mouth?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody tell me we.
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  Speaker 5: Want to ask you about your leader ship qualities. Governor Walls,
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  Speaker 5: you said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly
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  Speaker 5: Tieneman Square protests in the spring of nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 5: but Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting
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  Speaker 5: that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of that.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go, can you explain that discrepancy.
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  Speaker 6: Your Yeah, well, and to the folks out there didn't
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  Speaker 6: get at the top of this.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I grew up in small Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Right there, So the folks out there that didn't get
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  Speaker 2: to the top of this, I mean, it begins with gibberish,
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  Speaker 2: right descends into flapdoodle, then fears into nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Right after he gets through that whatever that first sentence was,
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  Speaker 1: he goes to, I grew up in a small Nebraska town.
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  Speaker 4: What he like adopted both a camel A tactic and
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  Speaker 4: a Biden tactic because he does that, oh that town
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  Speaker 4: and rode the bikes with the sun. And then he
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  Speaker 4: kept saying, look, look, because biden Ois does that.
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  Speaker 1: In that sentence, In case you didn't catch it, I look,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a small rural Nebraska town of
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  Speaker 1: town that you wrote your bike with your buddies till
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  Speaker 1: the street likes came on, and I'm proud of that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for your service, Tim.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and later, I mean again, there are at least
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  Speaker 2: a dozen things in there. But then at one point
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  Speaker 2: he says, I'll be the first to tell you I've
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  Speaker 2: poured my heart into my community. No, no, no, that's
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  Speaker 2: a brag.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't be the first to tell me. That's other
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  Speaker 1: people should tell me that.
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  Speaker 2: It just there were so many. It was like he'd
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  Speaker 2: memorized a bunch of phrases and just put them together.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, I will be the first to tell you
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  Speaker 1: I have poured my heart into my community. I have
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  Speaker 1: this written out. I'm just going to keep it the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life. Carry it my wallet like the
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  Speaker 1: pictures of my kids when you need to pick me up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Oh. And then she asked a follow
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  Speaker 1: up too, and then I've got a comment on that. Here.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how the follow up went to and get to
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  Speaker 1: her credit for following.
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  Speaker 5: Up, Governor, just to follow up on that, the question
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  Speaker 5: was can you explain Thereancy.
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  Speaker 6: All I said on this was is I got there
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  Speaker 6: that and misspoke on this, So I will just that's
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  Speaker 6: what I've said. So I was in Hong Kong and
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  Speaker 6: China during the democracy protest went in and from that
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  Speaker 6: I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.
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  Speaker 5: Oh thank you, Governor.
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  Speaker 1: That I always feel bad for him.
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  Speaker 2: If there's been a worse answer to a question in
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  Speaker 2: the history of presidential vice presidential debates, I would like
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  Speaker 2: to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark Alpern on his podcast afterwards, him and his
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  Speaker 1: former Republican and Democratic strategist all agreed it was the
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  Speaker 1: worst answer in the history of the presidential debates.
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  Speaker 3: I worked at a bar.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's something I would have heard in
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  Speaker 4: there from somebody that was just overserved served.
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  Speaker 1: The follow up one there where he stops at one
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  Speaker 1: point and kind of hopes something will bail him out,
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  Speaker 1: like a band will start playing, or they'll move on
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  Speaker 1: to another question or something, and Marcus Press is what I've.
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  Speaker 2: Said, Are you saying it now though you're that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing here.
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  Speaker 1: We're saying things.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the debate is, say something, and that is
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  Speaker 2: what I've said.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Margaret Brennon just looks at him like,
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  Speaker 1: you still have more time. And that didn't sound like
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  Speaker 1: the end or all right?
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  Speaker 2: In no way was that. No English speaker would think
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  Speaker 2: that was the end of his statement because it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a statement at all that possible. Yeh, She's like, there's
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  Speaker 2: more right or something.
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  Speaker 1: So these strategists who've been involved in presidential debate prep
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  Speaker 1: before all were amazed that he didn't have a solid,
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  Speaker 1: like two lines ready to go on that topic since
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  Speaker 1: they knew it was coming, and he's been asked about
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  Speaker 1: it almost every time he sits down for an interview,
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  Speaker 1: he's asked about it. I wonder if CBS will follow
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  Speaker 1: up on it on sixty Minutes this Sunday night, But
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  Speaker 1: he's asked about over and over. So how have you
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  Speaker 1: not nailed down a couple of lines to get you
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  Speaker 1: out of that trap? Look, I got the got it
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  Speaker 1: wrong is a long time ago, and I just I
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  Speaker 1: got it wrong the end. You don't even really.
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  Speaker 2: Under saying I misremembered. Yeah, yeah, Well, hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: the podcast. But for any of you folks who didn't
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  Speaker 2: get at the top of that. We'll try to do
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  Speaker 2: better tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And I rode my bike with my friends as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm proud of that service.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I went to the public foold swam and rode home.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of that service.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be the first to tell you I've done
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  Speaker 1: a lot for these people. And the street lights were
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  Speaker 1: on too. Yes, important important point. Well, Joe Jack Casey,
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  Speaker 1: have a good day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it.