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  Speaker 1: Now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 4: And good morning everybody, Bill Handle her warning crew. On
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  Speaker 4: a Monday morning, January nineteenth, Martin Luther King Day, as
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  Speaker 4: we celebrate one of the greatest heroes in the history
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  Speaker 4: of the United States. I mean, he is way way
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  Speaker 4: up there. Not easy to get a national holiday, although
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  Speaker 4: there are certain people out there they're pushing for a
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  Speaker 4: national holiday. And I won't go into that discussion, uh
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  Speaker 4: until a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that promo say that I'm human.
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  Speaker 4: Or we are human as we as we started right, Okay, okay, well,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for that. There are a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: who disagree with that. Guaranteed human, by the way, guaranteed human. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: by whom.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what that's iHeart and I've saw I've seen it
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  Speaker 2: in print, has an asterisk.
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  Speaker 1: And says handle, so maybe yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: You look good and chipper today.
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  Speaker 3: I am a chipper today.
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  Speaker 4: That got some decent sleep last night, which is sometimes
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  Speaker 4: not easy to get.
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  Speaker 3: As we go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: Am.
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  Speaker 4: I right, yeah, yeah, let me tell you about a
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  Speaker 4: newly wed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, uh, you know, Lindsey goes.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait for tonight, Bill and I hand her
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  Speaker 4: a couple hundred bucks and go here. You take care
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  Speaker 4: of yourself, just you know, yeah, I have a headache tonight. Okay, Cono,
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  Speaker 4: good morning, Good morning, Bill. And there's a will Hey
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  Speaker 4: wearing a baseball cap this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't feel like taking
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  Speaker 1: the two hours to do my hair, so.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I could see that. What is that? Is
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  Speaker 4: that a T shirt you have? But what a T
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  Speaker 4: shirt from Kansas City?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, excellently.
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  Speaker 1: I would be wearing forty nine ers GARB but that
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  Speaker 1: didn't go so well.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'm not gonna talk football today.
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  Speaker 4: That was a snowy game yesterday between one team and
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  Speaker 4: the other, and I have no.
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  Speaker 1: Idea who won. It looked miserable, Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's really miserable playing in the snow.
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  Speaker 1: Cheez lituise.
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  Speaker 4: It should be that every single city that is snowbound,
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  Speaker 4: like Buffalo in New York, should have an indoor stadium.
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  Speaker 4: You would think that was Chicago. That was Chicago last night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: oh okay, oh right, yeah, whatever city, that was fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: And uh there's Ann Good morning, Anne, good morning, Bill,
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  Speaker 3: good morning.
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  Speaker 4: And Amy is not here today, but the brookemeister is hello.
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  Speaker 4: Uh so it's Heather who is joining us today and
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  Speaker 4: you're here all week? Is Anne gone for the week?
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  Speaker 5: No, just today. Amy will be back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Amy.
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  Speaker 4: I always conflate the two because they both start with
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  Speaker 4: a slender one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she is.
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  Speaker 4: We've I've said, okay, that an on her? Uh No,
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  Speaker 4: not really really.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Heather isn't in on this? What? Uh so?
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  Speaker 2: Handle was was going through and was saying something about.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Amy and about Anne.
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  Speaker 2: And he he kept referring to Amy as tall and
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  Speaker 2: slender and didn't say that.
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  Speaker 5: Was also slender.
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  Speaker 4: She's not slender and is not She is not fat.
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  Speaker 4: She is not fat at all. But she is not
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  Speaker 4: slender is a body slender?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not slender?
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  Speaker 3: You are?
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 3: Are you? Three times slender?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: And Land has Amy has very long long legs and
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  Speaker 3: am i uh to loose.
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  Speaker 5: A petite? She's tiny and she is slim and slender.
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  Speaker 4: She got that one. Yeah, everybody else missed it.
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  Speaker 5: We're missing all of the mean stuff today.
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  Speaker 4: I am not just pointing out that. And for example,
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  Speaker 4: let's say Anne had long walks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay she does, which she does.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, let's say Anne did not she had short hair,
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  Speaker 4: So to point out long hair versus short hair. All
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  Speaker 4: I'm pointing out is that Anne.
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  Speaker 3: Anne has a good body. She's just not slender.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't know slender if it bit you in the ass.
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  Speaker 1: You know that?
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  Speaker 3: Are you saying slenders long? Yes? Okay, so that's totally different.
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  Speaker 6: So like Amy is a tall drink of water and
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  Speaker 6: Anne is a short shot of liquor.
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  Speaker 4: Well said, wow, Well said, yeah, that is not. That
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  Speaker 4: is not in any way something wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't. And I'm a buzzball. Oh you're far bored.
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  Speaker 3: You need to google that, Neil. You make the michelin
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  Speaker 3: Man an extra in a Holocaust.
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  Speaker 2: Michel michelin Man came to me and said he you
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  Speaker 2: could lose a few pounds.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm glad I brought in donuts for today.
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  Speaker 6: You guys would be enjoying the donuts that I had
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  Speaker 6: brought in if you were here, speaking of all of
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  Speaker 6: the uh, everybody not needing to eat anymore. It sounds
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  Speaker 6: wonderful Colorado donuts.
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  Speaker 4: It it's okay, guys, as we start. Uh, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: was that body shaming? And was that quit not?
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  Speaker 5: Oh I'm a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, there's two hundred and eighty pounds of will talking
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  Speaker 4: about body shaming.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: This is the definition of slender, all right, someone who
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  Speaker 7: is attractively thin, graceful, and narrow and build, with a
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  Speaker 7: delicate frame and often little body fat.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't say tall.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you can be slender.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, why do people I don't hate, I don't, I don't,
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  Speaker 4: I don't like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it's it's don't jump in the ring.
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  Speaker 4: It's projecting because I was heavy my entire life heavy.
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  Speaker 1: I was gravitational.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't. I was over three.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped in that same class, none of you're you're.
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  Speaker 4: Moving very quickly in that direct three hundred and ten pounds,
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  Speaker 4: and I stopped weighing myself, okay. And then I had
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  Speaker 4: the bariatric surgery okay, because I couldn't do it on
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  Speaker 4: my own. So there, all right, fair enough, fair enough,
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  Speaker 4: fair enough, Okay, time for handle on the news, Heather
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  Speaker 4: neil Me lead story. Yeah, European Union ambassadors met and
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  Speaker 4: Brussels yesterday and they're trying to figure out do we
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  Speaker 4: retaliate against Washington after the president, our president said that
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  Speaker 4: he was going to impose tariffs on eight country unless
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  Speaker 4: they agreed to Trump's push to acquire Greenland. Either I
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  Speaker 4: get Greenland or you're going to get tariffs up. The
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  Speaker 4: ying Yang tariffs are already a ten percent. He said
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  Speaker 4: he would add I believe another fifteen percent and that
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  Speaker 4: would go up to twenty five percent unless they cut
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  Speaker 4: a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that special? How is this different than putin? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's no war, I get it. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: the difference. Is putin you know lobs these drones and
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  Speaker 2: starting Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy and it's not appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to talk when are we gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Do that story?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: And about the craziest stuff our president has done, the
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  Speaker 4: ten craziest.
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  Speaker 1: You did it last Friday. I think you did it Thursday. Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: I think you did it Tuesday. You did it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in a Monday.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the man keeps his employee, that's for sure,
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  Speaker 3: you guys, and you know, and people get rail.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Trump supporters get really pissed off at me,
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  Speaker 4: at least the few that are still listening.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And all I say is refute it. Just refute it.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I want you to say. Say it's not true.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me the threat of imposing tariffs is not true.
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  Speaker 4: After Trump writes the letter or says it or posts
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  Speaker 4: it on true social All.
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  Speaker 6: Right, if you want to be a part of Trump's
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  Speaker 6: Board of Peace, the committee that will oversee the reconstruction
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  Speaker 6: of Gaza, you can just for a mere.
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  Speaker 5: One billion dollars.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump says all funds raised will go towards rebuilding Gaza.
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  Speaker 6: He's not going to pay people exorbit salaries or massive
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  Speaker 6: administration blowed the plagues many international organizations.
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  Speaker 4: So you know that's actually, and I would think about
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  Speaker 4: that's not a bad idea because who's going to control that?
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  Speaker 4: And that billion dollars is only for the permanent members.
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  Speaker 4: He's taken a page out of the Security Council and
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  Speaker 4: he says not that these are countries that are willing
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  Speaker 4: to pay a billion dollars and or are these people? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: people and countries.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just people people.
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  Speaker 3: You have to that will be.
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  Speaker 6: It, says Mark Karney. Kenny Prime Minister. Mark Karney is
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  Speaker 6: in their secretary.
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  Speaker 3: S a billionaire, not a billionaire.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm wondering did they have to pay the billion?
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  Speaker 4: No one has to know. No one has to pay.
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  Speaker 4: Is just those that are going to be permanent members.
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  Speaker 4: The rest at the rest are are are given only
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  Speaker 4: a three year term.
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  Speaker 3: So that's not a bad idea. Someone's got to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Someone's got to make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things about Trump, I mean, he
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  Speaker 4: is a successful builder.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way around that. So that ain't a bad idea.
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  Speaker 4: He certainly goes at it in different ways and tell
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  Speaker 4: you this give me a.
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  Speaker 5: Seat to gain a seat on the board a piece.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, But if it's for the rebuilding of guys. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's sort of universal. No one's going to say
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  Speaker 4: no to that. Maybe the israel leis, but no one
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  Speaker 4: else is going to say no.
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  Speaker 1: No one's concerned that board of piece is spelled b
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  Speaker 1: O r E D or.
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  Speaker 3: Is spelled t r U n P.
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  Speaker 2: There's that too, all right, So I ran supremely. I
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  Speaker 2: always liked that terment. Reminds me of Star Wars. Supreme
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  Speaker 2: lta it is speech on Saturday, I tolda Ali KOMENI
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  Speaker 2: said that thousands have been killed, and this is really
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  Speaker 2: one of the first times that that. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 2: minimountains said that, so some in an inhumane, savage manner
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  Speaker 2: and blamed the.
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  Speaker 1: US for the deaths. Of course, of course our fault. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he said all of the.
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  Speaker 3: Protesters, the protesters.
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  Speaker 4: Out there were billy merely people from Israel and the
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  Speaker 4: United States or were under the influence of Israel United States.
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  Speaker 4: They're the ones that did this. This is a regime
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  Speaker 4: that's probably in the biggest problem or positioned to lose
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  Speaker 4: the country, control of the country since nineteen seventy nine
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  Speaker 4: when it was created. And so I mean they even
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  Speaker 4: they shut down the internet and phone lines completely and
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  Speaker 4: the only way we're getting video is through starlink connections.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He went on to say that he considers the US
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  Speaker 2: president criminal for the casualties, damages, and slander he inflicted
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  Speaker 2: on the Iranian nation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's I think he is alleging that President
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  Speaker 4: Trump is sitting on the rooftop of some building and
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  Speaker 4: mowing down protesters with machine guns.
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  Speaker 3: That's President who does this.
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  Speaker 6: Just a little bit of a back and forth here
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  Speaker 6: between the La County DA's office and DHS. That's because
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  Speaker 6: La County distric Attorney Nathan Hoffman says an employee of
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  Speaker 6: his office was wrongfully detained by US Immigration and Customs enforcement,
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  Speaker 6: so he sent a letter. Excuse me, he sent a
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  Speaker 6: letter to them telling that the incident was unacceptable. The employees,
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  Speaker 6: a dedicated public servant, called the situation troubling and said
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  Speaker 6: that it caused distress to their colleague. And in response,
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  Speaker 6: the DHS says, neither ICE nor CBP have any record
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  Speaker 6: of any employee the La County d's office being detained.
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  Speaker 6: Any allegations our law enforcement are engaging in racially is
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  Speaker 6: in racial profiling, are false and disgusting and false is
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  Speaker 6: in all caps.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't know that the federal government keep track
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  Speaker 4: of who works for the DA's office. I thought that
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  Speaker 4: looking through files, yes, And they said, oh, we haven't
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  Speaker 4: found anybody. I mean, come on, really, And they went
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  Speaker 4: forward and said, any allegations our law enforcements are engaging
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  Speaker 4: in racial profiling or false and disgusting. Sure looks like
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  Speaker 4: everybody picked up his hispanic just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't think the letter that Hawkman sent said
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  Speaker 6: anything about that when you read through it, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: unless we're only getting a portion of what he wrote,
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't say anything about racially no, no.
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  Speaker 4: But that DHS says that we're not engaging in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, white folks don't complain until their people start
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  Speaker 2: getting arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's kind of an.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, hey, bad, what you're doing. Knock it off,
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  Speaker 2: all right? So about fifteen hundred soldiers active duty have
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  Speaker 2: been placed on alert. Of course, this is for potential
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  Speaker 2: deployment in Minnesota. Widespread protests over immigration enforcement in the state.
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  Speaker 2: We've heard, you know, shootings and all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: going on there. And Trump keeps threatening that he's going
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  Speaker 2: to send troops in for insurrection, but then he pulls back,
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  Speaker 2: and then he kind of goes back and forth on
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, with the threats and the like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Insurrection Insurrection Act, which gives him the power
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  Speaker 4: to go in and use military force, which you're not
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  Speaker 4: allowed to under the Siko Matatis law. The military cannot
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  Speaker 4: be used to enforce American law unless the President declares insurrection.
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  Speaker 4: Insurrection is rebellion against the government in the United States
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  Speaker 4: against I guess to to overthrow the government, And it
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  Speaker 4: can be argued. His argument says, by these protesters are
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  Speaker 4: doing exactly that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but January sixth was the only in our lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: the only absolutely legitimate case of that.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: These were those were patriots. No, they were who were
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  Speaker 4: upholding the constitution. All side you're on. If any priase,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what side you're on, No, I don't
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  Speaker 4: care if you're.
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  Speaker 2: A Republican, I don't care if you're a Democrat. If
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  Speaker 2: you tell me that that was okay in any way,
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  Speaker 2: shape or form.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm telling you, Okay, I'm telling you. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to put on the hat of a MAGA supporter. That
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  Speaker 4: was Those were patriots that we're trying to uphold the constitution.
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  Speaker 4: Because it was an illegal election and it was rigged. Now,
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  Speaker 4: one of the things that I really enjoy is the
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  Speaker 4: argument that MAGA supporters and pro President Trump is using.
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  Speaker 4: Their saying that the Insurrection Act, a nineteenth century law
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  Speaker 4: in the eighteen hundreds, all right, should be upheld. They're
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  Speaker 4: those that are arguing the other way. How do you
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  Speaker 4: uphold an eighteenth century law? I mean, tell me that
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  Speaker 4: that is appropriate today? Well, you know, we have a
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  Speaker 4: little document that was passed in seventeen seventy six that.
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  Speaker 3: Is still used, that is still used.
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  Speaker 2: All of our main laws and the construction of this
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  Speaker 2: country are old.
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  Speaker 1: Period, and now there.
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  Speaker 4: Are laws that have changed the construction constitution itself. What
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  Speaker 4: you can argue, I mean that is we can go
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  Speaker 4: on forever the interpretation of the Constitution becau.
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  Speaker 3: We have a Supreme Court for that. And so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Complicated that those drafts. Remember when we were in Philly
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  Speaker 2: together and we looked at the different drafts of historical
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  Speaker 2: works and we stood inside these places that were historic
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  Speaker 2: to the birth of our country and we just got
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  Speaker 2: hills there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does, it does give you chills, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we were talking about a little bit before the
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  Speaker 6: break what's going on in Minneapolis. Well, the Minneapolis mayor,
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  Speaker 6: Jacob I think it's free, but it might also be fry.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure. He told me the.
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  Speaker 6: Press that it would be a shocking step if President
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  Speaker 6: Trump were to deploy the military to Minnesota under the
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  Speaker 6: Insurrection Act. As we talked about before the break. The
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  Speaker 6: Pentagon has placed about fifteen hundred active duty troops on
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  Speaker 6: prepared to deploy orders.
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  Speaker 4: And he's being investigated by the Department of Justice, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: for instigating a riot for I mean, why not, went
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  Speaker 4: in doubt. Anybody who speaks against the administration gets investigated.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And he says we're not being intimidated and we're
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  Speaker 6: not backing down.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So, people still not satisfied with the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: This is a month after the so called deadline, and folks,
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  Speaker 2: it keeps growing. How they're upset. You've got six percent
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  Speaker 2: of Americans. I know, it doesn't seem like that much
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  Speaker 2: that said that they're satisfied with the federal government has
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  Speaker 2: reliefed so far, but that's actually up from three percent
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  Speaker 2: in July. This CNN survey. I'm going to pause for
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  Speaker 2: people to get all upset that it's CNN but the
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  Speaker 2: thing is, you've got nine and ten Democrats, seventy two
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  Speaker 2: percent of Independence say that the government is intentionally withholding
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: information as to forty two percent of Republicans, but.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Which is a high figure for republic plans.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to vote against the administration independence.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Did you mention seventy two percent? Yeah, I think you did.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Ninety percent of Democrats seventy two percent of Independence. Yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: people are not happy with the administration with holding parts
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: of that file.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Considering Riles out too.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, considering that one of the campaign issues that
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: President Trump ran on was the release of those files
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: by the Biden administration. And I don't know why they
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: didn't release those files, but that's another Yeah, are using them. Yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: may feel that in the meantime, all of a sudden,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: it went from let's release those files, release those files
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: to oh, we don't want to release those files, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: no reason given, by the.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Way, other than we want.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Well, we want to protect the victims, and the victims
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: are saying release those files or release a portion of
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the victims.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: So in any case, and some non Trump news, Green
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Day will be kicking off the Super Bowl in the
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: opening ceremony on February eight at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: That is, I believe their hometown, the Bay Area Trio
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: is made up a Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Trey Cool. It's going to be a fun little start
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: to the Super Bowl.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Right, Oh, that's kay it is. And you know why
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: they call it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Why they're doing it on Green Day because the prices
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: of Super Bowl tickets have exploded and they're the highest
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: in the history of the Super Bowl.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Get it Green, Get it green money? Get it?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, exactly?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Green Day?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Is that an official I get I don't know if
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: that's official? And is that celebrated all over the world?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I have absolutely no idea. Here is another fun one.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump, yes the Trump Story, plans to sign
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: competing on TV with the annual Army Navy matchup. So
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: he described it as one of the country's most cherished
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: sporting traditions. And he doesn't want to see college playoff
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: games and what he refers to his big TV money
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: goes not anymore on truth social in caps. You know what,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: don't people have the choice to watch it if they
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: want to and if it's a super big tradition, people
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: will watch it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Well, the issue is number one, does he have the
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: power to do that? And no he does not. However,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: does he have the ability to do that? Well, here's
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: how he can do it. He can say that those
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: stations that carry games other than the Army Navy matchup
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: are no longer broadcasting for the public good, and he
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: can take away their license, their FCC license to broadcast.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I like the way you said that. Does he have
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the power to do it? No, but does he have
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the ability to do it?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: That's different question.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Well, it is when I say power, Does he have
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: the legal power to do that?
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Does he have the ability to do that?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean he would clearly lose in court, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I think the networks would tell him to go pound
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: sand and you know he starts it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I don't you know there's there, listen.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I I don't want to be an apologist for Trump,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and I end up being a lot of times because
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: people are so unreasonable about Trump in a lot of ways.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of his, didn't vote for him.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: But I will tell you two things that are so
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that stand out. And this is now one of them
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: is he was anti DEI right, going after it everywhere.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yet he stopped giving money to NPR Y because it
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: didn't have diversity of thought. He said, there was no
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Republican It's a good point.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: It's a good pright. So there's that one. And now
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: there's this.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: If it's such a big game, so important to America,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: why would you have to make everybody stand down for it?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They would just choose to go to.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: It, force everyone to watch it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just that to me is contradictory.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Well, oh that never happened before, And.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: He was you know what I'm saying that, how is that? Not?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Of course it didn't I but like forcing of course
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to stand out it just yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Do you think there's an alternative, you know, motive here too,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: to rally the base, to get people to be like, yeah, army.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe you know, there may be that because you're talking
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: about the Armed Services, and he is a big fan
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: of the Armed Services. Also through twenty thirty eight guests,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: who has the exclusive rights paramount sky dance and there
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: was all that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Seriously yep, yep, David Ellison.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Yep, remember that situation.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: So there's a multi there are some potentially multiple reasonings
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: why he's doing this. It's not quite always so random,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: I find now.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: You know, there's I've said many times, there is a
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: method to his madness at times where how he gets
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: from A to B you can really question it. However,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: what the end result is, okay, I mean, look what
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: happened in Gaza with Hamas basically losing the war, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: it was Trump who actually put together that peace program,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: that peace deal. As fragile as it is and as
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: flaky as it is, there's no war going on right now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I mean there are skirmish skirmishes. There is a quote
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: a war of attrition. But and you got to give
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: you got to give the president credit for that because
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: he had a lot to do with it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I mean a lot, if not all, to do with it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: All right, there was a really tragic train crash that
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: happened in Spain. Thirty nine people were killed, dozens more
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: in when two high speed trains glided. They were traveling
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: from Malaga to Madrid with three hundred and seventy one
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: people on board. When it's rear three carriages derailed. Officials
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: say eleven adults and one child are still in intensive
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: care or critical condition and twenty four others were seriously hurt.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they issued a press release the train in Spain.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Falls mainly on the tracks.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Too soon, too soon?
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Isn't it a little too soon?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Too soon for that?
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: And I've got to get some more words that rhyme
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: with Maine Spain.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Train out insane insane works? Yes?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Yes? Or pain?
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, the train in Spain, cause for those people
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: that haven't died a lot of pain.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It is too soon. And by the.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Way, Spain's for some reason, has a history of this stuff,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: if you noticed.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is uh, it's happened quite a few times.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does, and it's Spain a lot of time.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Well, China's had some gain. I want to rhyme things. Yeah,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: lookive me, I'm rhyming any who. China clocked its lowest
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: birth rate on record in twenty twenty five. Population shrinking
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: all that, but they still say that they are growing.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: In other ways.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: They are growing financially even despite the target or the
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: US trade war and all these things going on. But
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: they are still focusing on growing their population. China's economy
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: itself grew five five.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the that was their goal.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Roughly Yeah, they met their going.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: What the president is doing is what you did with
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the tariffs was to punish China and it didn't work.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Away market punished China is not let any Chinese national
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: go to school in the state right see, or shut
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: down every parent they've they've bobbed and weaved in.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: They're fine, yea, every Panda Express restaurant must be shut
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: down by executive order.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Okay. Moving on.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: After weeks of clashes on again off in clashes, this
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: hearing government and Kurdish led militia have made an agreement
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: to have an immediate cease fire and merge the militia
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: fully into the national military forces.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is not something we pay attention to, particularly
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Syria the civil war over there. It's certainly an international story.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: But does anybody do you guys even know about this,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: and more importantly, do you care?
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is something that when it crosses with
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: all the other stuff and news that's happening, this is
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: unfortunately one.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Of those stories that just doesn't get a lot of attention.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Right now, there's a story about that's really great, the
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: brain infecting raccoon roundworm.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That's a fun one.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I just love the fact that it's like crap news,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: crap news. But here's another weird crap news, and that
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: is that there's a brain infecting raccoon roundworm parasite that's
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: found in a dog in the San Fernando Valley.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: What is that?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Hold on that old parasite.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: I thought there was an earthquake, but I think it
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: was just Cono running down the hall.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: More trucks, trucks rolling by the studio.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like I just ran down.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: The hole and it shook the whole newsroom. And I
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: looked at Am. I thought we were having an earthquake.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: So anyway, well he carries his pay check in nickels,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: so it weighs him down.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Is the raccoon story.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: It's a huge story, and it's this raccoon roundworm. They
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: found exactly ten of them in California since nineteen ninety three.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Something to be afraid of.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Zutopia two is the highest grossing US animated movie of
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: all time.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: That's huge.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: It said, Yeah, I love it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: I love that two thousands.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: It's a sequel to twenty sixteen Zutopia, and it made
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: one point seven billion dollars worldwide as of yesterday, and
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: it edged out the previous record holder, which is also
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: a Disney film, Inside Out too. Wow, that's great, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: it's getting amazing reviews. It's supposed to be just a
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: wonderful film, which is rare for a sequel.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and anybody sees you Zutopia one?
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my daughter loved it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Did you? I didn't say it. I have to go on.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I've got to see both of them. Just a quick
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: word before we bail.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Do you remember when Bob Iger, I think it was
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: ziker Iiger, who ran Disney for many many years, he
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: bought Pixar for like three billion dollars. Everybody thought it was,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: oh god, how can you pay that much? How horrific?
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Is that the biggest success in terms of buying a
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: business that certainly Disney ever had. I mean it was
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: he effectively paid pennies on the dollar for the value
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: that Pixar has become.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: You know who created the tech that later became Pixar,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: George Lucas.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's true. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs also was big
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: part of that. I think Jobs invested ten million dollars
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: in that thing, and that was probably I think his
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: greatest wealth was the owner of that as.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Discostch tech and innovation for filmmaking and creativity came out
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: of ILM alone.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, and then really quickly a woman dies after Universal
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Studios Florida roller coaster ride, and it is it is
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: not true that Disney arranged that. Okay, we are absolutely
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