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Normally Podcast: Airport Chaos, TSA Shutdown & Failing Schools: When Politics Hurts Real Life · Normally

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Hey, guy of that normally takes for winking news gets weird.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mary k I'm Carol Michael.
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  Speaker 2: It's how are you, Mary Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. It's springtime. We're in almost full
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: bloom for the cherry blossoms, which is also the time
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  Speaker 1: that my allergies go crazy. I prepared with two weeks
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  Speaker 1: of dosing on zertex. I'm okay, you're okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm rooting for you. And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: cherry blossoms they look so good. Maybe a little pain,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is. The pain can be very real. And
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  Speaker 1: it took me like ten years of getting flu like
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  Speaker 1: symptoms on this week every year before I realized, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh maybe it's allergies. So here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I learn, I learn, Yep, yep. All right. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the TSA remains largely affected by a lack of dates
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  Speaker 2: DHS funding, and we keep getting asked what is this
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  Speaker 2: all about? Now? You and I have covered what it's
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  Speaker 2: all about previously on the show, but let's just do
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  Speaker 2: it one more time. Let's just tell them again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's happening is that Democrats are using their
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  Speaker 1: one and only minority power within the Senate to block
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  Speaker 1: DHS funding, which means that the TSA and the Coastguard
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other parts of DHS do not
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  Speaker 1: get funding, despite the fact that we have four g
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  Speaker 1: Hottie inspired attacks on US soil and now spring Break
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  Speaker 1: being affected by TSA agents who understandably are not excited
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  Speaker 1: to come to work because they're not getting paychecks. This
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  Speaker 1: happened to them within the you know, within a year
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  Speaker 1: twice now that they have been hung out to dry.
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  Speaker 1: And though I am not always a great fan of
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  Speaker 1: TSAs say, I am a fan of people being paid
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  Speaker 1: for the work that they are doing. And this is
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  Speaker 1: an unnecessary maneuver to try to get ICE funding changes
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  Speaker 1: that are not really on the table as part of
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  Speaker 1: this at all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's the best part actually that there's nothing really
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  Speaker 2: that they're pushing for that can happen here because the
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  Speaker 2: ICE funding is already over, as you have previously told us,
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  Speaker 2: it was in the big beautiful bill, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: not up for debate. It's happening, it's happened, it's already done.
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  Speaker 2: The timeline on this is it starts around January, where
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  Speaker 2: ICE is getting into clashes in Minnesota, and Democrats decide
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  Speaker 2: to try to punish the policies that they don't like
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  Speaker 2: by not approving DHS funding. We have a short shutdown
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning of February, end of January, and then
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  Speaker 2: they temporarily fix it by having a two week funding
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  Speaker 2: extension for DHS. Only then the funding lapses and Congress
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  Speaker 2: cannot reach a deal. Democrats are completely pushing something again
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  Speaker 2: is not up for debate. Cannot happen. I was funding,
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  Speaker 2: Bye bye, It's gone. It has left the building. And
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  Speaker 2: so they continue to target DHS and only DHS and
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  Speaker 2: TSA are affected by this particular shutdown. Well, the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the government remains open.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's important to understand that this is a
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  Speaker 1: proactive decision. The party making the decision to do this
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  Speaker 1: is the Democrats in the Senate, because they could vote
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  Speaker 1: to fund this at any time, and they just keep
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  Speaker 1: saying no over and over again. They are fulibusts during
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  Speaker 1: this This is something that Republicans and Trump should be
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  Speaker 1: repeating at nauseum on airwaves on x from the Oval Office,
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  Speaker 1: and as usual, the messaging is muddy. Yeah, and the
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  Speaker 1: media is not going to help you with it. Yeah. Trump,
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  Speaker 1: for his part, has decided to say, hey, okay, we've
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  Speaker 1: got problems with TSA. People are standing in these long
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  Speaker 1: lines being told to get to the airport for four
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  Speaker 1: and six hours before their flight, especially somewhere like Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: He says, okay, well, let's send ICE to the airports.
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  Speaker 1: And that actually can help because ICE can do force
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  Speaker 1: protection and deal with entryways and doors and other protection
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  Speaker 1: that happens around TSA. So more of those TSA agents
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  Speaker 1: who are at work can be used to screen.
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  Speaker 2: There's some irony in this, right, Like Democrats are like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to fund the TSA and we we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to do that because we don't want ICE
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  Speaker 2: to be funded, and Trump is like, hey, here's ice
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  Speaker 2: for you in the airports. I want to also add
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  Speaker 2: a shout out to our kind of brother podcast, Clay
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  Speaker 2: and Buck. You know, we're on their podcast network. This
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  Speaker 2: seems to have been an idea planted by one of
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  Speaker 2: their listeners. A woman calls in and says, hey, Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump should send ice to the airports, and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: is listening, and he's like, yeah, let's send ice to
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  Speaker 2: the airports. He ends up sending I think the woman's
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  Speaker 2: name was Linda, a nice maga hat signed with like
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  Speaker 2: what a great idea she had. And here we are
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  Speaker 2: because you could just do things, says Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You could just do things. And in one place, Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: which has been greatly affected by this because it is
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  Speaker 1: a huge, high traffic airport. Yeah, we have this update
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  Speaker 1: from of all places, CNN which seems to suggest that
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  Speaker 1: right after ice was deployed, which they note in the Chiron,
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  Speaker 1: things got better.
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  Speaker 2: Funny funny that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there may be a celebration here at the airport
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  Speaker 3: before it's all sitting downe especially for the folks who've
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  Speaker 3: been working NonStop extra shifts. If you look right here,
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  Speaker 3: you can see this is the main checkpoint. Almost no lines,
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  Speaker 3: no waiting, Sarah, And it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: At this point.
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  Speaker 3: This morning started briskly with a lot of people showing
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  Speaker 3: up here at the airport. Lines were long, people were
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  Speaker 3: waiting about an hour. But when that rush hour went
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  Speaker 3: away pretty quickly this morning we ended up with this
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  Speaker 3: and there seems to be more lines oh the normal
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  Speaker 3: right now with the TSA workers here breezing people through.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, a lot of folks have been showing up
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  Speaker 3: shocked at how short the lines are. Take a listen
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  Speaker 3: to some of the folks we talked to you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Extra security could could be bad, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're going to help out and you know,
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  Speaker 2: make things move a little faster.
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  Speaker 1: But if they're doing that or not, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But extra security is always good to me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you think it's not going to be that bad,
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  Speaker 2: but then you get here and you know, you think,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, it really is as bad as they say
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  Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, I mean people like security who.
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  Speaker 1: Knew, by the way, that is like, that's a normal
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  Speaker 1: people sentiment. If I've ever heard one where the reporters like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think and he's like, well, I don't know. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the reporter there, who I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If you know, he'll he'll be reprimanded. But he went
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  Speaker 1: on to say that people largely said that the ice
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  Speaker 1: officers were pleasant and that everyone was giving a cheer
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that morning shift, when it seemed
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  Speaker 1: that the slowdowns had been largely fixed by this deployment
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  Speaker 1: of extra people. The ICE officers, interestingly, are not wearing masks.
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  Speaker 1: They are unmasked and just doing their thing in the airport.
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  Speaker 1: That is interesting, partly because that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that Democrats have asked for in these negotiations, which are
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  Speaker 1: ongoing sort of, although both Trump and Senate Republicans and
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  Speaker 1: Senate Democrats are like, I don't know if we're for
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  Speaker 1: any of these deals, so I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: going to change, but I do think it is important
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  Speaker 1: to say once again, Trump did a thing that seems
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  Speaker 1: to have partially fixed the problem. Yeah, Democrats at any
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  Speaker 1: moment could just vote to fund pay these people and
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  Speaker 1: it would be done. And if it were Republicans making
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  Speaker 1: this choice to not fund them, you would hear no
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  Speaker 1: end of sob stories about this. It's just not you
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  Speaker 1: know that they know who's to blame because they're not
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  Speaker 1: telling you the story frequently.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Also, Atlanta is a major Delta hub,
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  Speaker 2: and Delta announced this week that they are suspending its
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  Speaker 2: special Congressional desk service for members of Congress until the
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  Speaker 2: shutdown is over. I'm like, until the shutdown is over,
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  Speaker 2: why do they have a special desk?
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  Speaker 1: Like, I know, this is not all the time. This
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  Speaker 1: is not you know, a.
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  Speaker 2: Monarchy, They are not royalty. They should be waiting on
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  Speaker 2: those three hour lines with everybody else, and the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they even have this desk is unacceptable, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, stand in the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who are you? Why should you get a
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  Speaker 2: special line? I am busier than you are. I am
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  Speaker 2: sure about that. So yeah, well I'm glad that functionally
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  Speaker 2: we're solving the problem. But yeah, Republicans need to be
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  Speaker 2: talking about this, yeah, much more often. I understand there's
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  Speaker 2: sort of there is a sort of shutdown fatigue on
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  Speaker 2: this storyline because it happens fairly frequently, but in this case,
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  Speaker 2: over spring break, when it's having a real deleterious effect
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  Speaker 2: on people's lives. Let's get to and there's the fact
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  Speaker 2: that these stores are coming out. People are like, should
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  Speaker 2: I get to the airport three or four hours early?
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  Speaker 2: And then they do, and then they're in the airport
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  Speaker 2: clogging the airports because there is no line anymore. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been sort of solved. We don't get live updates
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  Speaker 2: on that or anything. LaGuardia is not like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: our lines are free right now. It doesn't happen that way.
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  Speaker 2: So I think this chaos is on purpose. It's by
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. Two cause problems so that people pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to their issues. I think the American people should demand
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  Speaker 2: they fund the DHS and if they fund the TSA
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  Speaker 2: agents who are working, and then we should really rethink
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  Speaker 2: whether the TSA should be a government program at all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I just want to remind everyone the
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  Speaker 1: last Democratic shutdown was for the additional subsidies for Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll remember before that happened, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: sky is going to fall if people don't get these.
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  Speaker 1: So they didn't get them, guys. Yeah, they have been
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  Speaker 1: gone since the end of December.
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  Speaker 2: Sky remains.
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  Speaker 1: You may notice they're not talking about that anymore because
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  Speaker 1: it's not the thing getting attention at the moment. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the tool they're using. These are all just tools,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes, as in this case, they do hurt people.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of the ACA, it was mostly false,
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  Speaker 1: in e fact, mostly false. And so just keep that
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  Speaker 1: in mind when each of these emergency situations comes up
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  Speaker 1: for Democrats, is that three months from now, they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about this because it wasn't real.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, a lot of those extra subsidies were fraud
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to people who had plenty of money
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  Speaker 1: to pay for that care. One last thing. This is
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  Speaker 1: being pushed by Schumer in part because he was threatened
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  Speaker 1: with primary ings, if with being primaried by his own
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  Speaker 1: party and upstarts within it if he gave in on
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  Speaker 1: this kind of thing in the future. So it's also
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  Speaker 1: a political thing with Schumer's ambitions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck, Schumer likes your waiting on a long, long
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  Speaker 2: line at the airport. That should be the ad. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: right there, I just.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Wrote you gop by the way, there's a huge there's
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  Speaker 1: some important races in Georgia. Guys run some ads there.
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  Speaker 2: Right, not a bad idea. All right, We're going to
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: take a short break and be right back with more
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: on Normally. We are back on Normally, where the city
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  Speaker 2: of Boston is touting their graduation rate reaching an all
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  Speaker 2: time high last year. They are so proud of their
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  Speaker 2: record high eighty one percent. It's eight percentage points behind
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  Speaker 2: their state average. But nevertheless, Boston is really thrilled they're
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  Speaker 2: able to get you know, four out of five of
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  Speaker 2: the kids in their city graduated.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I mean, I'm excited for them. Isn't this good news, Carol?
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  Speaker 2: It's not actually or it's not real news. They basically
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  Speaker 2: banned fs. You're not allowed to failed classes anymore. In Boston,
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  Speaker 2: they eliminated testing, They hired these insane equity grading consultants,
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  Speaker 2: and now they somehow got their numbers up. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: our friend Guy Benson tweets ban failing grades, eliminate testing,
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  Speaker 2: line the pockets of nonsense consulting, lower standards, then celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the success. Welcome to progress, which is exactly how I
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  Speaker 2: feel about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and this is the pattern in all of these
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  Speaker 1: failing school systems. It's in my local area, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because once COVID hit and they realized, okay, we are
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: messing this up and we are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: climb back from it. What they did is they changed
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: the grading systems, and they changed the threshold for what
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  Speaker 1: equaled proficiency in our area so that they could hide
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  Speaker 1: the ball about how much damage they had done. And
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: that is a problem that repeats itself over and over again.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: You've got grade inflation across the US. The SAT I believe,
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  Speaker 1: just basically admitted that they had lowered their standards and
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  Speaker 1: made the test easier, right, and I would just submit
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: that why are you sitting in a building for eight
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: hours a day? If you are not learning actual skills.
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  Speaker 2: Like laffling, gogous valli.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to know these things. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are not doing those things, perhaps you should go work
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  Speaker 1: a job like this. This is silly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are we doing here. There's a great article
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  Speaker 2: about this entire thing in City Journal by someone named
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  Speaker 2: need To Arnold, and Arnold writes that, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: these numbers have gone down, their scores have gone up,
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  Speaker 2: and so it, you know, continues to really make no sense.
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  Speaker 2: One thing, Arnold writes, Boston has eased its grading policies.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead of the twenty one twenty two school year, the
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  Speaker 2: district published a policy banning teachers from giving no credit grades. Instead,
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: teachers could give students in complete marks, which supposedly would
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  Speaker 2: enable equitable learning recovery. As soon as you hear the
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  Speaker 2: word equitable, you know that education standards are about to plummet.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And this is again, it happens everywhere, and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, schools that have gotten good at hiding the ball,
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  Speaker 1: that have practiced hiding the ball, that have practiced closing
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  Speaker 1: down on a hair trigger, that have practiced lowering standards.
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  Speaker 1: It all just is a vicious cycle. It gets worse
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: and worse. And there's another story out of Pittsburgh this
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  Speaker 1: week that I wrote about for Daily Wire. Pittsburgh is
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  Speaker 1: hosting the draft, and the NFL Draft, of course comes
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: with all this pomp and circumstance and crowds more than
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  Speaker 1: it used to. In fact, Detroit hosted it two years
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  Speaker 1: ago to seven hundred and seventy five thousand people in
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  Speaker 1: the city. Interestingly, they didn't need to close schools, but
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has decided Pittsburgh as like, you're doing worse than Detroit. Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Bittsburgh has decided that it must close schools for three
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  Speaker 1: days while people are in town for the draft. Now,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Selna Zito, you know, is a Pittsburghian, and she notes
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  Speaker 1: there's exactly one school in the downtown triangle where they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be holding most of the draft festivities in case, right,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: just in case, you know, because you gotta go remote.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Remote is so good for kids, you know. We learned
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  Speaker 1: that the statement from the district was our priority is
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: maintaining continuity of learning while recognizing the extraordinary circumstance the
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: city will experience during the NFL Draft. Transitioning to a
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  Speaker 1: asynchronous learning allows us to support students academicly. No, it doesn't. No,
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  Speaker 1: asynchronous learning is a synonym for not learning. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of being what that is.
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  Speaker 2: We know this, Yeah, and they do this.
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  Speaker 1: All over the place because again, districts that practiced closing
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: close more. Now districts that practice being open during adversity
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  Speaker 1: in COVID are good at staying open and open greater
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: than closed. I don't know how more simple to make it.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the whole thing, right, It's like they
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: figured out how to close schools whenever they want, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: now they do it whenever they want. We talked about
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: in January that Minneapolis public schools will for two days
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: because of incidents around the city. That was the ice
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  Speaker 2: incident that happened in Minneapolis. Even if the school's not
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  Speaker 2: near it, even if you know nothing is happening in
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the vicinity of the school, they closed anyway for two
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: full days.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and not only that, they allowed a remote option
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  Speaker 1: for students who felt like it for a month, right,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: for a month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I would have one hundred percent felt
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  Speaker 2: like it in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, exactly. That's the thing. And this is one of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the things I think people underestimate. You know what happens
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: when you break a habit. It used to be that
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  Speaker 1: maybe you couldn't depend on your public school to actually
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  Speaker 1: teach your kid much, but you could depend on it
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  Speaker 1: to open its doors. Right, there was a habit. Everybody
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: went to the school, you did the thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: we broke that habit, just as we did going to
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: movies or going out to restaurants or you know, any
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of these things. It turned out rebuilding that was pretty hard.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And here we are with Pittsburgh. By the way, you'll
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you'll be interested in this, Carol, your old adage that
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: if you say school's not necessary like people, I believe you,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be shocked to find out that chronic
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  Speaker 1: absenteeism is in the extreme category in Pittsburgh public schools
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  Speaker 1: at thirty plus percent of chronic app absenteism.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we're not going to get into the
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: side topic of do we have to just rethink public
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: schools completely because we don't have time for it on
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: this half hour show. I mean, we already are ending
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: the TSA in the first segment, but I'm kind of
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: thinking we spend so much money on this and it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: is not effective at one point, are we going to
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  Speaker 2: say that's it for public schools. They haven't worked. It's
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  Speaker 2: not functioning. You don't want it to function. It's not
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: functioning because you've chosen not to make it function. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we should be paying for it anymore.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's the bottom line. Randy Winegarden did
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: more damage to the reputation and the function of public
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  Speaker 1: schools than anyone in my lifetime, any activist on the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: other side, on the other side, which is teaching children,
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  Speaker 1: she did the most damage of all of them. And
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  Speaker 1: the damage tenues and children will lose out from these
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  Speaker 1: three days.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, all right, We're gonna take a sharp break
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  Speaker 2: and be right back with more on normally.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back on normally with appropriately enough
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  Speaker 1: a tribute to the Norman ladies, our friends.
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  Speaker 4: One of my favorite normies, Yeah, one of our favorites,
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  Speaker 4: our friend Bridget Fetesi wrote a piece where she's given
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  Speaker 4: it up for the normy ladies who are out there,
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  Speaker 4: who are somewhere between girl boss and tradwife, who look
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  Speaker 4: around them and see the world and think is.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone going crazy? Am I in this alone with my
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  Speaker 1: still sane mind? And we would just like to say
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  Speaker 1: they're not all baby Bridget's friends, and to our audience,
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  Speaker 1: none of us are alone. We're all trying to wade
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  Speaker 1: through this as normy as we can. And I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: Bridget's Bridget's tribute to all of us. Yeah, if I
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  Speaker 1: may be so bold as to say, I remain saying.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, but this is Look, this is what normally is
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  Speaker 2: all about. We talk to the normal person. We talk
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  Speaker 2: to somebody who doesn't think of themselves as a caricature
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  Speaker 2: of tried wife or girl boss or whatever, and that
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  Speaker 2: they don't spend their time thinking about you know, how
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  Speaker 2: the bullet fragment worked with Charlie Kirk and how Candice
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  Speaker 2: is you know, exposed the plot to murder him.
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  Speaker 1: That is sixty first part of the documentary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and all of that is to say that being
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: online too much is not good for you. I know this,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: you know this, We all know this. We all probably
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: are still online too much. But what I would say
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  Speaker 2: to people listening is you have to cut it down.
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  Speaker 2: I have to cut it down. We have to all
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: work together to cut it down. The online world it
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is real. It's not that it's not real, but your
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: actual life outside your door, the normal life, that's the
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  Speaker 2: better one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a person with real friends, in a real
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: life and in touch with the real world. Bridget rights
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  Speaker 1: the algorithms don't know what to do with you because
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you don't fit in a demographic bucket. You're not angry
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: or chased enough for right wing media, and you're not
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: obedient or queer enough for left wing media, and you're
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: too smart for whatever the hell is happening. On the view,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you're the woman who can hold two thoughts in her
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  Speaker 1: head at the same time, and the world is a
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  Speaker 1: dumpster fire. That the world is a dumpster fire, and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that life is still beautiful and funny and worth showing
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  Speaker 1: up for, and you keep showing up day after day
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: after day. I love that idea. Yeah, I frequently feel
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: torn between these poles, and like, why can't we just
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: live in a place where you can hold the two
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and you are not a caricature? And I just
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: appreciate so much that sunny view even in the dumpster fire.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same, same look again. I think that the normal
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: life is the better life, and Bridget lays it out
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  Speaker 2: very nicely.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: By the way, I this week took X off of
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  Speaker 1: my phone. I have to use it intentionally on my laptop. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's better, so much better.
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  Speaker 2: I do it. I do it like twice a year
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  Speaker 2: for about a week in the time when we take trips.
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  Speaker 2: But you know I've said this before, but my finger
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: still goes to the spot on my phone. It's like
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: it just automatically is trying to press a button that's
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: not there anymore. That's always really scary to know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: That's a little bit of addiction for you folks. I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: but it has been better. Like I'm not picking my
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: phone up in the morning. First thing, I find that
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm hitting that spot, but the it's not there anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so I'm not there, So.
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  Speaker 1: All right, anyway, let's work on it. Let's get our
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: workouts in and touch grass.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. My my middle son and I have promised each
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: other that we will read more before bed. We both
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: enjoy the reading and don't feel like we're doing it enough,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and before bed is going to be our time. There's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: actually a study out today, like we talked about yesterday,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: but out today about how if you read before bed,
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  Speaker 2: your brain just shuts down so much better and you
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: need a runway to go to sleep. I definitely need something.
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  Speaker 1: I've been reading David Copperfield look at me. I got
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  Speaker 1: many hundreds of pages to go, so I'll be working
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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