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Study Hall: What We Learned From Going To The State of the Union Address · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: So, if you don't know I was, I was in
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  Speaker 3: Capitol Hill last Thursday for the State of the Union address.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start the conversation with this. This.
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  Speaker 3: This is my conspiracy theory bag. And I can't say
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  Speaker 3: too much. Oh, I can't say too much, but I
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  Speaker 3: will say this. I was extremely confident that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: was going to become president prior to my visit to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of CEOs at least months ago,
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  Speaker 3: had priced in they already the stock market had already
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  Speaker 3: priced in a Donald Trump victory. This is just my
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  Speaker 3: personal opinion, ladies and gentlemen. I received some information that
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  Speaker 3: changed my mind. I'm not I'm not as confident.
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  Speaker 2: My mom.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear doctor Mama.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that Biden is gonna win, but I
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  Speaker 3: did receive some information that I wasn't aware of. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be it's gonna be a it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: tight race. Let's just say that. So I think, Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, this is just my personal opinion. I think
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  Speaker 3: that from a market standpoint, if you if you if now,
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  Speaker 3: if you have uncertainty, markets don't like uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: They like certainty.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Donald Trump is gonna win, Okay, at least
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  Speaker 3: we can price that in and we kind of know, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is if you know Biden is gonna win. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't really know who's gonna win, that would that
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  Speaker 3: would add uncertainty to the market. Anytime the market in
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  Speaker 3: the market, then the market, the stock market drops.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like an easy way to understand things.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if Biden us win a second term,
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  Speaker 3: then that could potentially have even more uncertainty given his
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  Speaker 3: health issues, different things that it cloudy's the war a
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  Speaker 3: little bit clouds the water a little bit, So that
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  Speaker 3: may that may be that may be part of the
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  Speaker 3: reason for selling as well leading up to the election.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was an interesting trip to Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely would like to thank Representative Lauren Underwood for
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  Speaker 3: inviting me as her guests. And I got to meet
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  Speaker 3: with the Congressional Black Caulcids. I got to meet with
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  Speaker 3: the head of the Democratic Committee. I got to yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, add an introduction to Nancy Pelosi and AOC
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  Speaker 3: and Representative Omar and Maxine Waters.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of other people.
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  Speaker 3: For those that's asking why I did not meet with
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  Speaker 3: any Republicans, this is an interesting situation.
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  Speaker 1: So Early Legion. We've been around for five years.
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  Speaker 3: We've had multiple politicians that have actually reached out to us.
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  Speaker 3: We've never reached out to a politician, but we we
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  Speaker 3: accept invitations from anybody. In the course of five years.
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  Speaker 3: How many Republicans do you think I's ever reached out
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  Speaker 3: to us?
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  Speaker 1: Settle zero.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm I would love to speak to Republicans. I
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  Speaker 3: would love to interview Donald Trump. I would love to
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  Speaker 3: have an inside conversation with the Republican Party. They just
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  Speaker 3: haven't reached out. So if they reach out, then we'll
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  Speaker 3: take We'll take it for sure. But until then, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna We're gonna entertain the conversations that are on our plate.
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  Speaker 3: So for anybody that's wondering, But I'm still a registered independent.
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  Speaker 3: I don't support any political party, but I do take
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  Speaker 3: invitations for people that invite me different places. And the
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  Speaker 3: invitation came from the Democratic Party, So I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: the that's the answer for that, because I already know
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  Speaker 3: that that's gonna you know, you weren't a MCGA hat
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  Speaker 3: or Trump give the interview if that's is caveat. No,
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  Speaker 3: I can't wear the MAGA hat, but I will so
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  Speaker 3: on will be interested, Yeah, for sure, definitely, so on
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  Speaker 3: for sure. But so briefly, I just want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the state of the Union, because yes, please ties
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  Speaker 3: into the stock market. You know, it's one of these
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  Speaker 3: things that Washington is a very interesting place and it's
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  Speaker 3: very important, and you know, meeting with Representative Underwood and
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  Speaker 3: she is part of she's on the chair of the
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  Speaker 3: Appropriations Committee, so she was explaining the Appropriations Committee to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so in Congress there's there's multiple different committees.
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  Speaker 3: These committees are twenty thirty people. They're extremely powerful and
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  Speaker 3: depending on what committee you're on, you have a tremendous influence.
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  Speaker 3: So the Ways and Means Committee is the committee that
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  Speaker 3: deals with taxation. They pretty much write the tax code.
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  Speaker 3: It's about twenty thirty people. So if you think about it,
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  Speaker 3: a country of three hundred million people or so, thirty
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  Speaker 3: people really dictate taxes, right. But then our committee is
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  Speaker 3: the Appropriations Committee. So that actually dictates where the tax
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  Speaker 3: money goes. So that's another like you know, twenty thirty
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  Speaker 3: people committee, And I asked how much money they were
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  Speaker 3: responsible for deploying last year. I think it was like
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  Speaker 3: two point three trillion trillion dollars. So she was telling
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  Speaker 3: me about you know, healthcare and uh, farmland and homeland
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  Speaker 3: security and a variety of different a variety of different aspects.
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  Speaker 3: Cybersecurity very very big is the deployment of capital. So
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  Speaker 3: understanding the dynamics of Washington, I think is extremely important
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  Speaker 3: to really understanding business because they go hand in hand.
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  Speaker 3: And if you watch this speech, the whole speech was
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  Speaker 3: talking about different financial issues. Whether it was homeland security,
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  Speaker 3: that's the financial issue, Whether it was wars with Ukraine,
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  Speaker 3: the Ukraine Russia situation, that's the financial issue. That's billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars that he's actually asking Congress for. Whether it's
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  Speaker 3: he talked about affordable homes giving a grant, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's like five hundred dollars something like that, thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: to everybody to trying to buy a home. That's obviously
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  Speaker 3: a financial issue. So many different things that student loans,
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  Speaker 3: financial issue, So everything that is actually being talked about
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  Speaker 3: on the political side. It all dates back to financial issues.
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  Speaker 3: Money and if you are involved in it as an
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  Speaker 3: investor or an entrepreneur, then you're able to actually honor
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  Speaker 3: obviously benefit from it. Right So, extremely enlightening day. As
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  Speaker 3: I said, I got to meet with some people that
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  Speaker 3: were very helpful, helping me understand things a little bit
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  Speaker 3: further than my original understanding of things, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that it was something that was definitely an eye opening experience.
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  Speaker 2: I think let's pull back the layers a little bit
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of people may have watched it on TV,
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  Speaker 2: you don't really have an understanding of it. You were
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  Speaker 2: inside those chambers. I think we've I'm thinking a tour
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  Speaker 2: inside that before. Never obviously never been to a City
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  Speaker 2: of Union address, which is very rare moment in time.
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  Speaker 2: So to talk about the atmosphere inside the room as
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  Speaker 2: the speech is happening, right like, because mostly I even
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  Speaker 2: have to explain it to my kids, Well, why are
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  Speaker 2: they clapping, Why are they not clapping, Why are they standing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are they not standing?
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  Speaker 2: Like, talk about those dynamics inside of that room.
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  Speaker 3: State of Union is very similar to a hockey game,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a lot more entertaining in person than it
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  Speaker 3: is on TV. I've watched Stated Year Got You for years, right,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you watch it, you doze in and off.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really it's not the most exciting thing in
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  Speaker 3: the world. But being there, the energy is crazy because
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  Speaker 3: you got heckless. So people on the ground they about
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  Speaker 3: to start fighting. Actually, like you're not the Maga people
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  Speaker 3: versus the Democrats. They arguing with each other in each
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  Speaker 3: other's faces. Then you got random hecklers that get thrown out,
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  Speaker 3: people booing the president, people chairing every everything, every word
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  Speaker 3: that he says, They cheering. So it's like, it's a
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  Speaker 3: very entertaining it's two and a half hours. I honestly
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  Speaker 3: thought that I would probably be falling asleep after the
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  Speaker 3: first thirty minutes, but I actually stayed up. I was
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  Speaker 3: very alert for the whole thing because it was entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: It was very entertaining. They take your cell phone so
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  Speaker 3: you can't you can't coordinate that inside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of these things that you don't have a
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  Speaker 3: full appreciation for until you're in it. And another thing,
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  Speaker 3: as far as the networking thing, never turned down an invitation.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lesson. When we first got the invitation, we
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  Speaker 3: actually wasn't going to go because there was only one
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  Speaker 3: ticket and they couldn't get us two tickets. That would
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  Speaker 3: have been a tremendous mistake because just me going opened
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  Speaker 3: up opportunity to the door.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. This is a lesson, folks, So never turned down
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't a flip or coin thing. It was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to go? Yeah, I'll go, but I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't go. And I think I text you like six
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  Speaker 2: toady in the morning. I think I said I text
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  Speaker 2: you like rep to set. It doesn't even need to
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  Speaker 2: be spoken. A great job represent. I want to ask
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  Speaker 2: you this, though I don't know nobody asked you this.
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  Speaker 2: So like when you're in that chamber, right, you got
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  Speaker 2: to be mindful of what you're wearing. Right, So if
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  Speaker 2: you were like a blue tie or red, like you
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  Speaker 2: could be synonymous with one side or the other. Did
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  Speaker 2: you think you didn't wear a tie? Was that intentional?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't wear a tie.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. That's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. I didn't wear a tie. Honestly.
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  Speaker 3: The reason why I didn't wear tie is because I
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  Speaker 3: knew it was going to be a long day. We
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  Speaker 3: started at ten o'clock in the morning, ended at twelve
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  Speaker 3: o'clock at night, and I get uncomfortable, like with a
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  Speaker 3: tie for twelve hours at a time. So I knew,
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  Speaker 3: from a comfortability standpoint, I did not want to wear
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  Speaker 3: a tie because you know, it was gonna hurt my neck.
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  Speaker 3: But I also I also wanted to have some level
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  Speaker 3: of business casual to it to like Fat Joe. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: doesn't in their own way. Fat Joe had sneakers on,
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  Speaker 3: so that was his way. I kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I guess representing hip hop culture and I just wanted
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  Speaker 3: to feel like, you know, I'm gonna still be respectful.
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  Speaker 3: So I had a suit on, I had shoes on,
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  Speaker 3: but I want no tie because we are still, you know,
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  Speaker 3: renegades in this situation, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to kind of you know the set that do
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  Speaker 1: that and be mindful of it. But I did.
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  Speaker 3: I wore blue, but it wasn't for the Democrat. It
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  Speaker 3: was just that was just a It did not go
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  Speaker 3: into my mind. But when I saw a Fat Joe's tie,
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  Speaker 3: it was I saw a red tie, so.
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  Speaker 1: Come it off.
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  Speaker 2: The shoes all was like Greg you anonymous with the
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