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California’s New State Budget | EPA Shelves Microplastics Testing · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: six forty Birthday KFI AM six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handle here Tuesday morning, June thirtieth, Coming up the
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  Speaker 1: But what's going on today.
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  Speaker 2: We're expecting the Supreme Court any moment to hand down
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  Speaker 2: its decision on birthright citizenship. That is a big one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised the Court even took that up. The Constitution
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  Speaker 2: is pretty clear. The fourteenth Amendment says, if you're born here,
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  Speaker 2: you're a citizen. Thank you, You're done. And the President's going, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not the case. Children of illegal undocumented folks are
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  Speaker 2: not that are not citizens of this country. And as
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  Speaker 2: he says, we're the only country in the world that
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  Speaker 2: has birthright citizenhip.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is that's true.
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  Speaker 2: There are dozens of countries around the world that have
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  Speaker 2: birthright citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, the governor just signed his budget, the state budget,
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  Speaker 2: his last one three hundred and fifty one zero point
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  Speaker 2: seven billion dollars. And here is what California. This is
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  Speaker 2: a rough one for California because California's taxes are reliant
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  Speaker 2: on the stock market. It's that simple. When the stock
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  Speaker 2: market goes up, there is more money. When people make
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  Speaker 2: more money, revenues increase. So in a video message, Newsom
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  Speaker 2: talked about what he was able to do. Free school
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  Speaker 2: meal meals, universal transitional kindergarten, one hundred and thirty thousand
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  Speaker 2: subsidized childcare slots, and a bunch of other accomplishments. And
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  Speaker 2: this is this period in state history, a dramatic expansion
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  Speaker 2: of state government, over one hundred billion dollars in increase,
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  Speaker 2: spending more than one hundred billion dollars increase over the
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  Speaker 2: past eight years. The governor said, we built great things
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  Speaker 2: for the people of California, and we did this without
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  Speaker 2: breaking the bank. Probably not true. We did this by design.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's true, But how do you define breaking the bank. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you define breaking the bank by spending more money than
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  Speaker 2: comes in by a long shot. And here is the
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  Speaker 2: problem of which the governor and other democratic governors, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly the state legislature of the Assembly and the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: believe when there is more money coming in, that's the
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  Speaker 2: new baseline. And for example, this year, I think there
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  Speaker 2: was four billion dollars that came in that was unexpected
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  Speaker 2: an additional four billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, free money.
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  Speaker 2: That's a problem as far as California is concerned, because
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  Speaker 2: it relies so much on income taxes and when the
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  Speaker 2: economy is good, we do better and we pay more
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  Speaker 2: money because California, well, as I said, relies on the
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  Speaker 2: money coming in. Well, what happens when the money doesn't
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  Speaker 2: come in? What happens when we have years of flat
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  Speaker 2: growth or even recession. Then the money disappears. However, the
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  Speaker 2: programs are still in place because almost no programs are
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  Speaker 2: sunseted in the state, and virtually no programs are based
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  Speaker 2: on the revenue that's coming in, like a percentage of
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  Speaker 2: the profits if you will, Nope, And so it has
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  Speaker 2: gotten more and more expensive. And one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that really riled a lot of people who are anti
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom is his budget. And the philosophy here in
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  Speaker 2: California is we are paying for the medical costs of
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  Speaker 2: undocumented immigrants. If you're illegal, you still get coverage. That's
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  Speaker 2: the argument here. And as you can imagine, and that's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people, I mean a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Well, the two biggest spending
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  Speaker 2: programs are medical. Is the biggest one, and that takes
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  Speaker 2: about forty percent of total spending. Of the money that
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  Speaker 2: California spends is on medical. And California under Newsom has
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  Speaker 2: expended medical, extended it expanded it because now all immigrants,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of immigration status, are eligible.
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  Speaker 1: And this took everybody for a loop because.
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  Speaker 2: The cost of medical has grown even beyond what Democrats
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  Speaker 2: expected and now, whoops, we're spending more money.
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  Speaker 1: Medical is the California version of.
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  Speaker 2: Insurance for people who can't afford insurance, poor people, so
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  Speaker 2: they get medical coverage and.
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  Speaker 1: It's breaking the bank.
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  Speaker 2: Forty percent of the amount of money that that is
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  Speaker 2: spent by the government is medicalis a third of the
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  Speaker 2: population of California a third. So there are times when
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  Speaker 2: we have money pouring in and we don't put enough
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  Speaker 2: in it. We the state do not put enough in reserves.
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  Speaker 2: Because when here's another problem. Even when the economy is
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  Speaker 2: good and money is pouring in, there's still more money
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  Speaker 2: that's being spent even with all of that. So the government,
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  Speaker 2: the California government, the programs are going into reserves when
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  Speaker 2: times are good. Can you imagine what happens when times
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  Speaker 2: are bad? And there's a point where times are bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't keep going up and up and
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  Speaker 2: up forever. I don't I do the commercials for lear Capital.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, you know, you can't keep on going
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  Speaker 2: up and up and up and up, and it never
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  Speaker 2: goes down.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we've had the biggest.
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  Speaker 2: Sustained growth at this point in the history of the
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  Speaker 2: United States, or certainly in the history of California. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now I want to talk about what the government is doing,
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  Speaker 2: the EPA, and it's done something very interesting, the Environmental
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  Speaker 2: Protection Agency. Let's start with the fact that everything we
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  Speaker 2: are about is contaminated. For example, you can't eat fish
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  Speaker 2: without for example, mercury traces of mercury in the fish,
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  Speaker 2: in the flesh itself. Even to the point when my
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  Speaker 2: kids were small and they were running a fever, we
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  Speaker 2: would take their temperature with fish sticks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about a lot of contamination. In the meantime, one
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  Speaker 2: of the big, big stories we've been hearing that's fairly
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  Speaker 2: new is microplastics. Microplastics are these almost microscopic bits of
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  Speaker 2: plastic that are in everything. And so the EPA has
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  Speaker 2: now come out with the fact that it will not
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  Speaker 2: require public water utilities to test for microplastics or pharmaceuticals
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  Speaker 2: in drinking water. Now, wait a second, what happened in April. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the EPA administrator Lee Zelden said that microplastics and pharmaceuticals
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  Speaker 2: were a priority for contaminant for testing. Wait a minute, April,
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  Speaker 2: he says, they're critically important, and now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: they're not. And so you wonder why was it so
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  Speaker 2: important the microplastics. You would think that the administration couldn't
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  Speaker 2: give a rats about microplastics which in the environment in
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  Speaker 2: drinking water, specifically for testing. Well, it turns out, and
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  Speaker 2: this is my belief and I'm not alone, that really
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  Speaker 2: isn't about public health issues. It was about making the
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  Speaker 2: make America healthy again, crowd placating them because that's part
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  Speaker 2: of very strange RFK Junior and the MAGA people. And
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  Speaker 2: somehow healthy drinking water is important to Maga. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, I don't get it. That's because of our
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  Speaker 2: FK Junior. So among the thirty three chemicals, the EPA
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  Speaker 2: will require water utilities to test for our seven pfas
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  Speaker 2: forever chemicals, three pesticide residues, but not microplastics, which environmentalists
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  Speaker 2: and the medical people are saying, this.
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  Speaker 1: Is important stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We have to test for this, we have to and
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  Speaker 2: Lee Zeldin, head of the EPA, said, yes, I agree,
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  Speaker 2: we have to test for this.
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  Speaker 1: That was April. Now it's gone. It doesn't exist anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Every five years, the EPA produces its requirement for testing
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  Speaker 2: of drinking water by utilities, and since they have now
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  Speaker 2: removed the testing, that means for five more years there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be no testing of, or at least no
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  Speaker 2: federally mandated testing for utilities for water utilities, water developments projects,
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  Speaker 2: and in terms of the testing locally, I'm assuming some do.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the argument that the FEDS are now using
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  Speaker 2: is that we have not really developed the testing to
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  Speaker 2: the point where it is scientifically appropriate or it meets
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  Speaker 2: the standards of scientific testing. Well, environmentals are saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: look at the European Union. They've developed methods to test
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  Speaker 2: for these microplastics. Why can't we use what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: because there's the technology. According to Judith ank a former
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  Speaker 2: EPA regional administrator, she said the California Water Board to
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  Speaker 2: spend a lot of time, a lot of money on
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  Speaker 2: how to measure drinking water and they have the technology.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, state law was established to established a
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  Speaker 2: protocol for utilities to test for these particles.
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  Speaker 1: And now.
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  Speaker 2: So at the April meeting that we're talking about, Zelden
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  Speaker 2: administrator said, yep, he's going to place microplastics on what
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  Speaker 2: is known as the contaminant candidate lists, which is a
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  Speaker 2: watch list of unregulated priority contaminants in drinking water.
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  Speaker 1: Now, now we don't have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: So is the argument, is there such a thing as
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  Speaker 2: particularly this administration? And here I am again I go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and scream at me because you know where I said.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that the health of Americans versus the
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  Speaker 2: political fallout of anything they do is important? Have we
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  Speaker 2: reached the age and the time of polarization? And I'm
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  Speaker 2: say on both sides where politics is more important than
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  Speaker 2: almost anything. And that's the argument here. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to hell in a handbasket really quickly. News literally
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  Speaker 2: just breaking now. In a shocker, which of course we
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  Speaker 2: all knew was going to happen, the Supreme Court struck
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  Speaker 2: down the Trump version of birthright citizenship. The court upheld
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  Speaker 2: the Fourteenth Amendment, saying hey, if you're born here, you're
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  Speaker 2: a citizen. And of course, the President had argued, relative
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  Speaker 2: to and executive order that he had signed that if
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  Speaker 2: you are born here and both your parents or if
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  Speaker 2: not one of your parents was here, legally, you're not
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  Speaker 2: a citizen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, You've got to have some tie to legality.
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  Speaker 2: And so that executive order, of course, was instantly challenged
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  Speaker 2: in court, and the court held off saying we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to change anything until or the courts until we
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  Speaker 2: get a final decision. We just got a final decision,
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  Speaker 2: and that is birthright citizenship continues.
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  Speaker 1: So that is.
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  Speaker 2: A real important part of the thinking of President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And again, as I said earlier, I think he's missed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it because I think he's making a
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  Speaker 2: big deal of this birthrights citizenship. It is important, but man,
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  Speaker 2: compared to housing, compared to inflation, compared to what's happening
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  Speaker 2: to our pocketbook, where all of a sudden it isn't
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  Speaker 2: important the cost of oil was happening with Iran, It's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just am missing it completely.
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  Speaker 1: So now two hundred and.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty years on July fourth, coming up in four days,
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  Speaker 2: and Congress had created its version of the celebration, and
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  Speaker 2: it's called America two fifty and it had to do
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  Speaker 2: with things like a time capsule, contributions l fifty states,
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  Speaker 2: and essay contests for students, an America block party on
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  Speaker 2: July fourth featuring Queen Latifah, Chris Stapleton, the Smashing Pumpkins.
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  Speaker 2: And that didn't do it for the President because there
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  Speaker 2: wasn't enough Trump in the celebration. And so what the
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  Speaker 2: President did is he created Freedom to fifty, which is
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  Speaker 2: a different kind of salute to America. And amongst them
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that it's probably going to be a
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  Speaker 2: rally because he is going to open it up. He
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  Speaker 2: is hosting the celebration. There will be an event on
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  Speaker 2: and near the Donald J. Trump Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot of festivities around there.
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  Speaker 2: There will be a fire works display, but not just
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  Speaker 2: the fireworks display, oh no, no, no no, it is
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  Speaker 2: going to break the Guinness World Record for fireworks. So
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  Speaker 2: that's going to go on all day. And then I
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  Speaker 2: just love this. June fourteenth was his eightieth birthday. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, as we know, on the Lighthouse South Lawn,
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  Speaker 2: the Ultimate Fighting Championship Cage mashes last week on the
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  Speaker 2: National mall formal kicking off the American State Fair, effectively
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  Speaker 2: a Trump rally. Military jets jets flying overhead, and previously
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  Speaker 2: announced performing artists withdrew from the event. Now at that
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  Speaker 2: event that rally, Secretary Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary Sewn Duffy
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  Speaker 2: was addressing the crowd. And this is a cabinet secretary
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  Speaker 2: who you would think would have some kind of gravitas.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's you know, it's a cabinet secretary.
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  Speaker 1: And so he talked about.
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  Speaker 2: The rallied against those libtards that canceled on us. He's
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  Speaker 2: talking about the acts that canceled, Secretary those lib tarts,
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  Speaker 2: and praised Trump as the greatest president that's ever existed
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  Speaker 2: in this country since George Washington. I'm surprised he included
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  Speaker 2: George Washington possibly better or greater than Donald Trump. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so. The affair featured no Democrats at all.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's battle cry of make America great Again and the
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  Speaker 2: village people the song YMCA for some reason, it's connected
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  Speaker 2: to the president and it was performed by the US
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  Speaker 2: Marine Band And one of the more interesting aspects of
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  Speaker 2: Sean Duffy's speech Secretary Transpation secretary was He said, I
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  Speaker 2: would love to stay here for a much more lengthy
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  Speaker 2: time because I know how wonderful this is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, but I have a.
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  Speaker 2: Meeting back at the White House, uh with the Wizard
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  Speaker 2: and he went off singing, uh, he's the best there
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  Speaker 2: ever was is he's the best is Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what he was singing. How does
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  Speaker 1: that go? The Wizard? He's Uh that that was that
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  Speaker 1: was that was there was that is that? Yeah? Just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: The the Whiz is uh fantastic. Breaking news, well, relatively massive.
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court did come down as was expected with its
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  Speaker 2: decision that birthright citizenship is.
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  Speaker 1: Part and parcel of the law of.
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  Speaker 2: The land because President Trump uh starting a second administration
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  Speaker 2: issued in executive order uh and uh that the executive
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  Speaker 2: order said that people who are born here are not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily American citizens if one of their at least one
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  Speaker 2: of their parents are here legally. If both are not
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  Speaker 2: here legally, then no American citizenship. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: what the court said, I don't know the exact language,
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  Speaker 2: but arguing that that pesky constitution just gets in the way,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it With what the President wants to do, and
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  Speaker 2: they I haven't read the opinion, but I'm sure they're
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  Speaker 2: going to point out to what part of the fourteenth
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  Speaker 2: Amendment are we having a hard time understanding that says
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  Speaker 2: any person born in the United States is a citizen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's very confusing, it really is. Okay, back we go,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to finish up a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: about the.
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  Speaker 1: Two major.
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  Speaker 2: Organizations that are celebrating the July fourth weekend or the
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  Speaker 2: July fourth itself. Two hundred and fifty years there was
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  Speaker 2: America two fifty. This was congress Congressional statement and Congressional
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  Speaker 2: project included a time capsule from all fifty states, essay contests,
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  Speaker 2: America Bloc Party, July fourth Weekend, July fourth show featuring
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  Speaker 2: Queen Latifa and others. And that wasn't enough because frankly,
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't enough Donald Trump in there. Straight out, there
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  Speaker 2: was not enough Donald Trump. And so the alternative Freedom
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  Speaker 2: two fifty was formed, and that has a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. There will be a rally with President
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  Speaker 2: Trump and he is going to kick it off, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he's going to talk about the election being
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  Speaker 2: rigged and all that because he does every time and
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  Speaker 2: then and I love this. As I said, there was
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  Speaker 2: a rally back in April, and the Transportation Secretary Sean
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  Speaker 2: Duffy talked about those lib tards.
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  Speaker 1: That canceled on us.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about the acts that said we're no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not performing, and he he said, and he's not understanding
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  Speaker 2: why we're not all considering Trump the greatest president that
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  Speaker 2: ever existed in this country since George Washington, the greatest
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  Speaker 2: president ever that is, or was or will be. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's that, by the way, is going to be the theme.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to let you know over the July
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  Speaker 2: fourth holiday. Can't wait for that. David Blythe, who's a
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  Speaker 2: professor of American history at Yale, said, basically, what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see is theater of the absurd. And let's
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  Speaker 2: compare what happened in nineteen seventy six, the by centennial.
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  Speaker 2: Gerald Ford was president. He basically took no credit for it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a congressional event. Remember the hundred tall ships
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  Speaker 2: that were in New York Harbor. And I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was just it was really a nice It was not
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  Speaker 2: a Gerald Ford extravaganza. Okay, So I want to finish
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  Speaker 2: up with a little bit of history, and that is
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  Speaker 2: about George Washington. Now, I'm willing to bet you've never
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  Speaker 2: asked yourself the question what did George Washington smell like?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Back in those days, bathing was not a big deal
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  Speaker 2: George Washington. For him, it was a big deal, and
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  Speaker 2: he actually used cologne. There was a Rhode Island apothecary
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  Speaker 2: sort of a drug store of those days that had
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  Speaker 2: twenty fagrances and one of them was George Washington's signature set.
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  Speaker 2: He had gone in there for something or another in
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  Speaker 2: terms of drugs, drug store apothecary, you know, some kind
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  Speaker 2: of snake oil that they used to sell at that point,
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  Speaker 2: and he smelled. He goes, what's that and they said
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  Speaker 2: it is a cologne which is not being used very much.
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  Speaker 1: A cologne.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, Wow, that smells good to me. And
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  Speaker 2: he wore that for the rest of his life. And
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  Speaker 2: he was a big bather. I mean, he believed in bathing,
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  Speaker 2: and he dressed to the nines. He always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be the ultimate gentleman, sort of the landed gentry, and
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  Speaker 2: he was. He dressed beautifully. He was very formal with people,
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  Speaker 2: an exceptional dancer, by the way, and you know how
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  Speaker 2: people wore wigs. Everybody wore a wig. That's his hair.
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  Speaker 2: He did not wear a wig. He was very proud
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that he had a great head of hair.
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  Speaker 2: And what he did is he made it look like
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  Speaker 2: a wig in terms of the way they were worn,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, it was his hair.
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  Speaker 1: He was an interesting guy.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a quick fact before we leave.
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  Speaker 2: We know more about George Washington than anybody did during
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  Speaker 2: his lifetime, during his tenure. Now tell you why. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, he knew he was George Washington big picture.
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  Speaker 2: So every letter he wrote, everything he did, he had
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  Speaker 2: an archivist with him that copied everything, that talked about everything.
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  Speaker 1: He basically had a historian along with him through his.
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  Speaker 2: Entire political life because he knew how important he was.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think that's blowing smoke. George Washington was
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  Speaker 2: that important. He just knew it. And also he compartmentalized.
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  Speaker 2: He would only, like FDR, he would only let certain
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  Speaker 2: people know separate parts about him.
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  Speaker 1: He was not open to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have all of those pieces, and so we
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  Speaker 2: have a very good idea of what he was about. Today,
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  Speaker 2: the biographies are far more not only compelling, but for
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  Speaker 2: have far more information than ever was during the time
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  Speaker 2: when he was truly the Wizard of Oz.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they can reverse engineer that cologne though
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  Speaker 1: what it's available still still there. Yeah, it'd be fine
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  Speaker 1: if they had thirteen of them. Yeah, no, it was.
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  Speaker 2: The apothecary was founded in seventeen fifty two and it
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  Speaker 2: is now the apothecary that drugstore quotes is now Caswell
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  Speaker 2: Macy is that brand which is still around, and they
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  Speaker 2: and the very scent that he wanted or that he
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  Speaker 2: bought is still around today. So you could smell like
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  Speaker 2: George Washington.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? Huh go? Oh, there you go?
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