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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

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at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty

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Armstrong and Getty Show.

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I just saw a headline and I was thinking two

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very divergent ways you

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would take in this headline headline

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USA Today, Top of the Fold Police

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put emphasis on diverse workforce.

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And you are either a person that sees that headline

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and thinks awesome, that will make things

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better, or that's almost

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guaranteed to make things worse.

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I'm in the latter category. Now.

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I don't know if it's fair or not, but that's what I think.

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That's what I've seen a lot.

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But isn't that right?

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It's your pretty much that's starkly

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different probably when you take in that headline.

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Yeah, if I were to equivalent, I

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will because I'm a quippler, you know. Okay,

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they're putting an emphasis or the

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emphasis is that like the primary emphasis

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that the number one goal, or is that like

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number five after effectiveness,

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safety and adhering to constitutional

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norms.

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You are a quibbler. And the other headline

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Top of the Fold, USA Today.

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Oh, by the way, I suspect very strongly

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from the point of view of the USA today. It's

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the former idea that that's their top

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priority that is doomed

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to disaster.

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I guess that's what I was assuming, and

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I'm probably right. The

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other top of the fold headline, though,

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pig kidney transplant succeeds in historic

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first. Did you see the doctor after this happen?

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He was He could hardly talk. He

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was so choked up that it worked. Wow,

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thinking this is such a giant deal. Wow,

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Well, good for him, a compassionate man. No

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more kidnap. What about the pig? Nobody

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cares about the pig? Pig said, Hey, I was using

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that boy

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can do pigs? I assume have two kidneys?

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Can they leave it with one?

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I assume this pig was a donor, willing

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donor signed up, had the

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stick around his driver's lice.

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Snow. I

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don't know.

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A fashion note before we get too clips of the

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week, A fashion note. I had noticed

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this in my college town. We all

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know all fashion is cyclical. If it

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was ever hot, it will come back again. And then when

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it goes it seems so ridiculous and laughable

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that it was ever popular. Then it will come back again

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in like thirty years or whatever. But So

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the crop the crop shirt or

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half shirt or whatever you call it for women super

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hot. Now if you're under thirty, you're wearing

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the half shirt. I mean I just see it every day, practically

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everybody wearing it.

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It looks show me your belly, baby.

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And if you got the belly for it, looks fantastic,

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Yes, katie.

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Top.

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And it is the fact that they're the only shirt

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that we can find right now. It's highly irritating.

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It's hard to find shirts that aren't

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crop top.

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Yes.

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Finding regular length shirts right now

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that are fashionable is.

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A task that's interesting.

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Yeah, I see almost, Like I said, practically every

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woman under thirty that I see is wearing that kind

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of shirt.

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Soh yeah.

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But men are embracing this fashion

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a trend worn by women for the last couple

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of years. How did it get to this point? This as a

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New York post, I remember when half shirts were

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popular for guys in the

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early eighties.

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Late seventies. That was a thing.

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So and if you got the I never

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did and never will have the right

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a build for it.

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I don't want to see guys abs it works.

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Buddy, I guess no,

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no, no, I just I've got to admit

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to being amused by many of

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the same women who will browbeat

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you and literally beat you and get

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you fired if you look at them for as

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a sexual being, saying,

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therefore, I'm going to use my liberation to show

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you lots and lots of my body, as

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if showing body parts that's sexually

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provocative.

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But anyway, well, the

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short shirt has shown up with the high waisted genes,

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so the genes come up to hear, then the shot comes down here, and

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then you just got that little gap in between.

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That's stupid.

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Anyway, Wow, there are some fashions

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that are reasonable in some not and

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I Joe Getty, the mister Blackwell of the twenty

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first century, will rule upon it.

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Hey, we really need to take a fond

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look back at the week that was. Come on now it's

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cow clips of the week.

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I want to be crystal clear.

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I want you to remember this moment. What the

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hell is he talking about the

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whips of the week. How

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many genders are there? It's a spectrum,

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so like a lot. What

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is a quality escape?

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I think that's the description of what people

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are finding in their inspections. Everybody

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knows that there's a hole in the

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side of it.

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Doctor's hope.

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It could pave the way for an endless supply

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of pig kidneys.

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It was like using the force

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on and I can get it to move

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wherever I wanted.

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Oh Toni's longtime friend, an interpreter

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fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers after

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allegedly stealing four and a half million

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dollars from the baseball phenom.

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Please say the burglary tourists are part

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of international crime rings traveling

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from countries in South America.

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There are one hundred miles of border wall that

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have been put up in the Dominican Republic.

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If they say it has been extremely effective.

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That there were a number of several hundred

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migrants that essentially overwhelmed

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the number of Texas National Guard

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Soldiersey. Now, if I don't

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get elected, it's gonna be a blood bath

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for the whole that's going to be the least

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seven.

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Blood bath blood bath. Not only is

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it going to be a blood bath, it's a bloodbath and impending

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blood bath. And this has

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a wonderful voice, and it won't be top.

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I would like to hear it, America,

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what are you doing? The New

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York Attorney General starts

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to take his homes away. You're going

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to create the greatest victimhood

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of twenty twenty four, and you're going

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to elect Donald Trump.

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Look at Illinois. I don't know how it

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continues. You have this guy Pritzker.

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I don't know.

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He's too busy eating. He wants to eat all the

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time. Who the hell out of his five

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burgers?

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Now Northern Island is fully functioning? Coming

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again?

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Joe Biden was more than a participant in and

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a beneficiary of his family's business.

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He was an active, aware enabler.

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The reason that's life putin said,

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Ladies.

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And gentlemen, please rise

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for the horribly and unfairly

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treated in January sixth

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hostages. So,

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like Eliah, I'm

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mostly offended by that announcer.

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Just the way he talks.

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That's what Bobby Whitey is trying

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to force his voice lower?

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Did tree? Did Trump say? Who the hell eats

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two hammers? Five?

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What a funny thing?

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Hell wants five hamburgers? Are

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you following with JB.

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Pritzker? Is not that he's fat, it's that he's evil.

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Anyway, back to you, are

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you following the show?

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Hey Otani story The Biggest

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sports star in America? Seven hundred million

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dollar contract, and now some

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weird gambling thing that has erupted

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has gone pretty quiet in the last twenty

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four hours. The Dodgers acquired

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him over the summer seven hundred million dollar

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contract. Like I said, and here

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are the unanswered questions, according

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to The Athletic in the New York Times,

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still unanswered and some of them are pretty basic

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questions. Why

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did the interpreter change

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his story? The original story

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on ESPN was the interpreter said,

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Otani, who he interprets for. Because Otani's

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a Japanese player doesn't speak English.

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The interpreter said, Otani wired him

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the money to cover his gambling debts. Then

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the story became the interpreter

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stole money from Otani.

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Nobody has said why. Two

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different stories. Who what

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what? Why? Do you say? What do you know anything about

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this? But there's no answer from that.

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So the interpreter said, yeah, I

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ran up some gambling debts.

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It was one hundred percent of me.

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Otani is not involved in any way, but he

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covered them for me because we're such close

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friends, right

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exactly. Then Otani's legal team

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came out the next day I believe

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to say, yeah, Otani's been stolen

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from?

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Is the story.

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Possibly because he was stolen

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from, but also possibly because the

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difference between you gambling on sports

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and someone else placing the

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bets, but when they lose you cover it.

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Is pretty thin, isn't it.

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Oh yeah, yeah, place, You're just you've employed

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a bag man a courier.

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I mean, because am I supposed to think that if

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the guy wins, the money doesn't go back the other direction?

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Ever?

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Yeah?

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Right?

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So the other question from the

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New York Times their Athletic section, why

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isn't Major League Baseball investigating? I'll

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tell you why they're not investigating, because the last

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thing they want is the biggest

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star they've got in their entire sport

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that they're counting on for the next fifteen years

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to drive ratings and the number one media

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market in the country. They don't want

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this story. They wanted to go away. They're not going to

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investigate unless they're forced to.

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I think they're probably quote unquote

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investigating furiously, but extremely

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quietly.

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Another question not answered, it would be

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should be answered pretty quickly, pretty easily. What

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sports was this guy betting on? Was

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he betting on baseball? Because he is betting

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on baseball even if it was the interpreter sitting

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in the dugout. No one, who's hurt, who's

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got a cold, who's got a whatever?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, now, Misuhara, the guy's name.

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The interpreter swears he's never bet on baseball.

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He said he knew that rule, he didn't realize

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he wouldn't He wasn't allowed to gamble

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on sports at all. But I like to question one

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of the Jason asked in the Wall

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Street Journal. Uh,

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I want to know why a book maker allegedly

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let a client like miss O'Hara fall into a multimillion

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dollar hole.

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Ooh, that's a good question.

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Yeah, because I'm sure it

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pays pretty good to be shohey a Toni's

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interpreter, but it doesn't pay

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I lose four and a half million dollars

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at a time, you know, over a stretch

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of gambling. No way, I mean that's

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you're a high roll in gambler

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to lose four and a half million dollars. And I guess

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the point of Jason Riley and you is, well,

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bookies don't just let anybody bet

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that kind of money. So what I win?

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I get my ten million dollars I lose. I just

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say sorry, I don't have it. That's in the way it works.

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Well, right, unless this guy

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and there are these are all questions with no answers

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yet. But unless this interpreted guy Misahara

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told the book he all right, I owe you three

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and a half mil.

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I'll steal it from Otani.

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Now, it is to be fair to Atani,

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who I don't know anything about. I mean, might be the

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greatest guy in the world and didn't do anything wrong, got stolen

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from. But it's

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not crazy at all to think

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drug addicts and gamble and annex do

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all kinds of awful things. They steal from family

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and friends all the time. It's

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like the most common thing. Oh yeah, yeah,

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they spend their family see Hunter Biden. They

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spend their family's money, all of

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it lied to them, like Hunter did to

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his.

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Brother's wife

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who became his wife.

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Right, I could see virtually

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any of these scenarios becoming

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becoming clear that that was the true one.

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I mean, like this guy who because he and Tani

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are close, really close, like

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family close. I could see this

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guy coming to a Otani and saying, I've done.

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A terrible thing.

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I've ruined my life, blah blah, blah, here's here's

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what's up, and Otani, who

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has more money than God, saying I'm

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to cover you once, old friend once,

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and then Otani's people saying, hey,

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why'd you transfer three point four million dollars

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out of your account? And O Toanni said, well, to cover

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up old Mizohura's gambling debts, and.

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They said what what? I

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could easily see that having happened.

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Right, I don't

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think that this is probably what happened. But how

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crazy would it be if the biggest star

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in all of American sports, at age twenty nine,

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at the peak of his career, is doing

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something as stupid as gambling on sports?

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Yeah? I know, I know.

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Well, one thing that hasn't been said yet that should

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be said is that show, hey Otani

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is dreamy back to you?

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Yes I'm straight?

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And how about the interpreter

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had the greatest interpreter job on planet

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Earth, and he may have he screwed it all up.

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You get to sit in a Major League dugout and

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then the post game and travel around I'm

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sure only in limos and private planes

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with your time, and you get paid for it.

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That's a pretty cool job.

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And then the minute you leave that gig, you

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have entrees into the highest reaches

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of society, including business

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and politics, both in the United States and in

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Japan, which, by the way, a couple of the great economic

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superpowers on Earth. And so he could have become

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a diplomatic businessman, a spokesperson,

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a beloved commercial pitch man, virtually

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anything.

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But perhaps he had to gambling.

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Jones, but you had to bet on the mud

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hens to win by two in a

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double a baseball game or

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something more on the waist there.

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Law enforcement sources in Texas tell Fox

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that at least one migrant is charged with assaulting

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a Texas National Guard soldier after

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more than three hundred migrants rush

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the border wall in El Paso. The majority

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here at are single adult men. You see them

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push past the razor wires, shove National

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Guard soldiers and rush the border wall.

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More rest may be coming for assault or

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destruction of property. Congressman Tony

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Gonzalez posted on x quote, there

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is nothing safe and orderly about

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this.

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It's a break in. It's illegal.

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If you haven't seen the video, it's quite extraordinary.

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It is journalistic malpractice

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that it wasn't toward the beginning of every

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newscast last night and it wasn't.

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CBS did a brief thing on it, nothing on

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NBC or ABC. CNN

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covered it briefly yesterday, nothing

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on MSNBC. So today it got a

14:32

little more coverage on a couple of the big networks because

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the video is amazing. It looks like

14:37

a medieval battle there for a while

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at the border as three

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hundred of these young, strong dudes

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overpowered the Texas Guard get

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past them, then are stopped by

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a wall, which.

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Walls don't work. Built bridges not walls,

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So we got this text.

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As a former marine, always a marine, what

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I see in that video is two

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hundred plus fighting age males overrunning

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a woefully undermanned position with

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a defensive force that has extremely limited

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resources. Also thirty to forty

15:11

yards of defensible space, then a

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hardened wall in which more troops are behind.

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I'm assuming they're Feds, yeah, because there were some

15:19

sort of border guards on the American

15:22

side of the fence there. That

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is a tactical nightmare and a disaster

15:27

leading to US troop bloodshed waiting to

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happen. By the way, anyone offended by

15:31

my use of the manned position can kiss

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my marine ass.

15:35

But first of all, amen to that brother.

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Secondly, I'll bet you could discern a hell

15:40

of a lot about their rules of engagement

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too from the way they behaved, how limited

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they were in what they were comfortable doing

15:46

to defend themselves in the country.

15:48

Yeah.

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Well, the Texas Guard, I mean they were pushing

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back, like physically fighting with these guys,

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but then.

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They just let them go.

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I mean they didn't fire any weapons or bring

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out any batons or anything like that. And

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obviously if anybody fires a shot on either

16:04

side or pulls out a knife or something like that, this.

16:06

Could turn crazy, ugly,

16:08

crazy fast.

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I'm gonna see how annoying I can be

16:13

in a single sentence. Thank

16:16

god, they didn't whip the migrants

16:18

with their reins like those other

16:21

brutal border guard.

16:22

Strand a made

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up term Biden came up with.

16:26

I saw those border agents scrapping

16:29

those migrants.

16:31

You did one thing for sure, this will

16:33

not stand. We're going to look into this and

16:35

ruin their lives, even though they did nothing wrong.

16:38

But this sort of confrontation

16:42

will turn crazy, ugly and

16:44

violent at some point if we allow it to happen.

16:47

Yes, Oh, keep allowing it to happen.

16:50

Those folks have the expectation

16:52

they will be let into the country.

16:54

They've seen it happen millions of times,

16:57

and just in the last couple of years since Biden took office.

16:59

So when they are stopped at the border, you're

17:01

a young strong man, you think there's two hundred

17:03

of us. There's like four border guards here. We're going

17:06

in and they did or they tried.

17:08

Are we going to have another Speaker of

17:10

the House vote? We ought to look at that quickly because that's

17:12

a big news story.

17:14

We're strong and getty.

17:17

I don't want to put any of our memories

17:19

in a difficult place like we were for three

17:21

and a half weeks. We're going to continue

17:23

our committee work. We're going to continue our investigations.

17:26

There's a lot of good investigations going that

17:29

have to be able to proceed, and the

17:31

American people deserve that. But I'm

17:33

not saying that it won't happen in two weeks,

17:35

or it won't happen in a month, or who

17:37

knows when. But I am saying the clock

17:39

has started. It's time for our conference. That she's in

17:41

a speaking and everyone

17:44

knows it.

17:45

So that's Marjorie Taylor Green

17:47

today called for another vote on the Speaker

17:49

of the House.

17:50

Now, my.

17:51

Very cursory knowledge

17:53

of this drive by

17:56

knowledge was I thought the new rule

17:58

was anybody can call at any

18:00

time to oust the speaker and then

18:02

you have a vote.

18:03

And she just called for ousting the speaker. So what happens

18:06

now?

18:09

Johnson the Speaker may or may not

18:11

have to take it up. Since it's not yet clear whether

18:14

Green filed it as a privileged

18:16

resolution that requires House

18:18

floor time. Green's measure wasn't

18:20

initially recognized as privileged, which means

18:22

Johnson would be able to postpone any vote

18:24

on it until after the House takes a two week

18:27

recess. Quick Quesse she ultimately opts

18:29

against any protections of privilege, Johnson

18:31

could let it sit.

18:32

Yes, how many of the media personnel

18:34

asking her questions have any idea of this?

18:37

None? None is so none

18:39

of them won ask that question right,

18:42

right?

18:43

And then several of the folks who were with the

18:46

toss Kevin McCarthy team said,

18:48

I have.

18:49

No idea what she's doing, and

18:51

no, I don't support it. Please. A

18:55

couple said, yeah, we'll see. I don't know, but

18:57

no, do I remember correctly?

18:58

All you need is a majority vote to boot

19:00

the person, don't you or you have another vote, So they'd

19:02

have to get the majority to stay, and

19:05

all the Democrats would vote against.

19:07

So you only need like a handful of more Republicans

19:09

than they're gone, right.

19:11

Well, and it's fewer than it was last time

19:13

after a couple of resignations and then

19:15

I guess just resignation.

19:16

What need?

19:17

Yeah, their majorities even smaller than it

19:19

was back when Kevin McCarthy put in the

19:21

nation through hell.

19:22

So you need like six Republicans who want to

19:24

get rid of Mike Johnson. I'm sure they're six, they're

19:26

probably forty. Yeah, it might

19:28

even be less than that.

19:29

But I don't know. I don't know. I find this whole thing tiresome.

19:32

I don't know. I kind of wanted to happen just for the

19:35

chaos of it.

19:36

Wow, you're a tear it all down

19:38

guy. I'm an anarchist, a nihilist.

19:41

I'm not anymore.

19:42

I was, But I don't think it would do any harm.

19:44

So I think it'd be kind of fun.

19:47

Well, and somebody asked Mike Johnson,

19:49

the current speaker, if that is his real name, what

19:53

do you what? Did they ask him?

19:56

It was one of your predictable What do you think

19:58

of this? He just shook his head, didn't

20:00

even unsyllable, which

20:03

is he's.

20:04

Probably like, go ahead and get rid of

20:06

me. This. This job is stupid,

20:09

it's thankless, and everyone

20:11

knows it.

20:11

We got like a two vote majority. Nobody

20:14

agrees on anything. The Democrats

20:16

are mostly unified. They're evil, but unified.

20:18

This job sucks.

20:20

My most famous members have more

20:22

interest in being hot on Twitter or

20:24

Instagram than they do on anything I care

20:26

about.

20:27

I get to say I was Speaker of the House. That's

20:29

fine.

20:29

You don't want me to do it anymore? Fine,

20:32

said a word. No, you're happy

20:34

this summer.

20:35

Mike Johnson could be anywhere in America at a bar

20:37

and say I was Speaker of the House.

20:39

No you weren't. I was seriously, yeah,

20:41

right whatever.

20:43

I'll bet you the next round, I was, no,

20:45

you weren't. I would know if you were Speaker

20:47

of the House, right, right,

20:50

whatever?

20:51

Well, and then Johnson would probably go on to

20:53

say, you folks, you drafted

20:56

me. Remember you rejected

20:58

like five people that when you said at Johnson,

21:01

everybody likes you.

21:02

You want the job, and now you want to get

21:04

rid of me, Well.

21:05

Go ahead, which

21:08

is kind of where Kevin McCarthy I think ended up on

21:10

it. Fine, fire me, I'll go work for some

21:12

private company and make money whatever. Seey

21:14

all bye, right, this

21:18

story probably matters more. Door Dash

21:20

claims drones are going to start delivering Wendy's

21:23

burgers. Door

21:27

Dash is reportedly partnered with

21:30

some alphabet

21:33

wing drone delivery company to

21:35

introduce a fast food delivery at least in

21:37

one town in America, and

21:40

they're going to start delivering burgers, which is this is

21:42

a sort of thing that's been promised or threatened

21:44

now for quite some time, and it looks like

21:46

they're going to try it in one place in America and we'll see if

21:49

it works.

21:49

I've always been incredibly skeptical. I

21:52

just.

21:54

I just don't see how even

21:57

if the first place could do it,

21:59

it become a regular thing. There'd

22:02

be too many drones in the sky, wouldn't there. Yeah,

22:05

And I just question how efficient

22:08

that would be. And don't

22:10

you would work. Don't you crash into somebody's

22:12

house and they make you pay

22:14

for the fixing the trim,

22:17

or into somebody's head and they make

22:19

you pay for killing them?

22:21

Right right? Well, and look, I'm

22:24

an outlier on this.

22:25

I don't really do much of that stuff,

22:27

any door dash or food delivery, because

22:29

you know, it's easy for me to go. But you

22:32

got a Burger place like on every damn

22:34

corner.

22:35

I don't. Maybe there's

22:37

probably more demand than I realized. I fully

22:39

admit that people be shooting

22:42

down drones to get free food.

22:45

You think I want to shoot down a drone

22:47

to get a.

22:49

Absolutely, I'd throw a net up there to get a

22:51

bacon eat. Yeah.

22:53

Or i'd see, like my favorite brand to taco

22:55

or check a pizza or something

22:57

flying through the sky, I'd shoot a net up.

23:00

You're sitting in your backyard on a lawn chair with

23:02

binoculars. N that

23:05

looks like it looks like Burger

23:07

King, and I like burging And that's

23:09

Chipotle.

23:10

Where's my gun? Exactly?

23:13

Yeah, sitting there with a stack in napkins next

23:15

to me, I might chase lounge, just waiting

23:17

for the right drone to fly over.

23:19

Well. Amazon has been talking about this for a long time,

23:21

so I still just don't understand how it could practically

23:24

ever like become a regular

23:26

thing.

23:26

You can't have it.

23:27

Amazon and every door

23:29

dash and all these different companies ups

23:32

competing with each other with all these.

23:33

Drones in the sky. Just unless

23:35

I'm missing something, Yeah,

23:37

yeah, I don't know.

23:38

I'm pretty skeptical about that whole thing. I think is

23:40

more exciting sounding than it is practical.

23:43

Oh but that reminds me. There's a

23:45

story in the National Review that Minneapolis,

23:47

which is Minneapolis Saint Paul, just utterly

23:50

blue woke, lefty

23:52

metro area, which seems so strange if

23:54

you grew up around Minnesoutan's but you

23:56

have to realize that the people in the city are not well,

23:59

they're people in the city.

24:01

Anyway, We'll leave it there.

24:02

But they have passed one of these utopian

24:05

sets of regulations that everybody's

24:08

got to be a full time employee and get full benefits

24:10

and all that one of the anti gig worker laws,

24:13

and both uber and Left has said,

24:15

sea, we're out leaving

24:19

the Twin cities without their services, or

24:21

they're about to be, and a National Review

24:23

points out that that's going to be disastrous for

24:25

a lot of people who depend

24:27

on it.

24:29

We got this text I wanted to mention. So

24:33

I've been ranting and raving for the last forty eight

24:35

hours about the new Biden

24:37

administration college loan bailout

24:39

delioh. That's another six billion dollars, bringing

24:41

the total to one hundred and forty

24:43

or fourteen billion dollars of bailing

24:46

out student loan debt, making

24:48

rest of taxpayers pay for college kids loans.

24:51

Heard you talking about the student loan forgiveness

24:53

plans? With all due respect, I don't think you

24:55

understand how screwed up the system

24:58

is. Please watch this week's Last Week

25:00

Tonight with John Oliver. His whole

25:02

show is on student loans.

25:05

Yeah it is.

25:06

It's ridiculously expensive, it's

25:08

all kinds of screwed up in all kinds of ways.

25:11

But that doesn't mean I have

25:13

to pay for that person's choice to

25:15

engage in it.

25:16

It doesn't make any sense.

25:18

I think I know what that person's driving at because

25:20

that whole you work in public service for a certain

25:22

number of years and will forgive your loan thing that

25:25

very program, no matter what you think of it. Which

25:28

what happened was the Biden administration tweaked

25:30

some of the formulas involved that in

25:32

effect let a bunch of people off the hook.

25:35

They're actually claiming it's more significant

25:37

than it is. But anyway, having said that

25:39

that system is completely gummed

25:42

up with government red tape and out of

25:44

date computers, and you

25:46

getting the same letter three times, responding

25:48

to it three times. It's just utterly

25:50

eft up in a lot of different ways. I think

25:53

that's what they're referring to. It probably

25:55

is.

25:55

I still don't understand how it ever gets to how

25:57

I, as a taxpayer, need to pay

26:00

somebody's student loan for it.

26:03

Yeah.

26:04

Yeah, Interestingly, the

26:06

original plan was passed under George

26:08

W.

26:09

Bush.

26:10

The whole do a certain amount of public service and you

26:12

get your loans forgiven thing, which.

26:14

Is and it includes firefighters,

26:17

cops, teachers, and social workers.

26:21

Yeah, and people work in like criminal

26:23

justice as well, a.

26:24

Pretty pretty broad category of and

26:27

a lot of those jobs pay really well and have great

26:30

benefits, and that some

26:32

of.

26:32

Them don't clearly. But

26:35

okay, but how about those the do

26:37

Why am I paying for your kids college? Well?

26:40

That's that's was actually my point.

26:42

Some of them, like social worker, you're not gonna make any

26:44

money being a copper firefighter.

26:47

Decent money, good benefits, early retirement.

26:50

Uh, certainly some danger et cetera. Were acquainted

26:52

with that. But so

26:55

anybody who does anybody any good

26:59

by who's right.

27:02

I don't know.

27:03

It's just well, it's all you know, you can argue against

27:05

in principle, but just realize it

27:07

is distributing money from the treasury to

27:10

shore up your power.

27:11

That's the way it is in every political system. It just

27:13

takes different forms. But

27:16

yeah, I don't

27:18

know.

27:18

I just I don't mean to

27:20

be discouraging. Maybe it's

27:22

just that it's the end of the week. It's been a bit of a challenging

27:25

week. I

27:28

don't think the forces

27:31

against the forces aligned

27:33

against those who would gained the system

27:36

are good enough to stop the gaming of

27:38

the system. I think we now are

27:40

the United States of gaming the system.

27:45

We've junked the principle in favor of

27:47

just taking as much money as they

27:49

can without causing open

27:51

warfare in the streets, then handing

27:53

it out to those who please them and who

27:55

promise to vote.

27:56

For them in a very naked way.

27:58

It's no longer disguised, and it's no longer

28:01

restrained by any sense of principle. It's

28:03

just it's a banana

28:05

republic.

28:06

And one more thing, I'm just trying to clear off my deck

28:08

of notes and stuff like that before we get out of here

28:10

today. Some polling out of Michigan

28:12

voters of color versus white voters.

28:15

In twenty twenty, Joe

28:17

Biden won voters of color

28:19

by sixty two points.

28:22

He's currently polling with a twenty

28:25

one point lead among voters of color, a

28:27

forty point drop

28:30

from twenty to twenty four, and Trump's

28:32

gone up five points. So Trump

28:35

got beat by fifty one

28:37

points last election and

28:39

he now trails by five for

28:42

voters of color. That's really pretty amazing.

28:44

I would love to dig into

28:47

exactly why that is.

28:48

Part of it's the woke garbage he's

28:50

trying to convince daughters that

28:52

their sons, and the gender

28:54

bending madness. Part of it has got

28:57

to be you know, this is probably wishful

28:59

thinking. I hope part of it is just more and

29:01

more Black Americans saying, you know, they've been making

29:03

us promises now for many decades and they don't

29:05

come true. Maybe we'll go for more opportunity

29:07

and better jobs instead. But

29:10

I would love to know more about that, Yeah, because.

29:12

That is a striking result.

29:14

That might be the story. The the realignment

29:17

is, why is that happening? I mean, when do you

29:19

ever see forty to fifty point moves

29:22

in any demographic Whoops.

29:24

I missed one obvious one, and that's you know, assuming

29:26

which is correct, that black

29:28

folks are disfortunately not wealthy.

29:32

Inflation has hit the less

29:35

wealthy part of America much harder

29:37

than the wealthier part for the obvious reasons.

29:39

Sure, yeah, because it drives it

29:41

bothers me and I've been fairly

29:44

fortunate.

29:45

Okay, we will finish strong, next.

29:48

Strong, And.

29:55

So I'm going to share more positive interactions with the preschool

29:57

aged kids I work with. For context, I'm a transperson

29:59

who does not pass as the general they identify with.

30:02

Yesterday, one of the other staff came up to me and she

30:04

was talking to me and then started talking to the kids about

30:06

me, and she her pronouns

30:08

for me, and one of the kids interrupted her

30:10

and went, he's a boy,

30:14

So you know what, pop off

30:16

my bigs.

30:16

Allies are three years old.

30:19

Yeah, well that's appropriate because only a three year

30:21

old would fall for your strange

30:24

mental illness clap trap?

30:27

Are there three year olds in this kindergarten class

30:30

anyway? Precocious? Yeah? Bactly? Yeah?

30:33

Wow, all right, don't get me started. So

30:36

let me clear up something that we were discussing.

30:37

Yesterday, and that is the widespread belief that

30:39

the president and the vice president cannot be from the

30:42

same.

30:42

State, based on the story NBC

30:44

had earlier in the week. They had six sources

30:47

saying Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida, is on

30:49

Donald Trump's short list for vice president.

30:51

Which would be quite the political move.

30:53

Wow, intriguing,

30:56

very but they're both Floridians, so it can happen

30:59

according to our constitution.

31:01

Not true. So here's the deal.

31:03

Originally we

31:06

elected president by

31:09

the top two vote getters, we would

31:11

be president and vice president. That's how he ended

31:13

up with John Adams as president with

31:15

his bitter rival at the time, Thomas

31:17

Jefferson as his vice president.

31:20

Which did not go well.

31:21

I think we should do that more often. So would have been Joe Biden

31:23

president, Donald Trump vice president. Oh

31:29

boy, the next time we can have Donald Trump

31:31

president Joe Biden vice president.

31:33

I love it.

31:34

So anyway, after Adams

31:36

and Jefferson spent four

31:39

years trying not to kill each other, the country said,

31:41

you know, why don't we adapt this

31:44

process. Let's have a twelfth Amendment

31:46

which addresses some of the confusion around the electoral

31:48

college and alters the process, which

31:50

put the vice president on a separate ballot,

31:53

allowing electors to vote for one person for president

31:55

and another person for vice president.

31:58

Now candidates can run on a U fied

32:00

ticket, which is fine, it's not enshrined in the

32:02

Constitution, but they do. But the

32:06

requirement that the electors

32:08

can't cast a ballot for

32:12

both people from their home state

32:15

from their home state

32:18

stood. They failed to clean that up.

32:21

Now it's it doesn't matter. It's almost

32:23

never come close to mattering. One

32:25

exception would be in two

32:28

thousand when George Bush and

32:30

Dictator were else were both actually

32:32

from Texas.

32:34

Days before the election.

32:37

I think, no, days before Cheney was chosen by

32:39

Bush, he sold his house in Texas and

32:41

said, yeah, my vacation home in Wyoming, where

32:43

I've been a.

32:44

Congressman or congressman. Yeah,

32:46

uh, that's my home. I'm a Wyoming guy, Wyoming

32:49

all the way. And it could have

32:51

mattered.

32:52

And that's where I'm gonna go shoot Harry in the face. Exactly

32:56

So.

32:57

But the one thing that this no

33:00

voted constitutional scholar doesn't clean

33:02

up for me is the electors

33:04

of Texas and still could have

33:06

voted for Bush for

33:09

president. They just wouldn't

33:11

have been able to vote for Cheney for vice

33:13

president, and I'm

33:15

not sure how that would have come.

33:17

But so the long and short is he could choose

33:20

Rubion and be fine.

33:21

Yeah, one hundred percent.

33:22

Okay, Jack and Joe

33:25

just had a very robust and productive

33:27

conversation this morning, working

33:29

together to discuss very important

33:32

issues together in

33:34

this moment in time, and

33:36

now together in this moment

33:38

they will have final thoughts with Armstrong and

33:40

Getty. This is the most final thoughts

33:43

of our lifetime, and it is time

33:45

to share the final thoughts they have been

33:47

thinking, and that time is every

33:49

day.

33:50

That's pretty good. Wow, I

33:53

am abused and that's amateur AI.

33:55

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

33:58

Yeah, that's like amateur freebee

34:01

open online AI. Hey, let's

34:03

get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Michelange

34:05

Low lead us off. I guess I am a dinosaur.

34:07

When I order a pizza, I pick up the phone

34:09

and talk to somebody, I go to the restaurant and

34:11

pick it up.

34:12

No drones for me. You gotta

34:14

order it online and have a drone delivered.

34:16

Yeah, Katie Green are a Steams

34:18

pay forward within Katie

34:21

do.

34:21

You have a final thought.

34:23

Yeah, my parents were out of town for Saint

34:25

Patrick's Day and they're back and we are

34:27

having a second Saint.

34:28

Patrick's Day tomorrow. Oh cool,

34:30

big hooley, as my mother calls it. Wow,

34:34

can you say that on the air jack?

34:35

A final thought, So, both of my kids are

34:37

so excited for spring break and like

34:40

party time and various activities

34:42

we're going to do. And I am grown

34:44

up with a job. At the end of the week, I'm exhausted.

34:47

They're ready for me to bring the fun.

34:50

I'm gonna have to a lot of coffee.

34:53

Bring the fun.

34:56

My final thought's a little bit serious, but I

34:58

was just scanning a couple of news where

35:00

people are committing horrifying,

35:03

unspeakable acts against each other and

35:05

even children, in the name of their

35:07

tribe or their race. The

35:10

idea that America is the most racist country

35:12

on earth is so obscenely completely

35:14

wrong. This is a wonderful country, a country that

35:16

tries hard, a country that is flawed,

35:19

but you should be proud of and happy

35:21

to live in. God bless

35:23

this great country and thank god you

35:25

live here.

35:26

Armstrong and getty rabbit about another growing

35:29

four hour workday.

35:30

So many people to thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong

35:32

and Getty dot com for the hot links for the swag,

35:34

pick up the ang T shirt or sportspraw

35:37

of your choice.

35:38

Are they going to take

35:41

Trump's property over the weekend? We'll

35:43

talk about it Monday. God bless America, Armstrong

35:47

and Getty.

35:47

I don't know how it continues. When it's over, it

35:50

is over. It is over. Bottom of bottle

35:52

wine. Would you like a hamburger? How many do

35:54

you want? Five? I want to be crystal clear down

35:56

this road lies mad? Do

35:58

you understand?

36:00

Oh?

36:03

I want you to remember this moment.

36:05

It's a blood.

36:06

It's cool, don't forget it. I can't imagine

36:08

a more beautiful thing. Have

36:11

a great Friday, you mother, The

36:14

Armstrong and Geddy