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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 Show, Getty

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Armstrong and Getty Show, What's

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the number.

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One show in America by far?

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Football?

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NFL Football?

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They've revamped the kickoff to

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a great extent to try to get more exciting returns.

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We'll hit you with that big giant rule change

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coming up on a little bit.

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That's weird because they like, we're

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trying to eliminate it the kickoff.

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Yeah, because too many injuries.

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Well, they got a whole different way of doing it now

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they think it's gonna be safer and have more returns.

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Oh, okay, I'm intrigued,

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all right, why not? Oh, speaking of safety,

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I mentioned briefly very early in the show.

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Than never did get a chance to explain that.

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Yes, my dad, who is eighty three years old, got

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run over by a golf cart,

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non event or malicious. Well,

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I don't know, I don't know. I've got

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the guy chained in the basement. I'm still questioning

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him. Wow, going pulp fiction

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on him. Oh, I'm kidding,

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going putin on him. Did you see the videos of those guys

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that.

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They were questioning?

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Oh?

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From the terrorist attack.

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Yeah.

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I was reading a little analysis I guess it was the

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New York Times about that that that was clearly

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a tactic warning the

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population and anybody you might be tempted

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to move against Putin.

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This is how we're treating folks these days.

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This is you don't get away with it. Did you see that

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the chasing the guy through the woods when they caught him that

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video.

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Oh yeah, Paul, and holding him down and cutting

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off his ear and feeding it to him.

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I didn't hear that. Yes, they

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fed him his own ear, stuffed it in

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his mouth. Yeah, whoa.

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Then they beat these guys into comas

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practically, Yeah, and then dragged him into

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court all swollen and misshapen

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and bloody, just to show because that's pretty

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unprecedented.

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I was reading they they.

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Would to feeding.

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That's unprecedented in specifically

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this is to come on now. But the

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torque behind the scenes has long existed

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in Russia for various times, but this

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is the first time they've really trotted people

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out to make it clear this will be your fate.

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Yeah.

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I saw the one guy sitting there, well, one guy was unconscious

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that was on the stand, But the other one guy

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there questioning man. His face was not

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normal shaped, but

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dang it, I hadn't heard the whole ear than geez.

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Yeah. Brutal, brutal.

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Wow, that is so wild that that exists

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on planet Earth in the year twenty twenty four,

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and pro military bloggers

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and websites that are tied to the Kremlin put

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this stuff out.

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They wanted it seen from the.

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Country with the most nuclear weapons on Earth.

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It's so wild.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So anyway, my dad hits his tea shot and

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the guy who is the passenger in the cart behind

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him jumped into the cart and somehow depressed

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the gas pedal accidentally

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and knocked my dad. Oh ass

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over tea kettle. Wow, many

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stitches, broken nose. Turns out he's

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got a break, a non displaced

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fracture of his tibia,

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which is the non weight bearing one fibula

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one of his lower leg bones, and just

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cut his face open and terrible

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pain.

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You don't want that droppen when you're thirty

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five, let alone in your eighties.

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Oh yeah, yeah, it's really You

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know, my dad's so great, he's got a great attitude,

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and he's this is a friend of his,

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and the guy calls him all the time to see how he's doing.

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And what did you do that

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for?

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Yeah, yeah, the guy's beside

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himself.

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I'm sure, Oh I'm sure. Oh my

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god, yeah yeah, geez, you'd feel so horrible.

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But yeah, oh man, that's

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a rough one. Yeah.

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What my dad said to him when he called his I'll tell

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you one thing, Jim is I'm not buying

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a single beer the rest of the year when

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we play golf, all right, don't.

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I don't even need to ask.

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If I want to take a mulligan. I'm taking a mulligan,

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right exactly. That put went in, It

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went in anyway,

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We're we're oh

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right.

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So the

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stunt witness

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at a congressional or senatorial hearing

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is a long tradition

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in Congress. Of course, the Democrats

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are especially fond of that sort of thing, bringing

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a compelling character to testify and

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make some teary eyed statement. Well,

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in this case, the topic was climate

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change, and they tried

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to do it by passing

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off this gen Z cross

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country skier as a climate change

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expert. He was there to testify

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on snow conditions and that sort

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of thing, and he read his statement

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about carbon dioxide and climate change

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and that sort of thing. And John

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Kennedy, the folks he Holme

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spongeent from Louisiana, had

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a couple of gentlemanly questions for him.

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Clip ad Michael, this is how it went.

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What is carbon dioxide?

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I went to high school, but that's

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a carbon dioxide is a gas.

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Okay, I'm not a

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I'm not a professional to talk about carbon

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dioxide so much.

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But is it the major part of our

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atmosphere?

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Is a huge part of our atmosphere?

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It's actually a very small part of our atmosphere.

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Well, okay, if.

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We spent those trains of dollars and became

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carbon neutral by twenty fifty in

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the United States, which you advocate,

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how much, what reduce world

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temperatures?

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I don't have an answer for that.

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You don't know, No, you just think we're all to spend

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the money and then see what happens.

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I think, as an athlete, I think if

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we spend that money and invest in our future,

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hopefully those temperatures stop

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rising.

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All right, Man.

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I have many emotions during that clip,

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many emotions on one thing, and I.

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Thought it it's not fair to

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asses.

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I mean, how would I don't know how I would answer

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the question what is carbon

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dioxide and how much we have in the future. On the other

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hand, if I'm going to sit there and read a statement

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advocate gazillions of dollars

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get spent, I probably ought

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to know something about it. And then

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definitely I'm on the side of Senator

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Kennedy on the question of so do

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you think it would do any good?

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Do you think we should just spend all that money and wait

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and see? Because that is a damn

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good question.

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All I can.

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Tell you is that the fresh a's have

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not been nearly so fresh in

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my skiings of late mister

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Senator sir.

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Uh.

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I love that. Should we just spend the money and

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then just hope that it works?

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Kennedy followed up on x formerly

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known as Twitter. I just want to keep calling it Twitter.

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Does anybody mind if I keep calling it Twitter? I

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have never said X, I've only

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said Twitter, and I don't plan to change.

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Okay, all right, great, we've arrived at a policy.

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So here's what Kennedy wrote on Twitter, formerly

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known until thirty seconds ago as axed Democrats

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want to spend fifty trillion dollars

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to become carbon neutral and held a hearing

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to tell us why huh, Democrat witness

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carbon dioxide is a huge part of our atmosphere.

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Me, it's actually a very small part of our atmosphere.

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It's point zero thirty five percent dem

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witness. Well, okay, but yeah, I

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don't know.

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You know, so I feel.

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Bad for that guy.

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He should be angry at

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whatever Democrat staffer

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congressperson set him up for that.

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If you're going to try to come out there

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and.

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It's a debate, it's a debate over should

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we spend how many trillion dollars?

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Was he exaggerating or is that a real number?

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No, I think that's a real number.

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That might be a high estimate of what it would cost,

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but he was sincere.

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But if you're going to have a debate over how

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many gazillions of dollars we're going to spend a

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taxpayer money on this sort of thing, and you're

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going to trot out this guy for part

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of your argument, well then I get to.

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Try to take it apart.

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Yeah, he's a registered independent who's prepared

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testimony did not reference carbon neutral goals,

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atmospheric composition, or police abolition.

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But he did his best.

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He was there on behalf of the outdoor enthusiasts

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around America.

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So what was this testimony supposed to be.

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I don't know.

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I'd like to see his prepared

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testimony, because I was picturing him coming out

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and say, look, I've been skiing for twenty years.

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Now there's no snow. There used to be lots of snow.

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Now there's hardly any snow. I

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don't know how far that would go in

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terms of making the argument, So let's spend fifty

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trillion dollars.

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He works with a climate advocacy

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group called Protect Our Winters

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or POW,

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And.

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Well, it's I feel bad for the guy,

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but again he should be mad at the Democrats

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who put him in that position. So he kind to trot

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me out for what should be a very

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contentious debate. We're talking about a lot

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of money here and a lot of altering

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of lifestyles than your

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fair game.

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Yeah, absolutely true.

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He's just so good.

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Point whoever who

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said show up and talk, like, what

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what do people want to hear from me?

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What do I have to offer?

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Just come and yeah, say, you're

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advocating for protect our Winners?

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But how am I? How are we protecting them by

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going carbon neutral?

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Okay? Would that protect them? Yes, it would.

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All right, I'll go out there and say so, say

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so, and then just the field questions

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I can't possibly answer.

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YEA, too bad he did. He just did not have

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the enough

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experience with this sort of thing to

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throw it back on his own people. Hey,

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I was told to be here and to say this,

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right. I'm not an expert in the

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molecule of carbon dioxide.

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You know this this geek, whoever he is, and he's

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probably a nice guy.

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Yeah, it probably is, That's what I'm saying. I felt bad for

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him.

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He got put in an impossible

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situation.

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He's wrong.

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Oh you read my mind, Michael.

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I was gonna say this guy, twenty three year old

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Gus Schumacker. He's an Olympic

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skier. I think he's a cross country

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ski racer. But anyway, he needs go

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to the Gretituneberg School of Climate

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Change Advocacy. Here's

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what you do, Gus. Next time you're dragged in front

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of the Senate, you say I

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did not come here to answer technical

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questions. I came here to

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save our environment, save

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our planet. You're reducing this

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to some sort of game show where I'm

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asking about chemistry. This is about

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the children, and not having

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them catch fire in the future because the

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globe has gotten so damn hot everybody's

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hair will literally burst into flame.

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Because all you're looking for is a sound bite.

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You're interested in, gotcha questions?

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I'm interested in burt children.

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Right, you have stolen my dreams,

10:43

my assenthood with your empty words.

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You go to the Credituneberg Academy of

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Overwrought Climate Advocacy

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and you'll workshop that stuff.

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You'll have your stock lines, you

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give my little you're

10:57

interested and got your questions that I'm interested in bird.

10:59

Children, and you stand up, this is over,

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and you throw down whatever you got, pen, paper, no

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pad, and then you storm out and you're done.

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Then you don't have to worry about it anymore. I'm

11:08

tired of your empty words goods

11:12

right, quote the Great Law on Herself. Then

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you storm out and you become a hero

11:17

because logic isn't important, it's

11:20

feeling. So you're the senator

11:22

from Louisiana, the golf oil,

11:24

golf oil. Anybody ever hear that?

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I rest my case.

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Well, shoot, you could die.

11:30

You could be a professor at Gretis College

11:33

of Shouting Inanities. Poor

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guy. Uh,

11:38

that would be nice, though, if it was the end of Hey,

11:40

you can't just bring out the

11:42

single mom who's struggling

11:45

with her wages and

11:47

then advocate a gazillion dollar plan. We're

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gonna question her on this.

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Right So coming

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up, we haven't updated the Sean

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diddy Combe story on the day that's

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so many people thought Trump was going to have his

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properties raided or seized or

12:04

something or other. No, it was the rapper

12:06

slash mogul who had FEDS at

12:09

both of his pads in LA and

12:11

Miami yesterday, taking people into

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custody, searching grab

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it up evidence.

12:16

We'll tell you what we know.

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Yeah, P Diddy as a whole in my music

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knowledge, Like I know lots now about

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Kanye music and albums and could name you songs

12:23

and lyrics, and same with jay Z. And I

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don't know name lots of your big ones. But I don't know P Diddy

12:28

at all. I guess I'll have to get into his over

12:31

I can speak with authority on Grand

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Funk Railroad. I tell you, I'll

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have to listen to some P didty it, Maybe ask my son see

12:37

if he's in the Diddy But what happened there?

12:39

And a bunch of other stuff on the way armstraw.

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He YETI.

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Heavily armed federal authorities raiding

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homes belonging to legendary rapper and entertainment

12:52

mogul Sean Diddy combs agents

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from Homeland Security investigations seen

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in fatigues and body armor entering

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his home in the wealthy la enclave

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of Hombye. Hills Combe's two sons

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reportedly detained at the scene and

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more agents at his mansion in Miami.

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The Department of Homeland Security executed

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law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing

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investigation. This case is being handled

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out of the Southern District of New York, and the

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investigation involves allegations of human

13:20

trafficking allegations.

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He denies.

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So is this P Diddy music? That is

13:27

what song is that? I need a girl? Okay?

13:30

So if we vetted it, this

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is the clean version. Please.

13:35

So jay Z is worth

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a billion and a half dollars the richest rapper,

13:40

but Diddy's worth a billion in second

13:42

place. So he's worth a billion dollars.

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He's fifty four years old. I

13:47

gotta admit I don't know much about his music.

13:50

I know quite a bit about jay Z's music and Kanye's

13:52

music and other like black rappers. So it's

13:55

not just but I don't know. I couldn't

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name a p Diddy song FO one hundred dollars.

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Could you?

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No?

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Absolutely not No.

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Interesting.

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My musical grooves don't go in that direction.

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But I'm sure he's a gifted fellow and deserving

14:07

of his success.

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But he is involved in that whole East Coast West

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Coast people were actually dying feud

14:13

because he was part of the Notorious

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Big that crowd. Is he East Coast

14:17

or West Coast? And what does that make him?

14:19

He's a New York guy, isn't he.

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My son would laugh at me so hard for saying

14:23

that Combs

14:25

gamed mainstream recognition. Is the

14:27

Notorious BIG's label boss and manager

14:30

and then was released in wake. He

14:33

was involved in the unsolved murder blah blah blah blah blah

14:35

blah. So yeah, he's part of that whole thing, the

14:37

whole Tupac biggie thing. Yeah

14:39

Tupac Yeah.

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Uh So nobody's

14:43

talking much about this

14:46

double raid by coastal raid.

14:49

Again, it's related to possible human

14:51

trafficking and a

14:54

sexual abuse of several

14:57

women in a somewhat organized

14:59

fashion, including drugging them allegedly.

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There have been a number of allegations that have come out

15:05

recently. Sean

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Colmes has denied them strenuously

15:09

and publicly. For

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what it's worth, I thought this was interesting.

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Homeland Security Investigations

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is the investigative arm of the US Customs

15:19

and Immigration Enforcement and HSI

15:22

agents investigate a host of federal

15:24

crimes, including child exploitations,

15:27

drug and human smuggling, money

15:29

laundering, transnational criminal organizations,

15:32

and illegal exports of controlled technology

15:34

and weapons.

15:35

But they must have been doing it at a pretty high

15:37

level, because unfortunately,

15:39

this sort of thing happens a fair amount,

15:42

and it's not always this.

15:47

Level.

15:47

I didn't want to say level again, this level

15:50

of the FEDS coming down in

15:52

coordination and everything like that. I mean, so, how

15:55

big a deal was this must have been baid?

15:58

Yeah, I see what you're driving at.

15:59

I mean, why isn't the La County

16:02

Sheriff's Department, you know, handling

16:05

this in Miami doing their thing on their

16:07

own. That leads me to believe

16:09

something truly funky is happening.

16:12

But I don't know.

16:13

By the way, his biggest deal

16:15

is Sean John Clothing. I don't know why

16:17

some of these people we referred to as musicians when

16:19

really most of their billion dollars comes from

16:21

something else, Like Rihanna makes most

16:23

of her money off of makeup, not off of music. The

16:26

same with pet did he seawan John clothing is

16:28

why he's a billionaire.

16:30

Yeah, Yeah, Well I guess

16:32

we'll have to wait and see you what comes out next.

16:35

And I am sure that this

16:37

was done very carefully too,

16:39

with when you have a target this high profile.

16:42

This was not some mid level guy went

16:44

off and authorized these raids

16:46

without high ride level authorization.

16:49

God, it must be something crazy, which I'm

16:51

sure we'll find out in hours

16:53

or days. But I'm always amazed

16:55

at people who have so much money and so much success

16:58

who are still living a life of crime

17:01

at some level.

17:03

Yeah, although sexual

17:06

crime is it's different.

17:10

I think it has more to do It has nothing

17:12

to do with greed. It just has to do with nobody

17:15

tells me no, like Jeffrey Epstein,

17:17

Sure and his crowd.

17:21

Armstrong and Getty.

17:24

Just in general, like the excitement around this tournament,

17:26

like it's super cool, Like people are more excited about

17:28

the women's side than men's side, And I think that's

17:31

obviously something that's really never been the case before,

17:33

and it's cool to see how it's evolved. Like when

17:35

I first started this, when I was a freshman, like we

17:37

couldn't even use the March Madness branding and now

17:39

to see this and really it's just

17:42

taking a whole other level. And I continue it.

17:44

I expected to.

17:44

Can you continue to grow this year?

17:47

That's Caitlin Clark, the

17:50

most famous women's basketball

17:52

player practically ever maybe plays

17:54

for the University of Iowan. Is in the middle of March Madness.

17:57

I don't think she's corrected that the women's game,

17:59

it's more is bigger than the guy's game now,

18:01

but it is getting higher ratings than it's ever gotten in the past,

18:04

and as soon as she gone, it will go back to what it was before.

18:06

I'm not trying to be disparaging

18:09

and just.

18:09

Oh no, no, there's no need

18:11

to disparage. And I don't feel like you are. Yeah, she's

18:14

mistaken, but she's a hard working, gifted

18:16

young woman and I wish her well.

18:17

But they won a game, a close game yesterday, I almost

18:19

got knocked off. I think they're the number four team

18:22

in America, and

18:25

a lot of complaining that the refs were favoring

18:27

her, which maybe they weren't. Maybe they weren't, who who knows.

18:31

Speaking of sports, the most popular sport in

18:33

America by far, the most popular TV

18:35

show in America by far is the NFL. It was like

18:37

one hundred and eight of the one hundred and ten most watched shows

18:39

last year or something like that.

18:41

And they've got a.

18:42

New kickoff rule, which

18:44

when I saw that, I thought, okay, cool. Then I went to

18:46

it and the first website I went to it had it

18:48

as written in the rule book, and I couldn't understand it

18:50

at all. Have you ever read like rule books

18:52

for Major League Baseball or the NFL A the actual

18:55

way it's written in such a loyally complicated

18:57

way, you can't understand what's talking

18:59

about it all.

19:00

Luckily I came up. The new rule is shocking

19:02

though. I'll just jump to it. The kickoffs

19:05

both teams blindfolded, totally

19:08

blind kickoffs.

19:10

Yeah, so you got to search around find

19:12

the ball first first off. Yeah,

19:14

and most of you you're the Marco Paulo mark

19:16

just kind of that, just like to have any idea what direction

19:18

to go. No, So then

19:20

I came across the site here that has a good, easy

19:23

explanation for the most part of how it's gonna work,

19:26

because they don't want anybody

19:28

to get killed. But

19:31

that was making it. Most kickoffs, the ball

19:33

goes high and the air guy raises his handy catches it.

19:36

I waited through the commercial break for that. Then you go to another

19:38

commercial break. Well, they're trying to get more returns

19:41

going Under the new rule, ten players

19:43

on the kicking team and at least nine players

19:45

on the receiving team will line up just

19:47

five yards apart, so you're really close

19:49

together and you can't start

19:51

running into the ball and to the ball gets to

19:54

the runner. What meaning

19:56

the players won't be going anywhere close to full

19:58

speed when they crash into each other, which has caused so many

20:00

injuries on kickoffs.

20:01

So they're gonna be just.

20:02

Five yards apart and you can't start running

20:05

until the guy catches the ball, and

20:07

then there'll be lots of blocking of people

20:09

as he gets you know, picks a direction

20:11

to go or whatever. Right, But

20:13

I'm so almost said I

20:16

almost said he or she picks a

20:18

direction and starts running.

20:19

I guess DEI has gotten into my head so

20:21

much.

20:22

Wow, Wow, he's not gonna be a she anytime

20:25

soon returning kickoffs in the NFL.

20:28

I would certainly hope not.

20:29

I'm so, but but I'm picturing

20:31

how this soul go. The

20:34

two teams are lined up five yards apart,

20:37

the kicker is the kicker lined

20:39

up? No, he couldn't be five yards apart, because

20:41

then you could block it.

20:42

Probably he could kick it right into their face.

20:44

So he's got

20:47

which would be great if you hate him, but wouldn't do your football

20:50

team any good.

20:52

Give it to him right in the right in the gyms.

20:55

So but okay, but then the receiver

20:59

then is many many yards behind

21:01

his blockers, and so he will

21:03

always be at one hundred percent.

21:05

Full speed if he wants to. What

21:09

else is he gonna do? He does it for a living? Well,

21:12

you got some guy, hey, coach, I feel

21:14

safer. It's just kind of trotting with the.

21:16

Ball, all right. If I run at full

21:18

speed, unliable to get hurt.

21:19

I'm just picturing kind of a real melee there

21:22

in the middle of the field with all those players

21:24

lined up five yards apart. And I don't know if you would

21:26

would you run into that full speed or would

21:28

you come down and kind of find there's the hole and go

21:30

through it.

21:31

I don't know how they'll do it. Different

21:33

guys will approach it differently. I suppose, just like

21:35

running backs. Some hesitate and look for

21:37

the hole, some just bash away.

21:41

Well, I'm sure they're not just

21:43

guessing. I'm sure they've thought this through.

21:46

Seems at least as dangerous to me.

21:49

Well, but you won't

21:51

have somebody running at him full speed.

21:54

Well, he's just standing there, or or

21:56

or both your running full speed. I don't think that.

21:58

Well, he really you really don't have that

22:00

that much in kickoffs, But I

22:03

don't know.

22:03

Well, what they want is returns. They

22:05

want people returning the ball. This will guarantee a return

22:08

a lot of the time. I would think, Well, I would think all

22:10

the time, because you're probably gonna get up practically

22:13

to the middle of the field, aren't you.

22:15

Well, every kickoff, how are we gonna stop that

22:17

from happening?

22:18

It depends if they keep kicking off from the

22:20

same spot they're kicking off from. Unless

22:23

the winds into you. Guys will just kick it right

22:25

through the end zone.

22:26

Kicking off from the thirty five, that's another part

22:28

of it. Yeah, they'll just blast it through the end zone. Well,

22:32

so that'll be even more boring. So the

22:34

best of that is what happens now. The

22:36

best avenge for the kicking team is to never have a

22:39

return because the returns get back to midfield

22:41

all the time. Okay, hmm.

22:46

Of the twenty two players on the field, only the kicker

22:48

and one or two kickoff returners will

22:50

line up separately from the players who

22:52

are five yards apart.

22:56

So you have everybody.

22:57

Five yards apart and they aren't allowed to run until

22:59

the guy catches the ball. Then you only

23:01

have the kicker and one or two guys

23:03

back there.

23:05

So at the risk of getting two sports the are

23:07

some of the return team

23:10

blocker guys going

23:12

to stay there and block where they are and

23:15

some are going to sprint back as fast as they can

23:17

fifteen yards.

23:18

No, I would imagine that a separate line.

23:20

I would imagine you're going to block right Well. Coaches

23:22

might be discussing this right now, but sure

23:24

they are, But uh, I think it'd block right

23:26

where you are, just to make sure nobody gets through. Your job

23:29

would be to just make sure nobody gets through so

23:31

he can get clear to the middle

23:33

of the field.

23:35

Okay, Well, you know what Honestly, it sounds

23:38

nutty to me, but I'm no purest adopt

23:41

the rules you on.

23:42

Is there a chance that the light,

23:45

thin track speed guy

23:47

will be replaced with more of a running back

23:50

who gets there pretty fast and can put his shoulder

23:52

down and plow through those people, won

23:56

hmm? Sorry, If you're

23:58

six foot one hundred and eighty pounds in four fast is

24:00

the wind as a kick returner

24:02

anything, your days may be over. I don't

24:04

know.

24:04

I don't know, I don't know. Huh.

24:06

And again we'll watch it unfold

24:08

and hope nobody gets, you know, horrific injuries

24:11

that they'll show over and over again

24:13

because people like that.

24:14

I guess. I don't.

24:16

Have you seen the Actually

24:19

Katie texted it to us

24:21

and I just tweeted it out. We should post it at the

24:23

website. There are so many videos

24:25

coming out now. I just saw one on the TV right now

24:27

of the bridge collapse in slow motion. But

24:29

somebody did a time lapse thing

24:32

of the ship seeing the lights go

24:34

out. Clearly it was having electrical problems, then

24:36

it hitting the bridge. But the thing I was watching

24:38

was the traffic on the bridge, and

24:41

there's lots of traffic even though it's one

24:43

thirty in the morning, there's lots of traffic

24:45

on that bridge, and

24:48

then the ship calls in the mayday, apparently

24:50

because in the traffic slows down to very

24:52

few cars right when it hits

24:54

the bridge. Thank god they were able to do that, or are

24:56

there been a hell of a lot more people

24:58

in cars at the bottom of the river.

25:01

Speaking of transportation, the

25:03

great yogurt hijacking, I

25:06

need to tell you about that.

25:08

Well, that could lead into America's.

25:13

Turning away from

25:16

chocolate chip vanilla ice cream

25:19

for the first time really ever. Our

25:22

love affair with chocolate chip

25:24

ice cream has ended, apparently. I

25:26

saw this in the New York Times.

25:28

Was chocolate chip ice cream a big thing?

25:30

It was like the second biggest flavor

25:33

in America. I didn't know that until

25:35

reasons mint chocolate chip or vanilla chop,

25:37

vanilla chocolate chip.

25:38

That's funny.

25:39

Our loves fair is over.

25:41

I'm out of touch with America.

25:43

Well, I can bring you up to speed with what people like, among

25:45

other things on the waistare.

25:55

That's right.

25:55

Trump was given an extra ten days to

25:57

pay his bond to New York and the total was

25:59

reduce to one hundred and seventy five million dollars. But

26:01

if you still can't pay it, the state can seize

26:03

his assets, including buildings, golf

26:05

courses, and even his plane.

26:08

Yeah, take it. Take a look at

26:10

some of those assets. Now. First up Trump's plane.

26:12

I mean, the upside is a custom

26:14

private jet with luxury interior.

26:16

The downside it's a Boeing.

26:20

You know, yes, he gotta you gotta

26:22

wagh out.

26:24

And there's Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey,

26:27

the Upside Upscale Club, an hour

26:29

outside of New York City. Downside your

26:31

caddye is Rudy Giuliani.

26:32

And you are.

26:36

And finally, it's a Trump International Hotel

26:38

in New York. The Upside is a high end hotel

26:41

overlooking Central Park. Downside

26:43

the Continental breakfast is just a pile of half eat

26:45

and mcmuffins.

26:46

I think, wow,

26:50

Boeing has an enormous problem.

26:52

Yeah they do, Yeah, they do.

26:55

This is this doesn't come along.

26:57

But once a decade or longer,

26:59

brand to get that terrible, terrible

27:01

rep and.

27:02

They might can be ruin us.

27:03

They might be in a we've got to change

27:06

our name and give the impression that we're

27:08

a completely different company.

27:09

They might be at that stage.

27:13

Yeah.

27:14

Yeah, I mean because the like air Bus,

27:17

they make very very good aircraft,

27:20

plenty of American airlines, not American

27:22

air but airlines from America by Airbus

27:24

European planes.

27:25

They get a better deal whatever.

27:27

So yeah, Boeing is not

27:29

inevitable, right, it could

27:31

go away.

27:32

Yeah.

27:33

So there are some poles out today that showed

27:36

the race tightening in several of the swing

27:38

states between Biden and Trump, where Biden

27:40

pulled back even I

27:42

haven't read this particular numbers. If there

27:45

are other poles that show that to be true, then I'm

27:47

more than happy to jump all over that. But I try

27:49

to stay away from outlier poles until

27:52

something backs them up.

27:54

Yeah, because off a whole average of poles

27:56

is a better way to go.

27:57

Absolutely. But yeah,

27:59

that's that. I mentioned the whole ice

28:01

cream thing. I just came across this in the New York Times America's

28:04

Love Affair. This

28:06

once popular ice cream flavor is melting away.

28:09

Melting ice cream melts. Wow, that's a good choice

28:11

of words.

28:12

Clever.

28:13

Vanilla chocolate chip ice

28:15

cream, once a staple of the ice

28:17

cream world, is no longer a top seller. I

28:20

didn't even know it was what it was a staple of the top ice

28:23

cream world. Here's my favorite part about this article

28:25

I read. It was a very very long time. They kept

28:27

mentioning how vanilla chocolate chip ice cream has fallen

28:30

out of the top five. What didn't they

28:32

do in this very very long article give

28:35

you the top five? They at no point gave you

28:37

the top five. Sons

28:40

of bitches. You should lose

28:42

your journalism license. Yeah, you should

28:44

lose your First Amendment rights for that. Anyway,

28:48

they didn't mention that it lost ground to flavors

28:50

with more stuff in them, like cookies

28:52

and cream and chocolate chip cookie dough

28:55

has had a real surge over the years.

28:57

You can't tell.

28:58

That by looking a found the Walmart

29:01

that chocolate cookie dough has become

29:03

more popular. I haven't noticed any

29:06

other changes in society that

29:08

would fit in with that knowledge.

29:11

Wow, all right, Hang on a second.

29:13

Are twenty off jam

29:15

a cookie in there?

29:16

Maybere's some cake, chocolate chip

29:18

cookie dough, syrup

29:21

frosting.

29:22

That's what I want?

29:26

Wow? Wow Okay.

29:27

So, and then the other alternative is here's

29:30

your top ten ice cream flavors,

29:32

and they don't list them, They just meld

29:35

them. They mentioned now number four and five

29:37

are interesting. Then they get to three. Then later

29:40

they go with nine to three. Well, this one's actually

29:42

in order. Well your top twenty

29:44

one, which is too many. I don't want to ruin this, but

29:46

I spent some time on this.

29:48

If you look up top five ice cream flavors

29:50

or whatever, you will get thirty different lists, and every

29:52

one of them is completely different.

29:55

That's incorrect. This is the definitive list.

29:57

Number five chocolate chip, Number

29:59

four strawberry. We just heard chocolate

30:01

chip has fallen out of favor. America's love is

30:04

melting with him.

30:06

Well, I don't believe your list. I believe my list.

30:08

Number three cookies and cream, Number two

30:10

chocolate, and number one vanilla.

30:12

Vanilla's always number one, though almost. That's

30:14

one thing all the listens did have in common Vanilla's

30:16

number one, which is interesting. People

30:19

like vanilla? Why a delicious

30:21

flavor? How did vanilla become?

30:24

Whether you're talking about a meal, or

30:27

sex or whatever. They use

30:29

vanilla to describe bland

30:31

and boring, even though it's the most

30:34

liked ice cream flavor. An American always has

30:36

been.

30:37

Why you ask why racism?

30:42

As a guy who is interested in words and

30:44

what they mean, where they come from. How would that happen?

30:46

I think it's probably because a lot

30:49

of vanilla stuff was like bad

30:52

industrial vanilla as opposed

30:54

it just means having true vanilla flavor.

30:56

Maybe it just means common as opposed to

31:00

like exciting, So it's a common

31:02

what you're doing is very common. Yeah,

31:05

yeah, that's not being a good flavor.

31:09

Plane.

31:10

Yeah, the concepts are close enough

31:12

to each other the obvious

31:15

choice.

31:17

Maybe I don't know. I don't know. It's

31:19

a great flavor though.

31:21

Anyway, speaking of a frozen trace, I

31:23

thought this was so interesting. The headline grabbed my

31:25

attention, as it might yours. A brazen

31:28

yogurt heist shows how cyber gangs

31:30

are hijacking us goods. I thought,

31:33

what the hell good does it do you to steal

31:35

a bunch of yogurt? How hungry are

31:37

you?

31:38

Do?

31:38

You have twenty kids? I mean, what are

31:40

you gonna do with it? Well, it turns out the story

31:42

is much more interesting than that. There

31:45

is a terrible problem in shipping now

31:47

because of the way the shipping industry works.

31:50

It's called double brokering.

31:51

And they start the story with this guy who he

31:54

had a refrigerated container with fifty thousand

31:56

dollars worth of yogurt and other products

31:59

in it, and he got a call from the

32:01

guys who he thought were the shipper saying,

32:04

hey, we got your fifty grand.

32:05

Worth of yogurt. We're not going to deliver

32:07

it.

32:07

We're going to ruin your reputation unless you give us

32:09

forty grand or something like that. They're extorting

32:12

him, and it's it's

32:14

called double brokering, and

32:16

I guess it's become a huge problem. But swindlers

32:20

pretend to be carriers and

32:22

they get on these what are they

32:25

called a load board, which

32:27

is an online platform that matches shippers

32:29

with carriers.

32:30

I have, you know, half a ton of yogurt.

32:32

I need to get it from New York to Miami, and

32:35

a shipper says, I can do that for you for

32:37

eleven hundred.

32:38

I know a guyho does this for a living. That's what he

32:40

does. He matches people up. Makes pretty good money on it

32:42

too, because.

32:43

It's a really Yeah, it's a great modern efficiency,

32:46

but like everything, especially

32:48

everything that's online, scumbags

32:50

have figured out how to steal and exploit

32:52

it. So they do what's called double brokering. Swindlers

32:55

pretend to be carriers. They take the money

32:58

paid to move the cargo, then higher another

33:00

company, unbeknown to the shipper, to

33:02

complete the task for a lower fee, pocketing

33:05

the difference. Or the swindlers

33:07

can steal the cargo outright and sell

33:10

it lay later. Because nobody's quite sure who

33:12

they are. They claim to be like Jones

33:14

Brother's Shipping, which is really well known and

33:16

appreciated. But they get on these boards

33:19

and they have a fake email address or phone

33:21

number or whatever, and you think the great Jones

33:24

Brothers have your ice cream, and indeed it's these

33:26

scumbags and they steal it.

33:28

I'm sure it happens with watches

33:30

and you know, gasoline

33:33

and all kinds of different things that are being shipped around.

33:36

Hey, kids, it's that time again.

33:40

With Armstrong and Getty.

33:42

I want to say one thing to your children. I

33:45

know some really great ice cream places

33:47

around here.

33:48

Nah, Daddy owes you Hey

33:51

that excitest cream.

33:52

Talk to me afterwards.

33:52

All right, that's Joe Biden's final thought. Here's your host

33:55

form final thoughts, Joe Getty.

33:56

Let's get a final thought from everybody on our crew,

33:59

beginning with our tech their gold director Mike Leinslow

34:01

This.

34:02

Last segment has brought me back to my childhood

34:04

of going to drug stores and getting triple

34:06

scoops of ice cream chocolate, vanilla,

34:08

strawberry, and they were the square

34:11

scoops, big square.

34:12

Scoops were seen a square scoop?

34:14

Oh yeah, was this in America?

34:16

Yep?

34:16

It's perverse, Katie Green, Do you have a

34:18

final thought for us?

34:20

I do.

34:20

My buddy Bill reminded me of this.

34:22

You remember when the reporters were really grilling Biden

34:24

and asked him what his favorite flavor of ice cream was.

34:26

M it was chocolate chip. Oh,

34:29

maybe that's the reason for the decline.

34:31

Could be just become part of that jacob

34:34

our final thought for us?

34:35

Of course, any final thought from Joe Biden might literally

34:38

be his final thought. Oh the

34:40

grave. So he just gave a little speech

34:43

about the bridge collapse and said he's going to go there

34:45

as soon as he can.

34:46

I can't wait till the day we.

34:47

Some we decide that that we don't need the

34:49

president to show up to disasters to

34:51

show that they care or something.

34:53

Is he going to go with a socket set and start

34:55

fixing the bridge?

34:56

Is he going to dive into the icy waters and try

34:59

to save pabies.

35:00

To put on a ball cap and have his sleeves rolled up and

35:02

walk around with a squinty look on his face, and it'll get

35:04

a ton of attention.

35:06

My final thought, also ice cream related. I can't have

35:08

it in the house. I like it too much.

35:09

Ice Cream, like donuts, is one of those things.

35:12

I can't even go there. Huh, so

35:14

I don't. It's a good idea.

35:17

It's hard to stop once you

35:19

You stop when you reach the bottom of the container. That's

35:21

when you stop eating ice cream.

35:22

I don't think I've had a milkshake in a decade.

35:25

Wow, Cause I love.

35:26

Him so much.

35:27

I couldn't do that.

35:28

If I got in the habit, I'd weigh on hundred pounds.

35:30

Go to Sonic can get the peanut butter with bacon

35:32

in it. That milkshake is pretty good.

35:34

I'm sorry it sounded like you said peanut butter with

35:37

bacon.

35:38

Armstrong and Getdy wraping up but other grueling

35:40

four hour workday, so.

35:42

Many people who thanks so little time. Good

35:44

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35:47

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35:57

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35:59

My mood.

36:00

Just say, that's a good milkshake. Don't you move.

36:02

It's a great milkshake.

36:04

The move's weih in and we'll

36:06

see tomorrow. God bless America.

36:10

I'm strong and get it.

36:11

It's simple.

36:12

They love each other absolutely, There's no doubt

36:14

in my mind.

36:14

It is what it is.

36:16

How do you know?

36:17

I know I talked to him. Don't

36:19

you think it's a little eye?

36:21

Oh?

36:21

What the hell are you talking about?

36:23

I haven't said a word, So stop yelling at me.

36:25

When it comes on for you to go, you'll

36:27

have to go.

36:28

I should.

36:32

And on that possibly nightmare

36:35

inducing notes, Thank you all

36:36

Very much, Armstrong and Getty.