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Guaranteed human 10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down. This is Trainer.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th. Then the space hamster flew his hot air balloon all the way to the.
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Bottom of the ocean.
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Every corner of your home this holiday with the new Whimsound Smart speaker. Get high resolution audio with a 1.8-inch touchscreen, smart control and modern design in one powerful speaker for just $2.99. From quiet mornings to lively holiday gatherings, WinSound makes every moment sound better and feel better too. Get the gift of the season for the music enthusiast in your life or for yourself. Whim Sound Beautifully designed, effortlessly connected. Shop now at Amazon and search Whim Sound that's W I I m S o u n d this holiday season.
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Hurts.
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Picked off, intercepted. And now the ball's out. And Hurts ends up with a ball in his hands. He fumbles.
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Chargers ball.
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Troy Die ends up on the ball.
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And what a mess of a play.
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Of a game last night on Monday Night Football. Chargers beat Eagles in overtime. Interception at the goal line to end the game.
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Good. I hate the Eagles.
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I'm trying to remember, has there been a time when the both teams that played in the super bowl last year didn't make the playoffs the next year, but we might have that this year. Chiefs and Eagles might not make the play.
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Gosh, I don't know. Yeah, interesting question. Speaking of interesting questions, there's the whole who's going to be in the Super Bowl? Then there's can the Western world absorb enormous immigration from the Islamic world?
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That's a really interesting question. I will tell you this, a personal statement.
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The word xenophobe is a tool to get people to shut up. It's a bullying tool. I'm not a xenophobe. I'm not a phobe about virtually anything. I, Joe, have been studying political systems and how they grow and change since I was a wee lady. It's my major in college. And then I've been reading about it and Jack and I have been talking about it for decades now. And as you know, honestly, everybody looks at a diploma. If you're a curious person, you learn 30 times more after college than you learned in college. But anyway, so I look at this as like a historian looking at the present. I'm just interested in the phenomenon. I also happen to be a big fan of Western civilization. I mean, like, really, I'm a Stan for Western civilization, to use the terminology of fairly recently.
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The whole Enlightenment thing, individual liberty, free speech. Yeah, you could call me a big fan. Anyway, Jack and I both became aware of Tom Holland. You. You read his big book Dominion a few years ago, right?
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I've not read Dominion, but I've watched him speak a number of times, like for an hour and a half about it. And I know, I know the full story. Definitely.
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Yes, a fascinating topic. The headline might be.
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The entire Western World. The modern Western world is a Christian world, even if you're an atheist or a Jew or to a lesser extent, a Muslim, which we're about to talk about. Because so much of the way we see the world and religion and religion's role in the world is based on Christianity, the way Christianity says you ought to relate to the world.
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This historian, Tom Holland, he's not a Christian, by the way, and he makes it very clear in his book and in all his speeches. But he, he wrote the book. He was always a fan of the Greeks and the Romans and thought they were responsible for all of Western civilization. By writing this book, he came to believe that Christianity is the dominant philosophy on planet Earth and the biggest thing that has happened in humankind, and that we don't recognize it in the same way that a fish doesn't know he's wet. We're just, we're just in it constantly. The views of, about the way we approach each other in life and everything like that, that is Christianity, whether, whether you're religious or not. He's from Great Britain and he says we're not religious country at all. And the United States is headed that direction, but we still swim in this moral universe that was developed by Christianity.
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Right. So let's unleash Mr. Holland for about a minute, then discuss, particularly as it pertains to Islam and massive immigration into the west from Islamic places. Clip 8 Michael Tom Holland, we are living through a great choke point in the history of this country. What you saw in 2020 and its aftermath was a deeply Christian movement.
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The institutional character of Christianity is often.
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Rejected as part of the problem, a part of what has to be rejected, even though it is that institutional structure.
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That has provided people with the ideological.
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Framework that enables them to judge it as evil. Essentially, what Christianity has that Islam does not is a concept of the secular. Islam is a totalizing way of leading your life. I think Islam is uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset, and people don't want to admit that. And we'll get to that indigestible part in a minute. But to explain his premise a little further, I love that sentence about people have no idea that it's the Christian philosophy and the governments that grew out of that philosophy that gives them the tools to criticize Christianity. That is practically unknown in world history, to be able to aggressively criticize the dominant religion or one of the dominant religions. But Christianity says, no, we're going to persuade you through love and maybe logic and appeal to your conscience and blah, blah, blah. But with a few exceptions, in unfortunate parts of Christian history, we're not going to force it on you and you get to criticize it. And I would argue in those periods where people were hurt or killed for arguing against Christianity, that was a terrible, terrible chapter in mankind. But Anyway, certainly in the modern Christian world, we can all.
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Embrace our enlightenment values, free speech and individual liberty, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, did you want to add anything to that before we get into Islam stuff? And the other super intriguing thing, he points out that a lot of you know already is there is no notion of the secular in Islam. You're not people with religion. You're a people.
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Muslims are a people.
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Religion is not something that is an accessory to who you are. It is who you are. And he wrote in a way that was really interesting about Jewish people used to be much more like that too. French Revolution, they said, you can practice your religion, but you're a Frenchman first. You can't see yourself as a separate tribe anymore, blah, blah, blah. But Islam is a totalizing religion. It's everything. And he points out that Muhammad was the seal of the prophets, the last one. There will be no other. And if Islam fails, humankind is eternally damned. And so the spread of Islam across the world is the only hope of humanity to true believers. Now, granted, there are sects of Islam that are much more. Yeah, it's a personal faith for me. It's in my heart. But no, I don't go with all of the literal stuff from the Quran, just like there is in Christianity. But the problem is there are plenty of people who see it in a more fundamentalist way and they're willing to kill you for it. And he also pointed out, and I found this fascinating, that the proof of the truth of Islam for centuries was its victories. It conquered virtually every land it set its mind to. To lose in war, in politics, is to risk the eternal fate of mankind. That's part of the reason Israel being in that land is so humiliating, horrifying to Muslims. It's a. It's refuting the truth of Islam as long as it stands because the victories show the truth. Up until little history lesson. Napoleon invaded Egypt and. And then they. There was a sect of Islam that was more like, okay, maybe we're not about conquering the world, we're about getting right with God. And those people I can deal with all the time. I don't care if they live next door to me. But. So there's a real division there. And he also makes the point that when Protestantism really exploded in the United States, some of it went very. And Jack, I know you know a lot about this. Some of it went very. Religion is a coat you put on and off. Not very hardcore and stuff. But other Protestants said, no, no, no, that's exactly the wrong way to go, we're going to go fundamentalist, complete fundamentalist. And Islam did the same. But with Islamic fundamental fundamentalism, the Quran sanctions a tremendous amount of bloodshed as, as Holland put it, if you go fundamentalist.
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So, I mean, there's, there's more to it. I could go on, but. Oh, his part about it being uniquely indigestible for the West. There's a somewhat arrogant assumption in the secular west that we can absorb anything because. And that's partly based on assumptions that everyone thinks like us. But he points out Islam is an ancient, complex civilization and was for a long time, a really long time more powerful than the West. And they don't see, see any reason to be digested. They just think they're a really, to cite a probably terrible metaphor, they're a great baseball team that's lost four in a row.
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That is a terrible.
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But they really ought to be the champs.
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That is a terrible metaphor given the stakes.
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Well, illustrative.
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But what was your story that you had the other day about in Germany there where they canceled some Christmas tradition that they've had for hundreds of years?
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Yeah, let me. I'll hit that in just a second. Two more real quick points. They want Islam to be everywhere and everything. And the more Muslims there are, the more those voices have weight and will attempt to force adaptation of other people to them.
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Anyway, so, yeah, Judy and I spent some time in Europe two Christmases ago and it was absolutely wonderful. And I want to do it again partly because they have these wonderful Christmas markets in Europe, which I'll tell you about after a quick word from our friends at SimpleLife. Home security AI and great live agents prevent break ins before they happen. As opposed to old systems, which were pretty sucky, honestly.
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The Trump administration warns of Europe's civilizational erasure through immigration. They're talking about immigration from Muslim countries in the United States. Free beacon reporting cares political arm that's a Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR's political arm is operated without legal authority across the U.S. a watchdog report finds they are raising and spending a tremendous amount of money to try to Islamize the United States of America. A lot of it illegal. They don't have the right licenses and whatever. So anyway, but to the Christmas markets thing, Judy and I were in.
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Glaston Guggen for part of Christmas, but now we're in, in Austria and Bratislava and a bunch of places we're actually in, I think it was the Bratislava, Slovakia on Christmas Day. It was snowing like crazy. It was absolutely charming and magical. But they have these Christmas markets that are like in the town square, they have rows of booths with gifts and food and drink and everything. And there's the smell of food and steam in the air and everybody's feeling super festive. It's like a Christmas festival every single day. And it's just charming. Well, in Germany, and this has been going on for.
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Centuries, I don't know. They became an official German tradition, these Christ Kindlmarks in 1434. They run through the Advent season. A bunch of German cities have had to cancel their Christmas markets because of the threat of Islamic terrorism. They can't cover the security costs, concrete barriers to stop vehicle attacks, surveillance systems, armed guards stationed throughout the market. And. And they just don't have the money for the counterterrorism. And so they are shutting down the, the Christmas markets.
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So for 600 years you could have the Christmas markets, but now because of so much immigration, you can't.
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Berlin, 2016. A terrorist in a tractor trailer drove through the Breitcheid Platz Christmas market. Killed 12, injured 56.
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I remember that.
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2017, in essence. Six Syrian nationals, including asylum seekers who'd been in contact with isis, arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the town's Christmas market with bombs and farms. 2023, in Leverkusen, authorities uncovered a plot by two radicalized teenagers. Magdeburg, 2024. A Saudi doctor plowed his BMW through a Christmas market at 30 mph. Leaving six dead. 338W. His trial began last month. It is not some sort of fantasy that there's a threat. It's real and they're having to shut down their tradition.
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You sound like an Islamophobe. Okay, any thoughts on any of this? Text line 415295 KFTC ARMSTRONG and GETTY.
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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down. This is Trainer Games.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.
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Shh. You won't believe what my new friend.
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Just told me about dinosaurs. Is your child having conversations you never imagined? Are they learning without realizing it? It's not a tablet. It's not a toy. It's Meco Mini plus, the AI powered companion that turns curiosity into endless learning. Hear the future of playtime. Meet the extraordinary Meco Mini Plus Only at Costco. Come for the Black Friday seasonal savings. Stay for the award winning reporting for a limited time access to the Washington post is just 99 cents. That's unlimited access to all of the posts for only 99 cents every four weeks. That's a great deal for the first year. After that it'll cost $12 every four weeks. You can cancel anytime, but don't wait. This Black Friday seasonal offer won't be here for long. Go to washingtonpost.com iheart and grab this deal before it's gone. That's washingtonpost.com iheart bring incredible sound into.
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Another moment with one of these humanoid robots. This time kicking its CEO into simulated face off in China. The robot landing quite a forceful strike, appearing to knock the CEO of Engine AI right to the ground. The CEO covered in padded gear for the battle, appearing to be unharmed. The company says the moment of man versus Robot was about shutting down. Claims that other videos of this same humanoid robot and its capabilities were just cgi.
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Okay, so the CEO got its ass kicked by the robot to prove that.
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Oh, you're watching the video. I am.
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Do you take a pretty good smacking?
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Yeah. Well, in the. The swiftness with which this thing moves is unbelievable.
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Never thought about that. Yeah.
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Oh boy. Chinese killer robots. Good morning chat.
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GPT OpenAI made a giant announcement yesterday that could have an effect on the world. We'll talk about that later. But first, Katie, do you have a preference in eye color for your baby yet to be born?
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No.
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Don't care. No, I didn't care either. But my son Yesterday I have two blue eyed kids. Or I did have two blue eyed kids. My 13 year old said to me, yes? He said my eyes aren't blue anymore. I said, what? Ah. He said, they're a different color now. I guess I hadn't looked deeply into his eyes for quite a while because he walked up to me and he said, I think they're hazel now. And I looked them, you're right, they aren't blue anymore. And I didn't really knew what hazel meant as a word so I had to google it and I got the eye chart and everything like that and damn right his eyes are no longer blue. They are hazel.
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I had amazing eyes until I was a teenager. They were hazel, they were green and brown. And then in adolescence they just went all brown brown.
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Which is.
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I could add a completely different life.
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Right? Brown is the most popular eye color in the world at 80%. 4 out of 5 people.
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Life of the hazel eyed. I could have lived it.
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4 out of 5 people on planet Earth have brown eyes. It's very common. The next most popular is blue, which I have 8 to 10%. Then Hazel. Then only 5% of people have hazel eyes. And then the red, I lost it.
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The rarest of eyes outside of like you're some sort of freak born with purple eyes or two different Colored eyes or whatever. Like for normal.
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Liz Taylor Lavender eyes.
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2%. 2% of the world's population has green eyes. So green. Hazel and then blue.
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Mine are blue and green. What about bloodshot? I got those.
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Is one of your eyes blue and the other one's green or they're blue green.
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They it start.
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They start blue on the outside and.
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They'Re green closer to the pupil.
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Okay. Yeah.
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So pay extra for that.
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Mm, I didn't know.
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Big price.
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We wondered if we missed something, so we went back and looked at pictures of him on my phone when he was little. No, he had bright blue eyes when he was little.
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Now they're hazel, which. So I'm sorry, They're blue and at this point. Blue and what?
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Whatever.
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Hazel is like a light brown.
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Yeah, it's kind of brownish green. Green. Brown, I would say.
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Okay. Interesting.
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Yeah. I didn't know your eyes changed color. Can it happen again later in life or is it pretty much in your teenage years and then you're done?
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I'm guessing what you just said there, but I don't know. I would like to find a deep black eyes or at least I want red ones. Red eye. The pupils bright red. Hello.
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How's your soul? Are you interested in an offer?
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The administration keeps going back and forth on whether or not they're going to release this dang video of the second strike on the boat. You think the controversy is about over anyway, so.
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Yeah, I did till I heard that.
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Oh. Okay.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness. That will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIC contract for $250,000.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down. This is Trainer Games.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.
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Shh.
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You won't believe what my new friend just told me about dinosaurs.
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Every corner of your home this holiday with the new Whimsound Smart speaker. Get high resolution audio with a 1.8-inch touchscreen, smart control and modern design in one powerful speaker for just $2.99. From quiet mornings to lively holiday gatherings, WinSound makes every moment sound better and feel better too. Get the gift of the season for the music enthusiast in your life or for yourself. Whimsound Beautifully designed, effortlessly connected. Shop now at Amazon and search Whimsound. That's W I I M S O.
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Will you release video of that strike so that the American people can see for themselves whatever?
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I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we'd certainly release no problem. Okay, that was last week to an ABC reporter. Then a different ABC reporter asked him yesterday about the release in the second videotape.
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Mr. President, you said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela, Secretary Hegset announces.
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You said that I didn't say that this is ABC fake news.
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You said that you would have no problem releasing the full bit. Okay, well, Secretary Hex, whatever Hex says.
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Wants to do is okay with I feel like I did hear him say that last week that he would release the tape, but then he told her. Who said? I never said that. You're fake news. Anyway, so a different reporter at a different moment.
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Are you committed to releasing the full video?
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Didn't I just tell you that you said that it was the obnoxious reporter in the whole place? Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible. Actually, a terrible reporter. And it's always the same Thing with you. I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do is okay with me. Okay. Goes on. Whatever Hexeth wants to do is okay with.
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He now says it's under review. Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video?
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Whatever he decides is okay with me. So there we. That's where we are.
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Where it's.
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You're not. That's where we are.
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Well, guilty. Wow. Okay. So.
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Why aren't they releasing it?
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I don't know, but I think it is a bad look to not release it.
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I don't know.
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If there are strategy and tactics stuff, I can't imagine what that would be.
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I don't believe that for a second, do you?
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No, no, no, I don't. I just think they think probably it'll be troubling to people if they see it. I don't know. Although, see, that's the problem with not releasing it. People don't cover up crimes they didn't do usually.
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Well, Senator Cotton coming out and saying, I'll tell you what I saw. I saw a couple of people who were trying to, you know, flip the board over and get it going, reattack the United States or whatever the heck it is that Senator Cotton said, and if it can be explained as that, go ahead and release it and then let you know. And my guess would be, and this is really a revelation, that most people who are okay with Trump are going to see it one way and most people who hate Trump are going to see it the other way, no matter what it looks like. Yeah.
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See, that's the funny thing for me is that I totally bought what Tom Cotton said. I thought that was the most likely thing to begin with. Now it's come out that the. Everybody on that boat was part of a list of approved targets. And so Hegseth might approve targets to kill. So hex. And you can argue about whether that's appropriate or not. It's kind of a different topic, but. So Hegseth might have given something like a kill them all order. Not in that many words. But I just. I don't. I don't get why they're not releasing it.
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And. Well, and here's the problem. They have to be utterly explicit about why they're hesitating to release it. Don't let the rumor mill take it up. Don't. Don't let that vacuum be created, because something will fill it.
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Well, you got people like Senator Tom Cotton, Republican.
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Military guy, saying it's. It looks exactly like I would have ordered that strike. It's perfectly fine in keeping with United States interests. Then you got Senator Tim Kaine, who was Hillary's running mate. Clip 57.
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Michael, I think what the American public is likely to see, based on what's been described as two struggling individuals clinging to flotsam after a shipwreck, without a radio, without ways to either move or communicate, without weapons, clearly not posing a danger to the United States, who are just slaughtered in open water. How do you assess their lack of radio capability on one of those videos? Tim, you lie.
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And first of all, I assumed he was talking from firsthand knowledge, having watched the video. He said, I think what people would see based on what was described. So he's just going on what the Washington Post said.
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And then, ladies and gentlemen, we give you. It ought to be Dana, not Dana Bash and Senator Tammy Duckworth. What is a Duckworth? Not much, judging by this audio tape.
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Senator, have you seen the video?
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I have seen the video, and it is deeply disturbing. I am mostly concerned with the fact that we are putting our American servicemen and women in jeopardy here. We're putting them in jeopardy in case they ever get shot down. We are putting them in legal jeopardy. They could be brought up in international criminal courts. And so what we're doing here is taking those professionals, or utmost professionals, and putting them into harm's way. And that's what bothers me the most about what Pete Hegseth is doing. He is the least qualified secretive events in our nation's history, and he's very cavalier about doing things. Fact of the matter is, only Congress can decide that we can go to war, and there was no such declaration made.
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C
I just want to make sure that. That I get this accurate.
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B
You have seen the classified video of this particular strike, the first strike and then the double tap, as it's known.
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D
No, I've just seen what's been available in the media. I've read the full report, but I've not seen the actual video. What? What? Yes, I've seen the video. She's seen the same video we all saw.
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B
What?
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D
Yeah, no, everybody.
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C
Everybody, Republican. Everybody overplays their hand all the time. I wish.
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D
Liars. And the lies.
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C
They lie.
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D
Oh, it's so annoying.
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C
Why wouldn't you answer that question? I don't know. I haven't seen the video.
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D
Our politics is, dang it, stupid. And so she runs from a minute.
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C
On why Pete Hegseth is the least qualified in this and that and blah, blah, blah. And then finally, Dana, to her credit, nails are done. Just want to make it straight have you seen the video? No, I haven't seen it, but from what I understand.
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D
Oh, shut up. Why are we even goes with a only Congress can declare war. I mean, okay, I get your point constitutionally speaking, but where have you been the last 70 years?
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C
Yeah, well that's really maddening.
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Well, let's. Let's hear from Pete himself, Secretary Hegseth explaining the RE attack of this was something at the Reagan library over the weekend. 55 I was told, hey, there had.
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D
To be a re attack because there were a couple folks that could still be in the fight. Access to radios. There was a link up point of another potential boat. From what I understood then and what I understand now, I fully support that strike. I would have made the same call myself. So.
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C
His story has not been consistent which is not a good look of the. Yeah, I was there. I ordered it to the.
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D
I, I didn't.
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C
I, you know, I'm a busy man. I got other things due. I can't hang around for two hours to wait to see how these things turn out. But he followed out my order to kind of in between that answer seemed to be. And then, but then you've got the testimonial last week that look, there was a JAG there where there was an army lawyer there, military lawyer there to look it over and declare, yeah, this is a valid target. Let's go ahead and hit it. And then did. So it's not like going off half cocked Wild West.
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D
Well, right. Yeah. Let's just argue about whether the JAG lawyers were right or not. But yeah, this. As scandals go, I just.
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C
But they're making it worse.
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D
Yeah, I know. Yeah. You know what's interesting is I remember in Iraq and Afghanistan and they're, they're. The Internet's full of the videos of us taking out various Al Qaeda guys and Taliban guys or ISIS guys, whatever. And in some of the, some of the videos you see the helicopter gunship chasing after people and mowing them down with machine guns. And you know, some of those people might have just been like the housekeeper. The, you know, the, the guy was there to, to fix the plumbing or something like that. I don't know. But I think we all acknowledged. All right. You know, it's, it's, it's a war situation. You know, you're in the wrong place, wrong time.
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C
Sorry. Venezuela shouldn't have knocked down those towers. That's what I said.
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D
Oh boy, that was good. So isn't our entire argument about the appropriateness of using military force against cartel targets and never mind the particulars of one incident. I don't know. But again, listen to me. You're an idiot. Somebody punch me. Bam. I'll punch myself in the face. This is all about scoring political points and making hay and getting contributions. The truth doesn't even matter. The truth isn't even invited to the party. What am I thinking?
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Tammy Duckworth doesn't give a crap about the truth.
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C
Please put the duck back.
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And then you got the Nobel Prize winner. The actual Nobel Peace Prize winner. Not the. Not the FIFA soccer peace prize winner, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner. That chick from Venezuela who's all for all this.
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D
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C
I heard Maduro this morning. He has given some speech about how we are ready to protect the socialist paradise of Venezuela where all workers have a free chance to blah, blah, blah. Man, those guys never stop.
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Now with their crap. Who's that for? None of the people believe and who. Nobody believes it. Who's it for?
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D
Just reminding them of what they have to say if they don't want to visit from the secret police.
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C
Quickly, off the top of your head, where does this go? Oh.
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We got like a quarter of our naval power and the. On the. The biggest navy on the planet right there off the coast of Venezuela. Where's this going?
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D
I'm completely befuddled, but you're demanding that I make a guess.
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Status quo for a long time, resulting in fewer drug shipments to the US and no major military actions.
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C
And then it just kind of fizzles. Out. We just start to pull resources away.
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D
That one.
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C
No. And we don't force regime change.
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I'm surprised if we don't force regime change somehow.
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D
Well, I'm sure our spooks are working around the clock behind the scenes right now trying to figure out what the post Maduro reality would be.
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C
Poisonous beard, Exploding cigar. Go Castro.
- [37:47]
D
Again. Again. The snuffing him isn't the hard part. That's the easy part. What comes next is the hard part. No, they're not gonna poison his beard. I think they'll drop a bomb on his head.
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C
That whole you break it, you own it and whatever we broke it.
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D
We're out.
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C
We're out the door.
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D
Oh, that always works out well. Oh boy.
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ISIS has established a major new foothold in Venezuela. Oops. Oops is right.
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C
Okay, more on the way. Stay here.
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B
Armstrong and Getty.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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C
The Dodgers just picked up one of the best pitchers in baseball for $69 million.
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D
Oh, unfair. What?
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Unbelievable. Coming up, major cheese.
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Cheese shaken by today's headlines.
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Speaking of media, this is so interesting from our friends at the Media Research center, their news busters.
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Let's see, they're updating a study from a couple of days ago. ABC and NBC News have spent a combined 17 minutes and 16 seconds on their flagship news shows morning and evening on the Somali, the giant Somali Minneapolis ripoff. Okay. Very, very little time. Of that little time, only 21% was spent on the rampant welfare fraud scheme. The other 80% was criticizing President Trump's comments and Republicans trying to make hay with it.
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C
Yeah.
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D
So if four to one Republicans pounce versus the actual crime, the billion dollar.
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C
Theft of taxpayer money is not very interesting. The calling Somalis bad people. Now that's a story.
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D
Now if you combine ABC, CBS and NBC, about 31% explain the years long scheme and the other, what is that? The other 2/3, a little more than 2/3 was about Republicans pounce. And they mentioned CBS did better than the other networks because Margaret Brennan had Ilhan Omar on and they talked about it. But that was pretty softbally. But anyway, that's what you get. It's not a shock or anything. But you know one of the other studies they've done recently, the Media Research center is less than 25%. It was 24% of Americans know that Charlie Kirk's killer was a left wing crazy person. Less than 25%. I think it was probably mostly just a crazy person in love with a crazy transgender person.
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C
Yeah, I don't know how I would have answered that question. I don't I don't have in my mind that he's a left wing crazy person either. I just have him as a crazy person.
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D
Yeah, well, he's unquestionably left wing, super into trans rights and LGBTQ and hated Charlie Kirk and blah, blah. But. But as phenomena go, I think it's mostly just the crazy person who wants to hurt people who latches onto a cause kind of at the last minute anyway, doesn't matter. But the fact that only 24% knew the murderers politics when it was clearly a political killing is kind of troubling. But in major cheese news, Jack, an American cheddar has stunned global judges, beating out well known European cheeses and sparking a worldwide reaction.
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C
I had some goat cheese the other night. Might be the best cheese I ever had. Goat cheese with crackers. My son really like. Man, this is some damn good cheese. We got to start buying this more often. There's great cheese made in Northern California, by the way. Your whole Wine Valley area, also very good for cheese.
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D
Yeah, absolutely true. Kate, Katie, what do you. What? What is that look on your face? Oh, they're all the grocery stores sell it. Pretty much the blueberry goat cheese.
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C
Blueberry goat cheese?
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D
Yeah, please. Game changer.
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C
Okay.
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D
Oh, I tell you what. I know Jack doesn't swig the crazy water, the fire water like I do, but man, with a nice red wine, good cheese. Just crazy proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy anyway. A humble New York made cheddar surprised international judges at one of the world's most prestigious cheese competitions, ranking in the top 10among a crowded field of European winners.
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C
This is interesting to me. Do Americans not usually fare well in the cheese competitions?
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D
Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
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C
It's mostly the surprising to me.
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D
Not to me, because it's so regulated. It's like you've talked about when your buddy brought back the Italian salami.
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C
Yes, I'm aware of that. But I would have thought we would have done well. Maybe, maybe they have to follow the American laws. Yeah. When I was in Italy, I was amazed at how good their salami and cheese was because they don't have all the ridiculous stupid rules that we have in the United States. We're missing out on so much flavor because of our ridiculous fda.
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D
You know, I've been to the masters now, so next stop, the World Cheese Awards in Bern, Switzerland.
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C
I would love that.
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D
A cave. I actually would if they gave out samples. A cave age cheddar sold by Murray's Cheese in New York City took fifth place. Outranking Dozens of long revered European producers earned additional trophies from various categories. Cave age. Do you say congratulations to Murray's cheese? The stocking hall cheese is produced. Nobody cares. Look it up if you want to know. Let's see. Meanwhile, a Swiss cheese, but not Swiss cheese. La Griere AOP Vonder Fultigen Special, aged 18 months, was crowned the world champion cheese.
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C
I wonder what that would cost. Hunk of that. Pretty expensive Probably.
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D
I don't know. It was praised for its rich flavor, delicate crunchy crystals and deep savory aroma.
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C
You probably can't get it in the United States because that's too dangerous. So there could be all kinds of bacteria or something like that could have gotten in there.
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D
Probably. So there were.
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C
So dumb. Why are we like this? Our safety ism is nuts.
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D
The World Cheese Championships or whatever I called it, 46 countries sent more than 5,200 entries.
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C
I'm sure there's a lot of money to be made and if you get a good ribbon.
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D
Oh, yes.
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C
Cheese. Yeah. Just like wine.
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D
Yeah. There's the experts in their yellow aprons eyeballing the cheese.
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C
Do they eat it just plain or do they put it on a cracker or a sandwich or anything?
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D
Nice glass of Cabernet sauvignon? I don't actually know.
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They don't explain the mechanics of it. They look at it, they sniff it, they grab a little bite of it, clearly. Well, I do love cheese.
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C
That's. That's the point of this segment. Joe likes cheese. We do 20 hours of this sort of content every single week. And if you need any more of it or would like to catch it on your own time. Armstrong and Getty on Demand is our podcast.
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D
Yeah, go ahead. Sorry.
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C
Major announcement from Chat GPT yesterday that is going to slow down AI, I think coming in hour four. If you don't get that, get the podcast.
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D
Armstrong and Getty.
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Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.
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