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Episode 77

Episode 77: Frankie Malacaria’s Socialist Vision for Scranton’s Future

April 19, 2025

Join us for Episode 77 of What a Week! with Frankie Malacaria, a Scranton City Council candidate with a fiery socialist vision. Recorded April 18, 2025, Frankie shares his roots growing up near Coney Island, navigating a speech impediment, and landing in Scranton after a college mishap. A self-proclaimed socialist, he breaks down his fight for the working class, critiques corporate influence in schools, and spars over private vs. personal property in a lively debate. From surviving a ballot chal...

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Okay.

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So we're here with Frankie Mollica.

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Yeah. That's how you say your name, right?

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No, it's not a carrier.

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Where'd your family come from? Calabria.

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No shit.

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No shit. But with FS instead of.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah. The teeth are all. Stephen.

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you was at Saint Lucy's church.

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And I think the commissioners were there

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Am I right in thinking that?

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Many crossed paths earlier than that.

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Yeah, it was a weird room that night.

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But tell me about,

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tell me about, like, give me your story.

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for you growing up?

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We just mentioned Coney Island.

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I'm talking about the hot dogs.

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I grew up about, you know,

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15 minute walk from the boardwalk.

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Coney Island.

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I think what year was over?

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The years we were out there.

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So I was born in 92.

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I same year, my my

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I lived there until the fall.

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The Soviet Union.

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Yeah.

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And then I took it.

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I was out there until after high school.

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public school through New York City.

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Did a semester at NYU,

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got in there with, 66 average.

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Oh, my God, junior year.

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So I was on a probationary,

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status when I was, enrolled.

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My hard drive died.

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10.4, probably.

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Because I got thrown out of school.

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My dad threw me out of the house, and,

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I had moved up to Scranton, where

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So were you, like.

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You just lost your your English.

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Your computer took a shit. Well,

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I was,

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Yeah.

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in to,

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so, like,

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that like,

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I didn't necessarily respond well to that.

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So in high school, I was, you know,

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But it

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So to relate to that,

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I got basically the same diagnosis.

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It's like you're not dumb.

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What are you doing?

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And I graduated high school to 64.6.

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They rounded it up.

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That's how I got out.

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I should go right into to college

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and learned how to drink heavily.

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to California for a couple of years to LA

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and then came back here in 2000,

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2010, got sober and I haven't had a drink.

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Almost 16 years.

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And I think that like,

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Biggest impacts.

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Profound.

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You can't get and count that out.

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you want to talk about why did your mom,

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choose Scranton?

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That's a good question.

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His sister

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lives, over here in South Side as well.

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So he had familial connections here.

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They were having a kid.

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My sister, your mom and your stepdad.

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Yes. Okay.

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And they didn't want to raise,

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It's cheaper out here.

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You know, it's easier to raise a family.

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Generally with, like,

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So they decided to move out here.

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They were renting a place, and,

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the landlord that was renting it to us.

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When they eventually passed away,

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we bought the house from them.

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the children all had houses.

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They were all in, like the 60s.

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You know, since mom moved here. Yep.

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How old are they? 15 and 16.

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Oh, no.

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That's like the.

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That's like the I hate you years.

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Yeah.

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Do they go to the Scranton.

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They were I think they're still

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Okay.

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Well,

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When I was in kindergarten,

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What kind of speech impediment is it?

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Rabbits? Really? I never noticed,

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Like accuracy or crap.

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Yeah.

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and they had

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I, you know, did amazing on the test.

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Allegedly.

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up to my level.

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So how how bad was it? Like, you couldn't.

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Like you couldn't.

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No one could understand you.

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And like, it's part of that.

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Related.

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So. Yeah, a lot of it.

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Make sure that I'm clear.

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But, yeah, that must be frustrating.

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that.

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Yeah.

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I mean, thankfully, you know,

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What a stutter. No, no, no.

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Just making sure they could understand.

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But yeah.

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So I had, like, world class education.

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I did like robotics and I. Oh, shit. Yeah.

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I learned how to do like, CNC.

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Why is that privileged?

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Like,

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we should have, you know,

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that just whatever be freely.

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Yeah.

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put so many restrictions on what

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And hopefully ever break it.

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You won't believe later.

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We don't have arts.

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We're not music.

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We don't have libraries.

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Because

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I don't think we're that far apart than.

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I mean, I've been say this for years.

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I think,

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critical thinking.

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Definitely.

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came to that conclusion.

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Is he Lebanese?

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Look, there's good people there.

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You know what I mean.

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Like there's it's not like full of,

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I always looked at it as outside forces

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What what did you do wrong?

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you know, diverting.

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Okay.

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NGOs.

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The Pennsylvania school Board association.

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Okay.

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Now, where I differ on that is,

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is I don't think that outside

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However you want to call it.

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And we're kind of insulated in a way

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Like, and then around is like farmland.

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I don't think that I should be able

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grant money.

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So here's the strings attached to it.

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Don't let other people,

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But I don't want to just describe

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Yeah. So we shouldn't, general,

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We can figure it out on our own then.

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Are you familiar

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with the concept of manufacturing consent?

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No. Not necessarily.

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He does like the research,

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is that not because they're necessarily

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You know, news agencies will only hire

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Okay.

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Yeah. Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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you know, the PBS, a psb, psb,

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where

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you know, and, you know,

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But even in that case.

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Right. Exactly.

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And they, you know, got elected running on

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I think you're misunderstanding me.

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I'm talking about it as an organization.

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I, I personally don't

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Right.

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I don't have the people in it.

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I'm not speaking about them.

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That's I have issues with like

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You know, I'm with you money.

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I'm with you.

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You special interests are.

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Oh, you can lean back.

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Yeah.

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Special

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The books.

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Yeah. That, like, has been, you know,

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that I looked up this, you know, company.

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Yeah.

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they do all the publishing.

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You know, so they're implying,

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It's supposed to be right.

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So I think that it.

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But that's not actually a market.

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When, you know,

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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There's a Greek finance minister, former

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Yanis Varoufakis.

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He. Ferreira, Varoufakis, Varoufakis.

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Varoufakis.

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I will never forget that name for okay.

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Is Farkas I spelled differently?

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But it's funnier that way.

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But he,

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he's a less, leftist.

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So his, you know, his ideas.

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I have been picking up

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but what he calls techno feudalism.

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And that's where we

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selling

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rent on everything.

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Yeah. You know,

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like even the,

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So the market's no longer really a market.

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No shit.

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I mean, in a way like but

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Yeah.

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You know, I am I, am I saying that right.

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Because it's like

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Yeah.

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And I think.

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But wasn't

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like, if you go back, was it?

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Do you think it was always like that?

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Financialization. Yeah.

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Financialization of markets.

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Well, so GM had this like super great idea

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that they were going to focus.

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So they were Flint Michigan weren't they.

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with a side business of cars.

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And then started to like trade on this.

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involved with investments.

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And 2008 came

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Yeah, yeah.

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We bailed out General Electric.

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Where is that?

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The start of Occupy

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Okay.

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And then and then, if I'm not mistaken,

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Yeah. Roaring kitty. Yeah, yeah.

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Shit.

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He's got like, $100 million or more now.

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It's.

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All right, so I have all these questions.

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Maybe they're just like, topics.

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This is a good one.

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So, as I mentioned, I moved out here

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when I, you know, was

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almost fresh out of high school.

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You know,

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I got my brilliant computer fuck up.

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Yeah. Yep.

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Look me down this path that I'm on today.

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It's weird. Yep.

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I'm grateful you're here to. Man.

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But remind me one more time.

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What was that?

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So what?

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One of my first,

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jobs that I had was,

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I worked at a car wash.

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Okay. Over on Putnam Street.

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Right by the football field there.

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Okay. And,

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I needed a job.

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I had some, but not much.

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And, I got a job working at a car wash

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on Keizer Avenue.

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This place, the owner paid me

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$5 an hour to hand wash and detail cars.

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Okay.

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And yet this guy was getting paid,

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you know, upwards of $150 for the detail.

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So that really radicalized me.

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You know, blue collar, blue, blue collar

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the people that own things.

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Can I push back in this little bit?

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Yeah. Go for it.

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and then lowball me

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Oh, you should walk the fuck out then.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No no no no I'm not saying.

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had working for people,

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So I'm only going to be paying you $5 now.

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Yeah, people.

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Yeah, it's it's it's fucked up.

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We'd have that at been that too.

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Remember that one gig that we played

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the bypass?

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We took that. We were taking the door.

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There was like 15 people there.

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Yeah, five bucks ahead.

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And he gave us 15 bucks high five guys.

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And I'm like, this is not.

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We would just expect like money.

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And now this guy's just screwing us.

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Like, what does that all mean?

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I don't think I don't think all

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They would never do that to somebody.

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Yeah. Like.

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And I've worked for, like other folks,

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you think you just ran into some assholes.

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It's a way of doing like you like you see.

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Like you see,

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a pattern. Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Bar back.

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They even screw you in the bar back. Yep.

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She wouldn't screw me on money.

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Yeah.

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So that was that was that was like.

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So your blue collar.

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Maybe pissed you off.

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Okay.

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And I worked for a few different things

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before landing in the pizza business.

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And I spent

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there a pizza bomb.

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Yeah.

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I spent several years,

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so 2019,

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And when

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which was a great deal.

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But 1450. So a lot of money.

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Yeah, a lot of money, but yeah.

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But it was still too expensive.

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And then we guys split it.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Two ways.

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We were split to two bedrooms,

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I was paying $400 for a two bedroom.

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You can't get.

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back in

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Yeah. So,

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was it decent?

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Decent apartment in 2011. Yeah.

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No no no no no no. The 450.

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That that was.

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No not not that super great.

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Okay.

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They're literally like a broom closet.

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Why would you?

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moving to back in Scranton, okay, in 2019.

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Okay.

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They got good pizza.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So I worked, over there for about a year,

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Oh, you were there.

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Yeah.

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Lockdown starts. Yeah.

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Okay, that's really close.

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Two two 2020 I got a better one for you.

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My giant mushroom dose was 022220.

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February 22nd. Nice.

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So we're at today. Zero.

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What's that?

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What's that? Back and forth.

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Palindrome. Palindrome. Yeah. Oh yeah.

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Yeah I already forgot.

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I forgot about it.

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That's it.

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Yeah, it was January 6th.

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I was making people. That's 2021.

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Yeah. 2021 was like.

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Like forget, forget January 6th for now.

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because that that's what

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Was it already starting in New York?

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Yeah. Well, you were in Binghamton.

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wife had passed away in

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like February of that year in Scranton,

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I'm convinced quite a few people

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Have had it then you had it.

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Yeah, I had it before with the thing.

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Oh, like before NSync was cool.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm a hipster of Covid.

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So I being like,

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For me.

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So like, I, you know,

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I understand like the hardships that like,

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we didn't lockdown our nursing homes,

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And then I thought he locked them down.

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No, he didn't lock them down.

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Was the fucking issue.

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So you thought he should have locked.

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He should have locked them down

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it probably could have been two weeks.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that

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Appeasing it depends.

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than they are for adults?

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Covid and flu, right are more

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for like elderly folks.

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So so I, I was

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even till today, six

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it was like it was like six kids in

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What do you

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Because.

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we've learned a lot since,

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all of a sudden it seemed like

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Well, I don't know.

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So, like,

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not everybody ignored it.

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People.

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What a real like a newsreel.

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The 00000I keep going. Yeah, yeah.

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So to the distraction.

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Yeah, I get your point.

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For manufacturing consent Covid.

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Like, they cut funding to this.

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He's coming out and like,

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Elon is.

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there but Musk. But

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for long Covid

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for example,

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it takes I don't even know how long

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that it had later down the line.

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Do you think,

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do you think it might have.

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I think it might have, but I, I do.

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I like to follow Occam's Razor most often,

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Yeah.

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But I'm,

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I'm, I'm, I firmly believe

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that it was gain of function research,

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And Fauci and he knew about it.

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And then when they found out, it got out,

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Right.

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I got about ten years on you.

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So I grew up in the early 90s.

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We watched Unsolved Mysteries.

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somebody killed the president?

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And no one knows who it is,

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And I couldn't I couldn't make money.

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I couldn't run my business.

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like me,

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Oh, you know, why is white.

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I'm really curious about shit like that.

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and I'm looking at it going like,

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Should I be concerned?

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And like my my age groups

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Why am I losing my shit over this?

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that I'm not going to die for.

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Like, why am I being so afraid about this?

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And they all told me things that

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And I think, I think I don't know

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but I think it was a severe overreaction.

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And I don't know whether it was to get

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Thought he was the devil incarnate.

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But then I started to realize

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And I'm in the media. I should be smarter.

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I should know whether or not.

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What's it, what is it?

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hold water.

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Why are they saying other things?

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They're not. They're trying. They're.

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Now, I don't expect you to believe that.

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But him, me, like a whole

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Who was the president during the shutdown?

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Trump never shut anything down.

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That's a big misconception.

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He left it up to the states. Right.

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The states had because

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And he didn't.

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Sure.

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But, you

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know, I all I know is that I'm not,

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molecular biologist, you know, like,

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Right?

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You know, like,

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That's what I listen to.

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Which one beginning of Covid,

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No, no, no. Peter Hotez.

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He ended up like they split after,

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What it. Yes.

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Who was it?

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from the right wing after, you know,

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guy. But.

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What a big confusion for me was

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Yeah.

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It should have never been.

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But like.

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It you know, it was done

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I will never take a Trump.

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But then what? But then what happened?

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They went and flipped. Yeah, exactly.

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But but what was the flip?

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All right.

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We're in.

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But but, but and Biden assumes office

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and January 21st,

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that they had the vaccine.

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Do you remember that,

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But so I was like, I, I, I have

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I'm around Trump people a lot.

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I'm around Kennedy Democrats a lot.

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I'm around socialist every now and again.

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They don't

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they will hold him to the fire for that.

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it's very it's a very scary thing.

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Yeah.

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the Democratic Party.

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For me, I was like,

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I never liked George Bush senior.

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I loved Bill Clinton, I think killed JFK.

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He was involved.

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He's the number two guy in the CIA.

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How do you not fucking.

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And he was in Dallas that day.

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Yeah. Weird. And yeah.

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He's one of the three hobos.

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It's Woody Harrelson's dad. Well,

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I liked Clinton.

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George W Bush got elected.

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I fucking hated him.

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he's kind of like a wall.

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That's the paint is drying on,

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you know?

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But who's his wife?

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I don't even know.

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Teresa Heinz of the Heinz ketchup empire.

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Oh, nice. Yeah. And he's a fucking loon.

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George Bush, although I will say

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that for one moment on nine over 11.

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I like George Bush.

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I have no idea now.

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But it was like, get us into wars, okay?

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No, no, no mission was accomplished.

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He was tight ball bulge.

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Fucking talk about bad PR moves.

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I didn't like Bush.

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Voted for Obama.

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Voted for Hillary in 2016, I think.

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Well, my mom didn't either.

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She's like, she's a monster,

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I was purged from the rolls.

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in New York and Brooklyn.

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And in Brooklyn,

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Who did that?

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I forget the exact details of it.

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You know, it was nearly ten years ago now.

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You took away my right to vote.

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Right to vote. Yeah. Disenfranchized.

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That's that's what that word means.

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Yeah.

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And it's not somebody. It's a group.

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And it was happening like multiple places.

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from the

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state down were involved with that. Yep.

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It's like all these.

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What a George Carlin I call it.

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He's like, it was, It was unreal.

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It was on politically incorrect.

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when interests align.

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Like there is no parties.

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Like you have no control.

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So you hear my side.

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Pardon. Right. Yeah.

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And that's what that means.

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or, you know, enrich their friends.

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Where do you think it started?

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Let's see.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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I think

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honestly, I think probably November

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22nd, 1963.

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The assassination of JFK.

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And I think, I think

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I grew up in this area.

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They love John F Kennedy. Right.

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He wasn't a saint.

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They were the bootleggers. Bootleggers.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You know, I don't really care like this.

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Yeah.

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Sure.

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Mafia likes clean streets.

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a representative government anymore.

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bad actors to come in and, you know,

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I don't know about this.

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I like Rob very much.

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It doesn't seem like something he do.

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That's public record though.

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Let's skip to Rob for a second.

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Rob I met Rob maybe like

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two, two and a half years ago.

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Right. He would have these events.

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Nobody would be there.

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I ended up having like

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and because no one was there,

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Right.

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So I got to know Rob a little bit

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I think what happens is, is that like

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when you

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And I think that's about Rob.

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Like, I don't want to be the guy.

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Nothing is worth nothing.

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like on social.

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All right.

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Well or dis or mal,

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believe it or not, lie.

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That is true but is inconvenient.

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Okay.

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That's what mal information is.

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because I told you this truth.

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No matter how bad it hurts, even for me.

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I'm terrible.

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Yeah, and so I just don't do it.

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Yeah.

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Same way. But.

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But to give a little bit of track of them.

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Yeah. I'm too lazy.

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Yeah, I'm too fucking lazy tonight.

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Yeah. I'm honest, because I'm lazy.

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You agree?

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You, I think that you and I could agree

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Yeah.

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I mean, I have, like,

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Like, I think propaganda is just as like

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Okay.

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that, like, are you trying to be like,

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Oh, I think of it as a terrible word.

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Well, no, not necessarily.

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It's political messaging.

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You can't have

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sports propaganda.

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some of that could fall into there?

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Know.

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So like, everything else is just a lie.

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Well.

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Propaganda isn't necessarily a lie either.

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Not. No. No, not necessarily so like that.

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That's what you know.

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So what would it be for like a,

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to your version of propaganda?

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We want you to join the US Army.

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You know, that's.

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It's just saying I would like you.

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Exactly.

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You know, so, so,

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Where is this lead to?

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No. No, no.

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It was so.

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So Nazi Germany happens. Right.

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Yeah, right.

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And it's where they asked,

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Germany. Yeah. The head of NATO,

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had a NASA,

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When they asked gerbils, they said,

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He goes, it's very easy. It's fear.

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Right? Like illegal immigrants.

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Well, we'll get to that.

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Okay, so now I think I've, Okay.

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Maybe. Yeah.

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Was that 1948?

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Is that the Smith Month Act?

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Definitely the error,

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Yeah. Not read all that. So?

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So the Smith Month act.

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The core of it was you can't propagandize

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And then in 2012, it got reversed.

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that's a, that's a, that's a signal.

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And that's the source of that signal.

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solely for the fact that, like,

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Well, I believe that.

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And that's like,

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But is that all intelligence?

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It's America, American intelligence. Yeah.

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American intelligence.

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Yeah. Yep.

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Dumb phones should be the better.

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Would you get rid of them?

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Oh, I like if you had a choice.

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Oh yeah. Yeah.

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That was it.

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And Steve Bannon, was using it

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Exactly. Yep.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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try to leave a

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we as Americans have given up,

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you know, security for convenience.

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Yeah.

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that's like that's surveillance, isn't it?

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And oppression, the Patriot Act,

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Yeah. And it's.

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It's every. But you can't escape.

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Yeah.

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Alex Jones said it. Prison planet.

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You want to do it?

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I've got to do it.

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Okay. Do you want the.

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Earth.

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Okay. Yeah. Joyner. Joyner.

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That's the Joyner. Die.

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Give me the bullet. Okay,

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a little bit.

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Yeah, just. This is just the taste.

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Like a quarter. A quarter of an ounce.

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It sounds good.

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isn't fun. Yeah.

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Is that.

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Beautiful.

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Good.

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Okay. We're going to cheers on this.

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We've still got water in here.

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Can't do no wrong. Get water.

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Did you drink all your tea?

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No, no, I want to.

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I it's supposed to water down. What? No.

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They get to the taste.

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You'll be dump a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

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Is there water back there?

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No, no. All right. We'll be fine.

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to to be in friends, man.

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Okay.

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Ready?

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All right.

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Opinion.

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So surprisingly smooth.

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Really?

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You want to read it?

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Yeah, I'll slide it over a little bit.

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This is Kentucky.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Right across the street from Evans.

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It's the same water over but at the end.

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But no, no it's really good.

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It's a little bit. It's not bad.

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Okay I will buy it, but.

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All right.

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if that's okay.

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I don't want these to be too, like.

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You know what I mean?

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Well, you're running for council, correct?

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Yeah. Yes.

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Okay.

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Council handles a $70 million budget.

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What's your number one focus?

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Roads, taxes, safety or something else?

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My number one focus is housing.

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I got priced out of my home in Brooklyn.

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Our mayor likes to claim that Scranton

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It's it's claim anything.

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It doesn't seem like it though, does it?

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No. Exactly.

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Exactly. Which is my point.

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Well,

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the sad part is that it might be real

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So what is it?

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It's like a it's a marketing

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slip.

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It's better than everywhere else.

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that have like, you know,

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I think unemployment's higher than that.

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is 29% versus 12% statewide,

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50% of homeownership rate, 50%

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51% is the employment rate versus

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60% statewide.

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So is this like a good place to be?

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Yeah. No. Absolutely not.

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Jeremy, like it seems like a marketing.

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So I have a plan.

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Like like it's not just like,

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And we're going to.

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Over there.

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Over there.

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Is that playing on the screen, Dan?

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And I've got

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You know, I want to present to our city,

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I think it's you want abortion on demand?

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Yeah, I think abortion on demand. Yep.

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for some reason

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Well, it's still tragic and.

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Yeah, but like we're seeing,

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So women are not. So women are not.

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So you're saying that

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because of the Dobbs

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in the hospital parking lots? Yes.

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That would be huge stories.

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Yeah, exactly. Every day.

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What about the other ones?

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You know, that are still happening?

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But yeah, I remember.

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Yeah, you should you shouldn't take those.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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You know, you feel sick for a few days.

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You know, you're not quite yourself.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So it's like.

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Is that the way it is?

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That the way it is? No, I don't think so.

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That's tragic.

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I think.

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But there's there's no viable baby.

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Right.

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if you have like a writing. Yeah, exactly.

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It's a code probably.

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That's probably insane. Yeah. Okay.

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So yeah, we're getting back to

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Yeah.

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If you if you click that drop down arrow,

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you know, I believe it's, the first one.

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Oh, no. It's okay. Okay.

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Okay.

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But for general people,

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a whole bunch of different people.

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Exactly. Okay.

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All blight.

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Jeez. I sorry about that. My hydraulics.

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I want us to be able to,

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take over these properties as the city.

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So how do you do that?

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There's a conservative ship model,

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There's like regulations around this.

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And we're going to take over the property

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Are you also flipping houses as the city?

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is in

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the state law.

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Comes with another side.

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Yeah. Not just not like get out.

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Yeah. Okay.

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person or entity. I mean, if you're

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And it's been sitting there for years.

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So I think that's fair. Yeah.

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Bona.

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at 1.0 for the revitalization when.

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Oh maybe maybe.

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Yeah. Yeah okay. That makes sense.

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All right. So keep going.

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Eminent domain.

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So, yeah,

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You know, it's a job program.

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Yeah, terrible.

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You know,

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we think thank you be able to do that.

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Fees. There's a lot of steps here, Frank.

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You know

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You know, I I'm not exactly crazy.

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Shit has happened.

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So, you know, it's a jobs program.

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it's a way of the city

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There's costs.

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It's good for homeowners.

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It's good for, you know, workers, I think.

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rent money.

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And that

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so because they don't ever run it well.

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So in Vienna.

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Vienna, Austria.

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before, you know, World War one. And,

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they went on a huge building spree.

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What they called Red Vienna.

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Well, so did the socialists stay there?

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Obviously.

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Oh, wait, wait.

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But you said it before World War One.

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Before World War, and to this day.

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No, no, no, you said Hitler came in.

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Oh, he got rid of the.

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up until I think World War one.

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See, when these things get, like,

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I mean, no, to this day,

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They're great. Great.

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I have no bearing on this.

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So I don't know. It's cheap.

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It's much cheaper than private landlords.

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Okay.

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So you want to move on.

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Yeah.

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to the beginning like a burrito.

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That's most vulnerable for

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the last couple of years.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And then the reassessment by the county.

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Chris. Sure.

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Max has told me

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I've done it well. She's elderly.

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She's like,

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Exactly.

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I think the city could still send the tax

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basically the bill won't become due

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or two, isn't it.

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Okay. Yep. Exactly.

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So is a similar program to that.

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for them would which would be huge.

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You know, it

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You know?

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Like we're still it's just like an IOU

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kind of but on the house.

[01:24:34 - 01:24:36] Speaker: Unknown
Right. So the property on the property.

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Yeah.

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then,

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I often. Yeah.

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I agree, I agree with

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the spirit of both of these

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if that if that makes sense.

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Okay.

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Keep going.

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Keep going motherfucker.

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Something else on housing.

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It's not on here.

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I'd like to see a rent freeze

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for public housing or for everybody.

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For housing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah. And let them come at me.

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I don't think that.

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I think that it should be a refuge.

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For how long?

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Pegged to a percentage.

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from exploding too high.

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Can I ask you something like why?

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you know what I mean?

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Yeah, either

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And I don't think anybody would think

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I don't think anybody it.

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So let's circle back a little bit.

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Where did it all start?

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Where was the

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Yeah, I think that's corrupting it.

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Yeah.

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if you raise $100,000,

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The fucking government.

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And that

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Do you remember hearing the guy?

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I think it was. I think it was 20, 21.

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Who? You know, the Senate pro tempore is,

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in new Jersey.

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Nice.

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It depends on the race.

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I mean, that's a Senate race.

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in the primary, too.

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Wow. She was cast?

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I don't think so.

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You never saw the documentary with her

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I never saw that she said that?

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Like I'm also a member of the DSA.

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I know, but she said that on camera.

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No, I swear to God, I watched the Daggett.

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thousands of people and,

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He put my name in.

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And then I was the one no chosen for.

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I don't think it was a casting call.

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I think the story was maybe it was.

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So I want to take the

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potato baton because like, they're

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There's a whole bunch of like,

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So it's manufacturing consent,

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Right.

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Like your community, your town, whatever.

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And when outside forces come in,

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like, it makes it not what it was like.

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Imagine we're in Africa, right?

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There's all these tribes in Africa.

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I mean, not the

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No, we bombed in years and terrible.

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But like just a just imagine like

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We should never be.

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So why is it okay for people?

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And I just look at it

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like a Frankie lives in Scranton?

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I want to hear from Frankie.

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Does that make sense?

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Yeah.

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Like, I think, you know, those are like,

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for some part, you know, valid concerns.

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I definitely hear you.

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I think that for the most part, you know,

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we as humans want very similar.

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Are you so afraid of the microphone?

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My my knees are pushing up

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We'll get the chains off for the next one.

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Under six feet. Only in here now?

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Yeah, that's it.

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Just, it's about me

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So, by and large, not that local control.

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We were talking before about co-ops.

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You know, about how we both.

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You know,

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You know,

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for more local control than anything, too.

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But I think that sometimes

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you need that higher degree of regulation

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to be able to prevent,

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you know.

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Not good things from happening.

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But shouldn't we be able to police that?

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Shouldn't we as our community?

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But you know what I mean.

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Like, if somebody's going to

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if someone's

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of like all the materials,

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What's wrong? Two plus two. Yeah.

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you know, we mean like building like

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like arms or for General Dynamics.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. You know what I mean.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. Health care.

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They put it here when people are sick

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or they

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see people going to be sick soon enough.

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And, like Arby's and Arby's do.

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I really like that. Or no, the turkey one.

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I just like individually fries.

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The curly fries are good.

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Yeah.

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I haven't had it in probably 20 years.

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Really? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, now I'm thinking about it.

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I'll probably have, like,

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I'll take a drive down after.

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But it's, it's it's a good look.

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I'm under no illusion of what I'm eating.

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It's not a gourmet sandwich.

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It's not like as good as cats. Yeah.

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All right, let me let me get to.

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Okay.

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This is a big concern of mine.

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The homeless camps.

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Yes. And,

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there's a methadone clinic also, right?

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By a school over there.

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The icebox. Yeah.

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How should council tackle this

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with more shelters, stricter rules

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or a fresh approach?

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I think one and three.

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Not stricter rules.

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rules is going to be solving the issue.

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I don't shy away from the term radical.

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The word itself

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word comes from Greek for the word root.

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So I consider myself a radical.

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I think we

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I spent a year and a half houseless,

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not full street homeless.

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Most of it.

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friends houses.

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But I think we need to take, like,

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We don't have enough shelters in the city.

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We don't have enough beds.

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Overall,

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our city used to house 200,000 people,

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and now we have less than 77,000 people.

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You know, by

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you know, public housing to these folks.

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you know, something traumatic for them.

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It's not that they can't cook, it's that.

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You start losing the habits, you know?

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cook the meal, you know,

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or we hope that people cook

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do you?

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And I've had people reach out.

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Take you to the

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wrong pipe.

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Yeah, I wish I got that on camera.

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Yeah. It's all over me. Yeah.

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I'm so sorry, Frank.

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Kovat.

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Shut it down.

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Shut it down! Hey, get out of here!

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You okay? Yeah. I'm good.

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That's I it's the air.

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It's the green tea, man. It'll get to you.

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It seems like, you know. Right.

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And so,

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Let's call them the people like that.

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At what step in the process?

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and probably like a job and, you know,

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of that individual?

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You spit on your forehead.

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No. One of the bounce back off of me.

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I get myself covered.

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I prescribe,

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from my understanding, from looking,

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research.

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Housing first is the policy

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that works best when

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I agree 100% that you know,

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even from my own experience, you know,

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Totally.

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you know, one way or another, trauma.

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Well, trauma is, you know, the short term,

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Yeah. But it's it's it's traumatic.

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Yes. Okay.

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I know it's like a semantics argument,

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah. I'm with you on that.

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But like,

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to be short term.

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I've most of that.

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who interact with the homeless,

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And I, I think that that is like the root

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of, you know, it might not be like.

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That traumatized me.

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I don't understand it.

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Right.

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So I found that a lot of people have like,

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what what would it be of it would be un.

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UN faced trauma.

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Right.

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Unless you focus,

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unless you focus on helping that person

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move past that trauma.

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What did I learn from this?

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Instead of like, this defines me.

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And it's not going to define me.

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Yeah.

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on the getting them

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into the system to help them.

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Mental health is like step number four

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Right. So which creates more trauma.

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It creates more human suffering.

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they gave me a house knowing full fucking

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So, like,

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for, like,

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what to do either, though.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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But for my understanding,

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you know, living.

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that they went through.

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The the trauma thing is,

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is that I was talking to it

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and they said like the like

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somebody said to me, somebody

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Right.

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And but if my like if,

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that those hurt less.

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Do you know what I mean?

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So like when people try to like,

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It you can't quantify it. Yeah.

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And they don't.

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his trauma is worse than her trauma.

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It's almost like a triage. Yes, exactly.

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And they're not and they're not doing it.

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So if we if we jump back to the website,

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boom, boom, boom, let me say, well,

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scroll down one more.

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I think it's the next policy

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expanding crisis intervention service.

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Something's going wrong.

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You know that.

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Basically,

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nonviolent occurrence is happening.

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A a lot of, you know, mental

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Why are we asking them to deal with this?

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A lot of folks, you know, people of color

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In Eugene and

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Springfield, Oregon, our mayor's hometown.

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She's from two towns.

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Well, they they're bordering,

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But they basically do this,

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where they've been doing this since 1972.

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and only required on backup 150 times

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in 40 years.

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In one year, oh, 24,000 responses

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and 150 times required armed backup.

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Okay.

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it's not

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911 or the police officers

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So it kind of flips the script on that.

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So that is a bigger

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fear in our heads than it is in reality.

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And so like,

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Sure.

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So, like, if people

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Explain to me, like a situation

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to call something like 911, why they

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either from themselves or someone else?

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Let me use an another example of recently,

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did you see in the news

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getting through a fight

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He did. And then,

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he, like, took his hands off

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I didn't see that.

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Oh, that happened in Scranton? Yep.

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Okay. Happened in Scranton.

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But while they were.

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When was this? This was, like, this week.

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Okay.

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So it must have happened way last week.

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Maybe,

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one of the the

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So, like, a lot of times

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You know,

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The girlfriend?

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Or the fucking super strong. How do you.

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I don't know how you refer door handle up.

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Yeah, a car. How do you do that? Wild.

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So, like,

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I think it's like

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Right.

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But that's, that's a week of training.

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sending social workers to instead.

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I think they just want to.

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I think the most important thing for them

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And that's the police. Yes, yes.

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So they, you know, will sometimes act, you

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to, you know, pull out that firearm

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Police officers.

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I'm talking about a cop pulling their gun.

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So part of my organizing work with,

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We do have a flag. Yeah.

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Holy shit. Yeah.

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I didn't have a flag.

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Yeah, I got a DSA flag.

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It's, hanging above my mirror in my room.

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Okay.

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But you don't have Kim Jong un.

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Virgo. Okay. Of course. Thank God. Yeah.

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Finally somebody in there.

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Self-talk friend.

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He's coming out with a new yo.

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Those guys are nuts.

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I love them and together.

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Yeah. It's unbelievable.

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Some an officer has to pull his weapon.

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So around here in DSA,

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we are

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and we are appealing a ruling

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from the Wilkesboro Police Department.

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Okay. Last,

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Pennsylvania State

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committed, you know, was in the safe,

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you know, wasn't in the clear for using,

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their firearm at the time.

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The big reason that they tout for body

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So what's the reasoning?

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So, we've had three different judges

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Recuse? Yeah. Like step away. Yeah, yeah.

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Judge for the president.

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Judge to assign a judge, for the case.

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and it doesn't look good.

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So, like, this is

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So, you know, a lot of my organizing is,

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Like, you know, we said you can have this.

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Do you believe?

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So would you be.

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You'd be for, like,

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open kimono.

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Here's as much as possible.

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Yeah.

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Like whatever is like, legally, like,

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Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

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It was on my wall.

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But did you see.

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So we I think we need to like, actually,

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What do you think of it?

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It's interesting for sure.

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Do you think it streamlines the process?

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I'm always skeptical

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Because they can do that. Yeah.

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What's. Scranton? I,

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Scranton.

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I what it does is it is it

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Yeah.

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for these chickens.

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But yeah,

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you have to have a certain square footage

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and a certain square footage of your yard.

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And it was all these arbitrary, like,

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Exactly. Yeah.

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They don't have 80,000 chickens.

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Yeah.

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This is this is the black market out.

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And but the big issue that

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It's only for the eggs. Yeah.

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But that's a that's our JBL Bose system.

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What do you think?

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We're at, like, two hours right now.

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What do you think?

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Like what?

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What is your, like, number one?

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What do you think?

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Are you optimistic about, moving forward?

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Was this anything like you expected?

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how to, collect signatures that I needed.

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And I jumped in because I didn't like

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and I was going to campaign manager.

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I know what I'm doing.

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I might as well do it myself.

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So I jumped in,

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and it's been pretty good.

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So, I was a lot of catch up.

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And, I'm doing good at fundraising.

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I've raised, $2,000, which is.

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No, no. I'm open.

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I've raised over $2,000.

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I haven't been focusing on fundraising.

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So I think the biggest issue

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And that's because as

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So I try to uplift other voices.

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And here's the catch 22 of now

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But it's doing well.

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I started knocking on doors last weekend.

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until the primary.

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And it's.

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Yeah.

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How was Sean?

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That's a good question.

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Good point.

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But, yeah, you know, people

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I'm not politically connected.

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I didn't grow up here.

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I was invited to a, Good old boy's

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a good old Democratic rally yesterday.

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He was invited to Bohemian Grove.

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Well, it was a police union.

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Oh. Oh, yeah.

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accept it from.

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Is there a reason? Yeah.

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Class traitors?

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Yeah.

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So policy enforces

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the protection of capital.

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Like your property. Yeah.

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So when you say capital, right.

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So capital is not only.

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Private personal property as capital.

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It's private property.

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But if if

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and used as a revenue generating.

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I don't think so.

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Yeah, like a car isn't private property.

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Your car is private property.

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If you're like an Uber or Lyft driver.

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Is I'm looking at it from a like.

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It's,

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I don't agree.

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So as a private corporation,

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No, no, no.

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a capitalist

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I mean, theoretically, yeah, but,

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So you so as a, as a, as a socialist,

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differentiate

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personal and private properties. Yes.

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Okay.

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Because I don't think also,

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Right. Yeah. Or the courthouse.

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Sure.

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you know, personally

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Right. Yeah.

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So I, I it's a private property.

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What the fuck?

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Dan, are you confused about this?

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It's good.

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Well, am I am I wrong?

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Am I thinking

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no public is public property?

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And that's if you focus on that part.

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private property.

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Private property.

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this is personal.

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See what I was

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so like? If you own something, right?

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And with the IRS.

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Yeah.

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No, no, no, you're just an idiot.

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Is this always been this way?

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I follow what he's saying.

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Yeah.

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That's a it's always conflated.

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Like it's perfect.

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I think that it's purposely conflated

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Yeah.

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I don't like you today.

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Why are you fucking with me?

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I understand what he's saying, too.

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It's all private.

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So if you.

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So and that's and that's private.

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When, if you own a house and you say,

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But if you own the house

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Yeah.

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But that's, that's,

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It's a private property.

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like that.

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I think all that.

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Fill and dump.

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Fill.

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Like that's my private property.

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Somebody destroyed my property. Right?

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So this is like a who's on first.

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Got a little bit. Yeah.

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I don't know what's on second.

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I don't know who's on third.

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All right.

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So we're.

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I don't know what that means.

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Okay, I want to end,

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in a in a in a

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in a hopefully in an a hobby place.

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Okay.

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even though I have private property.

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What's your Scranton happy place?

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It could be.

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It could be a bar, a park, a diner.

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maybe rally your crew with some friends.

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And I'm with good energy.

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I'm always worrying about something.

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I gotta give you some of my medicine.

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I think,

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I don't

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But there's a new restaurant in West Side

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Where's Roberta's?

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On Luzerne Street.

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Okay. Yeah, I know exactly where that is.

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Is it like a buffet or.

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I read an article. Oh.

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They like won an award recently.

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Oh my God. No.

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He won an award for rice.

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He's been on here a couple of times.

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I've been meaning to go there.

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Dude.

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Yeah. Yeah, dude. The food. Holy shit.

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It's the best.

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It's the best. And I love everybody there.

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Everybody. That so awesome, Francine.

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He got so drunk.

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What's the name of the place?

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Could jumbos.

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Okay.

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May 20th is around the corner.

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before they vote?

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I jumped in this race

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because I'm offering a vision.

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I want to offer

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bold, progressive plans for our city.

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I want to focus on the working class.

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And I feel like, you know, we need more.

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Not more of the same.

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So I don't want a political dynasty.

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I understand what you're saying.

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You know what I mean?

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I don't first of all, Jeff on.

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Oh, it's great that,

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Okay. Thank God I told you. You could try.

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I can tell you I'm not going to try, but.

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But I think it's important.

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Oh, he's a socialist.

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Yeah.

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By the way, I'm not a fascist.

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And I think you and I had the conversation

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Yeah.

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I try and that's what I'm trying to do.

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I'm trying to I'm trying to open up,

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And it's only getting bigger.

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Scraps. That's what we're fighting.

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There's a lot of it.

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There's a lot of it. But like, I like to.

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I look me and I'm the guy that's all.

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Ships rise with the tide.

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That's what I want.

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I want the truth.

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I don't want anybody lying to anybody.

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Especially politicians.

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I think there's a lot of hope,

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coming soon.

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I don't think I know.

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or a little negatively.

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They look at it negatively.

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I, I, I would love to disabuse

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Like, I've had more

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And like the 30 before,

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I know you're going to think, but like,

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you know, I was the guy

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And I'm not saying you're wrong.

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I'm not saying I'm right.

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You know, I believe in individual liberty.

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And I also believe that there's

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And I think that that's terrible.

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And people like

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Yeah. I mean, as long as that, like,

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aligns with,

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I grew up in a steel factory, man.

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Like I that's all I knew.

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What did I learn from this?

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Because you will be stronger now.

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I don't like it either,

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a constant victimization.

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Like, I can't overcome this.

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I didn't like that.

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Yeah.

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Well, here's the thing.

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And we should find a way to,

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bring a little bit more love in the world.

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Yeah, I agree, I'm for that.

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All right. Thanks for having me.

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I did have a good time. Did you?

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Thanks, Dan.

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All right. You want to say it?

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Located at 635.

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Where you're going in Pennsylvania.

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I love that place you're going there are.

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Those wings look pretty good.

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Yeah. You put up the map, man.

[02:19:19 - 02:19:20] Speaker: Unknown
You know what Dan gets?

[02:19:25 - 02:19:26] Speaker: Unknown
It was great.

[02:19:26 - 02:19:28] Speaker: Unknown
But now I can see the wings.

[02:19:28 - 02:19:29] Speaker: Unknown
So. 635 Luzerne Street.

[02:19:36 - 02:19:39] Speaker: Unknown
What do we.

[02:19:48 - 02:19:51] Speaker: Unknown
I shoot I chewed my pen the whole time.

[02:19:57 - 02:19:57] Speaker: Unknown
That's beautiful.

[02:19:57 - 02:19:58] Speaker: Unknown
All right.

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I'm gonna put

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