Episode 250 – We’re Tired of the Lies… About Reckless Spending

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all night cause
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where are all the fellas
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and walking malfunction filled with deep
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compunction and you had your first
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thank you matt i appreciate that i
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appreciate that and uh i love you and uh
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i i’m not that old like i mean a lot of
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the stuff in there was like talking
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about
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uh ed and
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balls well the bald spot is true really
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everything in there except the ed part
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is true and that’s you don’t have a gut
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you don’t have a gut though
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that’s true yeah i don’t have a boulder
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right
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yeah i uh i found that video by looking
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up most awkward
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happy birthday songs and that was good
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that was beautiful that was that was
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beautiful that was would that be funny
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if that’s what gets us the copyright
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strike
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um he said in it he said use this
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wherever you want and i would yeah okay
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good all right perfect good oh yes
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that’s our cut those are the kind of
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clips that we like right uh and speaking
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of
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little
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unsettling julie maxwell uh was
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sentenced to 20 years in prison on
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and uh breaking news
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hopefully
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this new guard can protect
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uh can protect jalane from herself
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from herself because we don’t want
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julian to commit suicide
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um and she won’t be
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she’s been put on she’s been put on
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suicide watch
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she yeah she was i don’t know if she’s
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still on suicide watch after the
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sentencing
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so that’s why i oh okay remove that i
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wasn’t sure if she still was um okay
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but
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so we’re hoping that uh the new guard
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will protect jillaine from herself and
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she won’t be able to kill herself in
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some
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just
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outlandish inconceivable way
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oh man for those listening on uh audio
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thank you uh this oh yeah we should read
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this yeah yeah yeah okay so
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couple things to explain here
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uh the
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the uh the the guard
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uh
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is uh
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looks suspiciously like um
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like a former friend of uh jeffrey
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epstein um
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and it’s weird because her prison guard
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outfit just says prison guard it doesn’t
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even say what
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prison which i think
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that’s that’s here to be suspicious yeah
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there’s a huge red flag
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yeah there’s a couple red flags there uh
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and then uh these are some news articles
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uh clippings uh one says exclusive
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family of bill clinton advisor who
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admitted jeffrey epstein into white
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house seven times has blocked release of
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files detailing the death scene after he
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was found hanging from a tree with a
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shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from
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his home
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and then it in one of the
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bullet points from that article it says
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top clinton advisor mark middleton died
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by suicide
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the rest of that sentence yeah the rest
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of that sentence really doesn’t matter
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he was found hanging from a tree with a
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shotgun blast
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died by suicide
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as as one does as one does as
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one does because if you’re gonna kill
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yourself you’re gonna you’re gonna feel
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points of you’re gonna fashion up a
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noose
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you’re gonna fashion up a noose which
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they’re they’re not that hard to type so
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you know you fashion it up really
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quickly and then you’re going to find a
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tree 30 miles from your house
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by hanging yourself in
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but and then shoot yourself and then
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you’re going to take a shotgun and
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you’re going to bring it with you and
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while you’re sitting on the branch with
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the noose around your neck
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you’re gonna yep you’re gonna have to
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reach on out there you have to reach and
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shoot yourself
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so you’ll fall hanging
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um i like that uh so this story the the
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mark middleton story
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um yes about the guy that we just talked
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about who hung himself and then shot
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himself at the same time uh that
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happened like a month ago i found out
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about it in like just the most random
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way it just kind of i accidentally
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stumbled upon it and i was like
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wait what
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yep how was this not more
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widespread
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well i mean
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uh
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in in uh in dc
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uh killing yourself uh
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while shooting yourself
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with a shotgun
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while hanging yourself
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is contagious
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and uh
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you know the cdc recommends against uh
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certain behaviors that can lead to a uh
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you getting it such as
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talking about the clintons yes so stay
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six feet away from anybody talking about
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the clintons
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yes and wash your fetish gear
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and again
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oh my gosh that was a
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wash your fetish gear everyone and i
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thought it was fake
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that was a legit legit thing that was a
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real thing that really
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happened and speaking of legit real
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legitimate things joe biden went on a
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weird rant last week saying
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this
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i don’t want to hear any more of these
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lies
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about reckless spending
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we’re changing people’s lives
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and because of the fact this year
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we’re delivering the biggest drop in
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deficit in the history of the united
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states of america
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so
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before we get into the
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changing people’s lives with the
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reckless spending
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um
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the biggest drop in deficit
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i understand what that sounds like to
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the norm the normies out there
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i know that everybody listening to the
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show or watching the show or uh
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taking the show in however you take this
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show in um
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you understand that when he says that
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it is a trick
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that it is not actually uh
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we’re not reducing debt
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we’re just going into
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slightly less debt faster yes
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yep right or we’re going into we’re
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going into that slower i guess would be
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a better way to put that
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slightly slower correct um
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and after coming off of 2020 where we
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spent a ton of money on uh on stemis and
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things like that you know massive
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government
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massive government spending uh where
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they gave you 1200 and then gave their
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friends billions following that into
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2021 and this year they aren’t
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they haven’t been passing those it
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it’s understandable that you’re not
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spending as much money this year but
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you’re still spending more
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than we have and you’re not paying
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anything off so you’re actually going in
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to more debt so
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more debt more debt let’s go over
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all of the ways reckless spending
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because he’s tired of the lies people he
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said so he’s tired of the lies let’s go
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into all of the ways that reckless
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spending has improved our lives thanks
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to uh mr murica for this first one
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it pulled all of the future generations
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skin into the game
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because instead of burdening just those
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working now the government decided to
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put it on us and for all future
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generations and it’s really a
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multi-generational problem reducer
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yes then
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you also have the impending or current
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recession
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technically not in a recession right now
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i guess technically
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but after the next quarter’s numbers
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come out i don’t think there’ll be any
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way that they’ll be able to deny we’re
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in a recession
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we’re in a recession we’re in a
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recession uh the recession is helping
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people’s lives because as businesses
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lose money they learn how to streamline
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the business and that will help them
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figure out which employees to fire which
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will help the business move smoother
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well and and you figure you know if you
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hate where you work
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the people you like least
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are going to be fired actually they’ll
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get they’ll get promoted but the the
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yeah
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they’ll be the charge of firing you
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right uh you’ll get fired so you won’t
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have to see him anymore
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so really that’s a good thing that helps
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you too
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yeah the uh and
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because of the way recessions work the
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high unemployment leads to price cuts
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making everything cheaper so in the end
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the reckless spending cuts jobs hurts
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businesses hurts families but
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everything is cheaper so technically
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when he says he’s tired of the lies
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about reckless spending people’s lives
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we’re changing people’s lives he’s not
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wrong
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he’s not wrong at all he’s not he’s
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tired
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because the lie about reckless spending
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is that it doesn’t help and as we’ve
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clearly laid out just now it’s really
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good
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for
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you to be jobless and have no prospects
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for the future
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it really allows you to center you know
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what i mean like i think a lot of people
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are you know
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you know they’re out there making money
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providing for their families
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but you know somewhere along the way
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they lose themselves right so in in
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doing this and really kind of resetting
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things it allows you to really sit down
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and find you
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who you are yeah
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and that’s why he doesn’t want to hear
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the lies he’s changing your life
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speaking of
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kennedy versus bremerton school district
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was a one of the many supreme court
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cases that have been decided in this
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decision this particular one in a
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bremerton school district a high school
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football coach kennedy was fired for
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praying at the 50-yard line after games
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the school district disciplined the
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coach uh because they thought that it
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quote could that anything less could
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lead a reasonable observer to conclude
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mistakenly that it endorsed mr kennedy’s
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religious beliefs so because someone
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could mistakenly think that they were
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endorsing his beliefs
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by not firing him they fired him fired
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him so the supreme court yeah who
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they’ve had a lot of like this has been
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one of the wildest supreme court
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sessions
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in recent memory
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um
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but the supreme court was asked to
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decide several issues in this including
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whether a public school employee is
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engaged in government speech
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that lacks first amendment protection so
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on behalf of the coach attorney paul
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clement with kirkland and ellis in
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washington dc said the prayer was brief
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and quiet when coach kennedy took a knee
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at midfield after gay after games to say
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a brief prayer of thanks his expression
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was entirely his own that private
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religious expression was doubly
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protected by the free exercise and free
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speech clauses
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he he argued that the government does
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not endorse all private religious speech
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just because it takes place on the
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school side of the gates
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which is true
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yes
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years ago
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years ago they said
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there will always be prayer in school as
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long as there are tests and now they’re
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trying to get away with get rid of tests
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oh there you go see they knew they knew
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that was the only thing keeping
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keeping christ in the classroom that’s
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right was the testing um was the testing
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richard katzke
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that’s how you would say that right
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richard katzke yeah that’s like the
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weirdest
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that’s the most hilarious name of
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spelling it yeah that’s like a
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cartoonish way of spelling catski yeah
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but yes catski richard katzke the legal
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director for americans united
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for separation of church and state said
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the churches yes nope sorry said the
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coach’s action pressured students to
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pray and also divided the coaching staff
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sparked vitriol against school officials
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and led to the field being stormed in
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students getting knocked down
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i want to know the prayer that did this
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the
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the idea that the school district
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couldn’t do something when a zoo was
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created on the field is unimaginable
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wow
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this prayer must have been lit
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i
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so i’ve seen pictures and from what i
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saw he would go out
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and like kneel
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at the 50-yard line
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and i believe sometimes other people
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might join him yeah
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that was
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that was all i saw yeah from what i
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understand is that um he never really
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asked that like
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from this case there were differing of
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opinions where the school said you they
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weren’t gonna fire him
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um they weren’t gonna fire like they
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weren’t gonna fire him if he didn’t
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kneel or if he he could go out there and
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like lower his head but he couldn’t
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kneel
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um which is weird because now they’re
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the other side’s firing people for
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kneeling on football fields um
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but
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they said he couldn’t kneel and then he
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was like no like and he did it for a
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little while he goes no that’s not what
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i want to do i want to kneel
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because even though um
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it’s not something that you guys are
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signing on to it’s something i signed on
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to
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and so they were like no and then he
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went out and he kneeled
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he he went out and he kneeled and they
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uh were like
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so they fired him and they found out
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that this was
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the reason they found out this was going
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on was from an opposing team’s coach the
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school board the school board had no
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idea this was going on and then an
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opposing team’s coach wrote a letter and
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he’s like hey i saw that coach kennedy
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went out and um was praying on the
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50-yard line i really admire that or
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something along the like he was saying
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that’s really cool
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and this is great that’s how this like
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what
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how dare he uh he what
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and that
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so justin led to that
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so just this is i this is some irony
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this is an ironic statement yes this is
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an ironic statement i the highlight is
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mine um justice elena kagan
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seems sympathetic
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to the school district’s arguments and
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discuss scenarios in which students may
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feel coerced to join the prayer if they
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think it will make the coach more likely
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to put them into a football game
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she said
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and this is the kind of coercion that’s
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improper for 16 year olds
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this is the kind this is the kind
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this is what is what’s dangerous
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so
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this is the kind of core now i i i liked
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uh mr kennedy’s attempt to come up with
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a compromise which seemed not to catch
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much uh attraction but his compromise
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was that uh he would have he would only
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uh coach
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five-year-olds uh and that he would put
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up a sign that says this prayer ain’t
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gonna lick itself
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the
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in the six to three decision
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comma the court wrote uh that reasoning
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was misguided both the free exercise and
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free speech clauses of the first
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amendment protect expressions like mr
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kennedy’s nor does a proper
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understanding of the amendments
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establishment clause require the
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government to single out private
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religious speech for special disfavor
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yes
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keep in mind while you are watching this
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or listening to this thank you for doing
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so matt and i are both not religious
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people so
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we are not defending
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uh uh religion uh or even the uh well i
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guess we are defending the right to
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expression of retention but we’re not
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defending religious beliefs we aren’t
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looking at this from the standpoint of
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well you know that’s what i would do
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like if i saw someone praying i would
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respect that they were doing it but i i
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i likely wouldn’t join them in it
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yeah if i saw somebody if i saw somebody
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was praying
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of any denomination
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yeah of anything yeah of any
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denomination
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i would probably look over i would
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notice that it was happening and i would
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continue on with my day
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yes because it does not affect us and
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that the interesting thing about that is
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if you use this argument
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that because this uh
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this coach was doing a thing
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and that therefore the students
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felt like
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if they didn’t do that thing
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they wouldn’t get favorable treatment or
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that if they did do that thing they
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would get favorable treatment even
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though he’s not even trying to tell them
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this is the right thing to do he’s just
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doing it himself
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that takes us on a wild journey about
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what teachers could be doing or not just
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teachers but
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educational staff could be doing not
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doing or encouraging kids to do or not
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do through their actions
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and what that uh what what that as uh
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justice kagan said kind of coercion
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could be improper for them then it’s not
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kneeling
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well
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um
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wow
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oh
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oh
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you
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we’re gonna end there so uh what’s gonna
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happen on the next episode oh
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boy you’re not gonna believe it this is
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the first well this was the first
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episode with two people with an age
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starting with four what’s in the next
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one oh boy you’re not gonna believe it
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so tune in tomorrow we will see you
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there uh it is going to be incredible
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yes we are gonna be talking about gun
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control
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and some exciting stuff to happen on
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that front oh
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when i say oh boy i mean
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boy and we will see you tomorrow night
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and where we’re going we don’t need
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roads
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you