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The Eastern world. 
It is exploding, violence 

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flaring. 
Bull is loading. 

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You're old enough to kill, but 
not for voting. 

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You don't believe in war. 
Boards ain't gun. 

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You're toting. 
And even the Jordan River has 

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your body is floating. 
But ya tell me over and over and

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over again, my friend, I. 
You don't believe we're on the 

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eve of destruction. 
Don't you understand what I'm 

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trying to say? 
And can't you feel the fears I'm

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feeling today? 
If the button is pushed, there's

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no running away. 
There'll be no one to save. 

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We'll the world in a grave. 
Take a look around you, boy. 

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It's bound to scare you, boy. 
And you tell me over and over 

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and over again, my friend. 
I. 

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You don't believe we're on the 
deave of destruction? 

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Welcome everyone. 
This is Michael Moore. 

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This is my podcast. 
I'm recording this here on 

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Sunday, April 14th. 
There's a 5 minute podcast I 

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listen to every morning and I've
been doing it for probably since

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before they called it a podcast.
But jeez, how long have I 

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listened to this man? 
15 years, maybe longer. 

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It's called the Writer's 
Almanac. 

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I used to 1st listen to it on 
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Traverse City, MI and it was 
like 9:00 every morning and 

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something like that. 
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Almanac and basically it was a 
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which writer's birthday this 
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we'd forgotten about. 
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listening to that every day. 
But I was just thinking about it

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here today because I was 
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anymore. 
So they are playing old episodes

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on this particular day, but it 
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says, you know, this is Sunday, 
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changes every year. 
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playing episodes from 20/20/13 
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of the week that we're in right 
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So I listened to it this morning
and I thought wow, the things he

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went over, what happened on 
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History and what happened with 
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well 2 authors and something 
that helped all of us who work 

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with and believe in the printed 
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So I just, I just wanted to 
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our underwriter for today. 
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something I want to say about 
what's going on in the world. 

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So let me just, I just made some
notes listening to the writers 

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Almanac this morning. 
And here is what happened on 

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April 14th on this Day in 
History in 1939. 

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The Grapes of Wrath was 
published on this day and he 

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told the story of how Steinbeck 
wrote this book, one of the 

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greatest novels in American 
history, in five months. 

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He wrote 2000 words a day, 
finished it in five months, 

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decided to write it in 
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an old outhouse, you know, that 
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bathroom was for people's homes 
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And so he had a just a a small 
bed, a desk typewriter and a gun

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rack. 
And this great book was born in 

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that outhouse in just five 
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But it when he sent it off to 
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really sorry, this is not my 
best work. 

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I know I could have done better,
but it won't be very popular. 

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I just want to warn you. 
So I hope you're not planning to

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make much money with this 
because I just, you know, it's a

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story about a family that loses 
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moves to what they believe will 
be paradise called California, 

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only to be harassed by police 
all along the way and taken 

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advantage of by those who 
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Of course, the book, when it 
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that's 85 years ago today, it 
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people who read books, which 
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and knew that he was telling 
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He had their voice, John 
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And then of course, very, very 
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into a movie starring Henry 
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And of course it was a book I 
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pleasantly surprised. 
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it, which many of you have, not 
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Then he said that this is the 
day reminded all of us that this

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is the day that President 
Lincoln was assassinated by John

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Wilkes Booth, sitting in Ford's 
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watching a play. 
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box. 
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to be guarding the president was
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door for a drink. 
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pistol to the back of Lincoln's 
head and put a bullet right into

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his brain, then leapt off the 
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something about glory to the 
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I don't know. 
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but basically he was a 
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Traitor A believer in slavery. 
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series that just came on Apple 
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based on a book about the 12 
days of the whole country 

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looking for John Wilkes Booth to
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I highly encourage you, if you 
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this manhunt. 
It's what it's called. 

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Also on this day. 
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was first published. 
Noah Webster spent 30 years 

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compiling this dictionary. 
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wanting to create an American 
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early years of this country 
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regions and dialects and 
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The Continental Congress 
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mid 1700s to pick a national 
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many people that spoke English, 
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Dutch. 
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by 1 vote in the Congress over 
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You believe that, like if that 
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we'd all be speaking German. 
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Germans that are listening to 
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laughing. 
I'm not mocking the fact. 

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It's just that we, you know, you
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it takes three times as long to 
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does saying it in English. 
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all German speakers, I don't 
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done. 
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people today wonderful people. 
But Webster decided that that we

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needed an English Dictionary for
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it was crazy to the way the 
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be OUCOLOUR. 
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GS. 
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at this and going it doesn't 
need all these U's and it and 

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they don't the places where they
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an extra letter. 
He's like the hell with that 

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stuff. 
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So music used to used to be 
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Why do you need the K? 
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just kind of made it easier And 
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this. 
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day in 18 I think it was yeah 
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and and it costs so much to 
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hand feed paper. 
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print a book sometimes it could 
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copy of a book. 
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slow it was. 
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then that was like buying a book
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nobody could afford it. 
So you know, he never, really 

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never regained what it cost him 
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But he had a significant impact 
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culture as it was then and as it
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So it's very interesting. 
I went and read a little bit 

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about Noah Webster today. 
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Titanic sank. 
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radio operator on the Titanic 
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had just passed these icebergs 
to warn the Titanic that there 

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was some serious ice sticking 
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and it was late at night. 
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getting a lot of messaging a lot
of rich people on this inaugural

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trip on the Titanic coming to 
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so a lot of people were sending 
messages to who was going to 

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greet them at the dock in New 
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And so finally when this guy 
from the ship that it was an 

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hour ahead of them said be very 
very careful it's dangerous. 

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The ice he he on the wireless on
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whatever it's called where they 
bang out the letters he writes 

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back to the other ship. 
I'm busy. 

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Shut up. 
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Oh my God. 
This ship was was touted as like

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the most safe ship. 
It could withstand the the worst

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kind of if you ran into 
something or or you got struck 

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in the fog by another ship that 
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not looking for ice and not 
warning the lookouts to look for

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ice icebergs. 
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Titanic and sort of just kind of
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It was only about 10 seconds of 
scraping, scraping and that was 

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enough to punch a number of 
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ship which was not prepared for 
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I can't remember how many died, 
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dead. 
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enough lifeboats and and that 
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This is considered kind of 
officially the the day that the 

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modern day printing press was 
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That was first used in 1863 
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paper by hand anymore. 
And not only that, it was not 

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only a self loading, self 
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Unheard of. 
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around since you know what, 
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Gutenberg German press. 
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lot easier to print newspapers, 
to print books. 

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And this is the day it all began
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So just a little history for 
this day, thanks to the Writers 

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Almanac. 
I think you could just just look

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up, type in Writers Almanac and 
they'll send it to you for free 

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every day. 
They're using the old tapes 

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because whatever happened on 
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April 14th, even though they 
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So. 

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So before I continue, I'd like 
to take a moment to thank our 

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OK, so I have only really only 
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today of of of importance. 
And again, much of what I'm 

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saying is directed to our 
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actually may be the most 
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And he continues to try to do so
many things that I think many 

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people are grateful for, are 
going to be grateful for, as we 

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see over the next few years how 
good he's been supporting 

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working people and working 
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hasn't done everything I would 
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But I'm not him. 
I didn't run. 

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He did. 
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no president ever showed up to a
picket line of a union being out

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on strike as he did in Detroit 
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union that my family was 
involved in helping to create as

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participants in the Flint sit 
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And no president ever done that.
No president. 

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I don't ever remember a 
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strike. 
You know, trying to always be 

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neutral between business and 
labor. 

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Not this guy. 
He just goes off on his own 

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thing and follows his conscience
and and which makes it so sad 

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right now that his conscience is
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slaughter of 10s of thousands of
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And it continues every day, and 
I've done my best since October 

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7th to first of all offer my 
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condolences to those who were 
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know, essentially beg that the 
hostages be released. 

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And for the Israelis to release 
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whom are not tried. 
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wanting to stop this before it 
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of course Israel, like us, wants
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But like us, when we retaliated 
after 911, what did that get us?

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It it, it got us like a 21 year 
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in our history, thousands of 
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Afghanistan and Iraq. 
And for what? 

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For what? 
And Biden said if he got elected

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he was going to just just 
friggin end it. 

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And people were upset They 
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Oh, no, we haven't. 
The Taliban will come back. 

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Yeah, well, maybe, but no more 
lives lost. 

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Plus, we're not. 
I'm not even mentioning here how

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many hundreds of thousands of 
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Afghanistan and Iraq. 
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that. 
When we talk about Vietnam, we 

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never talk about a slaughtering 
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Laotians and Cambodians. 
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studies and reports that have 
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4 million over a, you know, 
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for what? 
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What I've been thinking today 
after the Iran firing, sending 

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hundreds of drones, ballistic 
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into into Israel here this 
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do war so well, we had helped 
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they call this Iron Dome and 
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every single drone and every 
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There were a few of the 
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through but didn't hit anything.
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think an Air Force Base there or
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I don't. 
I've not seen any numbers maybe 

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maybe there were some people 
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There's amazing onslaught fired 
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retaliate for Israel bombing 
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here a couple weeks ago. 
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the rules of war is you don't 
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missions right. 
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you know, they're as we know, 
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They're at least the ones that 
vote for Netanyahu and he's only

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been elected six times, I think 
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So the damage that we, in larger
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white people, we the Christians 
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hundreds and hundreds of years 
has completely undone them. 

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On one hand, they know how alone
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build up a means to defend their
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etcetera, etcetera. 
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why Arabs and Muslims and 
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If you just study it just a 
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don't have to go back 5000 years
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You can just go back to World 
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after World War 2. 
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well-intentioned people thought,
as they should What are we going

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to do about the Holocaust that 
was not enacted by, obviously us

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in the United States, not the 
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What do we do to make sure this 
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What do we do to salvage what's 
left of their lives, of their 

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people, of the genocide that was
taking place, to eliminate every

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single one of them off the face 
of the earth? 

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We had a responsibility to do 
something about that. 

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It just really wasn't thought 
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I've said enough about that in 
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everybody, I hope everybody, as 
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am, about what Israel has done, 
about what the Netanyahu 

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government has done, about the 
people who have voted for him, 

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he can't leave them out. 
It's that we have to find a way 

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so that there is less death and 
more life. 

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And the way that they have 
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their people on that day in 
October has been, so I'll use 

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Biden's words over the top, so 
irresponsible, reckless. 

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He uses the word indiscriminate,
but clearly part of a plan put 

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together by intelligent. 
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the war cabinet there in Israel,
as it often is anywhere, put 

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together a plan that that 
they're just going to keep 

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killing not soldiers, not Hamas 
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like they're Palestinian. 
And so I don't know what today's

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number is. 
What is it at 3334 thousand? 

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That's the official number. 
It's much more than that. 

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They've not been able to recover
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that rubble. 
So we'll we'll learn the real 

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number someday, but it's 
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And the fact that half of them 
are women and children, so many 

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children, thousands and 
thousands of dead babies and 

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children, it looks like somebody
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get rid of them and the the so 
whether it's going to be 

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continue killing all of them or 
push them into the desert into 

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Sinai, which the Egyptians don't
want or you know, whatever it 

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takes, but it's right now it's 
starvation. 

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Starve them to death. 
Starve them to death. 

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Wow. 
And we're fun to get. 

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I know I've said this a lot for 
now. 

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Almost 6 1/2 months. 
I'm sorry. 

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I'll keep saying it. 
You and I are responsible. 

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You and I can pull the plug on 
this anytime. 

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You and I don't actually hold 
the plug. 

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That's held by one man. 
President Joe Biden can stop 

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this tonight. 
Pull the plug on the money. 

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Pull the plug on the offensive 
armaments. 

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Stop the carpet bombing. 
Stop the killing could stop it 

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right now. 
They've already succeeded in 

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stopping the Hamas is not waging
a war, as I've said. 

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Of course, they don't have jet 
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nuclear weapons like Israel 
does, So it's not really right 

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to call it a war. 
And they're killing essentially 

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took place in one day. 
They've been no more invasions 

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into into Israel to kill more 
people. 

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So that has been successfully 
stopped back in October. 

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So what's this all about then? 
Why? 

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Why more killing? 
Why more killing of 

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Palestinians? 
You know, Israel is a country 

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that for decades has had the 
support of all good people 

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throughout the world, support 
them, living, surviving, 

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thriving. 
All of that. 

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Not so much the part about 
taking the land from people 

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whose land it was. 
Bulldozing their homes, killing 

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10s of thousands of them in 19, 
47 and 48. 

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Yeah, not that part. 
But again, we don't talk about 

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it much. 
I don't want to think about it. 

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We could end this, President 
Biden. 

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You could end this now. 
You know what's wrong. 

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I know you know what's wrong. 
And I know I sound like a broken

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record. 
And I know that you know that 

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you're going to lose this 
election in part because too 

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many people are going to stay 
home. 

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They're not going to vote for 
Trump. 

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They're not going to switch 
their vote from you to Trump. 

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No, that is not how this is 
going to play out as what 

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happened to Hillary in Michigan,
she lost by two votes per 

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precinct, 2 for the whole state 
2. 

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And that's what's going to 
happen to you. 

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There are hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of young people 

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between the ages of 18 and 30, 
probably 30-5, maybe even 40. 

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Young people don't want war. 
Why? 

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Well, why don't they like war? 
Because they're the ones usually

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sent to go and die in the war. 
And so no, they don't support it

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and they don't support you. 
And now they're sick of you. 

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Sick of what you've been doing 
and you can't see it. 

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I know you've got good people 
working for you, your aides, 

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people in the White House. 
They must have said something to

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you that you've got to kind of 
bring this to an end and then 

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make reparations to build those 
homes back for those people and 

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get them some food and drinking 
water. 

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I usually record these podcasts 
on Sunday. 

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You go to mass every Sunday. 
Do you understand that murder is

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a sin, maybe the worst sin? 
You know, one of the I know I 

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can't remember if this was in 
Life of Brian, but just one of 

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the great funny moments in the 
life of Jesus is when he just 

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said, look, you know, because 
everybody want to know what's 

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the worst commandment or what's 
the, what's the thing? 

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We mostly have to don't kill 
people, right? 

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You know, like that. 
What is that? 

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That that 9th or 10th 
commandment where you're not 

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supposed to covet, be jealous 
of, envious of your neighbor's 

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donkey or house, you know they 
got a better house than you. 

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It's a it's a sin to covet that.
That's not the same as killing 

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somebody. 
That's a bad that is maybe the 

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that's the worst. 
And then and then Jesus came 

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along and said actually, you 
know, I'm, I'm just going to 

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give you the Cliff notes of the 
10 commandments. 

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It's it's a lot of commandments 
to remember. 

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So really there's just two. 
Your first commandment is to 

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love God. 
Of course you know he's the 

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spokesperson for God, so he's 
let's get God in there right 

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away. 
Got to love God. 

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And then the second one is you 
have to love your neighbor as 

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yourself. 
Which means if you just if the 

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English of that or the grammar 
is correct, how can you love 

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your neighbor if you don't love 
yourself first, if you're not 

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taking care of yourself, if 
you're not a good person, you 

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have to love yourself to get 
through this life and then you 

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have to love your neighbor as 
you love yourself. 

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And they his disciples, the 
fishermen, Fisher dudes that 

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were following him around like 
wow, we only have to remember 

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two things. 
Love God, love our neighbor. 

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Oh, And then And then he, when 
he was finishing up talking to 

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them, he threw a third one in. 
Oh, and by the way, love your 

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enemy. 
And they're like, whoa, whoa, 

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what? 
Love our enemy. 

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Yeah. 
And then, of course, now they 

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open it up. 
You can't keep, you know, you 

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can't keep encouraging Jesus to 
preach because the dude just 

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kept on talking. 
And so he goes, yeah, love God, 

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love your neighbor as yourself 
and love your enemy. 

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And then he adds and do good to 
those who persecute you. 

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Oh yeah, and while you're at it,
if they slap you across the 

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cheek, you were to turn your 
head and show them the other 

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cheek and tell them that if they
need to, they can slap that one 

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too. 
OK, these these lessons are, you

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know, in many American churches 
are not really ever taught 

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because this really goes against
the whole thing of being a 

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warring nation, being a hawk, 
wanting to kill the enemy, even 

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if it's a made-up enemy, even if
it's a fake enemy, even if that 

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enemy had nothing to do with 
9/11. 

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So Joe, you have to love your 
neighbor, You have to love your 

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enemy. 
And Netanyahu and the Israeli 

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government is the enemy of all 
of us who believe in peace and 

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justice, who believe in stopping
any form of genocide. 

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And I'm, I'm speaking as an 
American. 

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So we're the O GS of genocide, 
you know, 203040 million native 

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people killed by us, by our 
ancestors, people that you know 

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the land we're living on now. 
We have to stop this, Joe, you 

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have to stop it. 
And please, would you please 

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just do it. 
Be a politician for once. 

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Just be a politician. 
A politician. 

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What does a politician want most
to get re elected? 

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Why are you guaranteeing 
possibly losing the election and

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Trump being back in the White 
House? 

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What is freaking wrong with you?
Stop it. 

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I mean I'm serious. 
Stop it. 

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We can't have you lose. 
We can't have Trump in the White

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House. 
And so many of us now wish there

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was another alternative. 
But the third party alternatives

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that exist, they are not an 
alternative, but they are there 

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on the ballot. 
And a lot of people are going to

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vote for them, but mostly people
are going to stay home. 

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That cannot be. 
And our job, all of you 

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listening to this right now, is 
to make sure we've got two jobs,

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really. 
One, we have to stop Trump and 

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#2, we have to stop Biden. 
We he has to turn around right 

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now. 
He has to end the slaughter. 

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And perhaps offer penance. 
Ask for forgiveness. 

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Every politician after Biden, 
especially Democratic ones, need

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to learn the lesson of what 
happened to Joe Biden when he 

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did not listen to the American 
people. 

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And the American people, by a 
vast majority right now are 

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against this war. 
Stop the war. 

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Get yourself re elected. 
Put Trump out to pasture. 

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What part of that don't you get?
Young people are the ones who 

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hate war the most because they 
know you need their bodies to 

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stack up, to pile them up in the
hopes that the next war will be 

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won. 
On behalf of the interests of 

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the United States of America, 
you need to understand that that

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is not the interests of young 
people. 

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And in fact, right now, 
amazingly, it's not in the 

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interests of the vast majority 
of Americans who want an end to 

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this. 
You know what you have to do. 

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Mr. Biden, This is Michael 
Moore. 

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This is my podcast. 
Thanks for listening. 

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I'll be back later this week. 
Take care. 

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You may leave here for four days
in space, but when you return, 

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it's the same old place. 
The pounding of the drones, the 

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fright and disgrace. 
You can bury your dead, but 

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don't leave a trace. 
Ain't your next door neighbor. 

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But don't forget to say grace 
and tell me over and over and 

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over and over again, my friend. 
You don't believe we're on the 

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eve of destruction? 
Nah, Nah. 

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You don't believe we're on the 
eve of destruction?