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And. 
Today we're talking about 

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someone related to American 
politics who's been in the. 

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Headlines a bit. 
His father, the current 

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president of the United States 
of America, Joe Biden. 

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And who are we talking about 
today? 

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No. 
We are talking about Hunter 

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Biden. 
He is a controversial character 

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in modern day American politics.
He's not really into politics. 

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Well, he's involved in politics 
themselves, but he's never held 

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a government position. 
So it's kind of interesting that

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he's like such a controversial 
character in our Discord about, 

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you know, Republican versus 
Democrats. 

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I'm will say I'm not going to 
get into the politics 

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surrounding him, and I also am 
not going to really talk about 

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the political scandals because 
there's just too much. 

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But Hunter, you should know if 
you don't live in the United 

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States or if you don't keep up 
with it, he has a lot of 

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addiction problems. 
And I think in Hunter's point of

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view, that is very much 
exploited in order to make Joe 

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Biden look bad. 
It's a very common saying called

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where's Hunter, especially among
conservatives, like kind of as 

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target for like his different 
scandals that he has. 

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Hunter definitely thinks that 
he's a scapegoat for a lot of 

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things. 
I don't know whether that's 

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true. 
I don't know whether Hunter is a

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reliable narrator. 
I question it a little bit after

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reading his memoir. 
But yeah, this, he's very much 

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scrutinized and it, I do 
sympathize for him a lot because

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he's gone through a lot in his 
life. 

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He has a lot of internal demons 
and he's probably someone that 

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should not be in the public eye 
the way that he is, and I don't 

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think that that probably helps 
him at all. 

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So who is the other person we're
talking about today? 

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So this has to do with his 
relationship with his brother's 

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widow. 
Wow. 

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His brother Beau Biden sadly 
died in 2015. 

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He was really, really, really 
close with his brother, and soon

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after his brother's death, he 
ended up having an affair with 

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his brother's wife, Hallie. 
Hallie, I will say I feel bad 

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because in this episode it was 
very hard for me to learn a lot 

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about her as an individual. 
She's a very private person so I

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didn't learn that much about her
apart from her involvement in 

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this story, so I'm going to take
it a. 

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Little sometimes. 
Yeah, I'm going to take an 

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unconventional path, like I'm 
going to just talk about Hunter 

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until we get to when Hallie 
enters the story. 

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But she was married to Beau 
Biden for a number of years. 

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And this story, honestly, is a 
little bit more about like, yes,

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it's about the relationship 
between these two, but it's 

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mostly about the bond and the 
love between these two brothers 

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and how that eventually turns 
into this relationship. 

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I was just going to say that 
that has definitely happened on 

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this show, that sometimes 
there's one person in the 

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relationship that we cannot find
much about. 

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Reminds me of the Neil Armstrong
episode where? 

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We were. 
Just kind of like his wife. 

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I don't know. 
We don't know much about her 

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besides like where she was born 
and such. 

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So, yeah, I'm sure, well, you'll
have a little bit more than 

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that, but I'm intrigued. 
I mean, it's crazy. 

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It's that story. 
It's really sad. 

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But it also is super intriguing,
I think because of how 

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scandalous it is. 
It is kind of like something you

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would read about in a book or in
a movie or honestly something I 

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would do on The Sims or 
something. 

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But it is tragic. 
Yeah. 

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I'm. 
I'm interested to see how it all

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went down. 
I don't really know all the 

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details so. 
Yeah, I feel like they're the 

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Biden family in general, their 
story, like they just had so 

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much happen to them. 
And I feel like it probably is 

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like a psychologist's dream, 
like there's. 

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Just so. 
Much that connects and like you 

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can really see the different 
parallel between different 

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things and I'm I'm sure in 
however many years it will be 

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like a Crown type TV show about 
this family because there's just

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a lot going on wasn't. 
There some show that was a about

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like first ladies or something. 
Oh, was there I. 

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Well, I didn't even watch it and
I don't think it made much of A 

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splash, but it would be kind of 
cool if they had like a Crown 

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type show about the presidents. 
Yeah, You know, that would be 

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really. 
I'm surprised I haven't done 

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that. 
I. 

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Know I mean they'd have to 
change the cast like every 

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season and I don't know if 
they'd do all of them but. 

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I mean, that's a lot of seasons 
that they could do. 

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Maybe just the main ones like 
George Washington. 

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Yeah, I guess it it would just 
be a very different vibe but 

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between the different time 
periods, but. 

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It would be. 
I think it would still be cool, 

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though. 
I mean, that would be really fun

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if it started with George 
Washington and then it got all 

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the way up to like modern times.
Yeah. 

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I would watch that. 
I'm shocked they haven't done 

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that. 
They really should. 

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No putting it out there. 
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