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In this episode of The Glenbeck Program, we discuss abortion, robocalls, and a church defaced with pro-choice graffiti. Plus, we have a bizarre moment with Ben Carson, and we discuss whether or not babies should be born.
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welcome to the podcast it's uh pat and stew uh and jeffy and today for uh mr glenn beck who
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returns from vacation next week uh we talk a little bit about abortion here in the first hour
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there's a been another church defaced by graffiti um and it comes to the pro-choice side of the
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argument uh the back and forth here is really it's telling because one side is just not telling the
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truth on it right they change their terms they change their words they talk about everything
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but the thing they want and that is pretty revealing that the thing that they want is maybe
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not all that appetizing hour two is something that everybody seemed pretty passionate about
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the robocalls um that we get on our cell phones all the time uh absolutely obnoxious yes yeah but
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could they be curtailed it's possible the fcc might allow phone companies to stop those calls
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so we won't have to be bothered by them anymore it'd be awesome in a way it's actually a removal
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of a restriction on business too yeah because right now the phone companies can't prevent them
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and then you'd say well now you can prevent them so maybe there's a free market argument for this
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hopefully yes uh also we have uh the elizabeth warren and her new spending proposals which are going
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to bankrupt the entire society uh but don't worry she's just going to raise taxes on the rich you
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don't have to worry about it uh and uh a bizarre moment with ben carson who uh we'll play the audio
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of it i don't even know what to say about that anymore i mean i it's a it's been a strange
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strange journey with ben yes it has it's all coming up on today's podcast
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program today it's pat and stew for
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glen from the glenbeck program as stew returns how was your time off good oh it was fantastic
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all right good yourself how was your day they were all fantastic it was great to continue to
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work i feel like i heard uh from basically every conversation i had while i was off the air was
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about abortion oh really i mean at first you're like that doesn't lead to a lot of comfortable
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conversations per se but maybe babies being alive is worth a couple uncomfortable conversations
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that's kind of what i think yeah you know i feel like i have this weird urge to have babies be
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alive for longer periods um maybe maybe babies could turn into children uh and if you know uh this pat
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children are our future uh so that's important that's what i heard yeah uh also a lot of those
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children are going to be women one day you think um so yeah do you have any evidence of that it does
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seem to be a women's rights thing to me uh as well so we'll get into that and a lot more in 60 seconds
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this is the glenbeck program uh church was uh defaced in delaware county which is is that is that
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in pennsylvania delaware county it's in the philadelphia diocese all that um vandals tagged the
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church with abortion rights graffiti saying you do not have the right to decide how others lives
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that is a fair point you know i've been trying to figure out when others lives for many years
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and you don't have the right to decide now we know that i can i can decide out for myself but i can't
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put onto others when others lives right and that is i think the distinction they're looking for in
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the graffiti i mean when you're writing this uh i can understand it when you screw up and speak it
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live to somebody but when you're writing it um i'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to add the s there
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it makes a lot of sense to try to do a draft of each uh each project you're going into in the
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graffiti world yes if you're gonna deface churches right go to it go to a bridge first like under a
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bridge where no one can see it and try out your message there see how it looks take a couple steps
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back you know turn your iphone flashlight on it make sure it looks right then go to the church to
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deface the church right how many times have we seen you know white supremacists screw up a swastika
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on on on a on a church and then look you're just embarrassing if you're gonna put a swastika
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on a religious establishment it's important to understand which ways the lines go how do you
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expect you know to join your terrorist group exactly you can't even you can't even spell live i honestly
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think half of these church burnings are just because they screwed up the graffiti and then they were
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embarrassed about it and just burned the church down burn it is that's true it that's really
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embarrassing i don't have science behind that one but i think that might be it might be to blame but
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i think it might be onto something uh it you know even even at the churches now we're we're being
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attacked for for believing in in life and you know it seems like life is something that would be okay to
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to believe in the babies should be born it be be okay with most people and it apparently it's that's
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not the case in the united states in the year 2019 uh it's not okay that you believe in life and want
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babies to live yeah it was really interesting being off for a few days and talking to talking outside of
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these walls because here we're we've talked about the life issue for a very long time and i'm sure you
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know that if you listen but it's interesting how that's breaking through as far as the conversation
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outside now i think it's it's one of the big political topics right now yeah which usually
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means something bad you know like usually at the end of the day when you when a normal political
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conversation turns into the conversation you're having outside in normal you know normal person-to-person
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interaction a lot of times what it turns into is a non-stop politics for i mean good example of this
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is uh the trade issue you know like for years and years and years it was unions and democrats saying
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we need tariffs and restrictions on trade and republicans saying we don't need tariffs and we don't
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want restrictions on trade we want free trade and that was sort of the wonky sort of um think tank
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debate that went on for a really really long time and then donald trump has come out and he's
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obviously much more friendly to tariffs and trade restrictions and now it just now it just turned into
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teams you see the same people who were arguing unions and we need we absolutely need these tariffs we got
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to stop these this free trade stuff that's all this you know crazy voodoo economics and all the stuff
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that's going on the other side and uh and then now it's like well it's just become people who like
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trump back him on it and people who don't like trump attack him on it it's just people have just switched
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sides and i think when you define especially with someone like trump who's so good at like taking a an
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issue and owning it you know he just is so he has such an ability to be able to just dominate
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a conversation and people you see it on on cable news all the time they can't agree with anything
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he says no matter what it is even if it's a position they've held for 50 years they can't
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agree with him right so it just turns into this team thing and i'm afraid at some level that's
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happening with abortion here where again like if you look at the polling on abortion this third
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trimester abortion which has been the general focus of this debate is 84 to 14 against the american
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people despise third term abortion they always have everyone knows it's a horrific horrific thing
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84 of americans don't agree on the sky being blue yeah we're really almost nothing incredible
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uh number of people to agree it's there's almost nothing in our political debate that is
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so universal you could almost say that's unanimous that's every right thinking person in america yeah
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believes that late term abortion isn't right and that's and that's not you know governor northam well
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after they're born they'll make a decision on whether you keep them alive it's not even five minutes
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before birth it's third trimester so you're talking you know what month seven you're like month seven
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that's that's way earlier than the the types of things that democratic candidates are involved in
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and think about this for a second you have an 80 of something that's unpopular with you know to the
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level of 84 and the democrats have pulled out 24 candidates and not one of them will say that
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that's wrong which is not one of them that's staggering staggering i mean i there's an argument
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to be made and people who are pro-choice do make it in that essentially it's a slippery slope right
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and and there's somewhat of an equivalency with like the second amendment argument like you there
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probably is some sort of common sense restriction on guns that republicans could get on board on you
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every once in a while you see like background checks and it pulls really well however you know
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most people who really care about the second amendment are like look i don't want those things
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because i can i know what you're doing you're going to take you're going to ask for one inch
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you're going to take a mile and then you'll take 10 miles and you're seeing that right now and we're
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seeing it right now you're seeing with beto o'rourke came out against all semi-automatic weapons
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like these are things that are way beyond what they said they were asking for in the common sense
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realm just a few months ago so as the second amendment guy and i'm not a huge gun guy but i'm a huge
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second amendment guy uh i am uh and i know you're the same way i don't want to give one inch on any of
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this stuff because you know they're coming for all of it so maybe that's the same thing with some
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people on the abortion argument they think they're going to come for first you know first trimester
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abortions so they defend to the death five minutes before uh you know birth abortions defend to the
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death being pretty appropriate here um i just it's it's so incredibly unpopular second trimester
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abortions are also incredibly unpopular to the i think it's a 37 point gap to the negative on uh
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second trimester whether they should be allowed right they should everyone says second and third
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trimester abortions should be illegal that's why the only one that pulls well is the first time
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the first trimester and it's it's slightly positive however again like republicans in general and and
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alabama is a is a an exception here as they were going after basically six weeks or so um most
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republican states are asking for 20 week abortion bans that's the typical republican position
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uh position interestingly though this week there was a poll uh that said 50 was it 55 percent of
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americans uh are in favor of the heartbeat bills that's that's not i mean that's amazing yeah really i mean
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it's but it's you wouldn't to listen to these democrats you wouldn't think that anyone anyone would
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would be in favor of the heartbeat bill but 55 percent that's that's most americans that
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as soon as you know there's a heartbeat you can't have an abortion uh that and and then you look at
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that and then you see the stance of all of these candidates on the democrat side and it just doesn't
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add up it just doesn't make any sense they can't find one i mean this is a party like you know one of
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the biggest abortion rulings in the supreme court was casey um and you know this goes back to you
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know years and years ago now but now you have a democratic senator all right named casey same
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family and they can't find one candidate one candidate to come out i mean it used to be that
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there were pro-life democrats this used to be something and while like it was always hard for
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us to understand because how can you be on the side of the party that's fighting for unlimited
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abortions they still had them now we're at the point where like you i mean you can't you can't
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even can you even enter this race if you happen to be pro-life i don't think so i don't think you
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can even enter it i don't know if you can enter the democrat party if you're pro-life yeah anymore
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i don't see how they have it doesn't seem to be any place for a pro-life person in the democrat
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party anymore yeah and you could say well it's just one issue i agree with them on these other things
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and i i understand that instinct but when we're talking about live and how many millions 60 million
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uh like 62 million now 62 million people that should be living aren't right because of this
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one policy it's a pretty big deal and if you believe it's it's not it it's a big deal at some
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level if you're on the left right because you you think of it as a cultural issue you think of it as
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well i mean i don't think many people actually believe it's women's rights but it's at least a
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stand-in for women's rights right no one because no one cares what you do to your body if it doesn't
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affect another life uh it's only a matter of if another person's rights are affected
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but you know it's a stand-in for women's rights kind of a generic summary of of women's rights
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and it's something that they say they need to defend so at some level it's important to the
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left but it's really more of just a cultural issue to the right we're talking about people living and
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dying and if you're saying that this is an actual life it obviously has to be the most important
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thing right if if if the end of this is 60 million people that should be alive aren't
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what other policy has that effect on anything i mean you know we've made this point before pat that
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we could probably come in here every day and we would bore the hell out of you in the audience but
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we could come in here every day and talk about abortion and our ratings would be like 0.004 however
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morally i could be completely content with that i could be completely content with that because that's
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i mean there's no other issue with the possible exception and it's a much larger and more difficult
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road of just generally speaking capitalism right because capitalism really has ripped billions of
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people out of poverty and you can make the argument that it's even more important i guess
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but when you're talking about just a law that could be changed a ruling that could be changed
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that could just protect millions and millions of lives there's just nothing that competes with
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abortion it's it's it's the most simple road to keep tens of millions of people which are
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also will grow up to be women will grow up to be minorities will grow up to be uh will have
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different sexual orientations well every single men many of them probably you know just because of
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the fact that planned parenthood just loves to target inner city neighborhoods probably most of them
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wind up voting for democrats like this is an argument in which republicans are just on
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are are saying please lord god let us give you more voters right right how many of them would
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have been out of 62 million people could one of them have been another einstein absolutely one of
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them have been another madam curie yeah could one of them have cured cancer and many of them yes and
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here's the thing maybe 10 million of them would have been awful right they still had a they still
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should have the chance to be good right right they could all be the most annoying they could all be
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the people who are programming the robocalls like i don't care if all of them all 60 million got into
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the robocall industry they still deserve the right to life but okay
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kirsten gillibrand was talking about abortion yesterday um you have basic civil rights uh here
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she was on msnbc what would you say to taxpayers out there who say look i support everyone having their
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own freedoms but that when it comes to my tax dollars abortion isn't something that i want to
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support you know uh we have a tenant in our constitution it's called separation of church and
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state oh really and uh i do not believe that that is a valid argument i think that the high amendment
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should be repealed and that we actually need to make sure that women regardless of their income level
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have a basic right to reproductive care it's about our humanity and it's about our basic civil rights
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a basic right to reproductive care well it's in the constitution pat uh-huh and when i say in it
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it's i think it's on the back and a fold it's folded and on it so if you open up visible ink
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it is i think you have to heat it up like they did on uh on uh what was that what was that nicholas
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cage movie oh national treasure yeah national treasure got to take a blow dryer and you got to be
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really careful though a little lemon juice on it yep and then the blow dryer and it'll show up
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amazing the founders predicted the blow dryer right which is i thought pretty impressive
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because they didn't even have a lot of electricity at the time i think some of them assumed you could
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just do it with your hot breath but then other founders said no they're going to invent something
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eventually where they can dry their hair really quick i think that'll do the job because uh the
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separation of church and state not in the constitution not in the constitution it was in a letter
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yes thomas jefferson in 1803 to a baptist minister in connecticut uh who was asking about uh you
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know hey uh are we going to be in trouble here with the uh with the state because we're not of
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the state religion and that's where that's where it came in so you've got to separate it's a
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protection against the religion not the government you don't have to protect the state from religion
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that's pretty incredible it's really the exact reverse the exact opposite of the way it's talked
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about now um and the fact that a senator who's running for president is not aware that the separation
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of church and state is in the constitution is or is not in the constitution it's pretty stunning
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in a normal time with this field that's not stunning at all because i got i mean there are 24
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candidates up there now bill de blasio getting in uh while i was on vacation you haven't even
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moved him over on the board yet he's still on our on the fence list he's pretty hacked off about
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that yeah yeah that was a big part of his initial press conference why am i why have i not been
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moved on on the glenn beck presidential board uh but you know the fact that she doesn't even know
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that and then you realize when they talk when people on the left talk about abortion you just
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realize they're just saying things that that don't make any sense right like you know uh this sort of
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prenatal like reproductive health care concept like there's a reason you have to make up a fake term
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for it we all know it's not reproductive health care that is not what an abortion is reproductive
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health care might mean making sure you have the right nutrients and vitamins if you have a there's
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an issue with uh you know morning sickness reproductive health care absolutely postpartum depression
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reproductive health care i'm willing to go to any of those so i mean yeah that's that makes sense
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obviously the the baby itself whether you're having a internal lady issue whatever they whatever the
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issue just killing the baby is not reproductive health it is not that's not what it is right
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because it's it's not healthy for the baby i don't know if people are aware of that that that's not
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health care when you're killing someone no no i mean just like just like you know assisted suicide
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comes around and it's like well uh should people be able to kill themselves we made the point it's
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very difficult to prevent them to right it's really like you can make all the laws you want saying
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you don't kill yourself what are you going to do afterwards you get find the guy you're going to give
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him a ticket after they're dead like i generally speaking it's difficult uh to stop people from
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killing themselves but we the reproductive health care having a doctor come in and keep you uh out of
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pain with certain drugs uh all that can be defined as health care actually killing the patient cannot be
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defined as health care like that's just not health care it's not ending lives is not health care
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it's not what it is it's something else and you might like it but it's still not health care and
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they just say reproductive health care they say women's rights because these are stand-ins for the
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terrible thing that they're arguing for also prenatal care is not something that planned
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parenthood even does no they don't even do prenatal health care they don't do the cancer screenings they
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don't do breast cancer screenings they can refer you to get one which is really helpful but they don't
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they don't do mammograms and we hear that all the time well you're cutting off people's ability to get
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a mammogram they don't even do them you can't even get one there and it's like planned parenthood is
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the only place on earth that does health care which they don't really do at all and now it's
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the opposite they've put in the in people's minds that that's the only place anybody can get it done
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yeah it's like uh i always make this argument with people who bring up the health care thing
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if you ever go to a kfc and taco bell you know they they're combined there there's no yeah and
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taco bell well and i love uh i'm a big taco bell guy let's say i'm against kfc and i love taco bell
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well if they separated them into two restaurants i would just go to the taco bell one right so if
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you're playing parenthood just separate all your wonderful health care things from abortion and see
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how much people protest i'll give you a news not at all they're not going to say one freaking word
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about the taco bell side of that they're just going to protest the kfc side of it and that is
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the thing it's like if you stopped doing abortions you get all the funding that every other women's
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health care clinic gets it's just about that and we all know for you it's just about that as well
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legislation is uh passing through congress right now to stop tech companies from tracking our on
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line uh surfing and it's getting some momentum i guess as congress is trying to crack down now on
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big tech's privacy practices on tuesday senator josh holly unveiled a do not track bill with some tough
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penalties for companies who break the protections and that revives it revives a debate over whether
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users should be allowed to opt out of the tracking and data collection uh i think you should be
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allowed to opt out in fact you should have to opt into it i hate the opt out thing because a lot
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of times you don't know what you're opting out of you didn't even know you needed to opt out of
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something yeah i i had an issue with um my yahoo mail accounts that i started for my children
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yeah so i started them when they were born i started email addresses and i was emailing them
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little pieces of advice and videos and pictures of like things that we did when they were too young
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that is adorable i am adorable and i know this like that um however it was less adorable when
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they just deleted the accounts for no reason um and i lost all the stuff that i sent oh wow now i
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say all and everyone wow points this out on social media and i i appreciate you coming to my rescue
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here there are some that i can save because i sent them from my sent accounts however it wasn't just
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me who was doing it was other relatives and things i mean it's really annoying and and just to
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try to repurpose it all back together it'll be better than nothing um did you ever find out why that
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happened yes i did that yes i did it's just there in black and white uh-huh it was there in black
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and white that's that's what the customer service representative told me it's there in black and
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white okay in the uh the very lengthy agreement that i signed on to when i opened the account
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except when i pressed accept and did not of course read it because no human being on earth has ever read
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one of these documents uh the terms and conditions did apply to me and because i didn't log in
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unfrequently enough now of course it's not my it's an account for my kids not for me
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right and i i signed up with and they had give you a say hey if we need to contact you uh what are your
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other email addresses what's your phone number i put all that information in thinking that if there
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was an issue i would get an alert came to the other account and said hey uh you know you haven't
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logged in and too long of a period of time or whatever is in this agreement you signed you got no
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such no nothing so they just they just deleted them all and and this is the thing like you
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you you probably can opt out of it and the way you opt out is not using them right like that is that
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is the current thing if you don't you don't have to as you would know pat you don't have to use
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facebook this is something that americans now believe that is a requirement of their life
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you can get through it without facebook without twitter without instagram it's possible to live
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it is possible and i do think that makes me a little nervous when we talk about new legislation and
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controls on these companies in that you know there's a difference between what is a right
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and what is just awesome and the internet is like one of those things that's just awesome it's not
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your right to be on the internet it's not you want to pass a constitutional amendment that says it is
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go ahead try it you can you might might even get it through i mean i think probably republicans and
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democrats probably agree that access to the internet should be some way should be right maybe they
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would be able to get that through but for right now a company can essentially say if you want to do
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business with us you live by our rules and we're going to track you and we're going to track you
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and that's that's the reason why this service is free like it's almost like they should say if you
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want to pay 9.95 a month for facebook then we won't track you at all and that actually might be a
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place that makes sense in the middle because you know i wouldn't pay 9.95 for facebook because i don't
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care about it however if i did care about it i might do that to avoid the tracking i might say you know
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what fine i'll pay 9.95 a month and don't track me problem is so many other things
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are tracking you anyway you know and i understand so i understand this approach google right doesn't
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google keep track of virtually everything we do online yeah i mean if you use their browser i know
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i love that because people are like well i i i i'm able to block this because i'm but i'm using
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using google's i don't use any glenn used to say this i don't use any google products i don't use
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any gmail or any of that i don't use google maps none of it because i know i don't want google
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tracking me what browser do you use chrome how do you search uh google but in fact i don't even
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call it search i call it googling and really what are you going to search with lycos ask jeez it's
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always ask jeez man i mean here's a nice guy you know who promises never to track you he's a butler
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jeeves doesn't care about where you're going online he's just a nice guy he's not trying to sell
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you a bunch of stuff yeah and i will say before before you do it uh duck duck go is another is a
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thing that uh that will search for you and and apparently not track you however if you're using it
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on chrome you may have an issue right yes duck duck go is is the big one the privacy-based search
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engine that a lot of people will point to and it does seem to work actually pretty well it's not
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like it's not like ask jeez which i'm sure is great there's still no search engine really that
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can compete with google right even bling is or bing or whatever that is i mean bing i've tried
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it a few times and it's just it's not well yeah it's just not google and are you really that excited
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about being tracked by microsoft instead of google like it's not really get you let's get me hot i'll
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say that and so you know it's like you want someone you have to almost go with a privacy-based
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one that's doing it just for that and even then yeah you're still getting tracked at some level by
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somebody else your ip company uh you know it's funny because they they've been talking about the way
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these things develop and so so many of them are you know are able to skate through all of these
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rules yeah i mean as the as the technology develops it's developed so quickly they they can't keep up
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with with with all the rules now that's a good reason why it's been so great that's why the
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internet has been so great they haven't been victimized by the business regulation that every
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other business it's been largely left alone yeah it's kind of the wild wild west still and the
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negatives do exist at the trackings there there there are some negatives to that but overall
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i don't think it's a pretty good experience yeah um and maybe you know because these are private
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companies maybe i shouldn't want the government to get involved in uh cracking down on their tracking
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um but i do want them to it's just one of those things that's annoying enough it is to just want
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anyway and the other thing i want is for them to stop the robo calls on my cell phone it it used to
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be that your cell phone i thought was like sacrosanct in in that regard that they couldn't they couldn't
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call your cell phone and i think that's when it cost you money when people call you uh when they called
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but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore so uh that opened up the floodgates of robo calls and
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spammers and spammers and scammers and they're trying to the fcc is about to allow the phone
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companies to not complete those calls which would be fantastic now will some dolphins get caught up in
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that tuna net where some people that want to complete a call to you are not able to uh i'm sure
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that'll happen yeah there's like debt collectors they're all upset about this well we we gotta
00:27:43.820
get a hold of our debtors and bother them well okay but um uh maybe you shouldn't maybe you
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shouldn't be placing that many calls uh at a time that that the uh that the software thinks you're a
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you're a spammer um i don't know maybe maybe leave people alone a little bit well how am i going to
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collect my debt i don't know but i want the spam to stop i just i don't know how to fix it for the
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debt collectors but i want the well in fact i got a couple examples um that i've had just recently
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on my on my cell phone and they do leave messages if you don't answer they'll they'll leave you
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messages um and a lot and sometimes it's in chinese have you ever gotten the calls the spammers from
00:28:25.580
in chinese i have not had that no i get these all the time though and my god i get something
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about a warranty they want to give me for my car you get that one all the time people drive me out
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of my mind i'm not gonna fall for this but i know but of course this is the type of thing that they
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don't need a person who's listening to talk radio to fall for it they need the person who's who barely
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knows how to press buttons on their phone to fall for it the person who's 75 or 80 and doesn't really
00:28:52.020
understand the uh how it works with spam and scam calls yeah and when you get this kind of call
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sometimes it can be scary to people and once it get expired after that you will be taken under custody
00:29:04.960
by the local police can you believe that they were going to take me under custody oh my gosh by
00:29:09.200
the local police in my area in my local area they were those police now they didn't bother to tell
00:29:15.880
you what area that was they didn't tell me what because you know it you're you're local so you know
00:29:20.600
the local area i know which police office is go is which department is going to come after me right
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i know as there are four serious allegations pressed on your name at this moment oh my gosh serious
00:29:31.340
allegations pressed on my name how many allegations do you have pressed on your name i would assume
00:29:36.300
it's not four it's not four it's got to be one or two maybe pressed against my name i've conducted so
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much illegal activity that there's four allegations pressed on my name so we would request you to get
00:29:47.740
back to us well yeah that we can discuss about this case before taking any legal action against you
00:29:53.560
oh that's scary to reach us is five one eight six one five seven nine eight zero i only encourage
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everyone to call that only everyone she's they're going to repeat it so if you missed it the first
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okay good five one eight five one eight six one five six one five seven nine eight zero seven nine
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eight zero so they want they want you to call so i would and then there was there was uh this
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particular call just this very time sensitive and urgent that i do hear back from you before
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we proceed further with suspension of your social and assets can you believe they're going to suspend
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my social your social is going to be completely suspended suspended oh my gosh and my assets
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now i i don't know what social of mine my twitter account uh my facebook what's social my social
00:30:44.520
security number you suspend a social security number just my social so my direct call back
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number is three eight six three eight six two four three seven eight six five again seven eight six
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five she's going to say it again three eight six three eight six four three seven eight six five i
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would say here because look they are soliciting calls to this number but there's a reason they're
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soliciting calls so that's right you may not want to not you may not you may not want to call uh because
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it's not going to annoy them it's going to wind up putting you on a list and then you're going to get
00:31:16.680
these calls so so you may want to hesitate before you actually call some way that they get that they
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scam money out of you when you do call yeah there's i can't remember what podcast it was
00:31:27.240
one of these podcasts that looks into strange things and technology i want to say it was reply all but i
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don't remember which one it was anyway they looked into these robo calls and tried to track the source
00:31:36.760
of them which was pretty interesting um because there was a one guy who's working at a company
00:31:42.060
um and i want to say it was i want to say it was trip advisor or yelp okay it was one of those like
00:31:49.780
review companies and they were having issues because legitimate resorts were like getting
00:31:56.060
terrible reviews on i think it was trip advisor and they were getting these reviews because
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spam people like this were calling with robo calls and saying you should call us back and
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and book your free vacation to blank resort and so people would hear that would call and of course
00:32:14.020
it was a scam they just redirected them to try to buy some expensive vacation to another crappy resort
00:32:18.680
completely unrelated it was they were using a big name resort to cover the fraud and then the real
00:32:25.500
company was getting the bad reviews because people were thinking they're all they're just screwing me
00:32:29.780
wow so they went to try to find this and they tracked it down you know to these companies in mexico
00:32:34.900
and in central america that were using like one guy in like his living room in the united states to
00:32:42.660
make like hundreds of millions of robo calls wow and you know the guy wound up getting in a lot of
00:32:49.940
trouble uh because he did violate all sorts of laws and seemingly just acted his excuse was essentially
00:32:55.900
i didn't really know you know sorry no i didn't i didn't know work with me no is he on death row
00:33:02.940
i don't think he is was he he didn't get the death penalty he did i don't think he got the death
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penalty that's wrong almost it was close it's just people hate those things man oh
00:33:12.500
so the guy who was responsible for all those hundreds of millions of robo calls you found out
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what they he did not get the death penalty no right he's not on death row i believe he was fined
00:33:29.820
120 million dollars though oh that's a good start which is a significant amount that's a
00:33:34.340
that's a significant amount of money a notable amount of money yes um this is it was actually
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now that i'm remembering it it was a story from wired.com perhaps the best part of the story is
00:33:46.400
the guy who uncovered the giant robo call scam his name was fred garvin if you know fred garvin
00:33:52.720
male prostitute from the saturday night live yes fred garvin male prostitute uh that was dan
00:33:59.060
ackroyd's bit in like the 70s yeah uh maybe 80s was it his real name uh it's his real name i guess
00:34:05.980
it's okay it's or i think it was fred garvin no maybe it wasn't his real name i can't remember
00:34:10.380
they because he's this guy's become like the the robo call hunter because he found this this one
00:34:15.700
particular guy but he had made over a hundred million phone calls robo calls and was fined 120 million
00:34:22.220
dollars was dragged in front of congress i'll tweet the article out uh while you're being tracked by
00:34:27.180
your uh all of your technology yes you can now be tracked to look at a an article with a guy whose
00:34:33.340
name is the same as a male prostitute so i don't know what that's going to do to your future employment
00:34:37.160
prospects but read it anyway it's really fascinating because i mean you just you realize that like
00:34:42.600
it's almost impossible for them to stop it because you're talking they can create number fake numbers
00:34:49.700
they can you know they can yeah they roll over i mean as soon as you as soon as you uh block one
00:34:55.580
call it just rolls over to the next number yeah and the way they had to do it was the guy signed up for
00:34:59.960
like as many shady lists as he could with his cell phone and then hoped he would get robo calls and
00:35:04.680
started recording the robo calls so that he could try to track them because it could give you legitimate
00:35:08.560
numbers you can call which then forwards you to some offshore you know phone bank where they don't even
00:35:15.680
know necessarily where the call came from they don't know that you were told that you're going to get
00:35:19.700
they just know sell them this timeshare right like they they it's like people there's all these
00:35:25.360
disconnected pieces not everyone knows uh which part is which the guy at the end of the the road
00:35:30.980
might not even know if what he's selling is real or not and they might not even be in the country
00:35:36.320
so how do you even track it down it's just it's one of these things that i think like it feels good
00:35:40.860
for uh legislators to try to come up with a rule to stop it because it's so freaking annoying yes it is
00:35:47.800
in the end of the day though are they going to be able to stop someone in you know bangladesh
00:35:52.200
and that's the thing so many of them are overseas yeah so many of them are out of the country and
00:35:56.320
you can tell when they say things like and once it get expired after that you will be taken under
00:36:00.980
custody by you'll be taken under custody local police by local there are four serious allegations
00:36:06.580
pressed on your name when they say things like they're going to be four serious allegations pressed
00:36:10.880
on your name you know they're probably not english speakers so it's coming from somewhere else it's
00:36:16.680
funny though and you can disregard it they say that uh you know the whole scam when it comes to
00:36:21.720
um the nigerian prince situation you know and i don't if you're in the middle of a negotiation with
00:36:27.900
a nigerian prince i don't want to i don't i mean maybe yours is real i don't know like i usually though
00:36:34.540
the nigerian prince did not just fall out of power and have a hundred billion dollars he wants to split
00:36:38.820
with you really yeah it's usually not the way it works um and and a lot of times you get those emails
00:36:43.760
and you read them you're like how could anyone fall for this like they're not even spelling the
00:36:48.720
words right they're not in the right order you know like i get the idea that like he's supposed
00:36:53.260
to be a nigerian prince so maybe he wouldn't have perfect english uh but you get you get the thing of
00:36:58.120
like if you're going to make a multi-million dollar transaction with someone you've never met perhaps
00:37:02.600
they should know the language a little a little bit perhaps perhaps yeah and so you think why do they
00:37:07.240
why can't they even take the time to spell the words right why can't they even take the time
00:37:12.300
to understand the language well enough and there's a very specific reason why they do that
00:37:16.780
is because anyone with any sense is not going to fall for this so the the the calculation by the
00:37:24.980
people in doing the nigerian scam they don't need to right speak perfect english right well and more
00:37:30.240
than that they actually intentionally will not speak perfect english they intentionally will spell
00:37:35.720
words wrong because only a person who would think a multi-million dollar transaction is about to
00:37:41.280
happen with a guy who can't spell half the email correctly only that person who's gullible enough
00:37:47.280
to think that is going to actually go through with the whole scam the person who is smart enough to
00:37:51.660
say i'm not going to answer this because they can't even spell the the words right that person isn't
00:37:56.360
going to fall for the scam so they wind up wasting their time true sorting out people who are interested
00:38:01.840
or are trolling them or are uh just you know interested enough to make that first outreach
00:38:10.120
but not interested enough to go to their bank account and give bank account numbers out they
00:38:13.880
need the person who's gullible enough to think well this nigerian prince out of nowhere emailed me
00:38:19.260
unsolicited can't speak the language can't spell the words however let me give them my bank account
00:38:23.880
number that's the person they need because that person is the person who's going through with the
00:38:28.000
whole thing and it's fascinating because i think a lot of that happens with these robocalls too
00:38:32.100
they're so bad but if you hear someone saying you're about to get arrested by local police
00:38:36.140
or excuse me uh you're under what was it under uh let's see it's uh and once it get expired after
00:38:43.840
that you will be taken under custody under custody take it under custody yeah maybe those are the