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Speaker 2: Okay, I've got a couple of follow ups here.
Speaker 1: First of all, standing by about walking around barefoot, Amy
Speaker 1: King says, oh stop, I'm gonna spray my feet with
Speaker 1: hand sanitizer when I get home.
Speaker 2: I think we really what we said.
Speaker 1: Resonated with her about the people who work here and
Speaker 1: how there's no safety, and.
Speaker 3: I get it, there's a there's a point you feel comfortable,
Speaker 3: especially if you're working.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure you want to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: I get it. But people are gross. The things that
Speaker 1: have happened in that booth that we know about, also
Speaker 1: the guy who used to work here and went barefoot everywhere,
Speaker 1: we do have confirmation that he would go into the
Speaker 1: bathroom and would be barefoot in the bathroom. No, in
Speaker 1: the bath in the bathroom stall. And Chris Little has
Speaker 1: chimed in and he said he actually just simply said
Speaker 1: bag of d's ah, he said, and then he continued
Speaker 1: to say, we assume it was a directive to eat them.
Speaker 2: This place is insane. This place is just completely insane.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh, let's kick off swamp watch with this
Speaker 1: white Dude's for hair as zoom call.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds like fun. Swamp is horrible. The government
Speaker 2: doesn't work. Man, gonna make this like a reality TV show.
Speaker 4: Wasn't bad?
Speaker 2: Is always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Hey, Joe, A town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 3: swamp and in so many ways.
Speaker 2: Still a swamp. A watch of my work. Nobody said
Speaker 2: drained the swamp. I said, Oh, that's so, you know
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was a zoom call White Dudes for Harris.
Speaker 1: They say that this is providing a big boost in
Speaker 1: campaign funds. It was a more than three hour zoom call,
Speaker 1: including actors Jeff Bridges, Sean Aston, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Josh
Speaker 1: Gadd and Mark Hamill, as well as Lance Bass. An
Speaker 1: organizer for the group said white men have been moving
Speaker 1: further right in recent years, and he hopes the movement
Speaker 1: can encourage support from the demo on the left. The
Speaker 1: organizer said, we know that the silent majority of white
Speaker 1: men aren't actually MAGA supporters. They're folks like you who
Speaker 1: just want a better life for their families. There was
Speaker 1: an interesting side note to this, in that the White
Speaker 1: Dudes for Harris' Twitter account was suspended overnight. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: for a short time.
Speaker 2: It is that.
Speaker 1: Because elock bus wanted to target them and take them down.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much they use an algorithm to
Speaker 3: suspend accounts like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, White Dudes for Harris has.
Speaker 3: The word white in it and becomes racially separate. I guess,
Speaker 3: I mean that's a possibility. Mike Nellis, is a guy
Speaker 3: involved with White Dudes for Harris, shared an update today
Speaker 3: explaining that while the account is live again, it is
Speaker 3: still technically suspended. He said the account is permanently in
Speaker 3: read only mode, meaning they can't post any new things
Speaker 3: on it, and he said don't let them silence us.
Speaker 3: When contacted for comment, the press office for Twitter wrote,
Speaker 3: busy now, please check back later, okay.
Speaker 1: Lisa Murkowski is hitting back on jd Vance for what
Speaker 1: she called offensive comments about childless cat ladies. She told
Speaker 1: Politico Lisa Murkowski, if the Republican Party is trying to
Speaker 1: improve its.
Speaker 2: Image with women, I don't think that this is working. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know who else called him out for that was
Speaker 3: Trey Goudie realist who has a show on Fox Now
Speaker 3: on Sunday afternoon, and basically said that was a dumb
Speaker 3: thing to set.
Speaker 2: Well, granted it was years ago.
Speaker 3: It was three years ago that he said that, So,
Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't see this coming.
Speaker 1: He didn't see a political run coming. He probably thought
Speaker 1: of himself as a commentator at that point. That doesn't
Speaker 1: that whose interviews are not going to be mined for
Speaker 1: these sort of gems in a vice presidential run. That
Speaker 1: he could have never seen that coming three years ago,
Speaker 1: I don't think, especially because he was back in the
Speaker 1: never Trump lane right at that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Trey Goudy was one of many people who said,
Speaker 3: I know plenty of people who are deeply invested in
Speaker 3: the future of this country, and they don't have kids,
Speaker 3: or they couldn't have kids, or they have all kinds
Speaker 3: of nieces and nephews or foster children. There was something,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a short sighted, I don't know,
Speaker 3: attempt at humor. I guess the JD Vance underwent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, times.
Speaker 3: Were completely different three years ago for him than they
Speaker 3: are right now. So there was also a story about
Speaker 3: the list of candidates that could potentially speaking of vice presidents,
Speaker 3: the list of candidates who could potentially run with Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: and yesterday it got a little shorter. The North Carolina
Speaker 3: Governor Roy Cooper and then Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer, both
Speaker 3: yesterday announced that they would be out still looking for
Speaker 3: an August seventh announcement. Again, that's a deadline. Doesn't mean much,
Speaker 3: but that deadline, self imposed, would be a week from
Speaker 3: tomorrow for Kamala Harris to come out and name who
Speaker 3: she would want to run with her on the ticket.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Courts, I guess you could call it. Favorability
Speaker 1: rating is at an all time low. A new Gallup
Speaker 1: poll found that forty three percent of Americans approve of
Speaker 1: the job the High Court is doing, nearing the record
Speaker 1: low it is from September twenty twenty one, when forty
Speaker 1: percent say they approved.
Speaker 2: Since then, they have not been over forty three percent.
Speaker 3: That push, by the way, yesterday from President Biden to
Speaker 3: impose rules upon the Supreme Court term limits, ethics rules,
Speaker 3: and things like that, I don't think I've seen a
Speaker 3: more negative response to a plan than that, because so
Speaker 3: much of it is that you can't do that it's
Speaker 3: just never going to happen. I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 3: constitutional amendments, and in a time when we're as divided
Speaker 3: as we are, you're never in any universe going to
Speaker 3: get two thirds of Congress and three quarters of state
Speaker 3: legislatures to agree to pass a constitutional amendment on something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Simoonbiles is doing our floor routine currently. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: this the last thing in the last Yes, she's she's
Speaker 2: the cleanup on these events.
Speaker 3: And holy, oh holy, how this has been a good distraction.
Speaker 2: It's a happy district. Is nice.
Speaker 3: It's like when you brought your dog in exactly, have
Speaker 3: a little something nice on the side. A couple stories
Speaker 3: that were following. One of them is this developing story internationally.
Speaker 3: It is that Israel has carried out an airstrike on
Speaker 3: Beirut's southern suburbs today, targeting what they say was the
Speaker 3: senior Hesbelah commander blamed for the rocket attack that killed
Speaker 3: twelve children over the weekend. Apparently, Hesbola says that they
Speaker 3: didn't get them. Hes Bela says that as a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, you missed that it failed, that the strike
Speaker 3: against him failed flawed. Shakur is the hesbela chief of staff,
Speaker 3: and this is who they were supposedly targeting. He's also
Speaker 3: wanted in connection with the US Marine Barracks Brahming in
Speaker 3: Beirut from back in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2: That's how long this guy's been around.
Speaker 3: But they said a loud explosion was heard in Beirut
Speaker 3: shortly before eight o'clock local time. A lot of smoke
Speaker 3: was seen rising from the area that was hit. The
Speaker 3: understanding internationally is that countries like the UK, Germany, the
Speaker 3: United States, France, we've all urged citizens to avoid traveling
Speaker 3: to Lebanon, to leave Lebanon if they're there. In fact,
Speaker 3: that British Foreign Secretary said this morning that events were
Speaker 3: fast moving and brit nationals were advised to leave Lebanon,
Speaker 3: not to travel to that country. Locally and much less important,
Speaker 3: we're having a hard time finding an Oscar's host again.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Kimmel has passed on it March second, so you've
Speaker 3: got plenty of time to work on it. But Variety
Speaker 3: has confirmed that Jimmy Kimmel, four time Oscar host, has
Speaker 3: turned down the gig. And then John mulaney was one
Speaker 3: of the highlights of this year's show also hosted the
Speaker 3: Governor's Awards as a busy schedule, and he also has
Speaker 3: bowed out of hosting the Oscars coming up in March.
Speaker 1: Second Man, the people with the cameras are just in
Speaker 1: the face of Simone Biles, Like there's no Duffer zone.
Speaker 2: It's Simone Biles exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just they're circle, They're like sharks, and
Speaker 1: it's odd. It's odd to see you, you know, sports
Speaker 1: paparazzi that close have that kind of close access to
Speaker 1: the athletes, Like there should be a perimeter, shouldn't there
Speaker 1: where they have to kind of stay away from these girls,
Speaker 1: these women.
Speaker 2: Are you going to announce what happens when they win? No,
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: The new Secret Service director is giving as good as
Speaker 1: he gets today, firing back at Josh Holley over the
Speaker 1: grilling over the agency's failures and protecting Trump the day
Speaker 1: of that assassination attempt. Ronald Rowe is his name. They
Speaker 1: say he went toe to toe with Senator Holley today.
Speaker 1: Things got extremely heated when the senator demanded to know
Speaker 1: who Roe had fired over the security failures. At first,
Speaker 1: he calmly explained that he was waiting for the results
Speaker 1: of the FBI investigation to determine next steps. But when
Speaker 1: Holly barked back that there were failures because the former
Speaker 1: president was shot, he is said to have snapped.
Speaker 2: I get it. I mean we all should be very,
Speaker 2: very upset about what happened that day.
Speaker 1: He fired back with a reference to the JFK assassination, barking, sir,
Speaker 1: this could have been our Texas school book depository. I've
Speaker 1: lost sleep over that for the last seventeen days, just
Speaker 1: like you. And then Holly interjected, then fire somebody, and
Speaker 1: then Roge got more heated.
Speaker 3: He's a guy who Okay, when Kimberly Cheatle testified last week,
Speaker 3: total week stream, very weak stream, very uneventful, like she
Speaker 3: didn't seem to get excited about much of anything. This guy,
Speaker 3: Ronald Road Junior, came out and he's opening statement was excited.
Speaker 5: The critical part of the Secret Service mission is protecting
Speaker 5: our nation's current and former government leaders. The attempted assassination
Speaker 5: of former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, July thirteenth,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, in Butler, Pennsylvania was a failure on
Speaker 5: multiple levels.
Speaker 3: And like I said earlier, he I mean, he laid
Speaker 3: out the local sniper team that was the closest law
Speaker 3: enforcement agency to the shooter, and he blew up a
Speaker 3: picture and showed it to these members of Congress.
Speaker 2: That was a view from the second floor window.
Speaker 3: It was the building directly behind where the shooter was
Speaker 3: on a roof and explained he would or should have
Speaker 3: been seen by that local team.
Speaker 5: This is from the second floor of the ADR building.
Speaker 5: This point of view is the point of view where
Speaker 5: the counter sniper team locally was posted. The gold arrow
Speaker 5: indicates where the shooter fired from looking left.
Speaker 2: He is not happy.
Speaker 5: Why was the assailant not seen when we were told
Speaker 5: that building was going to be covered, that there had
Speaker 5: been a face to face that afternoon that our team
Speaker 5: leads met.
Speaker 3: Now, he kind of described this not just that breakdown
Speaker 3: in communication where Secret Service was told by local law
Speaker 3: enforcement we have our eyes on that AGR building and
Speaker 3: the rooftops that are closest to the president former president.
Speaker 3: There's also the communication breakdown that went from local law
Speaker 3: enforcement to the Secret Service. Once they had identified this
Speaker 3: guy as suspicious, they didn't see him with a weapon
Speaker 3: until literally seconds before the shooting started, and at that
Speaker 3: point the communication never got to the Secret Service team,
Speaker 3: although leading up to it, they had plenty of opportunity
Speaker 3: to say, we got a suspicious guy walking around. He's
Speaker 3: you know, this is weird because this is the only
Speaker 3: area that has a clear line of sight everyone side event.
Speaker 1: Everyone has a different story because the head of the snipe,
Speaker 1: the local sniper team yesterday said, hey, we were the
Speaker 1: ones who tipped the Secret Service off or the higher
Speaker 1: ups whoever that was. I don't know if it rose
Speaker 1: to the level of the the bosses on scene with
Speaker 1: the Secret Service, but we noticed that guy an hour
Speaker 1: before he started shooting, and we let people know. So
Speaker 1: it's just everyone's covering their own ass. It wasn't my fault,
Speaker 1: it's their fault kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: And it will it will be nice to see some
Speaker 2: people fire. It will be nice. Yes.
Speaker 1: So Donald Trump yesterday repeated his weekend remarks to Christian's
Speaker 1: Summit attendees that they would never need to vote again
Speaker 1: if they just vote for him in November.
Speaker 3: We talked about it yesterday because it was an odd thing.
Speaker 3: Christin Knew, Governor of New Hampshire, had to come out
Speaker 3: and he said, it's just Trump.
Speaker 2: Be and Trump right.
Speaker 1: Thing that was shocking to not shocking. Nothing is shocking
Speaker 1: coming from Donald Trump, but that he used the word
Speaker 1: fixed twice with referencing the election.
Speaker 2: Right, it'll be fixed, It'll be fixed. You can't. That
Speaker 2: doesn't sound good.
Speaker 3: So Laura Ingram from Fox sat down with the president
Speaker 3: former president and asked about.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to give you the.
Speaker 3: National stage for you to clarify what you were saying.
Speaker 1: You said to a crowd two of Christians that they
Speaker 1: won't have to vote in the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me say, what did that mean by that?
Speaker 4: I had a tremendous crowd speaking to Christians almost. I mean,
Speaker 4: this was a crowd that liked me a lot. I
Speaker 4: think I'm in ninety seven percent or something. And they're
Speaker 4: treated very badly by this administration. Okay, Catholics are treated unbelievably.
Speaker 4: They're like persecuted. And if I might say, before I
Speaker 4: go into the other Jewish people, if you're Jewish and
Speaker 4: you vote for Biden or the Democrats or Kamala or
Speaker 4: whoever's going to run, I guess it's going to be her.
Speaker 4: But if you voted for her or the Democrats, you
Speaker 4: should have your head examined. Because nobody's ever been treated
Speaker 4: so badly.
Speaker 3: Okay, he hasn't explained it and answered the question. She sorry,
Speaker 3: she Laura Ingram gives them another opportunity to go ahead.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you another chance. What were you
Speaker 3: meaning when you said the first time?
Speaker 2: Can you even just responded?
Speaker 4: I said, Christians. I started off by saying, just so
Speaker 4: you understand, you never vote. Christians do not vote well.
Speaker 4: They vote in very small percentages. Why maybe they're disappointed
Speaker 4: in things that are happening. But for a long time,
Speaker 4: I say you don't vote. I'm saying, go out, you
Speaker 4: must vote. November fifth is going to be the most
Speaker 4: important election in the history of our country, whether you
Speaker 4: vote earlier or not. We should have, by the way,
Speaker 4: one day voting. We should have voter ID, we should
Speaker 4: have proof of citizenship, and we should have paper ballots.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's why we should.
Speaker 4: But we don't have that. But I said to the
Speaker 4: Christians in the room, thousands of them, I said, typically
Speaker 4: Christians do not vote. Why it is? I don't know
Speaker 4: your rebellious something's going on. Don't worry about the future.
Speaker 4: Vote on. You have to vote on. No. After that,
Speaker 4: you don't have to worry about voting anymore. I don't care,
Speaker 4: because we're going to fix it. The country will be fixed,
Speaker 4: and we won't even need you vote anymore, because frankly,
Speaker 4: we will have such love. If you don't want to
Speaker 4: vote anymore, that's okay. And I think everybody understood it.
Speaker 4: I didn't know there was any Now, well, you think
Speaker 4: everybody understand.
Speaker 1: So is that a thing where Christians are said not
Speaker 1: to vote? I mean, I know the is it the
Speaker 1: majority of people that do identify as Christian in this country?
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if it's the largest, it is.
Speaker 3: The largest if you claim a religious denomination, all right,
Speaker 3: Christianity generally, yes, that would be.
Speaker 2: The largest, Okay.
Speaker 1: And so if voter turnout was low, then you could
Speaker 1: say that Christians don't vote. Yeah, what was voter turnout
Speaker 1: the last time around in general?
Speaker 2: Twenty five percent, twenty eight percent. That's low. It's always
Speaker 2: it's low.
Speaker 1: So so in that way, you can say that Christians
Speaker 1: don't vote if they're the biggest religious.
Speaker 2: Identification group.
Speaker 3: I mean it's somebody, somebody, some internal pollster said to him, Hey,
Speaker 3: they don't turn out in the numbers that we would
Speaker 3: have expected, and he says, Christians don't vote.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the way he interprets.
Speaker 1: So I can see him just saying, oh, just vote
Speaker 1: for me this one time, just this one time.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll take what I can get.
Speaker 1: Kind of a thing he's bargaining with, right, and he's
Speaker 1: not going to be running again, so it's just saying
Speaker 1: you just have to vote for me one time is accurate.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be the candidate the next time around.
Speaker 2: It's just messy.
Speaker 1: It's messy, and don't say it'll be fixed. That's where
Speaker 1: you get into problems.
Speaker 3: I mean he did clarify there where he said I
Speaker 3: mean the country will be fixed. Now by that, I
Speaker 3: mean sure, okay, was a mess but still not great.
Speaker 3: Do you want your Jeopardy question?
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Speaker 1: Also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse
Speaker 1: stealing and brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Who Is Wyatt earned?
Speaker 1: Yes, one of the greatest movies. Such a great movie.
Speaker 1: Don't say it. Don't say the line.
Speaker 2: Which one you know? Which one? I got two guns,
Speaker 2: one for each of you. That one challenge you to
Speaker 2: a spelling cap.
Speaker 1: I was thinking I'm your huckleberry. I'll be a but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry you'd neither here nor there, or
Speaker 1: I'm bringing hell with me or I'm bringing Yeah. A
Speaker 1: couple stories that we are following today. The Secret Services
Speaker 1: Acting Director says he considered it indefensible that the Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: roof it was used by the gunman in the attempted
Speaker 1: assassination of former President Trump was Unsecuredcting Director Ronald Road
Speaker 1: Junior faulted local law enforcement for not circulating urgent information
Speaker 1: ahead of the shooting and for not adequately protecting the scene.
Speaker 1: Israel has carried out a rare strike on Beirut, killing
Speaker 1: at least one person, raising the stakes in this escalating
Speaker 1: tensions with the Lebanese militant group has Belah. The Israeli
Speaker 1: military said the strike was targeting the militant commander that
Speaker 1: was supposed to be behind the deaths of a dozen
Speaker 1: kids in a weekend rocket attack on the Israeli controlled
Speaker 1: Goal On Heights. There was an article in The Atlantic, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's not kid ourselves, let's not stand on ceremony here, trying.
Speaker 3: To think I should ask her a question that she
Speaker 3: has to answer for a long time.
Speaker 1: You were like, tell me again about Crabtree, what went wrong?
Speaker 1: What do you think Jim Harbaugh should have.
Speaker 2: Done in that moment? And go with your face full
Speaker 2: of cheesecake? Is that are those both cheesecake? Or that
Speaker 2: carrot cake and cheesecake both? That's a carrot cake? Hold on, no,
Speaker 2: you do you all right?
Speaker 1: So this article was about how a world built for
Speaker 1: cars has made life so much harder for grownups, and
Speaker 1: they highlight a story about two moms, Amy and Alice.
Speaker 1: In the summer of two thousand and nine, these two moms,
Speaker 1: living on Grevell Road in Bristol in southwest England, found
Speaker 1: themselves in a strange predicament. Alice and Amy were talking
Speaker 1: one day, like women are wan to do when they're
Speaker 1: not putting on their makeup, and they realized that they
Speaker 1: saw entirely too much of their kids. Get these kids,
Speaker 1: We're like, why are they here? Why aren't they outside?
Speaker 1: So Amy and Alice decided to run an experiment. They
Speaker 1: applied to shut their quarter mile road to traffic for
Speaker 1: two hours after school on a June afternoon, not for
Speaker 1: a party or an event, but just to let the
Speaker 1: kids outside. Go play, go play, go see your friends.
Speaker 1: They did not prepare games or activities. Rose, it would
Speaker 1: have defeated the purpose of the inquiry. With time, space
Speaker 1: and permission. What happens, and we've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: It kind of goes back to the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Flies fallacy, right that kids left to their own devices
Speaker 1: will eat each other and burn each other down.
Speaker 2: That's not what happens.
Speaker 1: You get creative, You form connections, you socialize yourselves. When
Speaker 1: you're out playing with your friends and you don't have
Speaker 1: organized things.
Speaker 2: To do, you get creative. They said the.
Speaker 1: Results were breathtaking when they shut down this road. The
Speaker 1: dozens of kids who showed up had no problem finding
Speaker 1: things to do. One little girl cycled up and down
Speaker 1: the street three thousand times.
Speaker 2: Rose says she was totally blissed out. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: the other thing.
Speaker 1: I remember such feeling, such joy from riding my bike
Speaker 1: as a kid. Yeah, and it didn't have it didn't
Speaker 1: need to be going anywhere, maybe to thrifties to get
Speaker 1: ice cream or candy or something like that, but it
Speaker 1: could just just bend the freedom of riding your bike
Speaker 1: and feeling the breeze and being outside and being with
Speaker 1: your friends. It's such joy or skateboard or something. I
Speaker 1: don't feel that joy when I'm on my phone.
Speaker 3: No, but you also, I mean there's a different part
Speaker 3: of your brain that's working. But it's such an unnatural
Speaker 3: It's like the difference between a real sugar, I mean
Speaker 3: a natural sugar of something.
Speaker 2: Like the sugar that's in that cake. Yes, and like
Speaker 2: it's like a sugar. The first analogy you come up
Speaker 2: with on the topic, speak of it as sugar. It's
Speaker 2: like a frosting.
Speaker 3: But the difference between a natural sugar and one that is,
Speaker 3: you know, super processed.
Speaker 1: It's a difference between a raspberry and those little raspberry
Speaker 1: candies I used to love as a kid because I
Speaker 1: didn't have raspberries. I don't know why, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: used to love those candies. And then when I grew
Speaker 1: up and was buying raspberries, I was like, Oh, the
Speaker 1: real thing is like such a better show, much better.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They also talk about the importance of this notion
Speaker 3: that kids have a place in or near a roadway,
Speaker 3: which is a weird thing to think about when cars
Speaker 3: became ubiquitous in the twenties and thirties. They talk about
Speaker 3: how there used to be there used to be monuments
Speaker 3: to children who were hit and killed by cars, because
Speaker 3: it was a novel thing at the time, and they
Speaker 3: were celebrated to the point where almost the way we
Speaker 3: memorialized fallen soldiers. That's completely different now. A traffic safety
Speaker 3: is something that's taught in schools, you know, to be
Speaker 3: able to be road wise, to be aware of you know,
Speaker 3: how you cross a street, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And there are cities that have done.
Speaker 3: These programs, these play street programs.
Speaker 2: New York has had one since nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 3: Chicago launched a play Streets program in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: In twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: Portland, Oregon hosted its first events just last year in
Speaker 3: the process of finding a way to make the street
Speaker 3: itself available for kids once again. Like they did, I
Speaker 3: mean at the beginning of this article where they cut off.
Speaker 3: They blocked off the street for a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: And you're not getting in your car to take your
Speaker 1: kid to some sort of play area or play event
Speaker 1: or play date or what have you. So you have
Speaker 1: more time as an adult to I don't know, walk
Speaker 1: outside and talk to your neighbors, talk to the people
Speaker 1: your kids are playing with. And that means you're more
Speaker 1: invested in your neighborhood. You're looking out for each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny though, I mean you use the emphasizing
Speaker 3: the riding your bike and the freedom that you felt
Speaker 3: that when you were doing that. I'm thinking of when
Speaker 3: I would go to baseball practice. It was at Lucasey
Speaker 3: Park and I had to cross Highway one oh one
Speaker 3: to get.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard that name, Lucazy and.
Speaker 3: I had to cross the highway, I mean the highway
Speaker 3: that cut through the middle of town. I had to
Speaker 3: cross the highway to get to the park. And at
Speaker 3: the time, it's just an overpass and it wasn't very
Speaker 3: There's no bike lanes. This was, you know, the eighties,
Speaker 3: no bike lanes, and here's me rolling around as a
Speaker 3: ten eleven, twelve year old kid on a bike with
Speaker 3: my glove hanging off the handlebar. You had to do
Speaker 3: it yourself. You had to navigate all of that stuff
Speaker 3: by yourself. And once you did that, it gave you
Speaker 3: that sense of freedom that you could you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: it brings on a sense of an inevitable invincibility that's
Speaker 3: probably not smart.
Speaker 1: But Blue Casey Park had those fun fountains that would
Speaker 1: spurred up in the middle of the lake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ducks. Ducks were awful. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Those ducks would extreet excrete. Why can I not speak now? Wow,
Speaker 3: my tongue is numb from the cheesecake. They would excrete
Speaker 3: so much. Duck dung, well, you poop, not on the
Speaker 3: sidewalk next to an open body of water.
Speaker 2: I love the ducks.
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