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| 0:00.0 | Nick, before I ever got this wonderful job on this wonderful show, I was not a civics |
| 0:09.4 | buff. |
| 0:10.4 | Are you shocked? |
| 0:11.9 | Completely appalled. |
| 0:12.9 | However, I did have this one fact that I just loved pulling out, which was the fact |
| 0:18.2 | that the U.S. Congress has not declared war since World War II. |
| 0:25.0 | It was my makes you think, doesn't it, fact? |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, I learned that fact in a movie theater in 1997 when I first saw Wag the Dog. |
| 0:33.1 | Two things I know to be true. |
| 0:34.8 | There's no difference between good, flon, and bad flon. |
| 0:39.1 | And there is no war. |
| 0:41.0 | We show and then I say confirm there are no nuclear devices in the Canadian border. |
| 0:45.6 | And that fact is bizarre to comprehend, because of course we have been to war a bunch of |
| 0:51.0 | times since then, right? |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.6 | Makes you think, doesn't it? |
| 0:55.6 | This World War II off the top of my head, we've got the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf |
| 1:00.5 | War, War in Iraq, and the War in Afghanistan. |
| 1:04.4 | So what I hope you are thinking right now is how is that possible? |
| 1:08.8 | Given the fact that we haven't actually declared war in so long, the way the framers |
| 1:15.2 | intended it for Congress to make an official declaration essentially seems like a thing |
| 1:20.0 | of the past. |
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