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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hue Hewitt Show. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter.

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Speaker 2: You made me know me from such resume entries as

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Speaker 2: retired United States Army Infantry colonel thirty year Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: trial lawyer, senior columnist at Townhall dot com. You should

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Speaker 2: read me every Monday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I am

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Speaker 2: also the author of a number of books, including the

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Speaker 2: Kelly Turnbull series of People's Republic conservative action novels. The

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Speaker 2: most recent is Panama Read and some other ones, The

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Speaker 2: American Apocalypse and The Attack, which talks about terrorist attack

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Speaker 2: following a involving Iran. So maybe it's getting you know,

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Speaker 2: a little a little edgy. And also of course Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Silver Bullets on the Sunset Strip, which I wrote

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Speaker 2: with my wife Arena. It's a lot of fun. You

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Speaker 2: should check them all. Out on Amazon. So I love

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Speaker 2: guest hosting for Hugh hewittt on days like this because

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Speaker 2: we've got so much stuff going on. Uh, We've got

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Speaker 2: the State of the Union coming up, and you know

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Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about that. And we got some

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Speaker 2: great guests to do that with, including Michael Douglas, Michael

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Speaker 2: Duncan of Ruthless, and we've got Byra and the Oracle

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Speaker 2: show up, Michael Wattley, who was the chairman of the

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Speaker 2: RNC for a while now he's in New North Carolina

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Speaker 2: Senate candidate. We had some great folks. We've got hockey,

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Speaker 2: which I look, I'm from California. Man, I'm not a

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Speaker 2: hockey guy, but how can you not love the guy

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Speaker 2: with the tooth knocked out, He's all happy, he's holding

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Speaker 2: the American flag and a whole bunch of shrill ssri

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Speaker 2: I win and women are going.

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Speaker 3: How can you do this? You're you're you're you're committing

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Speaker 3: genocide on stolen land. This stole was you took the land.

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Speaker 2: Where was your land acknowledgment?

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Speaker 3: You didn't acknowledge the land. Also, you are mean to

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Speaker 3: the women who won, who also didn't acknowledge the land.

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Speaker 3: I'm sad and no man wants me, and that's why

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Speaker 3: I'm bitter.

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Speaker 2: And these hockey guys are amazing because you know they're

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Speaker 2: getting they're getting shrieked at by these proto feminist nuts

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Speaker 2: who apparently are all indoors because it's too cold to

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Speaker 2: go out and hassle the working class heroes of ice. So, uh,

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Speaker 2: they've got nothing better to do but gulp some chardonnay

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Speaker 2: and type about how terrible it is that these guys

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Speaker 2: actually actually accept an invitation for the president of the nuts.

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Speaker 2: How can you believe it? That is a that's actually

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Speaker 2: not a cut, but it could have been, and we

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Speaker 2: will have well, we will have some cuts from these

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Speaker 2: people because they are amazing and they're terrible. So they're

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Speaker 2: freaking out about men being happy, and they're freaking about

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Speaker 2: out about the state of the Union. Wait, while we're here,

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Speaker 2: Angie Representative Angie Craig, who's one of that. She's like

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Speaker 2: spam Burger without the weird pale Sandra Locke vibe. She's

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Speaker 2: not going to the State of the Union, folks. Trump's

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Speaker 2: breaking norms, so I'm going to break norms because of

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Speaker 2: is great number nine.

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Speaker 4: And I'll just end with this. I would rather stick

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Speaker 4: But this is the people's House and I will not

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Speaker 4: abandon the people's House.

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Speaker 2: So she's got illin Omar behind her right, and she's

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Speaker 2: This Angie Craig lady just putting off the vibe of

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Speaker 2: and if you and if you don't submit, I will

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Speaker 2: stick forks in my eyes. And the hockey guys, I

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Speaker 2: It is. It is if these people are searching for

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Speaker 2: why I'm able to be in the Congress and able

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Speaker 2: the State of the Unions isn't serious, but it's Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: You know it's gonna be. It's not gonna be like

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Speaker 2: any State of the Union from anybody else, let me

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Speaker 2: tell you, Gosh, And I hope nobody breaks the norms

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Speaker 2: by I don't know, ripping up his speech behind him

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Speaker 2: because it's important to have norms. But we've got we

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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, who has about sixty four. In fact, he

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Speaker 2: because he was working down a chiffy loop. He's briefing

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Speaker 2: the Gang of Eight, which are the eight Intelligence Committee

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Speaker 2: entrusted with the highest of highest of secrets. And they're

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Speaker 2: talking about the what can or may happen in Iran?

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Speaker 2: It could happen today. How much of a baller move

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Speaker 2: Because it's like right now it's getting it's getting direk

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Speaker 2: carriers disgorge their fighters. You got F three fives, you

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Speaker 2: stand off and shower it with cruise missiles joined by

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Speaker 2: the couse. We got about a third of our surface

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Speaker 2: Tehran right now. The correlation of forces is not in

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Speaker 2: And you don't want them knocking at your door anymore.

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Speaker 2: You want delta force knocking at your door. You know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. That's not that's a that's a one

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Speaker 2: way ticket to your seventy two virgins, and I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: not thinking that the malla's well, I'm not thinking the

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Speaker 2: you know, not the kind they want. In any case,

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Speaker 2: let's uh, let's go and see what Ted Cruz had

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Speaker 7: Look, I think the President's leadership on Iran has been incredible.

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Speaker 7: The decision to bomb Rand's nuclear facilities was the single

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Speaker 7: most important national security so serious, it took enormous to

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Speaker 7: honess exactly, and it was a spectacular success. We are

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Speaker 7: at a moment, Joe, where in the next six months

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Speaker 7: we could realistically see the regimes in Iran, Venezuela, and

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Speaker 7: governments that want to be friends with America. Now, now

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Speaker 7: let me be clear, there are a thousand ways that

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Speaker 7: But if that happened, that would be the biggest geopolitical

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Speaker 7: shift since the fall of the Berlin Wall. And so

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Speaker 7: tonight I expect the President to talk about historic successes

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Speaker 7: over this last year because it really has been an

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Speaker 7: extraordinary year, both in national security and foreign policy, but

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Speaker 7: also in domestic policy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Ted Cruz. When I hear a Republican talk

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Speaker 2: like that, I need a cigarette and a cuddle. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we are in the Maduro gone right, the Mala's imagine

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Speaker 2: the Mala's gone, Imagine Cuba free. We're taking care of all,

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Speaker 2: We're settling all family business. Trump is Michael Corleoni. Look out, Barzini,

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Speaker 2: Stachi and all the rest of it. Ta taglia. He's

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Speaker 2: coming knocking, and you're gonna let him in. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be amazing. We're have an amazing show today. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen, but stick around and find out.

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Speaker 2: I'm guess it's kerch Schlicker on the Huhuet show. Less out.

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Speaker 2: That's social distortion. With it's cover of the Rolling Stones

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Speaker 2: classic under My Thumb, played in honor of America's men's

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Speaker 2: hockey team and women's hockey teams. They both dominated the

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Speaker 2: Maple Syrup Gang. They crushed the leafs, they broke the

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Speaker 2: men of the barren wasteland that is Canada. I couldn't

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Speaker 2: be happy, or what about a pinco weenies. I'm now

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Speaker 2: joined by Michael Duncan from the Ruthless Podcast. Michael, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: look like a hockey player.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I had to get into the spirit, you know,

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Speaker 8: the hockey teams here in Washington, d C. For the

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Speaker 8: state of the Union. It's amazing, It's amazing, And I

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Speaker 8: love what you said there, Kurt. I'm drinking maple syrup

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Speaker 8: tears too.

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Speaker 2: I love it where you should have a michelob in

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Speaker 2: your hand just to complete damage and break out one

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Speaker 2: of your teeth. Maybe suggest that you and smogfly coach

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Speaker 2: on Southwest, that'll do it with him. I was listening

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Speaker 2: to you guys on the way down here. You guys

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Speaker 2: are Ruthles podcast are great and I couldn't think of

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Speaker 2: anybody better to have on to give me their take

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Speaker 2: on this whole hockey thing. How do you figure the

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Speaker 2: Democrats after coming off a week last week of gathering

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Speaker 2: together and deciding, yeah, let's come out against dogs, decided yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's come out against America winning a gold medal in hockey.

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Speaker 2: I mean, is it some kind of complex plan, some

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Speaker 8: I think they're pretty stupid. I mean, there's nobody better

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Speaker 8: in politics from snatching the defeat from the jaws of

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Speaker 8: for the entire American people to celebrate, and so of

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Speaker 8: course they found a way to be on the opposite

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Speaker 8: the Canadians who beat us in the Four Nations last year,

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Speaker 8: booing our national anthem. We finally get some redemption, and

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Speaker 8: the Democrats are taking their side.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible. I find it amazing that they're running articles

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Speaker 2: to affect up. Are you sad because people are embracing

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Speaker 2: and loving America's flag? Do you miss the land acknowledgment

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Speaker 2: that we should have given but didn't. You're not alone,

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Speaker 2: Yes you are. You're a lonely shut in who no

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Speaker 2: one loves.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 8: And these people don't even like sports, Kurt, I mean,

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Speaker 8: how can you disagree with a team like the the

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Speaker 8: USA hockey team.

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Speaker 2: You got Jack Hughes up there.

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Speaker 8: The first thing he says in the postgame interview is

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Speaker 8: we're just so proud to be Americans.

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Speaker 2: And they're against it. The Democrats are against it. It's shocking. Well, uh, look,

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Speaker 2: I'm from California. Nothing shocks me. I have a governor

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Speaker 2: who just explained to an audience of black people, I'm

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Speaker 2: just as dumb as you. As his way of extending

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Speaker 2: Bateman here, I don't know what. I don't even know

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Speaker 2: what's up with that. Let me ask you something. We

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Speaker 2: have the State of the Union coming up, and I

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Speaker 2: never know what Donald Trump's gonna do. Are we gonna

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Speaker 2: get regular? Are we gonna get like pretending to be

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Speaker 8: And I mean, we're approaching tax season, Kurt, and I

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Speaker 2: One of the things I love about you guys, I'm ruthless.

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Speaker 2: You guys are funny. You guys are smart, but you're pros.

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Speaker 8: No, I mean, if history is our guide, when more

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Speaker 2: I love hearing that. Michael Duncan from one of my

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Speaker 2: I'm guess it's Kirch stick around. We got a lot

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Speaker 2: Hugh Hewitt Show. We're joined by one of my favorite guests,

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Speaker 9: Well, my short answer is Trump's going to be Trump,

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Speaker 2: David, have we ever seen the kind of weird, got

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Speaker 2: Well evaluate this contention. I think that the midterm, the

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Speaker 9: macro indicators, you know, stock markets.

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Speaker 10: Booming, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 9: If people don't feel it, then it's not going to

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Speaker 9: do Republicans any good. And I agree with you that

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Speaker 9: the president should focus on the economy. His style is

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Speaker 9: not one of focus. And you know, as his own

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Speaker 9: advisors have said that he's going to say and do

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Speaker 9: what he wants, So we need to do this over here.

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Speaker 9: One thing he should at least try and do. And

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Speaker 9: I believe he should take your advice. And you know,

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Speaker 9: it's just what we see in the polling is stop

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Speaker 9: saying things like I want affordability. It's a hoax. It's

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Speaker 9: something that Americans definitely feel. It's why I started reporting

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Speaker 9: on it and even reporting on the terminology which I

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Speaker 9: first started noticing toward the end of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 9: four campaign that helped him, and at the beginning of

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Speaker 9: last year that.

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Speaker 10: Began to cause him trouble.

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Speaker 9: And so if he can just not say I've won,

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Speaker 9: it's not a thing, and just say I see where

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Speaker 9: you're coming from, and that's why I'm working hard and

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Speaker 9: things are turning around. At least it shows the voters

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Speaker 9: that he understands where they're at, and that's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, not a lot of people know more about

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Speaker 2: what's going on in Washington than our own regular David Drucker,

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Speaker 2: Senior Commentsotownhall dot com, author of a bunch of books

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Speaker 2: either a Loane or with my wife Arena. Should go

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Speaker 2: check those out. And I was a trial lawyer too.

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Speaker 2: Now let's let's get serious here for a moment. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk to my pal Jim Hanson, former Green Beret paratrooper,

462
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Speaker 2: famous Rush fan. And I don't mean just Limbaugh, Jim, Jim,

463
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Speaker 2: do you feel bad about being Do you feel bad

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Speaker 2: about being pro Canadian with a band like Rush or

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Speaker 2: or a Rush of some of the good ones.

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Speaker 11: You know, any band that uses ein rand in their

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Speaker 11: lyrics is okay by me.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I think the red Barchetta should have been

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Speaker 2: an EV and Tom Sawyer should have I don't want

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Speaker 2: to misgender Tom Sawyer. So enough Rush based humor. Yeah, Wow,

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Speaker 2: we really went down that rabbit hole. Speaking of rabbit holes,

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Speaker 2: you you were a Special Forces soldier, and you you

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Speaker 2: understand some of the stuff that's going on in a

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Speaker 2: way a lot of regular folks don't. And we got

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Speaker 2: two operations going on right now, one of which is

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Speaker 2: very public, that's the Iran issue, the second not so much.

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Speaker 2: But I have a feeling that the guys that the

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Speaker 2: guys at Camp Pendleton are on probably on a pretty

479
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Speaker 2: short leash right about now, if you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they're close to some very bad things happening that

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Speaker 11: we've been kind of whistling past the graveyard on for

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Speaker 11: a long long time. I think one of the things

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Speaker 11: that the Trump administration did was instead of just whistling,

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Speaker 11: they went ahead and designated the cartels and called them the.

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Speaker 12: Terrorists they are.

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Speaker 11: Now you can say they're just criminals and whatnot, but

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Speaker 11: the amount of damage that they do death destruction and

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Speaker 11: intimidation of government entities to get what they want makes

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Speaker 11: them firmly in the arena of terrorist groups.

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Speaker 12: And now they're showing just why that's true.

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Speaker 2: Now they're able to do kind of widespread demonstrations, you know, fires,

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing. They'll shoot it out eventually. We

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Speaker 2: see a lot of footage, Now you and I are

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Speaker 2: military guys, we see a lot of footage of you know,

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Speaker 2: these guys decked out in their battle gear and there's

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Speaker 2: twelve of them, and they've got AK forty seven's, and

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Speaker 2: you know, normal people look at them and go, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, they've got an army. And you and me

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Speaker 2: look at them and go, that's a platoon that probably

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Speaker 2: hasn't trained together in lanes, doesn't have artilleries, radio, you know,

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Speaker 2: comm support ISR, or any of the logistics, any of

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Speaker 2: the other things that actually make them a modern military force.

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Speaker 2: How are the you know, random groups of Sakarios who

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Speaker 2: have gone down to the local uh uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: five to one one store and bought a bunch of

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Speaker 2: equipment different from actual combat formations.

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Speaker 11: You know, it's quite a bit easier to slaughter civilians,

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Speaker 11: to slaughter government officials, you know, to kill your enemies

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Speaker 11: in their bed, than it is to go force on

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Speaker 11: force with anybody who knows how to fight.

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Speaker 12: These guys have never fought.

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Speaker 11: You know, they're they're doing some things right now that

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Speaker 11: are military ish, you know, military adjacent, but not not really.

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Speaker 12: The same thing.

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Speaker 11: So I think as soon as the Mexicans decide how

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Speaker 11: they want to handle this with their forces, and we

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Speaker 11: decide what pieces of this actually matter to us, they're

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Speaker 11: going to die in bunches and it'll be good for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Without revealing anything. You and I are both long and retired.

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Speaker 2: Does the United States have a military training relationship or

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Speaker 2: an actual operational relationship with Mexican forces that we know

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Speaker 2: from public sources?

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Speaker 12: We do. I don't know how public it is.

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Speaker 11: But there's always been training because of the border, you know,

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Speaker 11: there's always been a connectivity with the Mexicans. It's been

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Speaker 11: degraded over the past five to ten years. After actually,

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Speaker 11: you could probably say after Trump went ahead and told

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Speaker 11: them you can't just let everybody who comes from the

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Speaker 11: South walk into America, you know, and park in Mexico

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Speaker 11: until they get ready to come in.

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Speaker 12: So the whole thing has gone a little.

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Speaker 11: Bit south, and now we may be going a little

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Speaker 11: bit south to clean up the.

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Speaker 12: Mess that's been brewing there.

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Speaker 11: And there are elements of the Mexican forces who we

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Speaker 11: will interoperate with.

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Speaker 2: One last question on Mexico. If they do something really stupid,

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Speaker 2: and they generally haven't since the fallout from murdering Dagent

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Speaker 2: and Reiki Camarina forty years ago, I think they learned

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Speaker 2: their lesson. But should they go and kill a bunch

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Speaker 2: of Americans stuck in Portavarda. What happens to them?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's a fortune of their geography that

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Speaker 11: they live right next to the most productive and greatest

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Speaker 11: country in the world.

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Speaker 12: But it's also a responsibility.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 11: You don't get to be the dirt bags of the neighborhood.

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Speaker 11: Allow cartels to operate, you know, and in many cases

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Speaker 11: it looks like the government has been deeply involved with

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Speaker 11: getting paid allowing it, and through fear, intimidation or just greed,

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Speaker 11: let this fester. They need to clean that up. If

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Speaker 11: they do not do that in an effective way. There

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Speaker 11: are a lot of pipe hitters on our side of

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Speaker 11: the border who would be perfectly willing to go ahead

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Speaker 11: and teach those people lesson and square things away.

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Speaker 2: Let's shift to the other side of the globe. Right now,

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Speaker 2: we see the forces accumulating. Naval forces about third of

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Speaker 2: our surface fleet is off within striking distance of Iran.

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Speaker 2: We have a major major aviation assets from the air

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Speaker 2: force as well. That would be you remember the sun

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Speaker 2: Sooux concept, that young and the chi. The young is

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Speaker 2: the force you see, and that you expect the enemy

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Speaker 2: to focus on. That chi is that kind of right cross,

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Speaker 2: that hidden knife? You don't expect the stiletto? What's the

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Speaker 2: chi here? What are the Iranians not seeing that's going

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Speaker 2: to knock them on their seventh century savage tails?

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Speaker 12: I would bet I don't have a specific target. I've

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Speaker 12: said a couple of times.

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Speaker 11: I think hitting carg Island their oil term, which would

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Speaker 11: basically shut down their economy, is a very simple.

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Speaker 12: Way to go ahead and not have to expend a

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Speaker 12: lot of resources and make them all feel the pain.

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Speaker 11: But I think the Israelis have some ideas about how

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Speaker 11: to make this more effective. You know, fly some more

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Speaker 11: missiles through people's bedroom windows, things like that. I doubt

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Speaker 11: there will be the massive, you know, armageddon like attack

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Speaker 11: at first. I think President Trump's going to end up

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Speaker 11: having to show them something and it'll be, like you said,

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Speaker 11: a punch. They're not expecting. To try and get their

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Speaker 11: attention before this goes big.

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Speaker 2: You look at carg Island. There there is another option.

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Speaker 2: Rather than leveling it, we could take it. We have marines,

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Speaker 2: we have naval special forces. There's something to be said

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Speaker 2: from taking their ground, not only to have physical possession

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Speaker 2: of it, but imagine the humiliation of these barbarian apocalyptic

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Speaker 2: chie Hawti creeps having the Infidels go snatch their most

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Speaker 2: prized possession and they can't do a thing about it.

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Speaker 2: So you're fighting not only on the military on the

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Speaker 2: military side, but you've got economic and information impacts just

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Speaker 2: by grabbing that refinery.

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Speaker 12: You know. There is a four.

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Speaker 11: Star admiral he's since past named Ace Lions who suggested

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Speaker 11: that during the hostage crisis in nineteen seventy nine, when

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Speaker 11: the Iranians actually took our embassy and the fifty two hostages,

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Speaker 11: that was his suggestion right there, and it's still as

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Speaker 11: good an idea as it was. You know, it's messy.

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Speaker 11: There are things you have to deal with. They could

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Speaker 11: shoot a bunch of missiles. I mean, I mean, the

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Speaker 11: funny thing is you send the seals in, they take it,

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Speaker 11: we damage a few valves so they can't use it

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Speaker 11: for a while or whatever, and then they deed ma

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Speaker 11: ou out and the Iranians hid.

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Speaker 12: It back and destroyed themselves. That would be one of

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Speaker 12: those Jedi mind tricks I could get behind.

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Speaker 2: Look, any plan that Jimmy carr or wouldn't adopt is

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Speaker 2: presumptively good.

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Speaker 12: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: Last question and we got one. We got about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 2: You were in the special forces community without being specific

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Speaker 2: about anything, because we don't want to compromise anything. Is

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Speaker 2: there a role for American Ground special Forces in this

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Speaker 2: operation beyond carg Island.

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Speaker 11: I think there is definitely a role. If we decide

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Speaker 11: that this is no longer negotiations. We're trying to topple

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Speaker 11: them for maybe CIA paramilitary and potentially SF on the

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Speaker 11: border provinces, arming them to start a RUCKUS not in

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Speaker 11: trying to get into the cities and do messy stuff.

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Speaker 2: That would be too bad. If the Iranian Mullas were

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Speaker 2: overthrown and subject to the justice of their people. I'd

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Speaker 2: be all broken up. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is the

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Speaker 2: Hugh Hewitt Show. We'll be right back. Less progressive John,

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Speaker 2: We're back on to Hewitt. John guess Hos Kurt Schlicker

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Speaker 2: with one of my favorite people in the world, novelist

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Speaker 2: columnist author Michael Walsh's most recent book, Arrage to Conquer.

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Speaker 2: You Must Get It. Michael, I want to talk to

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Speaker 2: you about the American hockey team, but first I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about your dad, who's a legit

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Speaker 2: American hero.

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Speaker 12: Thank you. Yeah.

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Speaker 13: He passed away just short of his hundredth birthday earlier

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Speaker 13: this month, so he got buried with full Marine Corps honors.

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Speaker 13: He's a veteran, as you know, Kurt, and as readers

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Speaker 13: of my book Last Stands No, he is a veteran

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Speaker 13: of the Chosen War, of the Chosen Reservoir Campaign and

635
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Speaker 13: during the Korean War, as well as many other battles

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Speaker 13: in Korea, including me and John Landing and the Battles

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Speaker 13: of Soul and also, Sir lived in Vietnam and served

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Speaker 13: as a military attache to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

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Speaker 13: in the nineteen sixties, I believe when we were living

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Speaker 13: in Hawaii. So he lived a very long and full life,

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Speaker 13: and he was healthy right up to the end and

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Speaker 13: died after a very short illness of two days. So

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Speaker 13: he went out peacefully, and he went out like a Roman,

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Speaker 13: which is all we any of us can ask for.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you wrote about him in the last chapter

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Speaker 2: of your prior book, Last Stands, and I think it's

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Speaker 2: the best thing you've ever written. And I read everything

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Speaker 2: you've read. In fact, you actually allowed me to read

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Speaker 2: it when was still in the pre publication today and

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Speaker 2: it just noted my socks off. Whenever I'm down on myself,

651
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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I try harder because you got to

652
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Speaker 2: try to do what Michael did. It's amazing.

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Speaker 13: Well thanks he You can imagine what was like growing

654
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Speaker 13: up with him. And I said at his eulogy, as

655
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Speaker 13: the oldest of the five children, you know he raised

656
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Speaker 13: to never give up and always fight for what you

657
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Speaker 13: believe in and what's right, and just keep on keeping on.

658
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Speaker 13: And I told the assembled group that was there to

659
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Speaker 13: observe his passing that we were Catholics. First Marine's second

660
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Speaker 13: and Irish third. But I discovered in among his papers

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Speaker 13: that were also American Indians that on his mother's side

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Speaker 13: there is a line of French Canadian Micmac Indians from

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Speaker 13: Nova Scotia that goes back unbroken to the seventeenth century.

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Speaker 13: So I knew my great grandmother on that side, and

665
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Speaker 13: she spoke Acadian French, not Quebecua. And so this line

666
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Speaker 13: of the family is very interesting for me as a

667
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Speaker 13: historian and a genealogist. So I will be pursuing that

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Speaker 13: in the summer when I can get up to Nova

669
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Speaker 13: Scotia and actually see where that branch of the family originated.

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Speaker 2: Well, it'll be exciting to have a family thanks Giving

671
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Speaker 2: with Elizabeth Warren in attendance, So that going for you.

672
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Speaker 13: But I am more Indian than that's for sure.

673
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Speaker 2: Well, look, your father sounds like a normal American, which

674
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: means he'd be thrilled that the American men's demand the

675
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: American women's team both won gold medals at the Winter

676
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Speaker 2: Olympics against Canada, no less, which just makes it all

677
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 2: the more sweeter, like a vintage maple syrup. What do

678
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 2: you make of this bizarre hatred of these young men

679
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Speaker 2: who are excited about their victory, excited about winning one

680
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Speaker 2: for their country. And this, this line of frigid ssri

681
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: gobbling chardonnay swilling Herodins has nothing to say except wine,

682
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Speaker 2: complain and nag about it.

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Speaker 13: Well, I just want to say to tie this in

684
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Speaker 13: with my dad. He was outstanding in many sports, very

685
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Speaker 13: famous New England high.

686
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Speaker 12: School football player, but most of all hockey player.

687
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Speaker 13: So having grown up in San Diego and Honolulu, I

688
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 13: had no idea what ice skates were, and I've never

689
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 13: been on a pair of ice skates, but apparently he

690
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 13: was very good. And so now we have this Canadian

691
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Speaker 13: element in the family too. I would say he'd be very,

692
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Speaker 13: very happy. He was a huge sports fan. He watched

693
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Speaker 13: sports right up to the end, and hockey was the

694
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Speaker 13: great love of his life. As far as these Karens

695
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Speaker 13: are concerned, you know, Hugh, I'm older than you. I've

696
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Speaker 13: been around these people for more than half a century

697
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 13: and they are unfortunately mostly baby boomers who have been

698
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Speaker 13: transmitted through the female branch of the family. This woke

699
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 13: mind virus and it's got to be stamped out. And

700
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 13: there's many possible solutions to this thing. And want us

701
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Speaker 13: to just let it die out with us, which I

702
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 13: think is probably the easiest thing. We have a group

703
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Speaker 13: of people in this country and they excuse female very heavily.

704
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Speaker 13: And this is not a misogynistic remark. It's the truth

705
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Speaker 13: that they are frustrated, angry, hostile, always unhappy, constantly miserable.

706
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 13: And you can't imagine why this is true, because they

707
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Speaker 13: live lives of supreme luxury that would make a Roman

708
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Speaker 13: emperor blush with envy, and yet they just can't seem

709
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Speaker 13: to accept yes for an answer.

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Speaker 2: So it's a real, real.

711
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Speaker 13: Problem in the United States. It's a luxury problem that

712
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Speaker 13: first world countries have. But it's very dangerous because with

713
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Speaker 13: their attitudes towards abortion and the so called gender affirming care,

714
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 13: which will be outlawed and hated on like the way

715
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Speaker 13: we hate doctor Mingela today, we will hate these doctors

716
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 13: who did this to these children. But they advocate every

717
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Speaker 13: screwball idea that is anti West and anti Mail. As

718
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Speaker 13: a matter of course, it is a religion to them

719
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Speaker 13: and it needs.

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Speaker 2: To go away. You know, I'm Michael Walsh. I think

721
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: you really put your finger out when you talk about

722
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Speaker 2: a religion because they have to perform public, you know,

723
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: public acts of contrition, public sacraments, because if they were

724
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Speaker 2: it all cunning, if they were at all trying to

725
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: persuade rather than to demonstrate their own performative faith, they

726
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: would fake it. Oh yay, America won a hockey game.

727
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: Now let's redistribute the wealth. But they can't even do that.

728
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Speaker 2: Last week, Michael, they sided with foreign invaders, demanding that

729
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 2: we get rid of our dogs. I mean it's you know,

730
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Speaker 2: when you consistently choose the twenty side of the eighty

731
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Speaker 2: twenty issues, you're not concerned with winning.

732
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Speaker 12: What are you concerned with?

733
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Speaker 13: Well, they can't help themselves. But I would say this,

734
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Speaker 13: as you know, as you mentioned kindly, my first two

735
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Speaker 13: books in the military history series, Last Stands and Enraged

736
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Speaker 13: to Conquer. Well, I'm about two thirds of the way

737
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Speaker 13: through the final book, which is called The Wrath of God,

738
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Speaker 13: and it's about religious warfare, mostly among the Semitic religions

739
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Speaker 13: of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and how they have affected

740
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Speaker 13: our lives and what happens when one side beats the

741
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Speaker 13: other side. But what you learn from history is that

742
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 13: there is no culture that is atheistic, none, zero. So

743
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Speaker 13: now that the parents have succeeded in trying to transform

744
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Speaker 13: the United States into a sort of secular, humanist.

745
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Speaker 12: Atheistic polity.

746
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Speaker 14: Other cultures rush in.

747
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Speaker 13: To take advantage of that, and Islam in particular is very,

748
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Speaker 13: very potent. And one of the things people don't understand

749
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 13: because they say, well, how could the Christians have fought

750
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Speaker 13: among each other? How could the Arabs have won so

751
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 13: easily in the seventh and eighth centuries? And the answer was,

752
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 13: there was a vacuum into which they rushed, and in

753
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 13: the lands of the Christians and the Jews in the

754
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Speaker 13: Middle East, they were very often welcomed as liberators from

755
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 13: either Christian Orthodoxy or some other sectarian difference.

756
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Speaker 14: So at first the population.

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Speaker 13: Welcomed them because they were going to liberate them from

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Speaker 13: the oppression that they were feeling from the Byzantines.

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Speaker 2: Well, that sounds a little familiar, Michael Walsh. The language of.

760
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Speaker 14: Our prison is where we're are.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's where we are, thank you very much, Michael

762
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Speaker 2: Wals Go get his book, A Rage to Conquer and

763
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 2: his fantastic previous book Last Stands. I'm guess it's Kurt

764
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Speaker 2: Schleichter be right back, schlector of course that's Motorheads cover

765
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: of David Bowie's Classic Heroes, and it rocks, and of

766
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Speaker 2: course so does my next guest, America's number one motor

767
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Speaker 2: Head super Fan. It's Byron York of the Washington Examiner,

768
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Speaker 2: their chief political correspondent and one of my favorite people

769
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Speaker 2: in this business. Welcome, Byron.

770
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Speaker 15: What a great introduction. I'm Motherhead super fan.

771
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Speaker 6: Byron.

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this because I've got so many

773
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 2: things to throw at you. We could go an hour.

774
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 2: Let's start with the hockey team. In what universe did

775
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 2: the Democrats get together and decide it would be a

776
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 2: great idea or the leftists, really it would be a

777
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: great idea to come down four square against happy American

778
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: athletes who just won a stunning upset victory.

779
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Speaker 15: You know, I don't know where the Central Committee was

780
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 15: meeting on that one. It's really extraordinary. And if you know,

781
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 15: if you're history minded and you put the nineteen eighty victory,

782
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 15: you know which was not which is over the Soviet Union.

783
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 15: So it was a different character, but still it was

784
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 15: this incredible victory, totally unexpected by the United States, not

785
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 15: favored to win. And so you know, if you put

786
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 15: that toget with this. It's just extraordinary that you have

787
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 15: this group of people who are upset that A the hockey,

788
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 15: the American hockey team won, and B they think to

789
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 15: be a bunch of patriotic guys.

790
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 2: But it just I mean it, it seems it's either

791
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: dumb or psychotic. I mean, even if you were the

792
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 2: most cynical political operator, you might look at it and say, yay, America,

793
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 2: just take it off the tak They can't do that.

794
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know they could. They could have kind of

795
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 15: a memo to Democrats saying, now, you may not know this,

796
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 15: but many of the American people are patriotic, and you

797
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 15: know you don't want to offend them.

798
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 6: So when there is.

799
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Speaker 15: An instance like this, a national celebration, perhaps you should

800
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 15: try not to dump on it. So you know, you

801
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 15: would think.

802
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 2: But no, are these lunatics simply going to vapor lock

803
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: during this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Are we going

804
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 2: to see, you know, prominent democrats stand up and demand

805
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump make a land acknowledgment before celebrating our

806
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty It's bizarre, It's it's so dumb.

807
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 2: I understand, it's crazy. But it's also dumb.

808
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 15: You know, it's actually the idea of a land acknowledgement

809
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 15: before the State of the Union would be Oh, that's funny,

810
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 15: I got it.

811
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Speaker 2: Well, no, and Donald Trump had come out of well.

812
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: Many people are saying that this was the greatest job,

813
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 2: military conquering thing of all time. Many people are saying

814
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 2: it could be amazing. What do you say, what do

815
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 2: you think that? How do you think the State of

816
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 2: the Union's going to go tonight? Are we going to

817
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 2: get cautious, calm Trump or are we going to get

818
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 2: wild riffing Trump.

819
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 15: Well, look, I think you're going to get a bit

820
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 15: of a combination, and it's going to go very long.

821
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Speaker 15: The last one was is that ninety nine His longest

822
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 15: is ninety nine minutes, so you know there's there's always

823
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Speaker 15: the record go for one hundred. So I expected to

824
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 15: be a pretty long speech tonight where the President has

825
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 15: you know, very nicely crafted scripted set pieces that he

826
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 15: occasionally reads and then it begins to live between. So

827
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Speaker 15: I would expect it to be a standard you know,

828
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 15: Trump Stay of the Indian speech. But you have to

829
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Speaker 15: remember also, and this has nothing to do with Trump

830
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Speaker 15: in particular, Stay of the Union speeches are generally not

831
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Speaker 15: remembered for very long, and they're really long, they're kind

832
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 15: of they're kind of cool events because you see, you know,

833
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 15: essentially the whole government, you know, put together in one place.

834
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Speaker 15: So that's really nice to see. But as far as

835
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Speaker 15: a speech with substance and all that, not really that

836
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 15: big a deal.

837
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Speaker 2: Might he try to use this byron Yorke as the

838
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 2: start point of the nationalized version of the midterm campaigns

839
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 2: might hit you know, he could set the you know,

840
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: set his markers. Hey, the economy is doing great. We're

841
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: taking out the heads of the five families, starting with

842
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,240
Speaker 2: Maduro mull As. You're next.

843
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Speaker 15: Well, look, if if he gives a great speech, that's

844
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 15: going to be a great thing for Republicans in the midterms.

845
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 15: If it were actually memorable and a great speech, that

846
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 15: would be a great thing for Republicans. But you know,

847
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 15: like I said, I don't think it's going to be

848
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 15: that memorable, but it would be a good place to

849
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 15: stress the midterm agenda on the cost of living, because

850
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 15: you know, all we've been talking about lately has been Iran,

851
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 15: and before we were talking a lot about Venezuela and

852
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 15: these are not subjects that midterm electors care elector voters

853
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 15: care very much about.

854
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 2: Well, Byron York, I'm looking at the dal Jones. It's

855
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 2: up three hundred and seventy points right now. You know,

856
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 2: I was a lawyer for thirty years. I got my

857
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 2: retirement accounts, I got my house. I'm doing okay. Younger

858
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 2: people are really feeling this economy. They're not. The numbers

859
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 2: say it's improving, but they're not feeling it yet. Do

860
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 2: you think that people start feeling the good feelings in

861
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 2: sufficient time for the Republicans to avoid a wipeout in November?

862
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 15: Yeah, Well, if you listen to the Secretary of the

863
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Speaker 15: Treasurer and to the President, that they will and a

864
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Speaker 15: lot of these bigger tax refunds other provisions of the

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Speaker 15: big beautiful bill will be in and that will that

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Speaker 15: will show. But you know, what can you say? You

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Speaker 15: can't predict these things. And history, as you know, and

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Speaker 15: I'm sure all our listeners know, history really argues against

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Speaker 15: the president's party during mid terms. The only time a

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Speaker 15: president's party has picked up seats during mid terms since

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Speaker 15: since the New Deal has been George W. Bush in

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Speaker 15: two thousand and two and Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 15: both of which were very special. It's very different reasons.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, history is definitely against us, but you know,

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump did become the first non consecutive president in

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Speaker 2: about a century or so, so.

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Speaker 15: That's absolutely true. And Susie Wilds clearly thinks that a

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Speaker 15: nationalized election with Trump at the center of it can

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Speaker 15: win for Republicans. So, you know, we'll just have to

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Speaker 15: We'll just have to see. A lot of factors are

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Speaker 15: operating against the Republican Party right now, but I think

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Speaker 15: everybody in the party would be pretty happy if the

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Speaker 15: president seemed to be kicking off in mid terms tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well Byron York of The Washington Examiner, their chief political

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Speaker 2: consultant correspondent, Thank you very much for coming on to

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Speaker 2: Hugh Hewitt, John Guestros Kurt Schlichter. We have so much

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Speaker 2: more to come. Stick around because I've got somebody I've

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Speaker 2: wanted to talk to for a long time.

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Speaker 12: Here.

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Speaker 2: I've got former RNC head, current North Carolina candidate for

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Speaker 2: the Senate for the Republican Party, Michael Watley. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the Hugh Hewitt Show. It's good to be on with you.

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Speaker 2: Kurt Okay, let's get right into it. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: a soatisticated audience. You know, this is a smart audience.

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Speaker 2: Who we know your policies. I want to talk logistics.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk administration. I want to talk the

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Speaker 2: things that win the battles. And you were there in

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Speaker 2: the trenches. Let's talk nationally. Then let's talk about your campaign.

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Speaker 2: As a former RNC chairman, how do the Republican Party

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Speaker 2: candidates go about, you know, foiling the tides of history.

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Speaker 2: Because the tides of history are against us. We should

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Speaker 2: lose seats according to history in the midterms. How do

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Speaker 2: we keep from doing that? You know, there's there's two things.

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Speaker 2: There's a how and there's a why. Right, let's talk

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Speaker 2: about the why.

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Speaker 16: The fact is that Republican candidates when when they listen

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Speaker 16: to the voters, when they understand the issues that the

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Speaker 16: voters care about, and they put real solutions on the table.

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Speaker 6: That's what President Trump is doing right now.

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Speaker 16: He's leading the most transformative presidential term in our lifetime,

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Speaker 16: and he is rebuilding our economy. He has restored our

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Speaker 16: southern border, he's keeping our community safer, and he also

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Speaker 16: is making sure that we are taking care of the

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Speaker 16: men and women in uniform who are protecting our interests

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Speaker 16: and our allies around the world. Right, So when you

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Speaker 16: focus on those issues that the voters care about, that

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Speaker 16: gives you a tremendous leg up. When we talk about

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Speaker 16: the how you know that really is when it gets

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Speaker 16: into making sure that you're having that conversation with the

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Speaker 16: voters often enough so that they understand what you're doing.

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Speaker 16: The president with his State of the Union tonight, he

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Speaker 16: needs to draw out that conversation and connect the dots

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Speaker 16: between what he's doing and the impacts that we're going

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Speaker 16: to see. The fact that they passed the one big,

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Speaker 16: beautiful bill with Trump's middle class tax cuts, no tax

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Speaker 16: on tips, no tax on overtimes, no tax on Social Security.

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Speaker 16: You know, those are great sound boyds. But the impact

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Speaker 16: is going to be when people file their taxes this year,

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Speaker 16: they're going to get dramatically bigger you know, refunds. That

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Speaker 16: is a real world impact. That's what's going to matter

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Speaker 16: in the elections. Okay, let me analyze what you did.

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Speaker 16: I'm putting on my kernel hat again. You what you've

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Speaker 16: said is Donald Trump's doing great things with the imply

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Speaker 16: task of candidates tying themselves to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Look at what the enemy's doing. The enemy seems to

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Speaker 2: be making it all about Donald Trump. Donald Trump appears

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Speaker 2: to be the decisive ground during this fight. Am I

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Speaker 2: assessing it correctly?

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Speaker 6: I think you are.

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Speaker 16: You know, the fact is the Democrats that are in

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Speaker 16: Congress right now have no agenda other than opposing Trump.

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Speaker 16: You know, when you think about what the Democrats ran

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Speaker 16: on back in twenty twenty four, it was open borders,

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Speaker 16: inflationary spending, and a weak, woke America that didn't sell

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Speaker 16: with the American people. That's why we have a Republican

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Speaker 16: in the White House. That's why we have a Republican

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Speaker 16: House and a Republican Senate. And to this day, the

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Speaker 16: Democrats are still doubling down on that same failed agenda.

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Speaker 16: My opponent, Roy Cooper is a card carrying member of

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Speaker 16: the woke up and he has doubled down on stupid

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Speaker 16: because he is absolutely taking every one of these policy

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Speaker 16: positions that led Kamala Harris to defeat last year and

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Speaker 16: picking him up and making those his issues.

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Speaker 2: Now in the terms of this fight, it looks to

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Speaker 2: me like if Donald Trump, because of his policies, is popular,

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Speaker 2: will do fine. If he's unpopular, we won't. I think

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Speaker 2: the central issue determined in his popularity is not they's

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Speaker 2: making jokes with the hockey guys, although I think let

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Speaker 2: people like seeing them hang with the hockey guys. And

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's even taken out the heads of

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Speaker 2: the fine families like Maduro and the Malas and Cuba.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be the economy, and the economy's

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Speaker 2: doing fine for those of us who've done fine already.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of this is going to depend

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Speaker 2: on whether in July early August, people who have taken

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Speaker 2: the short end of the stick because of the Biden

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Speaker 2: economy and have not felt a recovery yet. If they're

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Speaker 2: not feeling a recovery, I think we're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: lot of problems.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: I think that that's very conventional wisdom, and it's conventional

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Speaker 16: for a reason. Right, every election comes down to kitchen

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Speaker 16: table issues. The fact is, in twenty twenty four we

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Speaker 16: ran on affordability. I gave over five hundred TV interviews

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Speaker 16: last year and in twenty twenty four talking about housing prices,

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Speaker 16: grocery prices, gasoline prices, and inflation. You know what we

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Speaker 16: saw was President Trump or Biden drove this country directly

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Speaker 16: into a ditch. And right now, the Republicans in the House,

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Speaker 16: the Republicans in the Senate, and President Trump are working

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Speaker 16: every day to get us out of that ditch.

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Speaker 6: And we're seeing signs that the economy is starting to roll.

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Speaker 16: Hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs are being created,

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Speaker 16: real wages are up year over year. GDP is growing,

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Speaker 16: inflation is down, you know, gasoline prices are down. But

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Speaker 16: we're certainly not ready to hang out a mission accomplished,

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Speaker 16: you know, Banner.

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Speaker 6: Yet, We've got a lot of.

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Speaker 16: Work to do, and that economy is going to be

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Speaker 16: a driving factor for us in twenty twenty six. Now, look,

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Speaker 16: I think we're going to be fine because I do

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Speaker 16: see the signs of growth in the economy.

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Speaker 2: But that's going to be a real big factor. Now

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Speaker 2: you mentioned the conventional wisdom is the economy. I would agree.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what everyone's going to focus on. What's

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Speaker 2: the thing we're not seeing. What's the thing that Republicans

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Speaker 2: can do that's going to surprise the Democrats and put

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Speaker 2: them off balance as the big terms approp you know.

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Speaker 16: The biggest issue that we're seeing here in North Carolina

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Speaker 16: is crime. You know the fact that that my opponent,

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Speaker 16: Roy Cooper was the most you know pro crime, you know,

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Speaker 16: governor that we've ever had in North Carolina. And we

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Speaker 16: see efforts all across the country to support the rioters,

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Speaker 16: to support illegal aliens, to support criminals, to put them

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Speaker 16: back on the streets again and again and again and

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Speaker 16: and really when we look at what President Trump has done,

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Speaker 16: cleaning up Washington, d C. Stopping the riots out in

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Speaker 16: Los Angeles, UH, and making sure that he's taking you know,

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Speaker 16: fentanyl off the streets, He's taking criminals off the street.

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Speaker 6: You know, we've seen deaths from fentanyl our way down.

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Speaker 6: We've seen the murder rate is down at historic clothes.

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Speaker 16: It's very important you know that that every family, what

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Speaker 16: they ultimately want is to get married by a house,

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Speaker 16: raise a family, and know that our kids are going

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Speaker 16: to be able to go get.

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Speaker 6: An education and grow up safe. And that's what President

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Speaker 6: Trump is fighting for.

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Speaker 16: It's a common sense agenda and that really is going

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Speaker 16: to define this election cycle.

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Speaker 2: Well, you have arguably the most critical Senate race in

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Speaker 2: the country, Michael Wattley. You're going up against tar Heel

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Speaker 2: span Berger, a fake moderate who's as left as left comes.

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Speaker 2: And believe me, I'm from California, I.

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Speaker 6: Know I get it.

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Speaker 2: How are you going to take this guy out? Not

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Speaker 2: just on policy, we know you've got the right policies.

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Speaker 2: Where are you going to attack him where he's weak?

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Speaker 2: What parts of the New North Carolina electorate are you

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Speaker 2: going to target that maybe people haven't activated before, or

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Speaker 2: maybe you're going to use a base strategy. How do

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Speaker 2: you intend to win?

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Speaker 16: Well, we're going to win by going out and talking

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Speaker 16: to every single community. When I was the state Party

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Speaker 16: chair for five years, I made a point to have

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Speaker 16: events in every single one of our hundred counties every

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Speaker 16: single year.

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Speaker 6: My truck has three hundred.

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Speaker 16: And eighty thousand miles on it right now because we

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Speaker 16: have driven around the state. I've already visited seventy seven

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Speaker 16: of our one hundred counties since I launched the campaign

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Speaker 16: last August. And it really does come down to having

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Speaker 16: those conversations with every single community and making sure that.

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Speaker 6: They understand that you're fighting for them.

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Speaker 16: You're not fighting for the interest in California, New York

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Speaker 16: and Illinois like Roy Cooper is.

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Speaker 2: Well, how much what percentage of Roy Cooper's money's coming

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Speaker 2: from out of state.

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Speaker 16: That's overwhelming. I mean, the fact is that he is

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Speaker 16: going to raise a ton of money. Democrats always raise

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Speaker 16: a ton of money. Kamala Harris outspent us on the

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Speaker 16: President Trump's campaign by over a billion dollars. The fact

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Speaker 16: is that good policy is good politics, and you got

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Speaker 16: to have obviously enough money, and then you need to

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Speaker 16: be able to go out there and have that conversation

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Speaker 16: with every single voting group and every single community across

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Speaker 16: the state.

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Speaker 2: Michael Wattley, how do we only have about fifteen seconds left?

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Speaker 2: How do Hugh HEWITTT listeners help you out to win

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Speaker 2: that critical seat in North Carolina.

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Speaker 16: Well, they can certainly donate to us at Michael Wattley

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Speaker 16: dot com. That's going to be the most critical factor,

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Speaker 16: and they can follow me.

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Speaker 6: At at Wattley NC on X.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael Wattley, take him down. Roy Cooper needs

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Speaker 2: to go find a job in the private sector. I'm

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Speaker 2: guest has Kurt Schlickter. This is the Hugh Hewitt Show

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Speaker 2: stick around.

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Speaker 17: our culture. We don't accept what he wants to do

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Speaker 2: It God, Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm joined by the easiest guest whoever ever shows up

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Speaker 2: on the uuit show, James Lilacs. All I have to

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Speaker 2: do is say, James throw out a topic and I

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Speaker 2: just sit back and enjoy a little coffee. James, the

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Speaker 2: hockey team and the leftist eruption there that followed Boom.

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Speaker 14: What I gotta do all you I gotta do all

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Speaker 14: your work for you here. That's that's all.

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Speaker 5: I am dropping nicol And and let me say, oh

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Speaker 5: the hockey team. Yes, well, you know I'm very close

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Speaker 5: to Canada. Back to just this week, we got a

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Speaker 5: lot of really cold air courtesy of Canada because there's

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Speaker 5: a noot between them and us to stop it.

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Speaker 14: But I love Canada, I always have.

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Speaker 5: However, I've been enjoying myself by hearing some of the

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Speaker 5: terms that Americans are coming up now with the Canadians,

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Speaker 5: my favorite being the Surupeans as in maple syrup and Europeans.

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Speaker 5: The Syropeans are unhappy because they lost this. And while

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Speaker 5: if America had lost this, I mean I was happy.

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Speaker 5: It was sort of like going back to the days

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Speaker 5: we beat the Rooskies. Apparently the Canadians are filling the

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Speaker 5: Roosky slot now when it comes to Olympic copy Usa

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Speaker 5: the miracle.

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Speaker 14: But if we'd lost, you know, life would go on.

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Speaker 5: I don't think we would be challenged or shattered as

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Speaker 5: a nation down to the pith in the core of

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Speaker 5: our soul. But the Canadians are taking it's very very

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Speaker 5: hard elbows up. They were supposed to beat us. They

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Speaker 5: were supposed to show that their goodness and decency. Trump's

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Speaker 5: the fascist state down here in every instance, and didn't

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Speaker 5: work out so.

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Speaker 14: Well for them. So, you know, we'll forget about it

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Speaker 14: in a couple of days.

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Speaker 5: It seems like a psychic wound which will take I

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Speaker 5: don't know, four years to heal until we meet again.

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Speaker 2: Well, what about our leftist friends who discovered that the

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Speaker 2: very worst thing possible, the ultimate crime, is to celebrate

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Speaker 2: an American victory, because after all, we're a genocidal country,

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Speaker 2: build on slavery, living on stolen land.

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Speaker 14: Yes, I believe you're referring to a huff Post piece.

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Speaker 14: Somebody in the Post said.

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Speaker 19: Boy, if waving all those flags and chanting USA makes

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Speaker 19: you feel uncomfortable, you're not alone.

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Speaker 14: Oh, I know, you're not alone.

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Speaker 12: That just has some news to be there.

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Speaker 5: Whether or not this is a widespread sentiment and people

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Speaker 5: from the center left onwards, I don't know. I do

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Speaker 5: know that it's you know, the only time that we

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Speaker 5: can probably you know, wave a flag is in a

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Speaker 5: certain set of prescribed circumstances in which we are doing

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Speaker 5: something that is not in the national self interest, does

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Speaker 5: not celebrate the country in any way.

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Speaker 14: I mean, I really want to see these people down

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Speaker 14: and just say all right, here's the price, here's the thing.

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Speaker 5: If you're unhappy about the national reaction to the to

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Speaker 5: the to the hockey victory, I got to warn you

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Speaker 5: about this thing coming up called the two hundred and

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Speaker 5: fiftieth anniversary of the country, because I'm thinking there might

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Speaker 5: be a few flags out there.

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Speaker 14: There might be a few people with the red hats

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Speaker 14: or waving there.

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Speaker 5: There might be people of whom you disagree on a spiritual, fundamental,

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Speaker 5: philosophical level, who are not walking around with long po

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Speaker 5: faces feeling ashamed for themselves and what the country has done.

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Speaker 5: There's going to be a lot of happy people on

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Speaker 5: the fourth of July. Maybe, like my dog, you'd best

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Speaker 5: stay indoors, not listen to the fireworks. My dog takes

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Speaker 5: a drama meine, so the fourth doesn't bug them that much.

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Speaker 5: I think it's time for a national prescription of extra

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Speaker 5: strength drama. Mean, what these people are going to have

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Speaker 5: to go through. But to tell you the truth, here

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Speaker 5: in Minnesota, which is a hockey hotbed, you know, we're

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Speaker 5: not really talking about it that much because we have a.

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Speaker 14: Brand new scandal on our hands, and that's a true

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Speaker 14: enough to headline to stay.

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Speaker 10: Would you like to know what that is?

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Speaker 2: I would like to lear more.

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Speaker 5: Yes, well you will indeed lear more because Leering apart,

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Speaker 5: of course, was part of the Learing Center, which was

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Speaker 5: the first we had the feeding the kids, the feeding

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Speaker 5: our future, our families of scandal, which they didn't feed anybody.

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Speaker 14: And then there's the Learing Center.

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Speaker 5: Which was the daycare scandal, which there was no daycare

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Speaker 5: being done in a lot of instances. And now what

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Speaker 5: we have is an autism scandal where it's a third

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Speaker 5: party auditor apparently has said that something like ninety percent

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Speaker 5: of the claims being made to the state for running

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Speaker 5: autism centers may have been fraudulent. At this point, I

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Speaker 5: am fully expecting to learn that the state of Minnesota

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Speaker 5: spent one point two billion dollars on colonoscopies for hamsters

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Speaker 5: and just signed off them because you know, well, it's

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Speaker 5: a good thing to do. They need those every few years.

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Speaker 5: The hearings at the state House today have said that

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Speaker 5: a lot of the people running these autism centers they

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Speaker 5: don't live in state. That only something like six out

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Speaker 5: of five hundred that have applied for licenses. Out of

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Speaker 5: the five hundred centers, only six of them have applied

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Speaker 5: for licenses now that they need to, and before when

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Speaker 5: they didn't need licenses, nobody you ever showed up inspected him,

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Speaker 5: almost as if you're creating a situation right for fraud

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Speaker 5: because you believe it would be mean to exercise oversight.

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Speaker 14: So autism is the latest.

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Speaker 5: Look for that to spread to other states, and everybody

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Speaker 5: started realizing, Hey, we're spending billions of dollars on autism too.

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Speaker 14: How many artistic kids do we have? Scandal money?

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Speaker 5: Oh, Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Look I'm feeling good right now because I'm from

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Speaker 2: California and I need a break. And we've got Tim Waltz,

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Speaker 2: you know, skipping his way to fail from failure to failures.

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Speaker 2: Has the whole ice thing calmed down? Have the shard

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Speaker 2: in a swilling ssri gobbling wine, women who finally found

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Speaker 2: meaning of their lives shouting at working class guys for

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Speaker 2: hauling away foreign rapists. Has that kind of settled? Or

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Speaker 2: is that still a thing?

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Speaker 5: No, it's it's settled inasmuch as you don't see every

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Speaker 5: day on Twitter or X I'm sorry or Instagram or

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Speaker 5: the other social media place, there's lots of lots of

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Speaker 5: people showing up and blowing the whistles and the rest

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Speaker 5: of it.

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Speaker 14: For a while, they're on my feet every day every night.

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Speaker 5: Was everyone showing up the center centers and throwing sex

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Speaker 5: toys in the rest of it?

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Speaker 14: No more so.

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Speaker 5: The question is if if a you know, if a

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Speaker 5: tree falls in the forest and there's nobody to post

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Speaker 5: it on social media as it actually happened. I'm sure

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Speaker 5: that there are still people out there following them around.

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Speaker 5: But everything seems to have dissipated a bit. Everything seems

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Speaker 5: to have calmed down. Kim Walt's got his mojo back

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Speaker 5: by being, you know, the man who was coming out

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Speaker 5: against this.

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Speaker 14: Never mind the fraud. Never mind the fraud, never mind

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Speaker 14: the rod.

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Speaker 5: I ask what Minnesota has now been nominated, apparently for

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Speaker 5: a Nobel Peace Prize. Now, I think you can nominate anybody,

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Speaker 5: but they're trying to get behind that and give it

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Speaker 5: to us collectively as the exemplars of peace and goodwill

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Speaker 5: with our reaction to Ice.

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Speaker 14: But I think that circus has moved on down the

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Speaker 14: road to elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: Well looks as Minneapolis goes. I hope and pray the

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Speaker 2: nation doesn't go again. I'm sitting here in California, and

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Speaker 2: it works my heart to have a state that's embarrassing

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Speaker 2: itself more than mine. I mean, my governor just explained

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Speaker 2: to an audience of black people that he is he's

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Speaker 2: dumb like they are, which I thought. I found that remarkable.

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Speaker 5: That was indeed quite a remarkable stapment. But I have

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Speaker 5: to push back into a little bit here. When people

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Speaker 5: say Minnesota, they're talking about, you know, a bifurcated entity

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Speaker 5: that is red on the outside and it's densely blue

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Speaker 5: in the inside. And even so the city itself, it's

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Speaker 5: not as though we're in flames again. It's not as

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Speaker 5: though every street corner was full of fire.

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Speaker 19: That was twenty twenty. It's still a beautiful place. It's

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Speaker 19: still generally populated by several decent people. Yasheria betcha A

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Speaker 19: lot of those old Fargo clichetes.

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Speaker 14: Apply, and I love it. I love it dearly.

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Speaker 5: It pains me what's happened in Minneapolis with the complete

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Speaker 5: parts of Minneapolis to the entirety of agreements.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, James Lilax, I appreciate it, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for the break thank you for a where I didn't

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Speaker 2: have to do much at all. I'm guess Ho's Kurg

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Speaker 2: Schlecktark will be like that.