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Speaker 1: full days now, seven fold days, accounting of the joint

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Speaker 1: American Israeli war against the Irani regime.

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Speaker 2: That's, of course, one way to view.

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Speaker 1: The other way to view, and the way that we

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Speaker 1: viewed here on the Josh Shammer Show is that the

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Speaker 1: Ironni regime has been at war with US for forty

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Speaker 1: seven years, essentially since the founding of this most theocratic, zealous,

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Speaker 1: a regime that literally was founded upon the storming of

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Speaker 1: was to commence a four hundred and forty day seizure

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Speaker 1: why we've been arguing all week, and I argue in

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Speaker 1: my syndicated column out on Friday, that this is not

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's starting a new forever war. That is Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump doing exactly that which he promised and vowed to

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Speaker 1: do and indeed has done thus far in his office

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Speaker 1: by winding down forever warse Let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: the state of affairs so earlier on Friday morning, Donald

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Speaker 1: to settle for anything less than unconditional surrender. Really, he

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Speaker 1: the United States is current negotiating position, or lack thereof,

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Speaker 1: is itself a remarkable development. Let's not forget here that

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Speaker 1: it is a large country. If you think back to

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Speaker 1: and so it is. It has a population of ninety million,

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Speaker 1: over the skies of Aron. The Iranian Air Force essentially

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Speaker 2: We will get you immunity, maybe even get.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to storm the bas seal and try

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Speaker 2: Just think about that for a second.

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Speaker 1: There, the Israeli Air Force is taking out i Rania

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Speaker 1: is probably going to be Cuba. Well, Donald Trump saying

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Speaker 2: Well, I had the same clip.

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Speaker 1: He got a little wordy, shall we say, when it

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Speaker 1: came to talking to Marco Rubio about Cuba. Let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and listen to this clip of Trump talking Rubio

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Speaker 3: As well as proud Miami sports fans. Secretary of State.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you he's going to go down as the

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Speaker 3: best secretary of state in the country's history.

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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, I don't want it to get too propt.

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Speaker 3: True. I don't want him to get too popular. You know,

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Speaker 3: when they get too popular, all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 3: see where's Marco. He's not around anymore. I don't see it.

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Speaker 3: He's doing some job, and your next one is going

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Speaker 3: but he says, let's get this one finished first. We

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Speaker 3: could do them all at the same time. But bad

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Speaker 3: things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Donald Trump essentially saying that Cuba is going

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Speaker 1: to be next, which is exactly what we've been speculating here.

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Speaker 1: There are all sorts of rumors flying around the Rubio

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Speaker 1: revolutionary back from nineteen fifty nine, Fidel Castro himself. There

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Speaker 1: will be apparently in touch with Roll Cashrow's grandson trying

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Speaker 1: to find some way to transition out of this despotic,

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Speaker 1: tyrannical communist regime. If America is going to be in

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Speaker 1: should be missed, but we're going to be in the

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Speaker 1: business of trying to reshape the geopolitical map and trying

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Speaker 1: to reshape the world in a more pro American image,

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Speaker 1: which very different, I would argue than Bush era nation Really,

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Speaker 1: we're not trying to nation build. What we're trying to

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Speaker 1: do is to project power in a way that redounds

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Speaker 1: to American national interest. That is a very very different

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Speaker 1: conception of American military might and power then the whole

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Speaker 1: Bush second Inaugural Address freem agenda. Donald Trump has no

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Speaker 1: interest in turning the United States Army into the Peace Corps.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to send a bunch of lawyers and

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Speaker 1: judges to sit down with people, whether it's in Havana

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Speaker 1: not going to do that because I forget it. It's

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Speaker 1: a non starter and there's not a proper conception of

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Speaker 1: what the United States is there for. We are there

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Speaker 1: to project and secure our interests. Okay, And if you

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Speaker 1: accept that role of American foreign policy, if you believe

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Speaker 1: as I do, that is the reason that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: Oran or elsewhere, then Cuba is the most obvious place

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Speaker 1: to go. It is right off our shore. It's ninety

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Speaker 1: side for a very very long time, for six and

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Speaker 1: a half decades there. China has been spying for a

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Speaker 1: very of the place is using Cuban facilities. Cuba just

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Speaker 1: lets the Chinese in, They let the Russians in. Their

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Speaker 1: Cuba allied with all the worst actors in the world.

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Speaker 1: They happened really since the regime came into power. They

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Speaker 1: It's an awful, awful, awful, awful regime. And if we're

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Speaker 1: going to be involved here in trying to project power,

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Speaker 1: I don't pretend to know exactly what an operation in

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Speaker 1: Cuba looks like. I'm not going to call for a

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Speaker 1: Baya Pigs two point zero or anything like that there.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that if you are going to operate,

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Speaker 1: and try to recalibrate it and away from China's interest

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Speaker 1: maybe above all, then you really could do a lot

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Speaker 1: worse than Cuba. Cuba is a is a fairly obvious

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Speaker 1: place to start. By the way, I Ano they're concerned.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of folks have had since Operation

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Speaker 1: Epic Fury got underway. There is the question of refugees.

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Speaker 1: We've had this conversation any any number of times. So

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Speaker 1: a little over a year ago, in February twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: I guess was right after Donald Trump came in power.

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Speaker 1: He had this joint press conference with Netanya who had

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Speaker 1: the White House, where Trump announced that the United States

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Speaker 1: but he does have this new border peace thing which

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Speaker 1: is basically an American initiative, so he kind of sort

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Speaker 1: very popular reaction. One of my first reactions was, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, I mean, this is kind of crazy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is not definitely not on anyone's BINGO card, but a

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Speaker 1: bare minimum zero zero fanatical Muslim refugees here in the

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Speaker 1: United States. Zero, not one, not two, not three, not four,

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Speaker 1: O five zero zero zero zero. So Pete heggsas the

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Speaker 1: Secretary of War at a press briefing at US Sencom

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Speaker 1: Headquarters in the tam of Florida on Thursday, addressing this

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Speaker 1: exact concern when it comes to the current Operation Iran.

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Speaker 2: Here a secretary of hexeth come and outcome.

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Speaker 4: Of American military action the past has been taking in

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Speaker 4: thousands of refugees into the American homeland, and I'm wondering

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Speaker 4: if there's any safeguards put in place to make sure

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Speaker 4: that the American people aren't having to have another wave

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Speaker 4: of refugees from the police or anywhere else come and

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Speaker 4: stay here.

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Speaker 5: I's safe to say there's no plan for a wave

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Speaker 5: of new Middle Eastern refugees to the United States of America,

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Speaker 5: because the President has pointed out for a long time

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Speaker 5: there are a lot of countries in the region who

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Speaker 5: would be capable of providing that kind of support if

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Speaker 5: need be. But that's certainly not something we're planning on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that should be obvious.

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Speaker 1: There was no way that this administration, as tough as

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Speaker 1: they've made on immigration, was ever going to sign up

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Speaker 1: for bring in any number of refugees there. But still

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Speaker 1: very good to hear that from peteg Seth. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Pete Heggsath has been excelling this week. He looks frankly fantastic.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of doubters of Pete hagg Seth.

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Speaker 1: Early in tromministration there was the whole signal Gate mini scandal.

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Speaker 2: We probably forgot about that. It was about a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Already this signal chat that leaked involving the US strike

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Speaker 1: and the Houthis and Yemen there, and there are a

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Speaker 1: couple of other times when Hagseeth got a lot of flat,

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Speaker 1: including for these narco terrorist strikes there in the Caribbean

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Speaker 1: off the coast Venezuela. There he has weathered the storm

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Speaker 1: and then some I think the PTAGS actually has been

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Speaker 1: one of the better Secretaries of Defense slash Secretaries of War.

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Speaker 2: Same thing.

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Speaker 1: Frankly in recent memory, someone who had a more checkered

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Speaker 1: record as a Secretary of the administration. Christy Nome is

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Speaker 1: now gone. She has essentially been fired. She was fired

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, fired like a dog, you might say, pun

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Speaker 1: very much intended by President Schrum. Christy Nome, as of

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Speaker 1: Marchley first in this month, will be the new Special

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Speaker 1: Envoy for something called Shield of the Americas, which is

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Speaker 1: a brand new thing that Trump is basically making up

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Speaker 1: to try to give Christy Noam a soft landing. And

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Speaker 1: she's going to be out as DHS and Christy Noam

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Speaker 1: basically did this to herself. Christy Noam over oversaw a

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Speaker 1: DHS where a man with whom she has allegedly but

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Speaker 1: I will say, it's not a very well cup secrets. Allegibly,

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Speaker 1: we've been having an affair for a very very long

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Speaker 1: time Corey at Lewandowski. She hired Corey Lewandowski as a

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Speaker 1: high ranking special Government's employee and was paying him a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. There were a lot of contracts that

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Speaker 1: went through DHS that seemed to go to some shall

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Speaker 1: we say, connected and cronious individuals. Under her particular capacity,

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Speaker 1: Christy Noam, otherwise known as border Barbie as I call her,

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Speaker 1: did a lot of these ridiculous ads putting on the

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Speaker 1: cowgirl hat and the vest there. She really never got

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Speaker 1: out of campaign mode. She visited as a perpetual campaign.

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Speaker 1: I mean was running in twenty twenty eight. I don't

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Speaker 1: know anyway she is now out at at DHS. Statistically,

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Speaker 1: immigration has been quite good, so it's hard to falter

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the actual performance there. But this

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Speaker 1: picks there. And I will certainly not be shedding any

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Speaker 1: tears that Christy Gnome is out of a job now.

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Speaker 1: As marsh at first at DHS would talk much more

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Speaker 1: about her successor Mark Waye Mull and others on the

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Speaker 1: other side of a very shor commercial break say th

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Speaker 1: border Barbie. Christynome out of a job at DHS as

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Speaker 1: of mart SODI. First, she's overseeing this new thing flack

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Speaker 1: of better description called Shield, which basically is like a

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Speaker 1: Western America pro Monroe Doctrian style peace initiative. There essentially,

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Speaker 1: from what I can tell, basically a more or less

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Speaker 1: made up job trying to make Christnam feel slightly less

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Speaker 1: insulted than she probably is. And frankly, I don't really

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Speaker 1: care I christ Nome insulted because I don't really like

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Speaker 1: Christi Nome, to be honest with you. She was a

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Speaker 1: very corrupt governor of South Dakota the transgender lobby ran

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Speaker 1: rough shot over the legislature and her gunner's office in

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Speaker 1: a very very red state. She infamously shot her dog

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Speaker 1: and killed the dog and was not particularly apologetic about it.

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Speaker 1: As a dog lover myself, I have a very hard

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Speaker 1: time ging over that at a very personal level. There

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Speaker 1: and again she oversaw DHS in just d corrupt, deeply

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Speaker 1: self aggrandizing fashion. So I'm shedding precisely zero tiars that

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Speaker 1: Christy Gnome is out at DHS. She's my single least

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Speaker 1: favorite cabinet pick in the original Trump cabinet picks here

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Speaker 1: in Trump two point zero, and now she is the

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Speaker 1: first to be fired. So I'm feel pretty prescient frankly

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Speaker 1: about my personal predilections and feelings there. Mark Waynemullen, the

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Speaker 1: Cenater of Oklahoma who was elected in a special election

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Speaker 1: a few years ago from Oklahoma. He is coming in

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Speaker 1: as the new DHS Secretary effective March thirty.

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 1: He's actually an American Indian and he's part of the

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Speaker 1: Cherokee Nation, which if you know anything about about Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty typical there in the sooner state. Mark Way

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Speaker 1: Mullen interesting guy. I didn't have him on my bingo card.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a pretty effective center. I mean, is

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Speaker 1: is he the most right wing member? Maybe not, but

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Speaker 1: he's got he's got a pretty solid, pretty solid track

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Speaker 1: record overall. Kind of like a straight talking, tough talking guy.

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Speaker 1: Been definitely, definitely been a staunch ally of the Trump

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Speaker 1: minstiration when it comes to the administration immigration force and

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Speaker 1: agenda and border priorities. He's been a tough talking guy

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Speaker 1: for a while, he had this infants exchange with the

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Speaker 1: head of a labor union that really went viral there,

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Speaker 1: and it kind of showed how much he's willing to brawl,

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Speaker 1: which like literally brawl in this case actually, which which

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Speaker 1: frankly is not necessarily the worst thing in a DHS head.

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Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and play clip one from the center.

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Speaker 1: Mark Wade mullins, he almost get into a fight with

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Speaker 1: the head of a labor incentive like.

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Speaker 6: He's self made. Sorry, I wish he was in the

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Speaker 6: truck with me when I was building my plumbing company,

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Speaker 6: myself and my wife was running the office, because I

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Speaker 6: should remember working pretty hard in long hours or tunds

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Speaker 6: like he's self made. What a clown fraud, always has been,

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Speaker 6: always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these

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Speaker 6: senate hearings. You know where to find me any place, anytime, cowboy. Sorry,

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Speaker 6: this is a time. This is a place if you

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Speaker 6: want to run your mouth, we can be too consenting adults.

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Speaker 6: If we can finish it here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, perfect, you.

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Speaker 6: Want to do it now, I'd love to do it

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Speaker 6: right now. We'll stand your butt up.

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Speaker 3: Then you just.

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Speaker 1: Stands your up, but up.

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Speaker 6: Stop it, so.

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Speaker 1: No, sit down, okay, you know you're United States sent it?

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Speaker 2: Okay, put down?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: Can I respond?

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Speaker 3: Hold it?

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Speaker 6: If we can't?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: This is all that he said.

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Speaker 2: You'll have your time, okay, can I respond?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: No, you can't.

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Speaker 1: This is a hearing, Okay, So I mean objectively pretty

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Speaker 1: outrageous stuff. I remember this hearing, like jes said, because

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Speaker 1: I remember just laughing my butt off at this. But

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Speaker 1: as far as DHS, the guy who's the public facing

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Speaker 1: head of Immigration Enforcement and deportations and all that there,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like it. I mean, don't you want

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Speaker 1: someone who's ready to be a brawler in that position.

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Speaker 1: My guest here is that they probably asked Tom Homan,

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Speaker 1: and Tom Holman probably said no, he doesn't want responsibility.

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Speaker 1: He's a little more senior in his career there. That's

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Speaker 1: just a guess. I have no inside information. That's that's

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Speaker 1: my guest. But we'll see what happens. I think mark

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Speaker 1: Wayne Mullin is an interesting pick. Oklahoma about as safe

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Speaker 1: they Republicans see as it gets literally a state that

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Speaker 1: it hasn't a single county. It's actually an amazing stat.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma has not had a single county. Of the nearly

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Speaker 1: seventy counties in the state, not a single county has

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Speaker 1: voted for the Democratic president of candidate since the two

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Speaker 1: thousand election. From two thousand and four Bush Carry onwards,

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Speaker 1: every single county in the state has voted Republican in

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Speaker 1: every elections. It's an incredible stat It's a very very

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Speaker 1: very very red state. And we'll see what happens there.

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Speaker 1: The governor, Kevin Stitt could appoint himself as actually a

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Speaker 1: rumor of that, I'm starting to hear.

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Speaker 2: We'll see.

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Speaker 1: My oga plant friends have mixed thoughts, shall we say,

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Speaker 1: on Kevin Stitt. I mostly like what I see, but

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Speaker 1: there aret least some reasons to be skeptical as well

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Speaker 1: as a reminder of DHS is currently still in the

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Speaker 1: midst of a partial shutdown. So on Thursday, the US

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Speaker 1: House did pass a DHS funding bill to fully refund

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Speaker 1: DHS by a vote of two to twenty one to

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Speaker 1: two hundred and nine to four, Democrats joining Republicans in

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Speaker 1: favor of the measure. So now that heads over to

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Speaker 1: the Senate. But but there's to be the threat of

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Speaker 1: a filibuster again there, so there has to be some

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Speaker 1: way around this, this log jam, This is really not

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Speaker 1: the time that DHS should be shut down. That the

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Speaker 1: time of the United States is an active hot shooting

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Speaker 1: war with Iram Ran has a number of sleeper cell

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Speaker 1: assets here, a lone wolf, and more organizational assets here

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Speaker 1: in the United States. It's tragic what happens to be true,

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Speaker 1: especially has BLAW, which is basically just an Iranian front

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Speaker 1: organization there. This is not the time to go soft

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Speaker 1: on DHS funding. So if you are a Democrat out there,

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Speaker 1: and if you are still refusing to fund DHS because

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Speaker 1: of what because you don't like Trump's immigration genda, guess

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Speaker 1: what the immigration stuff cbp ice, It's all funded already.

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Speaker 1: This partial shutdown doesn't have to do with that. It

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Speaker 1: has to do with other things there. So what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? What point are you trying to make in

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Speaker 1: your puny little minds. It's garbage. This shutdown really should

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00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: have ended, frankly yesterday or a long time ago. And frankly,

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Speaker 1: if there are any responsible Democrats left in the houses

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Speaker 1: set in Democrat Caucus, they will do doubt of that

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Speaker 1: and end this shutdown post taste. Another interesting bill that

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Speaker 1: I want is briefly touch on here before we're at

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Speaker 1: a time for today's show. One of the fights I've

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Speaker 1: been very active on for years. I mean, we haven't

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Speaker 1: talked a whole lot about here on the show recently

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Speaker 1: is big tech. I have long been deeply, deeply concerned

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Speaker 1: about the threat that big tech poses for everything, mental health,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to sovereignty, when it comes to our

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Speaker 1: own republican self governance, our election integrity. I think big

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Speaker 1: tech is a huge, huge problem. There's an interesting bill

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Speaker 1: that is currently pending for Congress called the App Store

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Speaker 1: Accountability Act, which would essentially require that these large app

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Speaker 1: stores that they get parental consent before minors download any apps.

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Speaker 1: There are some ways to try to do that already,

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Speaker 1: but it's not necessarily universal. This single law which is

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Speaker 1: being trying to sheverer it through through the House Energy

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Speaker 1: and Commerce Committee. I'm told that Jim Jordan of Ohio

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Speaker 1: is one of the ones who's pushing back. Jim Jordan

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Speaker 1: of Ohio, who's frankly taken a lot of Google money

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Speaker 1: over the year, so we're not surprising on this one

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Speaker 1: there he's pushing back. This is common sense legislation. There

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Speaker 1: are all sorts of these similar bills. Is another bill

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Speaker 1: called the Screen Act, which is another age verification bill

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Speaker 1: that would require adult websites, but so pornographic websites to

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Speaker 1: verify all users' ages. This is common sense stuff, and

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Speaker 1: especially this, this App Store Accountablity Act when it comes

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Speaker 1: to paranles and from minors. It has been thinking a lot,

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Speaker 1: especially as a new Ish father. So our baby is,

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Speaker 1: she had baby is she had toddler. She's fourteen and

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Speaker 1: a half, almost fifteen months. My god, where did it

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Speaker 1: all go? I guess next Friday she will be fifteen months.

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Speaker 1: Hard to believe. And it's really challenging to raise children

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Speaker 1: in a world like this, really really challenging. And it

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Speaker 1: seems to me that where you have technology like this,

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Speaker 1: where you have AI, when you have the app stores,

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Speaker 1: when you have the smartphones, the internet in general, is

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Speaker 1: important that we the people, acting through our July elected

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Speaker 1: representatives in the Congress and in the same legislatures and elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: harness technology towards the common good. Technology in other words,

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Speaker 1: in this particular case, should enable better parenting, more responsible,

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Speaker 1: more mature parenting decisions. It should not hinder those decisions.

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Speaker 1: It should enable them. Something that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: about it as a Newish parent there, and I would

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Speaker 1: very much like to see the app store accountability acts

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Speaker 1: be passed sooner rather than later. A very very quick

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Speaker 1: word actually as well. On the on the partia, we

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Speaker 1: call it the tour a portion of this week here.

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Speaker 1: So we're not well into the book of Exodus. This

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Speaker 1: is Parsha Ketisa. We are towards the end of the

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Speaker 1: Book of Exodus. This is a somewhat famous or infamous

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Speaker 1: story deep deep in the heart of the Hebrew Bible

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Speaker 1: or the Old Testament, and this is the infamous story

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Speaker 1: of the Golden Calf. So long story short. Moses has

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Speaker 1: gone to Mount Sinai to receive the tablets the Word

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Speaker 1: of God, and he famously is up there fasting, no drinking,

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Speaker 1: no eating for forty days, forty nights. And when he

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Speaker 1: gets down, he sees the Israelites down the bottom, or

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Speaker 1: it's actually not the Israelights, they're actually posing his Israelights,

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Speaker 1: but that's a more complicated story. And he sees them

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Speaker 1: worshiping a literal idol, the Golden Calf itself, and Moses

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Speaker 1: shatters the tablets they just received from God. After forty

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Speaker 1: day fot nite fast there the story has a happy

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Speaker 1: ending because Moses is called back up. He begs God

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Speaker 1: to forgive the people there and he gets the new

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Speaker 1: tablets there. And the moral of the story in real

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Speaker 1: short is this. You might think that when you really

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Speaker 1: really really mess up, do something really really really terrible,

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Speaker 1: that it's all over for you, there's no hope of recovery,

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Speaker 1: that it's hopeless. You might as well just go all

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Speaker 1: in and sin, sin, sin, do not live a godly life.

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Speaker 1: Don't do it there. That's not the message of the Bible.

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Speaker 1: That's not the message of Judy is it's not the

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Speaker 1: message of Christianity. Of the matter, you always have a

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Speaker 1: chance of repentance, You always have a chance at making

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Speaker 1: rights with your creator, with God himself. There So, just

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Speaker 1: in real short, that is to me is the number

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Speaker 1: one lesson of this week's Parsha Parsha Kiiti saw. So,

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Speaker 1: folks have a We can hope you enjoy the rest

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Speaker 1: of your evening as well. Josh Hammer signing off will

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Speaker 1: be right back on Monday.

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