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Speaker 2: All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

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Speaker 3: It's March twentieth twenty twenty six, Blake, how we doing today?

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Speaker 4: You know, I was doing pretty well and then I

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Speaker 4: received news that is devastating for all late millennials like myself.

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Speaker 4: We'll get to it later, I'm sure, but the Chuck

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Speaker 2: Let's start there.

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Speaker 3: Chuck Norris died to least, I guess we've found out

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Speaker 3: about it today. I think he died yesterday at the

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Speaker 3: age of eighty six. He was in Hawaii, surrounded by family.

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Speaker 3: He's one of the last great action stars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think he was a lot. He was older

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Speaker 4: Quite the impressive figure.

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Speaker 3: So The Octagon nineteen eighty I for Anye nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 3: So he actually he was one of the most accomplished

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Speaker 3: And then he took it to Walker Texas Ranger, which

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Speaker 3: And even up until his eighty six birthday, he posted

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Speaker 7: My plan is secure the border. Two words Chuck Norris.

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Speaker 7: There's no chin behind Chuck Norris's beard, only another fist.

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Speaker 7: When Chuck Norris does a push up, he isn't lifting

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Speaker 7: Chuck Norris doesn't endorse. He tells America how it's gonna

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Speaker 2: Chuck Norris approved. It's pretty good for two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 3: He also came He wrote eloquently about his political beliefs

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Speaker 2: And he is just a dear, dear friend of mine for.

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Speaker 3: Years, always faithful, always kind, always generous with his time.

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Speaker 3: We actually did a Only in America documentary about Jeff Webb.

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Speaker 8: Jeff webbitts kind of the personification of the American dream.

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Speaker 3: He created a whole brand where none existed around high

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Speaker 10: Young people today are not lazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a real big loss for the Turning

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Speaker 3: And it's a reminder that we never know when your

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Speaker 1: Trans people have been made into kind of the sacred

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Speaker 2: Without further ado.

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Speaker 3: to the Charlie Kirkshow welcome back. I tempted to ask

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Speaker 3: sort of am still holding on to the fact that

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Speaker 3: there are revival type energies that we are seeing. And

440
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Speaker 3: you've seen some of this in your neck of the

441
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Speaker 3: woods as well, Steve. You know you've seen we did

442
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 3: the pick up the mic tour that's come near your home,

443
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 3: and we've done where we've got these make having crowded

444
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Speaker 3: tour stops that are going all across the country. They're

445
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 3: all packed out, And I mean, at some level, I

446
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 3: hate to devolve the conversation to such a place, but

447
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 3: we are at a point where we either get revival

448
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Speaker 3: or I'm afraid of what the future will hold.

449
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Speaker 6: I think we are firmly ensconced in revival or bust

450
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Speaker 6: territory now the form of it. You know, we have

451
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Speaker 6: a tendency. You know, there's a difference I always say

452
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Speaker 6: between tradition and nostalgia. Tradition is where you look back

453
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 6: on how you know truth, what's good, true and beautiful

454
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 6: has worked itself out throughout human history. What the Creator

455
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 6: is revealed are those things, And those things give you

456
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 6: confidence that if applied in a contemporary way for the

457
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Speaker 6: time in which you live, there timeless and can work again.

458
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Speaker 2: Right.

459
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Speaker 6: And so I view tradition as a motivating factor. I

460
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Speaker 6: viewed nostalgia as a paralyzing one. So it's got to

461
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 6: look exactly the same way that it looked before. Otherwise

462
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 6: it's very foreign to us. And this can't be how

463
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Speaker 6: things work. And so you know, when I say without

464
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Speaker 6: another great awakening long term, we're doomed, it doesn't mean

465
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Speaker 6: that it has to be the exact same playbook as

466
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Speaker 6: the Great awakenings of the eighteenth century. But without that

467
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 6: sort of systemic revival, I don't disagree. I mean, the

468
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Speaker 6: systems are too far gone. We have and now a

469
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Speaker 6: lot of our own people. I was with Lucas Miles,

470
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Speaker 6: my good friend from TPUSA Faith yesterday at Alan Jackson's

471
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Speaker 6: Church in Nashville and spoke to a group of pastors

472
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Speaker 6: there and what I said to them, the number one

473
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Speaker 6: thing we need you guys to do right now, frankly,

474
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Speaker 6: is to teach our people how to think that even

475
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Speaker 6: before now we get to what I want to do,

476
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Speaker 6: which is worldview formation and belief installation.

477
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Speaker 4: Do I have permission to think?

478
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Speaker 6: And we're kind of in this era right now where

479
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Speaker 6: I've been so betrayed by official sources that even when

480
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 6: the guys I voted for now control the official sources,

481
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 6: I still think they're betraying me. I mean they might be.

482
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Speaker 6: I mean I don't know, but you know what would

483
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Speaker 6: be the metric? You can't skepticism in and of itself. No,

484
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 6: some reactionaryism is good, right someone breaks into your home

485
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 6: and wants to harm you and your family, react right,

486
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:30,959
Speaker 6: don't just pontificate.

487
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Speaker 2: React right.

488
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Speaker 6: But if reactionaryism is all you do, right, well, So

489
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Speaker 6: Lindsey Graham likes sherrock shakes too, So I'm just not

490
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Speaker 6: going to have them anymore. I mean, we've got to

491
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Speaker 6: have a more contemplation, you know, a more complicated and

492
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Speaker 6: sophisticated epistemology than that. And I think that a lot

493
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Speaker 6: of us in America right now don't know what to

494
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Speaker 6: think or how to think. We just think we can't

495
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Speaker 6: trust any of our thinkers. And we've got to fix

496
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Speaker 6: that otherwise I'm not sure how we can sustain our

497
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Speaker 6: ourselves moving forward.

498
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Speaker 3: I mean, I I tend to think that we're in

499
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Speaker 3: a sifting moment totally. I think I think this is

500
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Speaker 3: why so many people look around and they don't know

501
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 3: what to make of it. It's because it hasn't settled yet,

502
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 3: and sometimes that just takes some time. And uh, you know,

503
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Speaker 3: we went from a point where we said you can't

504
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Speaker 3: trust the experts to we're going to only trust people

505
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 3: that are not experts. I mean, if you think about that, yeah,

506
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Speaker 3: there's downsides, you know, at some point. I remember, I'm

507
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Speaker 3: reminded of a moment after Student Action Summit last year

508
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Speaker 3: where Charlie took a bunch of incoming because at Student

509
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Speaker 3: Action Summit we basically were as loud as anybody in

510
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Speaker 3: the country about the Epstein files. We wanted to see transparency.

511
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Speaker 3: It was basically what the whole event became about. And

512
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Speaker 3: then on Monday Charlie told me, He's like, you know,

513
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Speaker 3: I think they got the memo, and he said on

514
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Speaker 3: the show, We're going to trust our friends in the government,

515
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Speaker 3: meeting people that we helped get in place, and We're

516
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Speaker 3: going to give them some.

517
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Speaker 2: Bandwidth to go.

518
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Speaker 6: Man.

519
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Speaker 3: The blowback was instantaneous, and what he was saying is like,

520
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 3: at some point we have to empower the people that

521
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: we helped elect, that we helped put into positions of

522
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Speaker 3: power to get this done and get it done the

523
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Speaker 3: right way. We could argue till we're blue in the

524
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Speaker 3: face whether that happened or not, but at some point

525
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 3: there has to be a middle ground where people use

526
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Speaker 3: common sense.

527
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Speaker 2: And I don't know that where.

528
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Speaker 3: I don't know that we're to a point where anybody's

529
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Speaker 3: ready to do that yet. And I love what you're saying, Steve,

530
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Speaker 3: is that we need to teach a whole generation to

531
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Speaker 3: think again, to use their common sense. I want to

532
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Speaker 3: I want to get into two things here in this segment.

533
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Speaker 3: I want to I want you to distill that idea

534
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Speaker 3: more why it's so important in this sifting moment that

535
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Speaker 3: we find ourselves in. And then I want to lay

536
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 3: out the stakes because there's a chilling new article out

537
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 3: of New Republic, which is a far left rag, but

538
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 3: they lay out the stakes here pretty clearly. They say

539
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 3: there will be no post presidential peace for Donald Trump.

540
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Speaker 3: They even compare his ends to in scandals and crimes

541
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Speaker 3: with the shocking likeness of the charges laid out in

542
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Speaker 3: the Declaration of Independence against the last American king. So

543
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: the stakes could not be higher right now, and yes

544
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 3: there's the graphic. There will be no peace for President Trump.

545
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Speaker 3: My question to you is this sifting moment. What should

546
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Speaker 3: our audience do with this moment of angst.

547
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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about what we think the sifting is.

548
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Speaker 4: First.

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Speaker 6: I think what you're seeing is I think COVID was

550
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Speaker 6: a sifting. I think George Floyd was a sifting. I

551
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 6: think the latest sifting is it was Charlie's assassination. And

552
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Speaker 6: whenever you see I think that's God moving. You see

553
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Speaker 6: this throughout the throughout the biblical narrative. I mean, the

554
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Speaker 6: greatest sifting of all the formation of the Christian Church, right, Okay,

555
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Speaker 6: And so whenever there's a sifting, it's because a mobilization

556
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 6: is about to happen. But first, all right, the gardener's

557
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 6: going to prune his guard. We're going to pluck some

558
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 6: weeds out first. You know, the general is going to

559
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Speaker 6: make sure that he has the right troops that are

560
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 6: actually trained for the battle ahead. And that's a painful process,

561
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Speaker 6: and we are undergoing this right now. And I think

562
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Speaker 6: the sifting is will you will you put your faith

563
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Speaker 6: in God and in his word, and then will you

564
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Speaker 6: follow facts? I think that's the sifting that is taking

565
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Speaker 6: place right now. Okay, because there's some real Matthew twenty

566
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Speaker 6: twenty four stuff going on right now, which is man,

567
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 6: if those days were not short and even the elect

568
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Speaker 6: would be deceived.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the.

570
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Speaker 6: Amount of AI and everything else that's going on right now,

571
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Speaker 6: the amount of false headlines that's going on that it's

572
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Speaker 6: exposed right now. We've never been more bombarded with information

573
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Speaker 6: in human history and more of it wrong than we

574
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Speaker 6: are right now.

575
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Speaker 4: Right And you know, I.

576
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Speaker 6: Sometimes get these perpetual reactionaries to come back in me

577
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 6: and say, well, we're only doing what you did during COVID,

578
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 6: all right, Steve, And I'm like, no, you're not. What

579
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Speaker 6: I did during COVID was actually take the government's own

580
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Speaker 6: data and show they were lying to you. They weren't

581
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Speaker 6: showing you their own data. I can't do a Sarah

582
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Speaker 6: prevalence exam. I don't know how to do a study

583
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Speaker 6: like that. I can't give you, you know, itemized more

584
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 6: reality data on COVID, you know, broken down by demographic

585
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Speaker 6: I don't have that data.

586
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 4: I took it from the CDC. I took it from.

587
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Speaker 6: Foreign government departments of health. And then I've shown the

588
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Speaker 6: light on their data that they didn't want to show people.

589
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Speaker 6: In other words, I used facts. I didn't do endless

590
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Speaker 6: contemplative speculations and well, you know, just asking questions and

591
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,239
Speaker 6: maybe so's and did God really says? And that's what

592
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Speaker 6: we're all kind of undergoing right now. And we're calling

593
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Speaker 6: that critical thinking. And so I think we're watching a

594
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Speaker 6: very painful sifting process go through. On our side and

595
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Speaker 6: on their side, they are in lockstep right now. I mean,

596
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Speaker 6: you have a fully formed, weaponized religion of the state,

597
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Speaker 6: the spirit of the age, manifested in government. It has

598
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Speaker 6: done this all throughout human history. It has manifested itself

599
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Speaker 6: in human governments all throughout history. And you're watching that

600
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Speaker 6: now happen in our history as well. And so I

601
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Speaker 6: think what we should be praying for, frankly, guys, is

602
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Speaker 6: for this sifting to speed up a little bit. All right, Lord,

603
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Speaker 6: Can we get this sifting? Can we reach its conclusion?

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Speaker 2: All right?

605
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Speaker 6: So that we don't fear that we are falling so

606
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 6: far behind here to the organized, to the organized evil

607
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 6: we're up against, that we can't possibly catch up.

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Speaker 4: Well, Steve, what I kind of find myself thinking in

609
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Speaker 4: terms of the great sifting? It's as you say, we

610
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Speaker 4: have the sifting in terms of what you know, are

611
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Speaker 4: people able to maintain their call it maybe mental composure,

612
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 4: mental discipline to not fall for fake things on one end,

613
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 4: or complete propaganda on the other end. But I also

614
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Speaker 4: think of the sifting like in in society itself, that

615
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 4: everything is so disordering and disorienting to people. A lot

616
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Speaker 4: of people are kind of crashing out of society. That's

617
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Speaker 4: the you know, the aimless, lost youth. They're not able

618
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Speaker 4: to get careers off the ground, they're not able to

619
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Speaker 4: have families, they're not able to really muster communities together.

620
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Speaker 4: And where I think a real sifting is taking place

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Speaker 4: is people who are able to attach to a community

622
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Speaker 4: like that. That used to be almost everyone, you know,

623
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Speaker 4: there was some sort of community you could attach to.

624
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Speaker 4: But now there are people who are just going to

625
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 4: never have that happen. They will live their whole lives

626
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Speaker 4: that way, and then the basically select out because they'll

627
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 4: never have families they'll never have kids. And the little communities,

628
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 4: which in many cases will be Christian communities, will be churches.

629
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Speaker 4: They're going to have immense outsize uh importance, immense outsize

630
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 4: power in the future, just because they will be the

631
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 4: ones who held together while everything else is flying apart.

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Speaker 6: That I think that's a that's a brilliant observation and forecast. Blake,

633
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Speaker 6: I completely agree. And and I I think, on on

634
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Speaker 6: one hand, the the older men, those of us entering

635
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 6: our third act, play a huge role in this. You know,

636
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 6: I've seen it with my own with my own son.

637
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 6: All Right, he went looking for a job, didn't like

638
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 6: this job, didn't like that job. Now he has a

639
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 6: job that he really likes, right, and and and his

640
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 6: entire perspective on I'm doing something that I enjoy, I'm

641
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 6: contributing something, I'm earning a living. It's completely just uh.

642
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's gotten reconnected back into the church again.

643
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Speaker 6: He's involved in a in a really good adults group.

644
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Speaker 6: He's actually going to a young adults group at another church.

645
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Speaker 6: And so why is he doing that? Will you use that?

646
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Speaker 6: That's the word that you use community, right, And so

647
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 6: now he has found a work environment that he can

648
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 6: be productive and rewarded for being productive and doesn't shame

649
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 6: him for his belief system. And then he's going to

650
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Speaker 6: places where he has peer groups that share his belief

651
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 6: system and that sense of community, that sense of attachment.

652
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Speaker 4: I mean, I can just see.

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Speaker 6: His entire you know, outlook on things has dramatically improved

654
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Speaker 6: just in the last couple of months because of everything

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Speaker 2: First question is Caleber Michelle love Caleber, Michelle. How are

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Speaker 2: you guys? Welcome to the targe.

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Speaker 4: Oh and we have Dan the one before, but not

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Speaker 4: in a while.

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Speaker 2: It's it's been a while recently. Yeah, how are you Caleb.

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Speaker 5: Hey, we're doing We're doing really really well. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: How are you guys.

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Speaker 4: Oh, we're doing great, doing doing great.

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Speaker 5: It's Friday, So so it is Friday. So a year ago,

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Speaker 5: a year ago, we call and we talked to Charlie

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Speaker 5: about his March Madness bracket and and we're watching the

733
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Speaker 5: tournament right now. We're doing a Charlie thing. It's on

734
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Speaker 5: over there. Well while we're on on the stream here

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Speaker 5: and missing him more at this time because loved hearing

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Speaker 5: him talk about how much he loved basketball. So anyway,

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Speaker 5: the question is, who do you have winning in your tournament,

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Speaker 5: and how are your brackets doing all right?

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Speaker 4: I'm really glad we have Danny for this one. Refuse

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Speaker 4: to join our office. Bra I am a huge scrooge

741
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Speaker 4: on March madness. I am. This is an underrat effect

742
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Speaker 4: about me. I'm kind of a basketball hater. I don't

743
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Speaker 4: I like, don't like it as a sport, like you know,

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Speaker 4: I have my little bit of a sort of autism stuff.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't like the design of the sport.

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Speaker 4: I don't like watching basketball, and so I like revolt

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Speaker 4: against march madness and refuse. I don't know who the

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Speaker 4: number one seeds are.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's in the tournaments.

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Speaker 4: No winner. I'm a big scrooge.

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Speaker 11: But you guys doesn't like fun taking it all Arizona?

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Speaker 4: You have to. There's like a guy in every pool,

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Speaker 4: Andrew who has Duke taking it all every single.

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Speaker 3: I've never ever, in any bracket I've ever built, had

755
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Speaker 3: Duke taking it all.

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Speaker 11: Lost yesterday, though they probably have lost yesterday.

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Speaker 2: They should have. But Danny, who do you got? Big

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Speaker 2: sports got? Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I have Arizona winning it all.

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Speaker 2: How far did you have that?

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Speaker 3: You actually believe that or is it because you live

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Speaker 3: in Arizona?

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Speaker 11: No, there are one seat. Like, I actually believe that

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Speaker 11: they're pretty good. I had Ohio State losing in the

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Speaker 11: second round to Duke. I was pretty honest there. I

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Speaker 11: didn't have him going too far. Big Ohio State fan.

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Speaker 11: But yeah, they're They're not a basketball school right now.

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Speaker 2: So at TCU they were.

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Speaker 11: A powerhouse about ten to fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 4: How many titles did they win?

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Speaker 11: They went to a few final fours, titles not so much.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that's all right, Caleb, who do you got?

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Speaker 2: Who you got taking it all?

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Speaker 5: I I did pick a winner yet, I have like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, this is probably a long shot, but

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Speaker 5: Gonzaga or Yukon.

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Speaker 11: Wait, how do you not pick a winner after?

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Speaker 2: That's not how the bracket works. Day. You're doing it wrong.

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Speaker 5: I am doing it wrong.

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Speaker 2: You're doing it wrong.

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Speaker 4: This sounds like what do you think about Michigan secret bracket?

782
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Speaker 4: And then I can reveal it after the tournament is

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Speaker 4: over and thereby.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like we totally trust that.

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Speaker 4: Democrats about that sort of thing.

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Speaker 5: Andrew, I don't know Michigan, Yeah, Michigan could do really well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting to see if Arizona wins, We're basically not

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Speaker 3: going to have a studio when that day comes. Michael's

789
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Speaker 3: already saying he's wilding out. He's going he's we're gonna

790
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Speaker 3: lose him. We might not have a show if Arizona wins.

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Speaker 3: Our team's gonna lose it. Uh, Caleb, thank you for

792
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Speaker 3: calling in, my friend, and thank you for bringing in

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Speaker 3: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Of Charlie spirit. Charlie.

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Speaker 3: Charlie did not like the NBA, but he loved college basketball.

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Speaker 3: He liked the Bulls nineties Bulls, and he liked college

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Speaker 3: basketball the bracket.

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Speaker 2: So I'm into it all right. Next up we have

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Speaker 2: Anthony Anthony, what's going on? What's up?

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Speaker 11: Guys?

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Speaker 9: Blake, I can kind of agree with you. I don't

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Speaker 9: watch basketball, but if I have to know, Danny hold On,

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Speaker 9: I work in the industry. Working it is more fun

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Speaker 9: than watching it.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm saying, what does that mean, like like the

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Speaker 4: players are interesting or like the shoot?

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Speaker 9: Well, I work on the communications and marketing side, so

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Speaker 9: you're always interacting with players media game notes. I've worked

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Speaker 9: the Sweet sixteen and lead a regional back in twenty

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Speaker 9: ten when it was at Syracuse, so I had Cornell, Kentucky, Washington,

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Speaker 9: and West Virginia. So it working it as an as

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Speaker 9: a person is a lot more fun than just sitting

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Speaker 9: it on your couchure out with friends watching it, so

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Speaker 9: you're you're more into it, Like I have guys mind

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Speaker 9: right now are in different regionals working on staff.

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Speaker 3: So so so Anthony, I totally agree with this. I

817
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Speaker 3: went to my first NBA game, like close to the court.

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Speaker 3: I went to a Sun's game. Somebody invited me and

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Speaker 3: it was really cool in person. I hate watching basketball

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Speaker 3: oll NBA. I like watching March Madness. I hate watching

821
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Speaker 3: NBA at home. It just like you don't have any

822
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Speaker 3: sense of the size and athleticism of the players, but

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Speaker 3: up close you do, and you're it's it really is remarkable.

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Speaker 2: They are tremendous athletes. Got to give you for give

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Speaker 2: them their due.

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Speaker 11: What makes march Mans great is the upsets, though like

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Speaker 11: the NBA, there's no such thing really as an upset

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Speaker 11: because they're all professionals, which again why college football is

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Speaker 11: better than the NFL, because in college football you also

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Speaker 11: have the upsets. College sports are better than professional.

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Speaker 4: My problem with basketball is just I don't think the

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Speaker 4: design of the game is good, like the incentives to

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Speaker 4: just here we go foul endless at the end of

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Speaker 4: a game, so it slows down to a hall and

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Speaker 4: they're just shooting all the free throws, and I feel

836
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Speaker 4: like there's not that much strategy. Like they it took

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Speaker 4: them forty years to figure out a three point shot

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Speaker 4: was worth more than a two point shot, so you

839
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Speaker 4: should shoot a three point shot. And then once they

840
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Speaker 4: did that, it just totally wrecked the strategy. Guys are

841
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Speaker 4: just chucking threes or they're doing layups. Nobody's ever trying to,

842
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Speaker 4: you know, set up an isolation mid range jumper anymore.

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Speaker 4: I just I think it's off.

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Speaker 11: Can you say his name again?

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Speaker 4: What you what do you call him?

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Speaker 9: What?

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Speaker 2: Did I say it wrong? Curry?

848
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Speaker 4: I thought you.

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Speaker 2: Did.

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Speaker 9: He did, stay to Fan Curry.

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Speaker 2: It's Stephan, Stephan Stephen Curry.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, there's not a lot of ball.

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Speaker 4: Steph Curry.

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Speaker 9: Got well hold up before I get to my question, Andrew,

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Speaker 9: I can agree with you on one thing. I used

856
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Speaker 9: to work in the NBA for two years, so I

857
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Speaker 9: see I've seen the difference in pro and college and

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Speaker 9: my picks to win it. If I had a pick

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Speaker 9: right now, I didn't do a bracket Arizona, Michigan Duke

860
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Speaker 9: or Florida in my top four. But I think Arizona's

861
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Speaker 9: gonna take it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, anybody but Michigan. I'm a hater of Michigan at all.

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Speaker 11: All Yeah, we're aware, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: All right, Anthony, what's your what's your other question?

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Speaker 9: And this is my real question. How can you tell

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Speaker 9: who's a good influence on social media and politics? Because

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Speaker 9: there's a lot of them that just create podcasts, create

869
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Speaker 9: short memes, animations that kind of stuff, interviews where they

870
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Speaker 9: just want clicks and we know what AI these days,

871
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Speaker 9: you can create a lot of fake propaganda. We see

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Speaker 9: it all over So like outside of you guys, Brandon

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Speaker 9: Tatum and others, Like, how can you figure out who

874
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Speaker 9: is a good one to follow? Because I think a

875
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 9: lot of people don't. The average person doesn't know who

876
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 9: to follow, and they'll just follow everybody and some of

877
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 9: the information is not true.

878
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 4: A lot of it's That is a complicated question.

879
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 3: I will answer it succinctly like this, but we could

880
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 3: build this idea out. One of the main things I

881
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 3: look for, Anthony, is does that have skin in the game?

882
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 3: Is there any cost for being wrong. That could mean

883
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 3: they get involved in local elections. They're actually working the

884
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 3: system to try and affect change from a grassroots level.

885
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 3: That's the one thing that kept Charlie grounded more than

886
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 3: anything else is that he had touch points with the students,

887
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 3: he had touch points with the voters.

888
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: We have that turning point action everything we do.

889
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 3: We're trying to advance the football another sports analogy, to

890
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 3: make sure that the country's a better place, that we're

891
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 3: leaving it a better place. And I will tell you

892
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 3: that grounds you. It focuses you like nothing else. Blake,

893
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: I know you have many, many thoughts when it comes

894
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 3: to which influencers you should follow and trust in which

895
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 3: you should not.

896
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, so it's a first of all, it's

897
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 4: just a great question. I think it's an important one,

898
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 4: and a lot of people are becoming aware of that.

899
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,479
Speaker 4: I think, as you said, an important thing is skin

900
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 4: in the game. Not just are they doing actual workout there,

901
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 4: but sort of is there any accountability if they're wrong

902
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 4: about things? And more to the point, you should just

903
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 4: even if they don't, you should look for signs that

904
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 4: like if they make predictions, do you have to look Sorry,

905
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 4: I'm stumbling over my words. You want to look for

906
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 4: a long term pattern here. You should see does this

907
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 4: person offering like consistent takes on things. That doesn't mean

908
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 4: they have to be right all of the time, but

909
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 4: are they clearly coming from some sort of ideological foundation.

910
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 4: Can you anticipate how this person will react to things

911
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 4: in a way that isn't just chasing after clicks. Another

912
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 4: thing I think that's worth looking towards is if a

913
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 4: person is often alluding to having secret knowledge or for

914
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 4: knowledge of things, does that actually pan out? Because a

915
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 4: very common way to sort of grift or attention bait

916
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 4: is to suggest you have secret sources about stuff and

917
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 4: then that nothing ever comes of it, nothing ever emerges

918
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: from this. A lot of people like to say, oh,

919
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 4: you know, I have a lot of you know, I

920
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 4: have secret info that something big is going to drop

921
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 4: in next week, and if what ever happens, most people

922
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 4: forget about it because the memory is like a goldfish.

923
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 4: But you should watch those things and if they are

924
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 4: doing that consistently. One of the great things on X

925
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 4: you can actually make lists of different users and you

926
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 4: can put someone on your list of this person actually

927
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 4: BSEs me a lot or you could put someone on

928
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 4: the list this person actually has been reliable. You can

929
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 4: bookmark posts. Using those tools is a good way to

930
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 4: keep track of who's reliable, who's honest, and who's less reliable.

931
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 4: Another thing I like to look for is sort of

932
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 4: emotional balance. I find that people who are less reliable,

933
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 4: they tend to get insanely worked up about things. And

934
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 4: it's always a new thing this week, because emotional overload

935
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 4: is very it is clickbait, it's very satisfying to people.

936
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 4: It's very people enjoy getting really worked up about things.

937
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 4: And if a user is deliberately feeding that, if they're

938
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 4: encouraging you to get really really angry all the time

939
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 4: about every new thing, if they're encouraging really drastic action

940
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 4: all of the time, I find that's a sign that

941
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 4: they're often just chasing after the most clicks that they

942
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 4: can get, rather than trying to lead you in a

943
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 4: good direction. And I think Charlie was good about that.

944
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 4: Charlie could be very strong in his views, but he

945
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 4: wasn't endlessly having meltdowns about things.

946
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 3: Well said Anthony, thank you for your question. I think

947
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 3: it was a really really good one. Unless Danny, you

948
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Speaker 3: want to add anything to it we got now.

949
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Speaker 11: I just think staying consistent. If you continue to just

950
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 11: keep going back and forth on different different issues and

951
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 11: keep contradicting yourself, then you can't really be trustworthy.

952
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 9: Appreciate it, guys, and I'm going to send something to

953
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 9: you guys, so you can watch basketball a different way like.

954
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Speaker 11: I watch it.

955
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 4: All right. I don't think I'm gonna be sold. I

956
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 4: have become an enemy of the b ball.

957
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: Be open minded.

958
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 4: I'm gonna i eight men show up at my house and.

959
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 2: Beat me up now or something.

960
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 3: But deciding with the Dodger fan, that's how you know

961
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 3: I made a good point. By the way, I think

962
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 3: that the Dodgers team could beat Venezuela nine out of

963
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 3: ten times.

964
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna say, all right.

965
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 4: The online world moves fast, and it's moving even faster

966
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Speaker 4: these days. That's why TikTok approaches teen safety with families

967
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Speaker 4: in mind from the start, because discovery and creativity are

968
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Speaker 4: both wonderful things, but it's important to make sure that

969
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Speaker 4: safety comes first as well. On TikTok, teenagers have over

970
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Speaker 4: fifty built in protections right from when they join accounts.

971
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Speaker 4: Routines all start private by default, they're not open to

972
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973
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974
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Speaker 4: And that kind of approach matters because feeling confident and

975
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Speaker 4: comfortable about these platforms your teenagers are on shouldn't mean

976
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977
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Speaker 4: everything up yourself and worrying that you got it wrong.

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Speaker 4: TikTok is taking a proactive approach. Their protections are built

979
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Speaker 4: in from the moment those teenagers join, so that safety

980
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981
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982
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Speaker 4: That's TikTok dot com slash guardians Guide.

985
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Speaker 2: Michael, You're up next. Welcome to the Charlie Kirkshow.

986
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Speaker 4: Thanks Anthony, Sorry, I sorry, We'll get you into second Michael.

987
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 2: Ian Ah you trying to trick me here?

988
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 10: All right?

989
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 8: Hello?

990
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 5: Guys, how you doing good?

991
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 11: Good?

992
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 2: How you doing? Ian? What's your question?

993
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been this has been good. I love I

994
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 8: love hearing this. Also basketball. I mean, Michael Jordan's the

995
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 8: go Charlie was spot on the nose with that. But

996
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 8: uh yeah, anyways, don't get me started on basketball. I'll

997
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 8: talk for hours on that. But I really I've been

998
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 8: working on gratitude this year. That's been a really big

999
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 8: thing for me. And I just wanted to know, what,

1000
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 8: what are some things you guys are grateful for in

1001
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,919
Speaker 8: your lives? And also, secondly, what's something that Charlie taught

1002
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 8: you about gratitude? Because I know he was big on

1003
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 8: that too.

1004
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had a reminder of this last night.

1005
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 3: Actually, Ian, you know, without getting into the gory details,

1006
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 3: yesterday was an adventure personally for me for a very

1007
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 3: variety of reasons.

1008
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: Blake knows a little bit about it.

1009
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: Sorry to be vague, but anyways, the point is I

1010
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 3: was talking with my wife and she looked at me

1011
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,959
Speaker 3: and she just kind of like threw up her hands

1012
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 3: and she goes, isn't it great that you and me

1013
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 3: are good and that our kids are healthy?

1014
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 2: Like, isn't it good?

1015
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 3: That doesn't matter like what's going on, what challenges that

1016
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 3: we have each other, and that our relationship is strong.

1017
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 2: And I just thought, you know what, that's exactly right.

1018
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter all the noise, It doesn't matter everything

1019
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 3: that's swirling, all the tension, all the conflict. You know,

1020
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for my wife and my family, and I'm

1021
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 3: grateful that I have a Christian faith that has, you know,

1022
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 3: guarded my heart and has guarded my life and helped

1023
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 3: me make better decisions.

1024
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 2: And you know, it was it was interesting.

1025
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 3: There's a pastor that I used to download his podcasts

1026
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 3: all the time and listen to him, and he would

1027
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 3: acknowledge the fact he's he was kind of a blunt guy,

1028
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 3: and he said, you know, if I didn't have you,

1029
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 3: if I wasn't saved by Jesus Christ, I'd be drunk, alone, divorced,

1030
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 3: and you know, alone in some basement somewhere. And you know,

1031
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 3: it was kind of it's a blunt way to put it,

1032
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 3: But I do think that there is an element of

1033
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 3: all of our lives that if we didn't if we

1034
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 3: weren't grounded in something eternal and something true and something

1035
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 3: that has tried and tested over the years and the millennia,

1036
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 3: that we would find ourselves in a really, really terrible spot.

1037
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 3: Sometimes you still find yourself in a really terrible spot.

1038
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 3: But I'm grateful for those those lasting things and those

1039
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 3: good things, and anyways, that's my answer, Blake, what about you.

1040
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 4: Danny Charlie was very good about gratitude, even in even

1041
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 4: interf he I remember he was going on about the

1042
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 4: importance of gratitude right after the twenty two midterms, which

1043
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 4: were very rough, and he did a great bit on Thanksgiving, Like,

1044
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 4: we have the most gratitude right now because we recognize

1045
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 4: the stuff that is truly central to us, which is faith,

1046
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 4: which is family, which is the immediacy around us, everything

1047
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 4: God's given us. I'm very grateful for those basic things.

1048
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 4: I am personally very grateful. I know there's a lot

1049
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 4: of dumerism about the US. I'm kind of grateful, Like

1050
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 4: I think about the very basic things that I can

1051
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 4: still as much as people complain, I can count on

1052
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 4: like a functional country, the rule of law. I can

1053
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 4: easily obtain food every time. I try to always take

1054
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 4: myself back to those like very root things, Like as

1055
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 4: much as we are worried about this country, we have

1056
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 4: a very nice one. And we see a lot of

1057
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 4: things breaking down all around the world. And as much

1058
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 4: as we're annoyed by things that unfold around the world.

1059
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 4: For example, there's this war in the Middle East, and

1060
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 4: I don't think any of us like that. It's happening.

1061
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 4: We do live in a country that is basically at peace.

1062
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 4: But I wanted to get more on that because I

1063
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 4: want to ask you, Danny, are you grateful? Do you

1064
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 4: have gratitude for Ohio State football?

1065
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 11: Well, first off, I'm grateful. I call it the four

1066
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 11: fs FAI, family, freedom, and friends, so not football. It's

1067
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 11: kind of just something fun on the side. It's not

1068
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,240
Speaker 11: it's not the main thing. I'm grateful we beat Michigan

1069
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 11: this year. I am not grateful that there was a

1070
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 11: disaster game in Miami that I attended and uh, they

1071
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 11: lost pretty bad.

1072
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 4: But you're feeling a little fair weather fan here to me.

1073
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 4: They've won a title, They've won what three titles in

1074
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,439
Speaker 4: the last we'll see.

1075
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 11: We demand excellence, Blake, so we're not satisfied with losing.

1076
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 11: So it's a different type of breed.

1077
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 4: I will say, I am grateful the Packers won a

1078
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, and I'm like, I want them to win more,

1079
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 4: but I'm I'm glad we got one, which Minnesota Vikings

1080
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,879
Speaker 4: fans will never get to experience. Sorry, guys, it's true.

1081
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 4: But yes, now we can move on to the next question.

1082
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 2: Can you hear me?

1083
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael, Michael, what's your question?

1084
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 2: Hey?

1085
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 12: First off, I want to say thank you for helping

1086
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 12: me to call attention to the issues we have in trucking.

1087
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 12: I called in and talked to Hurt. Last time I

1088
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 12: called in and talked to Charlie. He actually held me

1089
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 12: over the break to discuss it. And you know, unfortunately

1090
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 12: I've had some tragedies between here and there and trucking,

1091
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 12: but I'm thankful that we're doing stuff done. My question

1092
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 12: is that with all of the talk about an immigration freeze,

1093
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 12: I was curious if there was any hope of keeping

1094
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 12: fion Sav's is open. And as I said in the end,

1095
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 12: the question, you know, limiting it limited to one per

1096
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 12: one per citizen, a lifetime limit of one per citizen.

1097
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, all right, lifetime limit of one per

1098
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 4: citizen sounds like a good idea. It seems like very straightforward.

1099
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 4: You should not They would be a good check on

1100
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 4: fraud at a minimum, exactly, That's what I'm thinking.

1101
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 12: I've been talking getting to it from South America for

1102
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 12: a while, looking to bring it up here and that

1103
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 12: whole immigration freeze thing would be a little bit of.

1104
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 4: A kink in that. Oh well, yes, so I don't

1105
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 4: know if there's a discussion of a freeze on all

1106
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 4: all spousal visas. I imagine even if we were to

1107
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 4: do a well, I go back and forth on this,

1108
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 4: because obviously we've talked about a moratorium. Would feel extreme

1109
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 4: to say, oh, you can't bring your spouse in from abroad,

1110
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 4: But I also have to we also have to be

1111
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 4: very aware if we were to crack down in all

1112
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 4: other forms, it would encourage a big increase in let's

1113
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 4: be frank, fraudulent marriage visas, because people will find any

1114
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 4: means they can to get into the US. If you

1115
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 4: want an example, yeah, I mean, if you want an example,

1116
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 4: we also have we have a visa for victims of

1117
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 4: crimes who can stain US so they can testify in

1118
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 4: a case or whatever. And just the other day we

1119
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 4: had yet another indictment. We've had many of these where

1120
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 4: they've caught rings of people faking crimes against their friends

1121
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 4: so that those friends can then get that visa and

1122
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 4: stay in the US. I think your idea of a

1123
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 4: you know, a one person limit is or a one

1124
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 4: lifetime limit is a good idea. Another one might be

1125
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 4: you maybe have to add some like threshold expense to it,

1126
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 4: which I know is a pain, but it would, you know,

1127
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 4: encourage you to be very serious about those things. Uh,

1128
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 4: there's ways we can go about.

1129
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 12: Truth is fifteen thousand dollars expense?

1130
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 4: Oh is there all right?

1131
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 11: Hard?

1132
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a ten to fifteen thousand dollars expence once

1133
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 12: and that doesn't include travel or anything else, because I've

1134
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 12: already game planned all this stuff out and I'm looking

1135
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 12: at about ten to fifteen thousand dollars expence just to

1136
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 12: get her up here, which I'm fine with paying. My

1137
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 12: goal in life has always been to get married and

1138
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 12: have kids, and my generation has been absolutely horrible of that.

1139
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 12: So come Hecker high water. I'm pushing, I am, Me

1140
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 12: and her are focused on getting this done. It's just that,

1141
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 12: you know, the same as illegal image deep deepport, all

1142
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 12: means all. You know, when someone says we want to

1143
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 12: halt all immigration. Okay, all means all. There is a

1144
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 12: hard stop and no one passes go.

1145
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 2: And I would like to.

1146
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 12: I would like to, you know, I'll teach her the

1147
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 12: citizenship test myself. But it's not that hard. I'm sorry,

1148
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 12: it's just not I will teach her that stuff. I'm

1149
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 12: active in my community. I will take her through that stuff.

1150
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 12: I just need to be able to get.

1151
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 2: Her up here. All right, Well, what country is coming from? Venezuela.

1152
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 12: She's more base than I am, though.

1153
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of partly patriotic Venezuelan's actually, And

1154
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 3: by the way, we're we're we've endorsed on this show

1155
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 3: a net zero more moratorium, which would essentially it does

1156
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 3: mean there will be some spots and maybe maybe we

1157
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 3: need to prioritize some of these marriage visas, uh, if

1158
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 3: they can be properly vetted for patriots like yourself.

1159
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: I'm I'm open to that.

1160
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 3: But a net zero would essentially be about two hundred,

1161
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty thousand people would still be admitted,

1162
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 3: because that's how many people are leaving the country every year.

1163
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 3: So as soon as the spot opens up, it opens up.

1164
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 3: Right to Blake's point, though, you know, the second the

1165
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 3: second that you start making exceptions or carve outs.

1166
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: People will exploit them.

1167
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 3: And so you've got to the starting point needs to

1168
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 3: be very firm, very rigid, and very exacting, and the

1169
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 3: point is is because we've just been so taken advantage of.

1170
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 3: We are the suckers, We are the marks for the

1171
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 3: entire world that wants to flood in here.

1172
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 2: And you know, it's basically arbitrage. Yeah, trust me, Mail.

1173
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 12: That's why I said one per native born citizen, lifetime

1174
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 12: limit of one per native born citizen. Not you came

1175
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 12: in here and you became a citizen. You had to

1176
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 12: be born here, natural born citizen.

1177
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 4: I think that's a good that might be a good start,

1178
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 4: but uh, it's a complicated topic and I think to

1179
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 4: kind of put a bow on it. A big thing

1180
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 4: to remember here is there's so many ways our system

1181
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 4: is just constantly exploited because we don't take the idea

1182
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 4: of having a good immigration policy seriously. And if we

1183
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 4: really did that, if we were serious about any immigrant

1184
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 4: who comes to the US should be improving the country.

1185
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 4: We should not be allowing criminals, We should not be

1186
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 4: allowing you know, dependence, We should not be allowing problems

1187
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 4: to come into America. We can instantly make a vastly

1188
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 4: smarter system, and we mostly refuse to do it. And

1189
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 4: I think mariage like marriage visas for clear cases where

1190
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 4: it makes sense to allow it is one of the

1191
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 4: less damaging things that we could have compared to the

1192
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 4: just endless importation of foreign bring their farm workers, tech workers,

1193
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 4: and so on.

1194
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 12: If one person, you're not bringing your family up here,

1195
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 12: you can go down there and visit.

1196
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. I think that's very reasonable and endless family

1197
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 4: unification has been a disaster for America, very bluntly. But

1198
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 4: thank you for your question.

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Speaker 4: And we want to make sure we have a few

1219
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Speaker 4: people still in the queue. Elizabeth, unmute yourself. What's your question?

1220
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Speaker 13: Yes, hi, So mine's also about immigration as well. I

1221
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 13: don't know if you were aware that Ali Largiani, who

1222
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 13: was a senior Iranian official in the Supreme leaders like

1223
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 13: National Guard, he was basically the guy who got the

1224
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 13: forty thousand protesters killed. He's like a truly evil person

1225
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 13: and he was recently wiped out by Israel. His daughter

1226
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 13: is a professor, well, was a professor at Emory University

1227
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 13: and had gotten her green card in twenty twenty one.

1228
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 13: I don't know if he guys, not twenty twenty. I

1229
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 13: think it was twenty twenty. No, yeah, twenty twenty one

1230
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 13: under Biden. And there was an article in the Post

1231
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 13: about all of these Iranian leaders and their kids getting

1232
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 13: visas in green cards educated here. There was that terrorist

1233
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Speaker 13: in Michigan who was here legally, whose brother was a

1234
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 13: leader in Hesba Lah. There was a terrorist attack over

1235
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Speaker 13: in Austin, Texas. And it's just astounding that the people

1236
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 13: aren't getting vetted. We have people filing for asylum claims

1237
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 13: and it's like four years later they say no, you're

1238
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 13: declined asylum. They get to appeal, they get to stay here.

1239
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 13: It's twenty years later before you can legally get them out,

1240
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 13: and everyone's yelling at you on they've been here for

1241
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 13: twenty years, how can you make them leave now? Meanwhile

1242
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 13: they don't even speak the language. Still, like, is there

1243
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 13: any possibility of one vetting these people better? And then two,

1244
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 13: if you are claiming asylum, that you have fourteen days

1245
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 13: for your trial and then there's a process where they

1246
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 13: can just sort of basically vet you out one way

1247
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 13: or the other and don't qualify. They have to leave

1248
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 13: the country within another two weeks and that's it. And

1249
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 13: if they want to appeal it, they can appeal it,

1250
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 13: but not on American soil.

1251
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's just the whole story with this,

1252
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 4: Like Man's daughter yet you're correct she was She had

1253
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 4: a faculty position at Emory and I don't know exactly

1254
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 4: how that came to pass, but this is a guy

1255
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 4: who's senior in a regime that is an enemy of

1256
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 4: the United States, And it seems like something broke if

1257
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 4: she's able to just very easily come here unless we

1258
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 4: have hard proof that she's like basically a huge opponent

1259
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 4: of everything you know of the regime, Like if she

1260
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 4: was an actually if she had skin in the game

1261
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 4: as someone who'd like fought against the regime. Yeah, but

1262
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 4: I don't. Yeah, it seems like she's flying back over there,

1263
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 4: and frankly, just looking at her faculty portrait, I don't

1264
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 4: think that she's an enemy of the regime.

1265
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 2: Uh.

1266
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 4: It just it gets back to what we said with

1267
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 4: the last segment. We have such an unseious immigration policy.

1268
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 4: We just casually bring in people who are hostile to America,

1269
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 4: who are scamming America, who are plundering America. And as

1270
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 4: soon as we make it a priority to not let

1271
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 4: that happen, there's so many benefits we can build up

1272
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 4: for the United States.

1273
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 3: By the way, the White House announced a review of

1274
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 3: all immigration benefits granted to Iranians, that which has been

1275
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 3: labeled a country of concerns Sowy movement. Yeah, has been

1276
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 3: movement on that. We'll see what happens there. Blake, you

1277
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 3: got an interesting email question. I think I think it

1278
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 3: deserves answering.

1279
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1280
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got one from Kelsey and she asked a

1281
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 4: few weeks ago, Mikey posted some great pictures and videos

1282
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 4: of Charlie, and in one video, Charlie was eating in

1283
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 4: and Out, which made me wonder what was his go

1284
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 4: to order at in and Out? Thank you, Kelsey. That's

1285
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 4: a fun one, and we actually had to do some

1286
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 4: research because the truth is Charlie didn't eat in and

1287
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 4: Out a lot. He loved in and Out the company,

1288
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 4: He loved their Christian foundation. I think he even interviewed

1289
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 4: the founder at one point, Lindsay, and so he really

1290
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 4: loved it. That was kind of our go to if

1291
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 4: we were ordering, you know, food for the office, it

1292
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 4: would be in and Out.

1293
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 8: Uh.

1294
01:03:58,120 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 4: But obviously not a big fast food guy. So we

1295
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 4: asked and Erica tells us his default order was a

1296
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 4: protein style double double. So I think that's two patties,

1297
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 4: two pieces of cheese, the two by two. And that

1298
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 4: didn't surprise me because Charlie only ate about four foods

1299
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 4: and bread wasn't one of them, so you never really

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Speaker 4: see him eating a burger patty and cheese. I think

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Speaker 4: cheese would be a luxury. You very rarely saw him

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Speaker 4: eating cheese. The go to was beef, chicken, avocado, olive oil,

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Speaker 4: and sort of green vegetable. Once we'd say, like lettuce

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Speaker 4: or cabbage, green vegetable you could kind of do. And

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Speaker 4: it was basically the only things he ate And so

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Speaker 4: that cheese on the in and out burger was a

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Speaker 4: very special luxury for him.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Mick, you're up next.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Mick also wanted us to read it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, and hey guys, I'm feeling great, please read

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Speaker 2: for me.

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Speaker 3: There was a clip played during one of the breaks

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Speaker 3: where Charlie was talking with a gentleman from Oregon, where

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Speaker 3: I'm from, who wasn't sure if he should get involved

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Speaker 3: in his local election. I myself am looking to move

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Speaker 3: to South Carolina. What did Charlie and what do you

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Speaker 3: guys think about conservatives moving from blue states to deep

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Speaker 3: red states?

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Speaker 2: I think he was.

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Speaker 3: Basically pro he you know, oftentimes he would tell Californians like,

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Speaker 3: your vote will go further in Arizona if you want

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Speaker 3: to move here. But he was also pro you staying.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you made the decision to stay and

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Speaker 3: fight in Oregon or California, he was pro that. And

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Speaker 3: he said, you know, but fight to win, and you

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Speaker 3: don't fight because you know you're gonna win. You fight

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Speaker 3: because it's the right thing to do. So wherever you

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Speaker 3: are at, you need to find wins and ways to

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Speaker 3: get involved that will move the needle. That's the main point.

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Speaker 3: But if you're gonna move and you get your votes

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Speaker 3: now going to count for more, by all means, don't

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Speaker 3: vote for Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 2: That's all I can tell you. Yeah, South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: I mean I'd add Charlie. For example. At the memorial,

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Speaker 4: Stacy spoke. She was a member of our team who

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Speaker 4: was in California, and Charlie was always pushing her to

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Speaker 4: move to Arizona, and thankfully she finally did. Of course, Andrew,

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Speaker 4: you've also come out to Arizona. I think in general,

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Speaker 4: another reason, besides just political calculations, Charlie would want people

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Speaker 4: to move to red states because you can live a

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Speaker 4: better life in a red state. It's more affordable, You're

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Speaker 4: more likely to be able to have a home, better space,

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Speaker 4: you're less likely to be taxed to death. You're more

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Speaker 4: likely to be able to practice your faith as you

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Speaker 4: wish to go to the school that where your children

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Speaker 4: can learn the way you want. You don't have to

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Speaker 4: worry that insane people might abduct your children for the

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Speaker 4: transgender cult. There's a million reasons to live in a

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Speaker 4: red state that are not just who I'm going to

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Speaker 4: vote for who can help elect but that does matter

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Speaker 4: as well. The movement of people to red states has

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Speaker 4: been hugely helpful for us. We're better able to win

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Speaker 4: elections because red states are growing, Blue states are shrinking,

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Speaker 4: and as long as we keep our states on side,

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Speaker 4: that's going to produce a lot of benefits for us.

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Speaker 3: So big if in places like North Carolina and Georgia,

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Speaker 3: that's why I'm most worried about So yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, they love to blueify our red states. It's a

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Speaker 4: huge hazard. But our states are well run, they are better,

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Speaker 4: and that's something we can brag about. The the vidication

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Speaker 4: of red state government has been a big story of

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Speaker 4: the past decade.

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Speaker 2: It really has.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I'm glad you said that because it kind of

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Speaker 3: flows into our next our next question mark I mute yourself.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Charlie Kirkshow.

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Speaker 10: Okay, thanks for taking my call, guys. One of the

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Speaker 10: main reasons, yeah, one of the main reasons why I

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Speaker 10: started listening to Charlie Kirk and I loved this about

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Speaker 10: Charlie was his obsession with winning elections. One of the

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Speaker 10: main reasons why I donate to you, guys is because

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Speaker 10: turning point action. And I don't want to say I'm

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Speaker 10: a what do you guys call him? The black pillars,

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Speaker 10: the doomers, right, I don't know what you guys call it,

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Speaker 10: but basically, I'm extremely worried about the midterms. But what

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Speaker 10: I would like to see is, and I'm gonna use

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Speaker 10: I think Blake's term because he's a Catholic guy, the

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Speaker 10: Conservative Conclave. I'm gonna call it the I'm kind of

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Speaker 10: calling it the Conservative Conclave where we focus energy comparing

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Speaker 10: policy from Dems to Republicans. There's a book called Questioning

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Speaker 10: to the Clothes. If you look at the response from

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Speaker 10: Amagill Spamberger after the State of the Union, she just

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Speaker 10: kept asking three questions, what has the what has Trump done?

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah?

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Speaker 10: What has Trump done?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 10: She didn't, I mean, basically she was lying, But the

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Speaker 10: concept is the same. We need the independent voters. And

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Speaker 10: what I don't see Harley anywhere in conservative media is

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Speaker 10: what is there's no comparison between policy, like the Republican

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Speaker 10: policy is superior to the Democrats have.

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Speaker 2: Well, I agree, Mark, this is interesting.

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Speaker 3: It ties into two of the other questions and some

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Speaker 3: of the podcasters you can trust, Yeah, you trust the

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Speaker 3: ones that have skin in the game and that are

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Speaker 3: actually working elections and trying to.

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Speaker 4: Get the right. It got me thinking about this because

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Speaker 4: a reason they wouldn't become pairing Republican policies to Democrat

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Speaker 4: ones is if they're just promoting conflict within the movement.

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Speaker 4: And that's something we should have said about who you

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Speaker 4: can trust? Look at yes, picking fights with you want.

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Speaker 4: I love to talk about the words that are on

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Speaker 4: a Claymore. Mind, if for military lingo front towards enemy,

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Speaker 4: they should be facing the enemy, which is the left,

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Speaker 4: and if instead they're facing your own guys and finding

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Speaker 4: reasons to stoke conflict with other Republicans without really good reason,

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Speaker 4: like Okay, we attack Lindsey Graham for reasons that we

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Speaker 4: hope we're very clear on. But if they're constantly finding

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Speaker 4: new Republicans to beef with. That's not a good thing.

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Speaker 4: And so you're very right. We need our communicators talking

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Speaker 4: about elections and talking about what Democrat rule means. And

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Speaker 4: what Democrat rule means is training in your kids, crime, filth,

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Speaker 4: disorder in the streets, higher taxes like unlivability, it's califying.

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Speaker 4: Is spending forty billion dollars on a train that will

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Speaker 4: never carry anyone anywhere.

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Speaker 10: I agree one hundred percent. And this is why I

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Speaker 10: was so adamant about getting through right. It's like, I

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Speaker 10: get so angry when this infighting is not helping anybody.

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Speaker 10: But this is kind of why I'm calling it the

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Speaker 10: Conservative Conclave, because it's like we're grabbing people from this

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Speaker 10: space and saying, look, guys, if we lose the midterm

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Speaker 10: in the Senate and the House, Trump is done. If

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Speaker 10: we lose the House, he's not out of office. But

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Speaker 10: if he loses both, he's done. And so and if

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Speaker 10: we lose the House, yes, and if he loses the

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Speaker 10: House Senate and we lose in twenty eight, if JD

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Speaker 10: doesn't win, they're coming after you, guys. I mean, I

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Speaker 10: hate to say it, right, because I mean this is

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Speaker 10: I mean This is why I loved about Charlie, who

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Speaker 10: was so fearless, and the thing that I love, he

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Speaker 10: went out. He did his own RNC convention right next

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Speaker 10: to the RNC convention. I was like stoked when he

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Speaker 10: did that. And this is why when I see conservative

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Speaker 10: talk shows, I get angry.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just Mark, we got to wrap the show.

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Speaker 3: We got to wrap the show. I hate to cut

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Speaker 3: you off, but you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The Claymore Mind is a great analogy, Blake. I think

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Speaker 2: that was a great way to end it.

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Speaker 4: For more on many of these stories and news you

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Speaker 4: can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com