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Speaker 2: and good old regular life. It's Kevin McCollough Monday through

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Speaker 4: And Merry Christmas. Happy Monday, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad to be

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Speaker 4: back with you after what has to be one of

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Speaker 4: the busiest weekends I've ever spent in the Christmas season ever,

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Speaker 4: I find myself enjoying the fullest, most breathtaking sequence of

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Speaker 4: the holidays. Every year is full, Every year has its busyness,

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Speaker 4: Christmas officially has arrived. The season begins, and with it

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Speaker 4: What a gift to simply be her father in this moment.

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Speaker 4: And then came yesterday, Christmas at the White House. An

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Speaker 4: that's what leadership looks like. So, mister President, if you

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Speaker 4: ever hear these words, just know this. Millions of us

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Speaker 4: And from the depths of my heart, Merry Christmas, President Trump,

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Speaker 4: Thanks for the invitation of the White House.

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Speaker 4: God, continue to use you for the sake of freedom,

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Kevin McCulloch, come.

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Speaker 5: A right back here he is.

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Speaker 1: He's from New York, That Kevin. Kevin McCullough.

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Speaker 4: We'll tell you more about that in a minute. Lou,

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Speaker 4: welcome back. It's money Monday. We try to help people

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Speaker 6: Yes, I think that's a great way to put it.

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Speaker 4: Well, that affordability term, it's it's just everyone needs to

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Speaker 4: But even here in the Tri State, you know gases.

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Speaker 4: These are all cities that had kind of said, well,

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Speaker 4: we're going to kind of defy logic and keep criminals

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Speaker 4: protected and under under you know, guard stuff like he's like, no,

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Speaker 4: let's get let's get him out so your people can

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Speaker 4: be safe. It's okay to put criminals where criminals need

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Speaker 4: to go so that the good people that don't break

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Speaker 4: the laws can have a safe place to live.

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Speaker 1: That's there's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 4: It's not being crazy, it's not racist, it's not anything

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Speaker 4: else to say, let's put the criminals, you know, where

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Speaker 4: they need to go, and then the safe people that

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Speaker 4: want to be lived in safety can be where they are.

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Speaker 4: And I got to tell you just my being d

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Speaker 4: C yesterday and I was there for only a few hours,

449
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Speaker 4: but I came to I went through the city into

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Speaker 4: the downtown area for the event and back out the

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Speaker 4: same route I used to take when I did some

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Speaker 4: consulting work down there, which was basically through the roughest

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Speaker 4: part of town. You can't really get to the tourism

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Speaker 4: and the monuments and the office building part of town

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Speaker 4: without going through what had been formally bad parts of town.

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Speaker 4: Because the whole city was kind of like encircled in

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Speaker 4: problematically criminal areas.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 4: Since he's had his you know, clean up going under way,

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Speaker 4: since you know, early summer, that place was unrecognizable.

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Speaker 1: It was spotless.

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Speaker 4: There weren't loiters, even even.

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Speaker 1: The roughest parts.

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Speaker 4: It looked like some paint jobs had been put up

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Speaker 4: and some like it was really rather we stopped. We

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Speaker 4: stopped to get a cup of coffee because we left

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Speaker 4: so early yesterday morning, we stopped in a rather not

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Speaker 4: great part of town, and we're able to get some

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Speaker 4: coffee at a Starbucks that was all employed by by

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Speaker 4: hearing impaired folks. So it's it's like the it's like

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Speaker 4: the hearing impaired Starbucks. So if people that have and

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Speaker 4: there's a big hearing impaired school that's very close to there,

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Speaker 4: so they have you have to do it a little

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Speaker 4: different and kind of have to write down your order

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Speaker 4: on like a little.

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Speaker 1: iPad before you give it to them.

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Speaker 4: But it's very cool, And this would not have been

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Speaker 4: an area that I would have ever stopped in previously

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Speaker 4: just because I didn't want to get robbed. Felt totally

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Speaker 4: safe completely. So these these programs work and the people

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Speaker 4: that know that the best are the ones that live

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Speaker 4: in the worst neighborhoods. Those are the people that are like, wow,

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Speaker 4: I can walk my dog at night. I know I'm

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Speaker 4: not going to get shot or robbed or anything else.

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Speaker 4: So very excited about that. And then as we were

486
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Speaker 4: as we ended up being at the White House later,

487
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Speaker 4: he did talk about some of these enforcement actions that

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Speaker 4: they've taken down, and he called out Chicago specifically, and

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Speaker 4: he said, you know, it's very odd that the mayor

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Speaker 4: of Chicago would tell the president. It doesn't matter which

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Speaker 4: party's from or anything, just be odd for a mayor

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Speaker 4: to tell a president please don't help us. He said,

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Speaker 4: it's especially odd for them to do it if they're

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Speaker 4: losing five to ten, you know, murder victims every weekend.

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Speaker 4: Every weekend in Chicago, you would have you know, five, six, seven, ten,

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Speaker 4: fifteen people getting killed getting shot, and they you know,

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Speaker 4: they unleashed the activity there. There was a lot of

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Speaker 4: objection to it, and early on it was kind of

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Speaker 4: you know, pushed back against, and the mayor was, you know,

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Speaker 4: going on the media and saying this is unnecessary, and

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Speaker 4: the governor was going on the media saying it's unnecessary

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Speaker 4: but now that they've been there and things are starting

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Speaker 4: to get under control, the citizens of Chicago actually like it,

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Speaker 4: particularly in the high crime areas that are no longer

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Speaker 4: as high a crime as they were, and they're on

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Speaker 4: their way to becoming.

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Speaker 1: Low crime areas.

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Speaker 4: And I just I don't understand how that could be

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Speaker 4: objected to. Maybe you do eight eight eight six nine

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Speaker 4: two seven two three four it, but I don't understand

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Speaker 4: a lot of the people that are objecting these days.

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Speaker 4: There was a lady at the tree lighting on Friday

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Speaker 4: night holding a big sign that said stop Fascism. And

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Speaker 4: I said, well, in my fifth ten year old knew

515
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Speaker 4: what I was up to, but I said, we have

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Speaker 4: to ask. He's like, Dad, don't, don't ask her. I said, no,

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Speaker 4: we got We got to ask her because I'm not

518
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Speaker 4: there to embarrass people. I just I want to know

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Speaker 4: what they think. And so I'm like, excuse me, I'm

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00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: just curious, like what fascism do you think needs to

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Speaker 4: be stopped? And she looked at me kind of blank stared,

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Speaker 4: and I would guess her to be like, you know,

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Speaker 4: early early to mid sixties, something like that, and she

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Speaker 4: was all bundled up. She had a you know, hat

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Speaker 4: on and coat and mittens, and she's holding this huge

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Speaker 4: sign that was like basically two flagpoles, one on each end,

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Speaker 4: and then this netting that connected it, and then on

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Speaker 4: the netting they had attached the letters stop fascism in

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Speaker 4: big Orange.

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Speaker 1: I mean, talk about.

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Speaker 4: Instilling the holiday spirit at the tree lights, Hey, Merry

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Speaker 4: Christmas and stop fascism. Yeah, yeah, okay, so this is

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Speaker 4: where you chose to throw down. Okay, so let me

534
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 4: just ask what what fascism would you like us to stop?

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Speaker 4: And she just she blinked at me like, uh sponge

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Speaker 4: SpongeBob SquarePants blank blank, Like she's just like I said,

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Speaker 4: but see, I'm curious, how do you define fascism? What

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00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 4: are you defining as fascism? And she goes, well, how

539
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 4: would you define fascism? I said, well, do you know

540
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 4: of any leaders in history that were fascist?

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Speaker 1: And she said do you?

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Speaker 4: And I said, well, Mussolini was known for being a fascist,

543
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Speaker 4: and she didn't know anything about Mussolini, so it was

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Speaker 4: kind of a that was kind of an a non starter,

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Speaker 4: but I said, you know, it seems to me, and

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Speaker 4: then she finally goes, well, it's what Donald Trump's doing.

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Speaker 1: To all of us.

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Speaker 4: I said, what is he doing to you, because he's

549
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 4: not doing anything to me, and I'm very concerned about that.

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Speaker 4: She said, well, he's trying to take all of our

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Speaker 4: rights away, and I said, like free speech.

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Speaker 1: And she goes yeah.

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Speaker 4: I said, but you're holding a sign in the middle

554
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Speaker 4: of a street in the country that he is the

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Speaker 4: president of, and you're calling him a fascist and he's

556
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Speaker 4: letting you do that like there's no one stopping you

557
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 4: from if he's a fascist, he's really bad at it,

558
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 4: Like he's a terrible fascist if he's a fascist. And

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Speaker 4: then it was at that point that our friends were like, sorry.

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Speaker 1: You need to move along.

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Speaker 4: And I may not have immediately, we may have had

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Speaker 4: a few more questions to ask. But when I walked

563
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Speaker 4: away my son, I said, see, you can ask questions

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Speaker 4: and be winsome. He goes, yeah, Dad, that was worth it.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, we've got a lot to talk about this hour.

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Speaker 4: Cooper Smith joins me next to talk about some of

567
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Speaker 4: those ice actions.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away here.

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Speaker 3: He is from New York. Keviy Kevin mckella.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Times Square. It's Kevin mcpella.

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Speaker 4: That Kevin show a very quick trip down back from

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Speaker 4: Washington yesterday. Thank you again, mister President, and the first

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Speaker 4: Lady for the invite. Someone who has been to those

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Speaker 4: Christmas parties in the past, Cooper Smith, rejoins us from

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Speaker 4: America First Policy Institute.

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Speaker 1: Cooper, some of your friends and our.

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Speaker 4: Mutual friends were milling around the Hall of President yesterday

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Speaker 4: and then at three o'clock, the big guy comes down

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Speaker 4: and he says, and without any notes, this guy amazes me,

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Speaker 4: without any notes, introduces all the dignitaries, has a couple

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Speaker 4: of Cabinet secretaries come up and say a few words,

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Speaker 4: and then he just starts rattling off all the stuff

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Speaker 4: that's going on. He's like, you should be really excited

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Speaker 4: about this country right now. There's something that's disconnected from

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Speaker 4: the information he has and whatever it is that the

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Speaker 4: Washington Post of the New York Times are peddling because

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Speaker 4: they seem to be living in two different countries at times.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I Look, this has been going on for

589
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 7: ten years, if not more, with the media kind of

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Speaker 7: living in their own kind of the Acella Corridor right

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Speaker 7: from DC to New York. And look, this is why

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Speaker 7: the president won. This is what gives him power. He

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Speaker 7: speaks to the forgotten people of America. You know, the

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Speaker 7: line worker in Michigan, the auto worker, you know, no

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Speaker 7: tax on tips.

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Speaker 3: Right, we're talking about waitresses.

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Speaker 4: See the grime crime, better cities. That was one thing

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Speaker 4: he was really hot on. He was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: we just we got d C cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: I saw it with my.

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Speaker 4: Own eyes yesterday. He goes, we got you know, we

602
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Speaker 4: went into these other cities. Chicago, he was like, I

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Speaker 4: don't understand the mayor there, he doesn't want to save city.

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Speaker 4: Talked about Memphis and he said that New Orleans, you know,

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Speaker 4: is going to be cleaned up shortly.

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Speaker 1: What's going on there?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so I think New Orleans is kind of the

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Speaker 7: latest in the Ice and Border patrol operations. So they're

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Speaker 7: they're kind of rounding the country, right, But that the

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Speaker 7: through line from Chicago to Charlotte to New Orleans because

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Speaker 7: these are all sanctuary cities, right, These are sanctuary cities

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Speaker 7: or counties, sometimes in red states, sometimes in blue states.

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Speaker 7: And the President and Tom Homan have been super clear

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Speaker 7: with the American people that this is where the bad

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Speaker 7: guys are.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 7: So, if you're an illegal immigrant, particularly a criminal, where

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Speaker 7: are you going to go, you know, put yourself in

619
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Speaker 7: their shoes for a second. You're going to go to

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Speaker 7: a jurisdiction that's telling the federal government no, we're not

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Speaker 7: going to work with you, and you can live in

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Speaker 7: our community and we will value you here in our communities.

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Speaker 7: They love to say they love to conflate illegal and

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Speaker 7: legal immigrants all the time, but unfortunately has disastrous consequences.

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Speaker 3: You know, just in.

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Speaker 7: Chicago alone, they've let free seventeen hundred criminal illegal aliens

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Speaker 7: from jails there. Rather than calling Ice, who issues a

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Speaker 7: detainer to pick them up and deport them, calling making

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Speaker 7: a simple call and say hey, come to our jails,

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Speaker 7: pick up these illegal migrants and send them home, they

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Speaker 7: will lease them into the communities, and unfortunately, the American

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Speaker 7: people have to pay the price.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And he was talking about how effective and how

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Speaker 4: efficient these operations have been, and like you're genuinely seeing

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Speaker 4: different cities, you know, emerge from it. Like I could

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Speaker 4: not believe I've done a lot of you know, back

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00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 4: and forth in DC over the years from New York,

638
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 4: and I couldn't believe the area that I had previously

639
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Speaker 4: kind of lived in, which was kind of right on

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Speaker 4: the border a really shaky area and then a pretty

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Speaker 4: decent area, but just looking at how peaceful and clean

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Speaker 4: and everything else, and that the mayor of Chicago would

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Speaker 4: look at that and say, we don't want that. And

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Speaker 4: the President you mentioned this in his comments to us directly,

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Speaker 4: he said, look, he's losing five, six ten people a weekend,

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Speaker 4: right that are dying in these shootouts, in this violence.

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Speaker 1: And he goes, what mayor would want that to continue?

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Speaker 4: Because he's not stopping it, and we have the resources

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Speaker 4: to make it stop, and all we got to do

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Speaker 4: is do it. It's kind of befuddling to understand.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And look like when we talk about immigration enforcement

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Speaker 7: in particular, one thing I like to remind people is,

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Speaker 7: you know ICE as a new agency, DHS as a

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Speaker 7: new agency. It was all created posts nine to eleven

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Speaker 7: in two thousand and two, two thousand and three, and

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Speaker 7: the Homeland Security Act I think two thousand and two

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Speaker 7: was passed almost unanimously in the Senate. You know, people

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Speaker 7: like Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and others voted to

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Speaker 7: create ICE. So these federal law enforcement agents, ICE agents

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Speaker 7: porbitual agents were created by Democrats and Republicans sort of

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Speaker 7: bipartisan caucus of our lawmakers and they're out there doing

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Speaker 7: basic Title eight immigration enforcement. Just for your listeners, go

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Speaker 7: google Title eight immigration law says, you cannot be here

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Speaker 7: if you don't have a legal right.

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Speaker 3: We have the right to deport you.

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Speaker 7: So when Mayor Mom Donnie in New York is telling

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Speaker 7: illegal immigrants in his city, you know, sort of know

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Speaker 7: your rights. I don't know, Kevin, if you've seen that

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Speaker 7: campaign that the left calls know your rights, well, ice

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Speaker 7: agents have rights too. They have the right to detain

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Speaker 7: and deport you if you're violating immigration law.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting.

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Speaker 4: This was a busy weekend for the family, and we

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Speaker 4: were at a tree lighting and a local area on

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Speaker 4: Friday night. And normally this town when they have their

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Speaker 4: tree lighting, very very festive, very fun. The whole town

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Speaker 4: comes out. It's kind of a big deal. There were

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Speaker 4: these protesters. They're kind of not far from the actual

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Speaker 4: where the tree was going to be lit. They held

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Speaker 4: this huge fishnet sign up that said stop fascism. And

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Speaker 4: my fifteen year old knows that I'm a little bit

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Speaker 4: of a sucker for this, but I love to play

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Speaker 4: the innocent asked the question game, So I go to

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Speaker 4: the one lady at one end of the sign. I said,

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, can you just explain to me what your

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Speaker 4: sign's about? And she's like, well, we're trying to stop

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Speaker 4: fascism and I said, well, yeah, but what does that mean?

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Speaker 4: And she said, well, well, you know, it's what we're experiencing.

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Speaker 4: And I said, well, can you define it? And she

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Speaker 4: couldn't define it, and she I think she kind of

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Speaker 4: got a little bit of a whiff that maybe I

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Speaker 4: was not on the same team. But she goes, well,

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Speaker 4: all you have to know it's what Donald Trump's doing

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Speaker 4: to the US. I said, well, he's really bad at

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Speaker 4: it then, because here you are standing with this sign

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Speaker 4: in the middle of this otherwise very festive Christmas tree lighting,

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Speaker 4: saying to stop him, and he's not doing anything to you.

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Speaker 4: I thought, I thought fascist would put you down if

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Speaker 4: you tried that. That kind of gave me away and

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Speaker 4: we had to kind of like depart from that point on.

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Speaker 4: But it's really amazing Cooper that they have this kind

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Speaker 4: of viewpoint that the government's out to get us, but

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Speaker 4: in reality they're out to make us safer. Like what

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Speaker 4: does mom Donny think he's going to accomplish by harboring

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Speaker 4: people who want to subvert the law to stay here,

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Speaker 4: what's their purpose? How do they make your neighborhood and

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Speaker 4: community better at the end of the day.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean, my opinion on this, Kevin is

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Speaker 7: that you know, when you think about open borders, and

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Speaker 7: you know, why, why would Joe Biden?

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Speaker 3: It's my opinion.

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Speaker 7: I don't think it's particularly controversial that if Biden had

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Speaker 7: not opened the border, I think he would have been

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Speaker 7: in a much stronger position to run for reelection. But

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Speaker 7: nonetheless they did, So you think about why would they

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Speaker 7: do this? And to me, it gets down to birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 7: So every time you send you know, whether it's one

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Speaker 7: hundred thousand people with TPS or h one B workers

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Speaker 7: or student visas, all these various legal and semi legal

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Speaker 7: pathways they opened. The Left knows that every child they

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Speaker 7: have here becomes a US citizen, and to them, in

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Speaker 7: my view, it's about permanent political power.

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Speaker 3: So they they understand the crime.

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Speaker 7: I don't think they're you know, I wouldn't say that

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Speaker 7: they're pro crime and that they're happy when somebody gets

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Speaker 7: murdered in their city, but they understand that that's the

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Speaker 7: price We're going to have to pay. The American people

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Speaker 7: are gonna have to pay for Democrats to have permanent

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Speaker 7: political power. That is my view of it. I don't

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Speaker 7: think you can read it any other way. And unfortunately

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Speaker 7: we you know, again, the American people have to pay

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Speaker 7: that price. But you're bringing up the Christmas tree lighting

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Speaker 7: and I can't help but just bring up the hilarious

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Speaker 7: story out of Portland, Oregon, where not only did they

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Speaker 7: not mention Jesus Christ and their Christmas tree lighting ceremony,

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Speaker 7: they're waiving a free Palaestine flag all over the Did

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Speaker 7: you see this guy? He was one of the funniest

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Speaker 7: things I've ever seen in my life. They don't miss

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Speaker 7: any opportunity to take a swipe at Judeo Christian culture,

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Speaker 7: American the American way of life, and of course free,

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Speaker 7: free Palestine and all this garbage that they peddle.

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Speaker 4: Well, this is one of the reasons why I'm not sure,

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Speaker 4: and I proposed this in a town hall column last week.

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Speaker 4: I'm very unconvinced that radical or committed militant Islamic practitioners

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Speaker 4: can coexist with our constitution. I just it's hard because

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Speaker 4: without on some level a trust of the people to

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Speaker 4: have an ethic that allows for pluralism in beliefs, you're

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Speaker 4: going to end up with dominance and you're going to

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Speaker 4: end up with tyranny. And that's what's happened everywhere in

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Speaker 4: Europe and everywhere in the Middle East that Islam has

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Speaker 4: taken over. It chokes out everything else. And wait, the

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Speaker 4: people that are on the left that I don't think

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Speaker 4: want that, but they are not preparing themselves to stop it.

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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, we don't have to think about or wonder

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Speaker 7: what this might look like. We've seen it play out

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Speaker 7: in France, in Germany, in Sweden. We're talking about types

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Speaker 7: of crime that frankly never existed in these places, right,

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Speaker 7: you know, female genital mutilation, you know knife random knife

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Speaker 7: stabbings and acid attacks and all the rest of our people,

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Speaker 7: right or people getting murdered simply for drawing a cartoon

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Speaker 7: depiction of the prophet Mohammed.

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Speaker 3: So we know what this looks like.

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Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Western Europe is now starting.

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Speaker 3: To figure that out.

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Speaker 7: But I think they're probably twenty or thirty years too late.

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Speaker 7: And I think President Trump and his team and JD.

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Speaker 7: Vance and others understand this, and they want to prevent

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Speaker 7: America's as truly maybe the last best hope of mankind

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Speaker 7: for a free and democratic society, small d democratic society.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think you're exactly right, Cooper. Appreciate all

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Speaker 4: that you're doing. Thank you for spending some time with us.

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Speaker 4: If I don't talk to you again before then, have

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Speaker 4: a merry Christmas, and God's best on all that we're

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Speaker 4: trying to accomplish. We need a lot of help, but

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Speaker 4: we've got some time. Hopefully we can get it done.

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Speaker 3: Ruts to you. Thank you, you got it.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough coming back from Time Square. Is that Kevin

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Speaker 1: show stick here? Ps Time.

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Speaker 5: Here?

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Speaker 1: He is from New York, That Kevin Kevin McCullough, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It's a Monday afternoon.

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Speaker 4: If you're hearing this live, if you're getting the podcast

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Speaker 4: or listening in one of those places that airs at

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Speaker 4: a different time, that's a different time for you. But

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Speaker 4: for those if you there with me, it's middle of

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Speaker 4: the afternoon actually though the sun is starting to go

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Speaker 4: down earlier and earlier these days, even here in New York.

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Speaker 4: But thank you for being with us on Monday. We

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Speaker 4: like to focus in on on the practical side. We

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Speaker 4: like to focus in on money and how to try

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Speaker 4: to help it be more effective and long lasting and

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Speaker 4: preserved in your family's legacy. And here to help us

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Speaker 4: do that once again, as Hillary Kramer. Hillary kramer dot

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Speaker 4: com is where you find everything that she has, including

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Speaker 4: She's also got a variety of other email products that

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Speaker 4: help you depending on your investment appetite. But Hillary, I've

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Speaker 4: always been curious when we get to this stage in

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Speaker 4: the year, we're just talking about a couple of three

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Speaker 4: weeks left in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Are the markets.

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Speaker 4: Are the markets more or less worthless at this point

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Speaker 4: through the year's end, or is this a time when

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Speaker 4: people can make strategic moves.

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Speaker 5: It can be a very strategic time to enter the

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Speaker 5: market because there could be volatility because many and are

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Speaker 5: exiting the market and apectations of taxing. There's been so

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Speaker 5: much money made, right We've had the SMP of approximately

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Speaker 5: and that's twenty twenty percent, eighteen percent, you know, three

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Speaker 5: years running, so there's a lot of money that's been made,

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Speaker 5: so there can be some selling and it's a great

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Speaker 5: time to jump into the market. And we've all heard

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Speaker 5: of this Santa Claus rally. Because you also have right

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Speaker 5: now money managers, the big money managers. They do what

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Speaker 5: we call window dress, and it's not window dressing like

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Speaker 5: you would do it and even markets or a maze,

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Speaker 5: it's a window dress your portfolio. So there's this group

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Speaker 5: thinks that goes on. You know, the market's just psychology,

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Speaker 5: that's all it is, Kevin. So the psychology is everyone

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Speaker 5: brings the market up. They bring it up. So I've

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Speaker 5: said there's some great opportunities if you want to just

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Speaker 5: jump in, some great opportunities. Talk about mega caps. Look

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Speaker 5: company like Boeing, a company like Amazon. According to Goldman Sachs,

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Speaker 5: in the last three those days have said that there's

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Speaker 5: twenty five percent upside to both of these companies. Boeing

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Speaker 5: because we are seeing we're seeing deliveries rise. They had

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Speaker 5: a soft October November, but that's off. You know, usually

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Speaker 5: though they're delivering fifty plains a month. But we're expecting

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Speaker 5: that Boeing's deliveries are just going to start to hum soon.

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Speaker 5: Boeing to the defense company. Boeing has satellite operations and

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Speaker 5: we shouldn't pull ourselves. But we think in terms of

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Speaker 5: the market. Where is the action, Where is the opportunity?

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Speaker 5: Where is everybody looking?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: Right now, on one hand, the buzz is all artificial

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Speaker 5: intelligence and data centers, but what's really selling is defense,

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Speaker 5: and defense has been done technologically. So let me just

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Speaker 5: say that you have companies like Amazon and Boeing, but

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Speaker 5: you want to make ten times on your money? Do

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Speaker 5: you want to make ten thousand percent?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 5: You want to buy carfon at forty and have it

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Speaker 5: be a four hundred and fifty dollars stock, which if

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Speaker 5: anyone had listened to me, and I know many of

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Speaker 5: the listeners have and perject carbon and not even two

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Speaker 5: years ago, you're looking at a ten thousand percent fust return.

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Speaker 5: That does happen. It happens often. What about my MNMD right,

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Speaker 5: my mind medicine stop. It's a real nice small cap

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Speaker 5: one point three billion dollars. It's thirteen bucks. And you

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Speaker 5: know we've been talking about it, what under seven dollars

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Speaker 5: in May? And May it's December, so you know it

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Speaker 5: was six dollars and ninety cents. Actually it got it

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Speaker 5: goes low as five dollars and forty three cents in

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Speaker 5: April and now it's thirteen oh five. That's a three

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Speaker 5: hundred percent returns too, almost a three hundred percent return.

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Speaker 5: But it's really cooking. And by the way, Minds Medicine,

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Speaker 5: for anyone who does want to know, is a Robert F.

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Speaker 5: Kennedy stock, because Robert F. Kennedy Junior is now looking

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Speaker 5: for alternatives to addictive you know, xanax and all of

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Speaker 5: these PTSD medications that really don't do much, but I

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Speaker 5: mean they help, but there have to be other alternatives.

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Speaker 5: And MMMD has medication been down.

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Speaker 4: I've been on them, were on them from the very beginning,

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Speaker 4: right And what I'm.

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Speaker 5: Trying to establish here by talking about this, because they

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Speaker 5: have a whole list of stocks I hope we can

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Speaker 5: go through right now, is to say that those small

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Speaker 5: caps are where you have the opportunities. And any of

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Speaker 5: you who think that Walterit is smarter than you, you're wrong.

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Speaker 5: You know what's going on out there. And let me

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Speaker 5: give you an example. We've talked about at abelin the

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Speaker 5: ticker symbol is ZBB. Balbylin is still a great buying opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Right now. The average age of a passenger vehicle passenger

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Speaker 5: cars more teen and a half years now. All cars

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Speaker 5: out there, that includes trucks. It's twelve point eight years. Well,

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Speaker 5: people need oil changes and they need wiper blades, and

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Speaker 5: the older car is the more you need to make

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Speaker 5: sure you get that oil change. Might not want to

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Speaker 5: do other upgrades, but you want that oil change. We

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Speaker 5: all know what happens if you run out of oil

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Speaker 5: or your oil burns out. That's the end of your car. Right,

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Speaker 5: So there's like this automatic kind of response, and no

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Speaker 5: one does it themselves anymore. And cars are running longer.

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Speaker 5: Cars are have been built better. You know, they might

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Speaker 5: not be made out of steel and like like a

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Speaker 5: nineteen seventy eight Cutle of Supreme, which was a real beauty. Right,

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Speaker 5: you might have more of a plastic like car, but

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Speaker 5: the bells and whistles are phenomenal on it. So what

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Speaker 5: I'm always trying to do is give the people opportunities

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Speaker 5: and trying to let them see things from a different

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Speaker 5: kind of perspective. And that's why. Another one of my favorites,

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Speaker 5: but now it's the right entry point is olin Ol

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Speaker 5: and the chemical company out of Missouri. Hey, hello to

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Speaker 5: everyone listening from Missouri and the surrounding areas. Ollen is

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Speaker 5: one incredible company, it's chemicals. It' hipoxies and spinals and

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Speaker 5: high to chloric assets, and it's these PFA s's those

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Speaker 5: are that's a chemical that helps electrical insulation of wiring

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Speaker 5: and so all in which has always just been known

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Speaker 5: as a chemical company suddenly is hell as an AI

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Speaker 5: is an artificial intelligence play because the data centers need

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Speaker 5: to keep the integrity of all this wiring well enforced

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Speaker 5: and all in. Of course we talked about Winchester Ammunition

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Speaker 5: and own and how Winchester is what the what you

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Speaker 5: know it's from from homeland security to defense either bullets okay,

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Speaker 5: But then there are other companies I look at like

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Speaker 5: new IPS initial public offerings, Well, Pattern Group.

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Speaker 4: We're just about out of time, but I just want

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Speaker 4: to make sure people understand if they want to get

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Speaker 4: more of your information, which they can do for free,

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Speaker 4: just go to Hillary Kramer dot com. Hillary is spelled

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Speaker 4: with one L. Kramer is spelled with a K dot

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Speaker 4: com and then she's got her trade desk email which

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Speaker 4: she'll send to you a complimentary Please feel free to

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Speaker 4: check that out. And Hillary's with us every Monday here

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Speaker 4: for money Monday. Appreciate you, Hillary, Thank you.

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Speaker 5: So much, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You got it.

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Speaker 4: Coming right back with my final thoughts for the day.

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Speaker 4: It's Kevin McCullough and that Kevin Show, That Kevin Show,

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Speaker 4: that kevinshow dot com to join all my socials. We're

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Speaker 4: on x, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and about twenty five

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Speaker 4: others that kevinshow dot com to check them out. You know,

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Speaker 4: as we kind of land the plane on today's show,

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Speaker 4: I kept thinking about how wildly full this season is,

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Speaker 4: how even in the middle of all the noise, the

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Speaker 4: most important truth is still whispering to us. This weekend,

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Speaker 4: I stood kind of older to shoulder with Americans inside

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Speaker 4: the People's House, our White House, watching the President welcome

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Speaker 4: his guests. Rooms that were lined with garlands and beautiful

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Speaker 4: music and history and hope. The lights glittered, the trees

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Speaker 4: were just stunning. But the emotion of it, the heartbeat

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Speaker 4: of it, wasn't the decre It was the reminder that

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Speaker 4: Christmas still matters to this country, that the birth of

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Speaker 4: Christ still has a place of honor in the heart

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Speaker 4: of America. Because the real story of Christmas is not

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Speaker 4: champagne in ballrooms. It's the advent. We learned from John's gospel,

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Speaker 4: the word became flesh and dwelt among us. God didn't

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Speaker 4: send a memo, He sent himself. He entered a broken

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Speaker 4: world to bring light to people who had grown used

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Speaker 4: to the dark. And as I look at the conversations

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Speaker 4: we even had today, every one of them goes right

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Speaker 4: back to that light. Ice is ramping up operations in

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Speaker 4: New Orleans. And why because darkness thrives when lawlessness rules,

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Speaker 4: when those who wish to harm the vulnerable think they

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Speaker 4: can do it and go unnoticed. In a world of

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Speaker 4: fentanyl and cartels and chaos. Someone has to stand the post.

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Speaker 4: Someone has to protect the people, because every mother who

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Speaker 4: locks her door at night deserves safer streets and a

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Speaker 4: safer nation. Advent reminds us that justice is not a

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Speaker 4: dirty word. Justice is a divine word. Lou Bassenese helped

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Speaker 4: us look toward the next FED meeting. The market's asking

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Speaker 4: big questions about where we're headed. And here again, the

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Speaker 4: story is the same uncertainty, fear, people longing for stability,

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Speaker 4: longing for leaders who won't play games with their livelihoods.

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Speaker 4: The baby born in Bethlehem came to a world like that, confused, anxious,

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Speaker 4: tax to death, desperate.

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Speaker 1: For a savior.

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Speaker 4: We talked about energy, real energy, American energy that heats

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Speaker 4: our homes and powers our economy. The families who want

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Speaker 4: to put food on the table and lights under tree,

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Speaker 4: they matter. It isn't just political, it's moral. All throughout

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Speaker 4: the show we explored the pressures people are under, financial,

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Speaker 4: spiritual safety, even national identity. And yet here we are

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Speaker 4: in December, the season where God steps into history to

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Speaker 4: remind us that hope is not fragile. It's not theoretical.

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Speaker 4: It's flesh and blood. It cried and laughed and healed

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Speaker 4: and still rescues. Christ is Christmas without him, we're just

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Speaker 4: hanging lights on the darkness. So tonight, whether you're heading

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Speaker 4: home from work on the train or stuck in traffic,

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Speaker 4: or finishing the day's tasks with the show in your earbuds,

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Speaker 4: I want to let this truth settle into your heart.

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Speaker 1: Light winds.

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Speaker 4: It always has, it always will. And because of that,

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Speaker 4: your family, your children, and your future still have a

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Speaker 4: reason to sing, still have a reason to believe, still

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Speaker 4: have a reason to wake up tomorrow with more courage

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Speaker 4: in their heart. From Times Square to your Street, my

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Speaker 4: prayer tonight is that the Prince of Peace will fill

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Speaker 4: your home with the warmth that only he can provide.

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Speaker 4: And may we as Americans protect what is good, may

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Speaker 4: we restore what is broken, and may we look forward

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Speaker 4: with confidence that Emmanuel, the God who came to be.

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Speaker 1: With us, is still here. That's my goal.

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Speaker 4: Let me know what your goals are that kevinshow at

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Speaker 4: gmail dot com, join any of the social media DM

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Speaker 4: me on any of them. But that's where my mind

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Speaker 4: is at as we kind of draw to a close

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Speaker 4: on this edition. Merry Christmas. Thank you for spending part

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Speaker 4: of your day with me for that Kevin Show. I'm

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Speaker 4: Kevin McCullough and we will see you tomorrow right here,

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Speaker 4: same place, same time. Well maybe not if you're on

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Speaker 4: the podcast. But we live in a weird day that way,

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Speaker 4: at least I think it's weird. I'm gonna go up

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Speaker 4: onto that now, all to myself over here in the corner.

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Speaker 4: I'll just be all over here,