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Speaker 7: Everything you need to know about the top headlines of

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Speaker 1: Here, well, welcome in. It's December the twenty ninth, only

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Speaker 1: waxing these days. Uh, somewhat reflexive. I'm I'm I'm sitting,

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Speaker 1: where I've been writing it seems like about one hundred

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Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Lonnie Perkins. Welcome to the twenty ninth

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Speaker 1: the Monday edition, Kevin McCullough that Kevin Show friends, I

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Speaker 1: And Paul said in First Corinthians, whether you eat or

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Speaker 1: Elevation in Biblical terms is transformation of the whole person.

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Speaker 1: You know this argument that people make when they talk

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Speaker 1: Jesus loves you too much to let you stay yourself,

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Speaker 1: This is what elevation requires, humility, and it starts with

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Speaker 1: acknowledging God that he's there, that he has something for

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Speaker 1: going to come back and talk about elevated love, how

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Speaker 1: not worth eighteen billion dollars that are that are huge companies.

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Speaker 1: But to lose eighteen billion with a B And I

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Speaker 1: don't know if this is true or not, but this

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Speaker 1: always stuck in my head. Somewhere in high school someone said,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you if you stack one dollar bills

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Speaker 1: on top of each other, a million will get you

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Speaker 1: about to the extent of the Earth's atmosphere. That's a

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Speaker 1: million dollars, so like where the sky and the space

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Speaker 1: kind of meet, but a billion dollars will get you

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Speaker 1: from Earth to the moon. Okay, eighteen billion dollars is

655
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Speaker 1: what they've lost, and nobody seems to be taking responsibility

656
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Speaker 1: for it, and in fact, they're all trying to say, oh, no,

657
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Speaker 1: it wasn't me, I didn't do it. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: and for walls to come out and kind of imply

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Speaker 1: that he's got checkpoints in place. Look, these are dollars

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Speaker 1: that you and I. I want to be very I

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Speaker 1: want to elevate I want to be very clear about

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I want to elevate my clarity

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Speaker 1: on this. These dollars are dollars that you earned in

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Speaker 1: your job and then paid to the government as a

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Speaker 1: form of tax. And those dollars that you earned that

666
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: you paid to the government were then turned around and

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Speaker 1: given to these individuals on the basis on the belief,

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Speaker 1: on the premise that they were going to help primarily

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Speaker 1: poor kids, primarily US citizens who could not afford the

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Speaker 1: most basic health necessities in life. That's what you, as

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Speaker 1: the taxpayer who paid the tax dollar to the taxing government.

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Speaker 1: That's what you were told that dollar was going to

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Speaker 1: go to. But there's some really goofy stuff going on here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the headline crossing right now. Yeah,

675
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Speaker 1: just an hour ago it got posted. But elon Omar,

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Speaker 1: you know elon Omar, she's the one that thought that

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Speaker 1: the US being all upset about al Qaeda was kind

678
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Speaker 1: of funny. On nine to eleven. She thought, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: al Qaeda, and she giggled when she's talking about Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna leave that there anyway, she she had

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Speaker 1: to come up with some disclosures because when you live,

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Speaker 1: when you operate in Congress, you have to be very

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Speaker 1: transparent about your finances and so forth. And elon Omar

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Speaker 1: has file disclosures that show that her husband's company and

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Speaker 1: this isn't the husband, that was her brother. She already

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Speaker 1: divorced him, but you didn't know that. Yeah, she was

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Speaker 1: married to her brother. And then she lied about being

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Speaker 1: married to her brother, but she was married to her brother.

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Speaker 1: And then she stopped being married to her brother and

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Speaker 1: divorced her brother. But she basically married her brother so

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Speaker 1: that she could get him, you know, into the US,

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Speaker 1: and they were married for a while. It's kind of sick,

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Speaker 1: but that's that's the way it was. So she she

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Speaker 1: was married to her brother, and then she denied it,

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Speaker 1: and then they divorced, and then last like two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: she said, yeah, I was married to my brother, so

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Speaker 1: not that husband. She then married another guy, and that

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Speaker 1: guy has a bunch of companies that if you look

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Speaker 1: at the time stamp of when the help for the

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Speaker 1: Somali community started coming in and when he founded his company,

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Speaker 1: and now that the Somali community in Minnesota has been

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Speaker 1: exposed as being these fraudsters that are ripping off the taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: They timestamped his company as well. Over that amount of

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Speaker 1: time from when it started till now, his company has

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Speaker 1: grown more than twenty times every year in the last

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Speaker 1: nine years. His revenues last year were incredible. They've exploded

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Speaker 1: in value. And it's at the exact same time. This

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Speaker 1: is happening at the exact same time that Minnesota has

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Speaker 1: lost through fraud to the community that Elon Omar so

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Speaker 1: she works for, to the tune of nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Ballpark revelations about Omar's assets show a steep increase in

712
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Speaker 1: the value of her holdings in twenty twenty, and over

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Speaker 1: the weekend they tried to take her name and her

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Speaker 1: husband's name off of all of the business documents. Now,

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Speaker 1: why would you do that. It's kind of befuddling to me.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't do anything wrong, if it was just

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Speaker 1: the natural act of God that your company just exploded

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Speaker 1: in growth, why would you need to take your name off.

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Speaker 1: Why would it be something you were all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden sensitive to You weren't supposed to be successful as

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Speaker 1: a company. I don't agree with that. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: they might have been skimming a little. It's interesting stick around.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 2: He is from New York. That Kevin Kevin McCullough, welcome

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Speaker 2: back the Times Square.

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Speaker 1: It's that Kevin show, that kevinshow dot com. Very glad

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Speaker 1: to have you with us, and very glad to welcome

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Speaker 1: back Hannah Anderson, who's the director of the Healthy America

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Speaker 1: Policy and Senior Director Policy for America First Policy Institute.

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Speaker 1: One of our favorites that we have around here. Hannah.

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. Thank you for hanging out with

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Speaker 1: us on the in between. It's always kind of an

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Speaker 1: odd time to figure out what to say at this

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Speaker 1: point in time. But happy New Year is what it is.

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Speaker 9: New Year, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah. I mean, really again,

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Speaker 9: it's so nice to be back. And I hope everyone

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Speaker 9: had a great Christmas and spent some time with their

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Speaker 9: family and got to eat good food and is ready

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Speaker 9: to hit the ground running in the new year.

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Speaker 1: And I heard that there's zero calories counted out of

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Speaker 1: all the holiday food. At least that's what somebody told me.

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Speaker 9: So that's you know, as long as Bobby Kennedy is

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Speaker 9: saying that I'll believe.

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Speaker 1: I'm holding onto that for dear life exactly. Just and

745
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Speaker 1: don't mess with my Dike cokes. Like, whatever you want

746
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Speaker 1: to say about everything is leave my Dyke cocalog.

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Speaker 9: Your grandfathered in, you know the president.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's right, that's right. Well, thanks, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you being here. Okay. So it's weird that we're having

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Speaker 1: to cover this in the kind of stage of the

751
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Speaker 1: season that it is, but it kind of started breaking

752
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Speaker 1: midway between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it's really started to

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Speaker 1: amp up. And in recent days you've had undercover you know,

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Speaker 1: foot soldier reporters that have been going all throughout the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Somali neighborhoods and identifying leering centers. I never knew

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Speaker 1: what a leering center was, but evidently a leering center

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Speaker 1: is something Elie l e a r ing that can

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Speaker 1: earn up to almost two million dollars a year in

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Speaker 1: taxpayer funds posing as a learning center, though it is

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Speaker 1: called a leering center, which just says all kinds of

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Speaker 1: creepy to me. But this leering center a prime example

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Speaker 1: of how the taxpayers are getting hosed by Somali immigrants

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Speaker 1: running frauds on healthcare. Explain to me as you best

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Speaker 1: understand it, what's the latest.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, I think again in this season, you're

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Speaker 9: exactly right. It's it's hard because Americans are incredibly generous.

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Speaker 9: I think we might be the most generous in the world,

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Speaker 9: people who want to really share their wealth and time

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Speaker 9: and resources with those who are less fortunate. And that's

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Speaker 9: why we've set up some incredibly generous social safety net

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Speaker 9: programs to make sure that the ones who most need

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Speaker 9: it are getting the support. And this is why I

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Speaker 9: think this is hurts the most at Christmas time is

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Speaker 9: we have these leering centers or you know, centers for

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Speaker 9: kids who can't read good. Sorry you don't have to

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Speaker 9: take that.

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Speaker 2: But it's uh, yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 9: And it really it's so sad that, you know, these

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Speaker 9: are funds that are dedicated for really needy children, or

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Speaker 9: people who need after school support and care, or people

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Speaker 9: who need extra assistance on Medicaid like poor children, and

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Speaker 9: those funds are being taken advantage of by people who

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Speaker 9: are you know, again, we're let in the country on

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Speaker 9: an extremely humanity and generous basis and are now exploiting

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Speaker 9: the same resources that are supposed to be dedicated for

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Speaker 9: American children. So it's horrendous. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 9: if you saw the latest, but they did a eighteen

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Speaker 9: billion dollar bust of about fourteen different medicaid programs in Minnesota.

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Speaker 9: And I know these numbers seem really right like large.

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Speaker 9: So just to put it into context, eighteen billion dollars. Now,

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Speaker 9: the state of Minnesota has about seven hundred thousand children

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Speaker 9: on Medicaid and they cost the taxpayer about four thousand

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Speaker 9: dollars a child. Now I can't do this math that quickly,

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Speaker 9: but I did it ahead of per.

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Speaker 1: Thousand per year seven hundred thouars.

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Speaker 9: So that's about two point nine billion dollars. So if

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Speaker 9: you're thinking about.

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Speaker 1: The scales every child, that's every child. Yeah, so said

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Speaker 1: the ones that need help, but that's every child in

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Speaker 1: the state.

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Speaker 9: Okay, go ahead, every child in the state. So we're

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Speaker 9: not even talking about the kids who need it versus

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Speaker 9: the kids who don't, kids legally kids don't. We're just

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Speaker 9: talking about all children in Minnesota on the state Medicaid.

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Speaker 9: That's two point nine billion dollars. So if you're looking

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Speaker 9: at eighteen billion dollars over the last you know, six

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Speaker 9: seven years, you could have funded just the child poured

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Speaker 9: part of medicaid multiple times. And I think that's really

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Speaker 9: where Americans say the Medicaid program should really be protected

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Speaker 9: for these poor children. So it's really horrendous to think about. Again,

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Speaker 9: this is a program that was intended to save the

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Speaker 9: poor American child, and it's now being exploited by people

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Speaker 9: who don't care about our you know, nation and customs

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Speaker 9: and generosity and instead just want to exploit it.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you've also got Tim Walls trying to pretend

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Speaker 1: as though he's opposed this and looked into it and

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Speaker 1: investigated it, and he's acting in the language as though

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Speaker 1: he shouldn't even be questioned because he's he's been thea

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Speaker 1: of the sphere for what's right.

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Speaker 9: Yeah no, And Tim Wall's really again like he's throwing

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Speaker 9: up his hands like, of course, I don't support the fraud.

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Speaker 9: But it's the same liberal states who have pushed back

823
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Speaker 9: on any fraud investigations. It's the same liberal governors and

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Speaker 9: attorneys general who are assuming and are opposing the one

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Speaker 9: big beautiful bill and all the fraud prevention. It's the same,

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Speaker 9: you know, it's the same America. Last and patients, last

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Speaker 9: policymakers who have been corrupt in actually promoting the fraud.

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Speaker 9: You know, that's why again the Working Family Task Cut

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Speaker 9: or one big beautiful bill found about ninety billion dollars

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Speaker 9: a year and just waste fraud and abuse in the

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Speaker 9: medicaid program and saying we have to make a floor

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Speaker 9: for this rols. We're going to spend ninety billion on

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Speaker 9: learning centers for children and not learning centers for children.

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Speaker 1: And for the reason of those of you watching or

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Speaker 1: listening that maybe asking why does keV keep saying that

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Speaker 1: word because that's how they spelled it on the front

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Speaker 1: of the building that were that was given two million

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Speaker 1: dollars to operate. When the reporter showed up to ask

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Speaker 1: a few questions, there was nobody there. The place was empty,

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Speaker 1: it didn't look like it had been occupied, and out

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Speaker 1: front it literally said where we're supposed to say learning center,

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Speaker 1: leering Ellie Ellie ar ing.

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Speaker 9: And this is really again, Kevin, like, this is so

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Speaker 9: horrible because this is not just happening in Minnesota. I think,

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Speaker 9: you know, there's been a few reporters who say, well,

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Speaker 9: this is an outlier, and yeah, Minnesota is really bad,

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Speaker 9: but it's just you know, it's just Minnesota, and Tim

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Speaker 9: Wallas has some work to do. No, this happened all

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Speaker 9: across the Medicare program, the Medicaid program, and these are

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Speaker 9: again safety net programs for most vulnerable. But you know,

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Speaker 9: lately at HHS, Bobby Kennedy and his team restarted, right,

852
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Speaker 9: they had to restart an anti fraud program because the

853
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Speaker 9: Biden administration had kind of let it go and let

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Speaker 9: it go stagnant. And just this summer they found I

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Speaker 9: think it was sixteen billion dollars of fraud in the

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Speaker 9: Medicare program. And so again just because we throw these

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Speaker 9: numbers out there and they seem really big and kind

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Speaker 9: of like hard to contextualize, sixteen billion dollars is the

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Speaker 9: side of the premium increase that America's seniors found themselves

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Speaker 9: in this year. So they all got a ten percent

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Speaker 9: increase in their premiums because I mean, again it's correlational,

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Speaker 9: it's not causational. But again, if we are spending sixteen

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Speaker 9: billion and ten of that was to an Estonian crime

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Speaker 9: ring who was over billing Medicare by ten billion dollars,

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Speaker 9: and we're increasing premiums on America's seniors for the same amount.

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Speaker 9: It's really hard to think. You know, why didn't the

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Speaker 9: Biden administration crack down on this sooner? You know, why

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Speaker 9: did they have to restart this you know, task force

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Speaker 9: between the DOJ and HHS.

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Speaker 1: Well, that becomes an obvious answer to the question, in

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Speaker 1: that they didn't want anybody, you know, getting out of line.

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Speaker 1: And the way you keep everybody in line is you

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Speaker 1: continue to pay all the courtion forward. So that brings

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Speaker 1: us to a couple of difficulttions. What does the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration do in light of this? And medicaid programs are

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Speaker 1: largely operated by the states, so if you don't have

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Speaker 1: state support in the crackdown, you could you could throw

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Speaker 1: a lot of federal fury at it. But at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, if the governor or the a

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Speaker 1: aren't all that interest in advancing it, at least they

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Speaker 1: can slow walk things. That's the very worst, just outright

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Speaker 1: oppose them. It appears that's the tact that Minnesota is taking.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think you've probably got a ton

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Speaker 1: of this stuff in places like California. You probably got

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Speaker 1: some of it in places like Illinois or maybe even Colorado,

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Speaker 1: depending on you know, the administration that's in power at

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Speaker 1: the time, but there is a significant recompense that needs

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Speaker 1: to be made here, and I don't see anybody but

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Speaker 1: the federal government having the willpower to do it.

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Speaker 9: No, And I think that's what we're going to see

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Speaker 9: hopefully with the you know, implementation of the One Big

892
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Speaker 9: Beautiful Bill goes live January first, and so many of

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Speaker 9: the for add prevention stop gaps, So that's HHS and

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Speaker 9: CMS will have more tools to really to really say

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Speaker 9: to these Democrat governors, you've got to cut it out right,

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Speaker 9: You've got to make sure these dollars are flowing to

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Speaker 9: the intended recipients. Because again, that's that's what this is about.

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Speaker 9: This is this is not about you know, like dem

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Speaker 9: governors Republican governors. It's about making sure the dollars are

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Speaker 9: getting to the poor child or the disabled adult that

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Speaker 9: the programs are intended for. So, you know, hopefully with

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Speaker 9: the One Big Beautiful Bill and the work, you know,

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Speaker 9: we'll have these measures in place. And so I think

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Speaker 9: that's the first good step. And they signed it into law,

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Speaker 9: you know, July fourth, twenty twenty five, So that's exciting.

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Speaker 9: How a lot of this is going to be already

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Speaker 9: set in motion. I think the DOJ is taking really

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Speaker 9: aggressive steps and then really again having states take more

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Speaker 9: accountability for the fact that we're really losing tons of

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Speaker 9: money in their medicaid programs, and they're just too scared

911
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Speaker 9: to speak out because what if it is an immigrant

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Speaker 9: population that's doing the stealing. You know, they've been attacked

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Speaker 9: for were even highlighting that maybe just maybe like people

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Speaker 9: who've come in illegally are also the ones who are

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Speaker 9: acting illegally and funneling money out of safety notes.

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Speaker 1: Well, and when you have people like elan Omar who

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Speaker 1: are by nature leading the effort to get the aid

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Speaker 1: and it's probable that she committed immigration fraud to get

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Speaker 1: here with her own marriage to her brother like this,

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Speaker 1: this is the stuff that Americans have just had enough of.

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Speaker 1: Hannah Anderson of the AFPI, stay right with us. Kevin

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Speaker 1: McCullough coming right back from New York.

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Speaker 3: Stick around for more of that. Kevin next.

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Speaker 2: Here he is from New York. That Kevin Kevin.

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Speaker 1: McCulloch, Welcome back, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: That's that Kevin show, that kevinshow dot com for everything

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Speaker 1: related to the show, including the podcast commercial free. You

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Speaker 1: can also get the television show the columns. My whole

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Speaker 1: new emphasis going into the new year about what it

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Speaker 1: means to elevate society and what we need to do

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Speaker 1: to do that and to create some actual elevated tastes

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Speaker 1: and conversations and goodwill towards one another. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot that we can do to change the world

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Speaker 1: if we each kind of own our own part of that.

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Speaker 1: You can find all of these things at the website

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Speaker 1: that kevinshow dot com. Hannah Anderson is back with us

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Speaker 1: from America First Policy Institute. Hannah, A lot of times

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Speaker 1: when you and I speak, we are kind of talking

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Speaker 1: about the bad stuff, the Somali fraud, all the things

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Speaker 1: that go wrong. But the big beautiful bill and specifically

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Speaker 1: MAHA Make America Healthy Again have some pretty ambitious, nice, healthy,

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Speaker 1: good things coming in twenty twenty six. So let's turn

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Speaker 1: the page and get to the positive side. What are

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Speaker 1: you most excited about that has been accomplished or will

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Speaker 1: be being implemented as we flip over the calendar, I'm so.

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Speaker 9: Glad you asked, Kevin, and really, you know, I love

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Speaker 9: the renewed focus on the patient. You know, at AFPI,

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Speaker 9: we're all about patients first. You know, how do we

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Speaker 9: help patients take control of their health you know maha,

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Speaker 9: and how do we help take patients get control of

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Speaker 9: their dollars? So, like what the President's been talking about,

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Speaker 9: right and really January first, all of these provisions that

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Speaker 9: tie those two hand in hand go live. And so

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Speaker 9: I think the one that I'm most excited about, which

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Speaker 9: is again why the President wants patients to get more

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Speaker 9: control of their health care dollars, because it also reduces

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Speaker 9: the fraud. You know, it all goes back to like

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Speaker 9: all this fraud we're seeing is because there's no patient

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Speaker 9: voice in the conversation. We will see January first, patients

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Speaker 9: get more control of their health care dollars. And one

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Speaker 9: provision that I've been working on as a health policy

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Speaker 9: staffer for years is called direct primary care. Now, a

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Speaker 9: lot of times when you go see the doctor, they

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Speaker 9: can't see you, or you have to wait three months

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Speaker 9: or whatever. It's because they're getting about three dollars from

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Speaker 9: your insurance when you go in to see them from

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Speaker 9: a primary care checkup. This actually lets you use your HSA.

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Speaker 9: So if you're in a High Deductible Plan, which fifty

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Speaker 9: five million Americans have, and get an HSA, you can

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Speaker 9: use your pre tax dollars to pay a subscription fee

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Speaker 9: to a doctor. So I have a DPC doctor, and

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Speaker 9: I can text him. I say, hey, I think I

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Speaker 9: might have the flu. Can you send in a tam

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Speaker 9: of flu?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 9: What's this? You know, weird thing that I have? You

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Speaker 9: know on my face? I don't know, but I can

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Speaker 9: text him. And that's not something that a lot of

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Speaker 9: folks support in their primary care practices right now, because

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Speaker 9: if you text your doctor, they're not getting paid for it.

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Speaker 9: My doctor is getting paid seventy five dollars a month,

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Speaker 9: and now because of the one big beautiful bill, I

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Speaker 9: can now use my HSA to cover that. So I

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Speaker 9: know that seems really small, but this is also going

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Speaker 9: to let your employer. So if your employer wants to

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Speaker 9: give you a subscription to your doctor for seventy five

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Speaker 9: bucks a month to talk to them twenty four to seven,

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Speaker 9: they can do that and they're no longer entangled by

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Speaker 9: stupid bureaucratic red tape because previously they've called that a

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Speaker 9: violation of tax law. If you pay your doctor seventy

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Speaker 9: five dollars a month. That's crazy. So that's one of

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Speaker 9: the biggest things that I think a lot of people

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Speaker 9: are excited about because it also helps our primary care

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Speaker 9: work for shortage. If now your doctor instead of getting

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Speaker 9: three dollars to talk to me, is getting a sustained

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Speaker 9: seventy five bucks a month to talk to me.

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Speaker 1: Well, And the bottom line is whatever your choice is,

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Speaker 1: but the utilizing of health savings accounts to fund it all.

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Speaker 1: This is going to have a competitive effect in a

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Speaker 1: healthy way delivering of health care to the American people.

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Speaker 1: And that's how costs always staymitted is if you have

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Speaker 1: a healthy, robust system, and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: the patient is the one that wins because they get

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Speaker 1: to pick what they actually want exactly.

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Speaker 9: You know, we're the best consumers in the world. I

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Speaker 9: would never want to get in the way between the

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Speaker 9: patient really assessing value for themselves. And that's again what

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Speaker 9: the President has recognized is like, we need to be

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Speaker 9: giving more money back today, which.

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Speaker 1: Is the exact opposite. I have to point this out

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Speaker 1: of what Obamacare was, because Obamacare said you're going to

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Speaker 1: have to have all of these services if you Kevin

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Speaker 1: McCollough a fifty five year old man want healthcare, you

1014
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Speaker 1: have to adopt a plan that allows you to give

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Speaker 1: birth to human being. I'm never going to get birth.

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Speaker 1: I don't need that coverage. I need something that fits

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Speaker 1: me as a person and deals with the stuff that

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Speaker 1: I deal with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: No, I agree. So that's one of the biggest things

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Speaker 9: that I'm excited about with the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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Speaker 9: I think another thing that kind of went unrecognized is

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Speaker 9: this like once in a lifetime change to disability care.

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Speaker 9: I think a lot of people have talked about Medicaid expansion,

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Speaker 9: but they haven't talked about, you know, how to keep

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Speaker 9: seniors in their homes longer, and how to keep disabled

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Speaker 9: adults in their homes longer instead of going to institutions.

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Speaker 9: You know, you're healthier, you feel more independent, And that

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Speaker 9: was one of the president's campaign promises and that was

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Speaker 9: fulfilled in the One Big Beautiful Bill because they gave

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Speaker 9: states more flexibility again against the red tape that was

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Speaker 9: saying to seniors, sorry, when you hit X mark, or

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Speaker 9: to disabled adults, when you hit X mark, you have

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Speaker 9: to go to a nursing care facility or an assisted

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Speaker 9: living facility. And now you know, because of the one

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Speaker 9: big beautiful bill, seniors are going to be able to

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Speaker 9: stay in their homes longer, which is really incredible, and

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Speaker 9: stay healthier because they feel independent, they can be supported

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Speaker 9: by family. It's really cool. And I think the last

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Speaker 9: piece that I'm the most excited about too, that it's

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Speaker 9: not getting talked about a lot, is is really rare

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Speaker 9: disease as well. You know, the President signed into law

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Speaker 9: a tweak to you know, the President Biden's drug negotiation

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Speaker 9: that really hurt rare disease patients, and so this fixed

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Speaker 9: it and really helped, you know, the millions of rare

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Speaker 9: disease patients get the access to the drugs that they need.

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Speaker 9: So I want to I think a lot of people

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Speaker 9: are talking about and the other two I think are

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Speaker 9: just so so incredible and are just not getting the

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Speaker 9: time of day that they deserve.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're game changers. And then when you add to that,

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Speaker 1: like we're getting rid of all the artificial dies, We're

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Speaker 1: going to reduce the ingredients in our breakfast cereals, there

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Speaker 1: just like five or six things instead of twenty eight

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Speaker 1: of them, most of which I can't pronounce. Like these

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Speaker 1: types of things are just nothing but positive territory for

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Speaker 1: what they've done. And I'm very grateful to Secretary Kennedy

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Speaker 1: for all of it. Hannah, thankful for you as well.

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Speaker 1: A happy new year at AFPI. We'll be talking again soon.

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Speaker 9: Sounds great, Kevin, thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: You got it.

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Speaker 1: Kevin mckella coming back from Times Square. I don't go away.

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Speaker 6: Here.

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Speaker 2: He is from New York. Is that Kevin Kevin McCullough.

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Speaker 1: is Hillary Kramer. She helps people find the I don't know,

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Speaker 1: the ways to help protect and grow their financial capacity.

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Speaker 1: And Hillary, you like this time of year because there's

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Speaker 1: there's little gems out there that you want to tell

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Speaker 1: people about that maybe they've forgotten about. I saw the

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Speaker 1: word peanut butter in one text today. Well, last time

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Speaker 1: somebody thought about investing in peanut butter.

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Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, well peanut butter will give you a

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Speaker 4: four point eight percent give it in yield. You're not

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Speaker 4: going to get anywhere close to that in the money

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Speaker 4: market or any kind of CD. And let me tell

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Speaker 4: you why. And that's for Mel, the makers of spam. Yes,

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Speaker 4: Sam ear L. Okay, Now, what happens is when there's

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Speaker 4: concerns about the economy, there's concerns about recession. You know,

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Speaker 4: there's this fear on Wall Street. Everything is driven by

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Speaker 4: fear and greed. Well, right now, it's been greed for

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Speaker 4: a long time, for many years. Now we're going to

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Speaker 4: be driven by fear. And that's when everyone starts just

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Speaker 4: you know, like just pouring into stocks like a craft Hinds,

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Speaker 4: like a Nestle or in this case, I think Cormel

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Speaker 4: is really the best value out there. I mean, of course,

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Speaker 4: it's also the dingy Moore stews. It's Hormel brand itself.

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Speaker 4: They have bacon. It's it's this real staples that one

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Speaker 4: can buy with let's say, not as much money. And

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying that twenty twenty six is going to

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Speaker 4: be a bad year. But what I can in terms

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Speaker 4: of the stock market, but what I can say is

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Speaker 4: that we are due just a normal cyclical correction because

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Speaker 4: that Mag seven. You know, they've gone up the MAG seven,

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Speaker 4: which is you know, everything from your meta, your Facebook

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Speaker 4: to your Google. They've gone up too much, too fast,

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Speaker 4: your videos, your palenteers. Now. In addition to Hormal, we

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Speaker 4: also like Merk, which did hit a fifty two week

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Speaker 4: high today. M r K. We haven't heard about Merk

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Speaker 4: that much. We hear a lot about Eli Lilly, We

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01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 4: hear about Snophi. Of course, we hear about Nola nor

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Speaker 4: Disk and their GLP one medications. But you have a

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Speaker 4: three point two percent divid and yield with Merk, and

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Speaker 4: Merk is the one that makes key Truda medication as

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Speaker 4: well as many of the products that are used for

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Speaker 4: neurological diseases. UH Vaccine also are a maker of vaccines,

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Speaker 4: and they even have an animal health segment. So we

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Speaker 4: see h Merk as one that may start to really

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Speaker 4: catch a bit even faster than we saw Lily did

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Speaker 4: this year. Okay, so that's that's another one that you're

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Speaker 4: still going to need your meditations, especially your basic ones,

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Speaker 4: and the cattle and the you know, and the hogs,

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Speaker 4: they're going to also need to be vaccinated and to

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Speaker 4: be kept safe for their purposes. And now I also

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Speaker 4: like Ford. Ford has a four point five percent given

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Speaker 4: in yield, four point five If all you did was

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Speaker 4: four point five percent and a four point eight percent

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Speaker 4: on the year with Hormel, you're great. You're in a

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Speaker 4: great situation. I think that Ford could be a twenty

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Speaker 4: dollars stock. It's thirteen dollars right now. It could be

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Speaker 4: easily a twenty dollars stock a year from now. The

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Speaker 4: average age of car fleets is over fourteen years and

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Speaker 4: two months. Okay, now you usually hear about thirteen and

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Speaker 4: a half years. That includes trucks commercial vehicles, but fourteen

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Speaker 4: point two years for a Car's going to be time

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Speaker 4: for people to buy new cars and they are going

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Speaker 4: to be forced into the lots. And Ford makes a

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Speaker 4: lot of sense, and they're not. Of course, they don't

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Speaker 4: have the same impacts from tariff as you have with

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Speaker 4: everything from Volkswagen to the to the Korean car makers

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Speaker 4: as well as the rest of the German carganizician.

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Speaker 1: Hillary also Ford. They benefitted greatly from that new policy

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Speaker 1: that Trump just initiated a couple of weeks ago, where

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Speaker 1: the gas standards are lowered. You don't have to get

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Speaker 1: fifty per gallon now, you can get thirty four per

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Speaker 1: gallon going forward, and there's a lot of gasoline car

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Speaker 1: owners that like that.

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Speaker 4: They sure do, especially if you have a big F

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Speaker 4: one fifty that looks very attractive. And also, as we know,

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Speaker 4: the big Detroit automakers are pulling the plug on electric.

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Speaker 4: They can't play that game. And with the price of

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Speaker 4: oil and with these new regulation regulations, you know, allowing

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Speaker 4: what passed last week, which was really going to be

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Speaker 4: very beneficial for GM and for Ford. But we especially

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Speaker 4: like Ford. Right now they're offering zero percent financing on

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Speaker 4: any purchase of an F one fifty as well as

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Speaker 4: other vehicles. So I think that you can't go really

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Speaker 4: wrong with Ford as well. So really think about the

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Speaker 4: companies out there that are going to be you know,

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Speaker 4: just tried and true, and they're going to stay, they're

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Speaker 4: going to stay afloat and they have a floor under

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Speaker 4: them if we have any kind of exogenic shock to

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Speaker 4: the market whatsoever. And remember everyone thinks that the digital

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Speaker 4: currencies have nothing to do in are completely separated from

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Speaker 4: the equity stock market, the debt market. Well, when it

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Speaker 4: comes to the digital currencies, if we see bitcoin, which

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Speaker 4: of course is going to be volatile, if we see

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Speaker 4: it just below eighty. There are a lot of those

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Speaker 4: that have those really high flying and videos and talenteers.

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Speaker 4: One that I've always loved Taiwan Semi Conductor. All of

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Speaker 4: those companies, could you know, could see some of their

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Speaker 4: stock being so off if there are margin calls, meaning

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Speaker 4: the stock you know, those who have borrowed money to

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Speaker 4: buy it into the stock market. If that stock drops,

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01:15:09,400 --> 01:15:12,839
Speaker 4: then you see, you know, it's like like the bulls

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Speaker 4: stampeding for the exits because they're forced to out of fear.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that's good. Any other little gems that

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Speaker 1: you're happy on this week?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would absolutely am still believer that you can't

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Speaker 4: go wrong with Hershey hs Y. In all of the

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Speaker 4: years that we've been together, I think I've only maybe

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Speaker 4: mentioned Hershey in an ancillary way, but Hershey for a year,

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Speaker 4: it's up five and a half percent. But remember Hershey

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Speaker 4: also has salty snacks. They have the ready to eat

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Speaker 4: popcorn they've been big in the track the transfat Freak

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Speaker 4: and who doesn't like a jelly rancher and a chocolate kid?

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Speaker 1: Give me a cracker, a piece of chocolate and a

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Speaker 1: marshmallow and you're good to go.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: You want, you want more from Hillary? You gotta go,

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Speaker 1: You gotta go. Get her newsletter Hillary Kramer dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Hillary spelled with one L, Kramer with a K Hillary

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Speaker 1: Kramer dot Com. Click the trading desk, Sign up for

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Speaker 1: the newsletter. Hillary will talk to you again next year.

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Speaker 1: It'll be next year when we talk to you next

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Speaker 1: a year from now, We'll see you, all right. Kevin

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Speaker 1: McCollough my final thoughts for the day coming up next,

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Speaker 1: don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Stick around for more of that Kevin next.

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Speaker 2: Sur bring it up. It's a no drink minu.

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Speaker 1: It's that Kevin Show, all right, final few minutes. Glad

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Speaker 1: you're with us, Kevin mccallaugh, Glad to be with you.

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Speaker 1: That kevinshow dot com for everything related. I also want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you to focus on the Fan. They're

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Speaker 1: a partner at many of our stations across the country

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Speaker 1: that are involved in helping people basically save their marriages.

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Speaker 1: And parent their kids better. And they they had I

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Speaker 1: think it was a half million people that requested free

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Speaker 1: materials this year and they were able to help just

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Speaker 1: in the marriage area alone. And then something that people

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Speaker 1: not a lot of people know about that focus does

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Speaker 1: is they help families with adoption that are wanting to

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Speaker 1: pursue that and maybe don't know what you know the

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Speaker 1: best way is about it. And they everything from like

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Speaker 1: suicide prevention. There's just a ton of stuff that they do.

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Speaker 1: And this is kind of the year end when they

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Speaker 1: are looking at budgets for next year and they want

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Speaker 1: to be able to do as much as they can

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Speaker 1: for people. And any gift you give is going to

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Speaker 1: be matched dollar for dollar through the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: So go to focus on the family dot com forward

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Speaker 1: slash Christmas and make a gift and be as generous

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Speaker 1: as you can. And then again, we've been liberating human

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Speaker 1: slaves with Christian Solidarity. I'm very proud of the work

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Speaker 1: that we have done. More than three hundred slaves a

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Speaker 1: year we have helped liberate over the last several years.

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Speaker 1: We are closing in on that number now there are

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Speaker 1: about ninety two names left on the list. We have

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Speaker 1: until December thirty first to get them all liberated. Would

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Speaker 1: you help us eight eight eight three four two ten

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Speaker 1: ten eighty eight three four two ten ten. You want

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Speaker 1: to know more about how it works, go to bring

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Speaker 1: her home dot org. Bring her home dot org. It's

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Speaker 1: very simple. One gift of two hundred fifty dollars not

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Speaker 1: only sets the slave free from the slave master in Sudan,

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Speaker 1: but gets her home to South Sudan, provides everything she

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Speaker 1: needs from seed to plant for food, a year's worth

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Speaker 1: of sorghum, grain, utensils to clean cookfish with all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and then we also make sure that each one has

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Speaker 1: a little baby goat and what they what they're able

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Speaker 1: to do with that is to provide a source of

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Speaker 1: micro enterprise themselves that help support them financially. They can

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Speaker 1: sell milk and cheese and other things. They can also

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Speaker 1: have additional baby kid goats that they can sell, and

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Speaker 1: it's a way of helping them sustain their life. It

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Speaker 1: is one of the most beautiful things that I have

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Speaker 1: ever seen, and we at the McCullough House try to

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Speaker 1: liberate one every single month. Will you join us on

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Speaker 1: that journey? If there were if there were nine of

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Speaker 1: you that would take the year long commitment to just

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Speaker 1: do one a month. Would we would finish off all

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Speaker 1: the names on that list today eight eight eight three

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Speaker 1: four two ten ten. But we're running out of time.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to leave anybody behind. Please help us.

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Speaker 1: It is important that you call eight eight eight three

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Speaker 1: four two ten ten or bring her home dot org.

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Speaker 1: Bring her home dot org. And then lastly, I started

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Speaker 1: the show with this two hours ago. My column was

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Speaker 1: about it today at townhall dot com. It's not about politics,

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Speaker 1: it's not about the rat race of anything else. It's

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Speaker 1: about thinking differently. In twenty twenty six, I want this

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Speaker 1: year to be the year that we elevate the way

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Speaker 1: we think, the way we speak to one another, the

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Speaker 1: kinds of things that we do. You know, my bride

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Speaker 1: and her friend last year had this opportunity to do

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Speaker 1: this floral arrangement for the kids at our local public school,

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Speaker 1: and the kids got involved, they got to cut out

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Speaker 1: some of the things and contribute to it. But there

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Speaker 1: was something about when you walked into the building and

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Speaker 1: that display was up, just all these flowers, and how

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Speaker 1: nice it was. It elevated the experience of what those

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Speaker 1: kids were walking into every day, Frinds, if we look

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Speaker 1: for opportunity, we can actually find ways to elevate life

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Speaker 1: all around us. And I would love for twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six to be the year where we say, Hey, how

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Speaker 1: can we elevate this experience, this person, this conversation. How

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Speaker 1: can we take it to a different level, make it

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Speaker 1: a better thing, a higher thing, a more excellent thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bug you all year about it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm just gonna be obnoxious, up in your face

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Speaker 1: every day, going how can we do it better? Because

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Speaker 1: I think that that is the minimum of what we

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Speaker 1: can do to make the world around us a better

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Speaker 1: place anyway, Kevin McColl glad you're with us. Be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and round out that we're the year with you

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday as well, So I hope you'll stick around.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you then,