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Speaker 2: It is the middle of the week as we edge

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Speaker 2: a nice day. Our telephone number is eighty five to five.

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Speaker 2: STI Gaul. Welcome in. Today.

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Speaker 6: The news.

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Speaker 2: Is interesting depending on what you're consuming, because if you're

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Speaker 2: reading something like The New York Times for some reason,

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Speaker 2: or you're watching CNN or MSNBC. Here's what they've all

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Speaker 2: decided is the new play. They're ditching the drug boat thing.

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Speaker 2: I think they've finally seen the polling. It's a sixty

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Speaker 2: forty issue, so they've moved on to something new. Now.

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Speaker 2: I will confess that I think, if not handled properly,

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Speaker 2: President Trump may have played into this a little bit early.

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Speaker 2: But I think they're going to pull out of it,

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Speaker 2: know that I've been talking about this this week. I

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Speaker 2: think this affordability mockery. Initially him saying that it's a hoax.

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Speaker 2: I was curious how that was going to land when

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Speaker 2: I heard it the first time I heard it, As

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Speaker 2: you know, if you've been listening to the show, I said, Ah,

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Speaker 2: I'm a little worried. That sounds like a fat pitch

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Speaker 2: over the middle that they are going to hit. And

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Speaker 2: they did, and they're swinging at it now. And it's

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Speaker 2: interesting because both MSNBC called MS now whatever that's supposed

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Speaker 2: what the hell MS now is supposed to mean? What's

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Speaker 2: the now? What is MS multiple sclerosis now?

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Speaker 7: Right, no, So I mean they used to be MSNBC, Microsoft,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but now no, I don't understand why they changed

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Speaker 7: is Comcast still try to sell it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but I look up this sport again.

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Speaker 2: It says Trump mocks affordability at Pennsylvania rally. Trump mocks affordability.

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Speaker 2: At the New York Times headline, Trump says Americans are

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Speaker 2: doing great even as views on the economy sour. Well,

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Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is, if you've seen the polling,

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Speaker 2: do you know the President Trump's approval ratings are up?

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Speaker 2: And do you know at this time the same polsters

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Speaker 2: know this, the power of President Trump from his own

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Speaker 2: mouth is the biggest best way to promote something they

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Speaker 2: want promoted. And they've decided to send him back out

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Speaker 2: and they sent him to Pennsylvania. Yesterday we covered it.

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Speaker 2: Mount Pocono was the destination, and they sent him out

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Speaker 2: with street tough Scott Bessant, and they had themselves a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a party. Now, what I've seen, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't watch the entire rally, was Trump mocking affordability

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Speaker 2: on the stump in Pennsylvania, fast Eddie. Was he mocking

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Speaker 7: No, No, I don't think he was.

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Speaker 2: No. No, was he mocking affordability or was he mocking

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Speaker 2: it and haven't in fact created an affordability problem? Was

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Speaker 2: that what he was mocking?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I wouldn't even say he was mocking anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well let's go right to it, President Trump,

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Speaker 2: Mount Pocono with street tough Scott Bessant, number forty six.

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Speaker 8: And now, after just ten months in office, I'm please

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Speaker 8: to report that America.

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Speaker 2: Is winning again.

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Speaker 8: Pennsylvania's prospering again, and I will not wrest until this

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Speaker 8: Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before. Remember when

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Speaker 6: We're all we were.

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Speaker 2: What state is it?

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Speaker 8: It's Pennsylvania. Oh oh okay, Now we're respected again. As

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Speaker 8: a country, we're respected. Since my inauguration, we've created nearly

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Speaker 8: sixty thousand new Pennsylvania jobs, including four thousand Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs.

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Speaker 8: That the Democrats gave up on. You're doing better than

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Speaker 2: Under our leadership.

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Speaker 8: More than forty thousand Pennsylvania's have been lifted off of

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Speaker 2: Thousand and working with a great guy.

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Speaker 8: Remember David McCormick. He used to go to edwe every

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Speaker 8: rally I had. He knew what was happening. And he's

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Speaker 8: here again as usual. I can't get rid of this guy.

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Speaker 2: Where is he? AND's good to see our friend Dave McCormick,

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Speaker 2: the Senate is now discussing the ACA. We might try

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Speaker 2: But anyway, fun to see our buddy Dave McCormick there yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Have you noticed Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Now that was a

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Speaker 2: speech for the consumption of the country, but he was

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Speaker 2: very specifically talking to Pennsylvanians. Again, what's this about, fast EDDI.

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Speaker 2: This is the second time he's taking a high profile

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Speaker 2: trip to Pennsylvania. McCormick at his side, talked to Energy

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Speaker 2: in Mount Pocono last night talking to Pennsylvanians about all

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Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania jobs he's creating. There might be, you know,

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Speaker 2: people all over the country listening right now may be going, well,

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Speaker 2: what about us? What the hell about Pennsylvania? What about us?

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Speaker 2: Why Pennsylvania?

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Speaker 7: You suppose, Chris, This was a bad election again for

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Speaker 7: Pennsylvania this year, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: We lost a lot.

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Speaker 7: So I think Trump. Everyone knows that without Trump on

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Speaker 7: So he's got to be here. He's got to be

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Speaker 7: talking about jobs because he did do all these things,

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Speaker 7: the Energy Summit. I look at all the investment that

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Speaker 2: There's also and not a small matter, don't forget, well

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Speaker 2: pun intended, there's a little pocket sized fella on the

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Speaker 2: watch closely. People aren't talking about this quite yet, except

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Speaker 2: we know it well. The tiny, diminutive, pocket sized governor

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Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania who's been humming Hail to the Chief since

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Speaker 2: he was in a onesie, Josh Shapiro, thinks he's going

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Speaker 2: to be the next president of the United States. Don't

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Speaker 2: forget that, fast Eddy. Oh.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Josh Shapiro is capitalizing as he always does. He's

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Speaker 7: I think he's up to what twelve million dollars on

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Speaker 2: From the that's right from the Washington Times. Governor Shapiro

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Speaker 2: tries to seize spotlight as Trump visits Pennsylvan. Josh Shapiro

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Speaker 2: started Tuesday the way he spent much of December, drawing

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Speaker 2: sharp contrasts with Trump, this time just hours before his visit,

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Speaker 2: build as a chance to refocus his message on kitchen

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Speaker 2: table concerns. Trump's stop also has given mister Shapiro a

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Speaker 2: national stage. The governor, seen as a likely twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: many of whom left the party for Trump. Yes, but

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Speaker 2: don't forget he's Jewish, fast, Eddie. He can't get away

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Speaker 2: from that. He's trying his level best to bury the

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Speaker 2: Yamaka and pretend he's not. Now, you Jews, you domestic Jews,

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Speaker 2: You're going to be forgotten as fast as I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't have an analogy. I'm just saying he's leaving

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Speaker 2: because he knows how they savaged him. When Cackle Bridges

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Speaker 2: were talking about picking him up as a potential running mate.

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Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely, it's something that the Democrat Party is going

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Speaker 7: to have to do. I don't know that it depends

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Speaker 7: he's bringing in.

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Speaker 2: Chris, Really, what do you do with ilhan Omar? By

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Speaker 2: the way, what do you do with someone like ilhan

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Speaker 2: Omar as a star of your party and you try

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Speaker 2: to seize the nomination for your party? Who's gonna win

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Speaker 2: that paddle? Do you suppose?

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Speaker 7: It's kind of like Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis,

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Speaker 7: when he went into that Somali restaurant last week and

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Speaker 7: he looks like he's wincing the whole time.

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Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna be like.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna have Josh Shapiro standing up there with ilhan

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Speaker 7: Omar and he's gonna be like, hey, hey, I love

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Speaker 7: you right.

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Speaker 8: His name is a Secretary of the Treasury. Scott Bessant.

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Speaker 8: Is because that very handsome man.

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Speaker 8: Stand up, Scott, look at him. No, he's central casting.

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Speaker 8: He's central casting. But you know under that beautiful exterior

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Speaker 2: And we know this from all the reporting. Don't screw

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Speaker 1: Thanks to President Trump's efforts on deregulation, America's businesses are

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Speaker 2: Street tough. Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, one of the

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Speaker 9: Morning, Appiamica hey, and hiy like. I like the message

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Speaker 9: There's no way he'd ever follow in a legal order.

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Speaker 9: So that's number one. Then the other thing is the

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Speaker 9: Democrats are sabotaging everything that Trump's done. You know that

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Speaker 2: So you would say, then, as we talked to the

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you got to say they they're going to take

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Speaker 9: There's an affordability crisis. You know why you're in. Car

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Speaker 2: I got to run, point taken. No thank you money.

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Speaker 7: I don't know that there's a correlation for people that vote, Like,

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Speaker 2: So is the Democrat party made up of people on

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Speaker 2: That about right, that's it. You put your finger right out. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's exactly it. Thank me. Look, if Republicans lose the

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Speaker 2: would argue he's positioning himself to become the most important

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Speaker 2: midterm campaigner in modern American history. And the stakes could

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Speaker 2: not be higher now Historically, as you know, and again

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to the R and C chairman

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Speaker 2: about this, I don't envy his job because historically, the

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Speaker 2: party that wins the White House loses seats in the midterms. Democrats,

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Speaker 2: as you remember, imploded back in twenty ten and twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 2: and Republicans then took a savage beating in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: The pattern doesn't miss. Now pair that with Trump's moment.

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Speaker 2: What Scott Bessent was just talking about gas prices are falling.

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Speaker 2: Inflation is cooling, not fast enough, but it's cooling. The

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Speaker 2: border is closed instead of allowing millions to pour across it.

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Speaker 2: Drug boats are turning into little fireworks shows on the

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Speaker 2: high seas. Tariffs are pulling factories back home before AI

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Speaker 2: erases a lot of jobs. It's in the process of

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Speaker 2: it right now. Both are happening simultaneously. One's happening faster

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Speaker 2: than the other. Unfortunately, twelve billion just delivered to farmers

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Speaker 2: to kind of bridge the gap. Historic private investment is

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Speaker 2: pouring into manufacturing in this country, and Supreme Court victories

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Speaker 2: are reshaping the country too. And on top of all

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Speaker 2: these results, in my view, President Trump the most entertaining

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Speaker 2: political communicator alive, and a better communicator than most in politics. Ever,

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Speaker 2: he can explain supply chains and tells he can do

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Speaker 2: it in ten seconds with a punchline that sticks. No

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Speaker 2: consultant can replicate that. Most Republicans can't even explain what

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Speaker 2: they believe without a laminated card and a high paid consultant.

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Speaker 2: Trump also knows something about the political class that they

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Speaker 2: always forget. Trump knows that his voters are not standard

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Speaker 2: Republican voters. Again, we're talking about working class folks squeezed

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Speaker 2: in the middle here, independence, working class democrats, the disillusioned,

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Speaker 2: the cynical, those that feel politically abandoned. They don't show

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Speaker 2: up automatically. They show up for him. He knows this,

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Speaker 2: and the Republicans better too. And this time he's not

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Speaker 2: asking for applause. He's asking for reinforcement. Help me, help you.

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Speaker 2: I need these guys in Congress, help me help you.

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Speaker 2: I need this House, I need this Senate. Without them,

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Speaker 2: the left is going to shut down my presidency. So

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Speaker 2: if Republicans lose the House in twenty sixocrats aren't interested

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Speaker 2: in governing or helping you. They'll prosecute. It won't be

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Speaker 2: about oversight. It's going to be an impeachment factory. They're

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Speaker 2: not going to pass a single bill that helps you.

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Speaker 2: They'll just crank out articles of impeachment. Trump doesn't want

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Speaker 2: to gamble his agenda on tradition or luck. He's taking

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Speaker 2: the mid term seriously, and he's taking them into his

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Speaker 2: own hands. Keep a sharp eye on this. He's a

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Speaker 2: problem solver and a great communicator, and in no particular order.

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Speaker 2: The War Department has confirmed that eighty seven NARCO terrorists

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Speaker 2: have been blasted out of the water. That makes me happy.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you. War Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.

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Speaker 2: Who the hell's that? I thought Sean was doing that?

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Speaker 2: Has that job changed? Kingsley Wilson passed, Do we now?

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Speaker 7: I have to call Sean over the holidays? So I

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Speaker 7: don't know if there's a difference between the Pentagon spokesperson

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Speaker 7: and the Department of War spokesperson. I thought they were

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Speaker 7: the same thing. But I haven't seen Sean in a while.

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Speaker 7: But Kingsley's actually attractive.

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Speaker 2: Lady. Oh, it's a woman, all right, Kingsley. You know

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Speaker 2: the War Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson sharply criticizing the

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Speaker 2: Washington Post, of course, in this back and forth about

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Speaker 2: and we talked with the Colonel Kurt Schlickter about the

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Speaker 2: double tap. She says, it's incredibly frustrating. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I think that people who work in a Trump administration

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Speaker 2: are unfortunately very used to it. We've seen the mainstream

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Speaker 2: media lie time and again about the President's accomplishments in

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Speaker 2: this administration is no different. We will continue to battle

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Speaker 2: the fake news and push back eighty seven Narco terrorists

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Speaker 2: killed again. It's a sixty to forty issue at a minimum.

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Speaker 2: The BBC has now admitted again to falsely claiming Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump wanted to shoot a critic amid legal threats. An

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Speaker 2: internal memo examining the allegations of bias stated BBC News

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Speaker 2: has accepted the Liz Cheney story was not covered accurately

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Speaker 2: by the BBC, and the erroneous reports aired across multiple

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Speaker 2: BBC programs in the days preceding November twenty fourth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth presidential election. During the broadcast on BBC World

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Speaker 2: News America, one presenter claimed mister Trump appeared to suggest

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Speaker 2: Liz Cheney should face a firing squad for her stance

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Speaker 2: on foreign policy. A separate presenter on the BBC posed

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Speaker 2: the question to a guest, he is out there on

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Speaker 2: the campaign trail saying he wants people to shoot Liz Cheney.

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Speaker 2: Is that the sort of thing women react well to?

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Speaker 2: That same evening, another North American editor at the BBC

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Speaker 2: saying that Trump is ratcheting up violent rhetoric. Anyway, Trump

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Speaker 2: threatened to sue the BBC, and they've now for a

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Speaker 2: second time said sorry, just like they doctored the January sixth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one event. They doctored that. Now they've lied

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Speaker 2: about this, the BBC is on notice and apologizing. University

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Speaker 2: of Colorado is now on the hook to pay out

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Speaker 2: two point three million dollars in a settlement over discriminating

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Speaker 2: against faith based students and staff during the COVID era.

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Speaker 2: The December payout agreement between the university and eighteen unnamed

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Speaker 2: plaintiffs comes more than a year after a federal appeals

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Speaker 2: court ruled the school did in fact discriminate against certain

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Speaker 2: religious beliefs by requiring individuals to be part of a

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Speaker 2: The religious exemptions applied only to Christian scientists and Jehovah's witnesses,

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Speaker 2: did not include Catholics, Orthodox Evangelical Christians, non Denominational Protestants, Buddhists,

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Speaker 2: or anyone else not affiliated with those particular religious organizations,

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Speaker 2: and the plaintiffs who are current and former students were

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Speaker 2: awarded the money for damages, tuition, and attorney's fees. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I love hearing any bully in the COVID era is

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Speaker 2: being forced to fork over lots of money. I hope

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Speaker 2: it breaks them. I want everyone who broke the human

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Speaker 2: spirit and crushed businesses and families during COVID. I know

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Speaker 2: ultimately the justice they'll face, But boy, in the short term,

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Speaker 2: the secular in me, the secular guy in me, just

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Speaker 2: loves seeing that they've got to pay millions of dollars

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Speaker 2: in restitution for breaking people's lives and wills and homes

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Speaker 2: for this at the New York Times. All you soccer people,

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Speaker 2: are you one of these soccer people? World Cup? You

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Speaker 2: people from all over the world, teams from all over

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Speaker 2: we're about halfway there. Thanks to your kind support. We

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Speaker 2: they need grace. We're commanded to give them grace, and

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Speaker 2: I'm prayerful about it, but I know how generous this

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Speaker 2: enough for helping us. We're almost halfway there with a

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Speaker 2: We bring in the chair and always glad that he

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Speaker 2: can make time for us. He's the brand new chair

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Speaker 2: time because I will tell you in this day and age,

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Speaker 2: mister gruders and a good morning to you, will welcome

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Speaker 2: you back. I understand what you're up against. This is, Joe.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the most challenging environments we find

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Speaker 2: ourselves in. President Trump recognizes that, which is why he

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Speaker 2: was out on the stump in Pennsylvania. There are two

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Speaker 2: news channels today pummeling it see it, and it was

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Speaker 2: at NBC on affordability. Trump's calling it a hoax and

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Speaker 2: mocking it. None of that's true. I do think the

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Speaker 2: economy is going to turn around, but it takes a minute, Joe.

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Speaker 2: So I welcome you to the show, and I would

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Speaker 2: just ask you, how do you, as the RNC chair

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Speaker 2: and the party talk about this going into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: Good morning morning, Chris, and first off, thanks for what

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Speaker 5: you're doing with for those children with the parents that

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Speaker 5: are incarcerated. I think it's a wonderful gesture. Then you

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Speaker 5: do is it will go a long way in the

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Speaker 5: lives of all those people that are impacted. But listen,

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Speaker 5: you'd hit the nail on the head. This is a

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Speaker 5: absolute disaster. You know, no matter what parties in power,

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Speaker 5: they normally get crushed in the midterms. And so what

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Speaker 5: do we have to do? Well, the President started last night.

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Speaker 5: The President's going to barmstorm the country. It's about a communication.

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Speaker 5: You know, you can't reverse the effects of the destruction

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Speaker 5: that the Biden team did over the four years that

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Speaker 5: he had. What this president has done in the first

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Speaker 5: ten months has been unbelievable. You know, with the big

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Speaker 5: beautiful bill, the focus on trying to bring affordability to

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Speaker 5: down or make it more affordable for people, getting inflation down.

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Speaker 5: What you've seen is gas prices down two dollars, mortgage

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Speaker 5: rates down, price of eggs down sixty percent, no tax

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Speaker 5: on tips, overtime social Security, on and on and on.

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Speaker 2: But it's not enough.

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Speaker 5: What we have to do is we have to communicate

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Speaker 5: it and listen, the challenge of I have one mission,

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Speaker 5: and the President called me, he said, we have to

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Speaker 5: win the midterms, because we know what's going to happen

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Speaker 5: if we lose the midterms. We've already seen it during

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Speaker 5: the shutdown forty three days, the Democrats held the government hostage,

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Speaker 5: and they're going to obstruct, they're going to investigate, they're

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Speaker 5: going to impeach, and in his presidency essentially is going

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Speaker 5: to be over. We can't let that happen. We have

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Speaker 5: to give them a full four years. And I could

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Speaker 5: talk a lot about how we're going to do that,

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Speaker 5: but my mission is clear. Win the midterms, give the

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Speaker 5: president of full four years.

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Speaker 2: RNC chaired Joe Gruders. I've had people ask me turn out. Look,

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Speaker 2: we understand. It's just it's historically true, particularly for Republicans.

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Speaker 2: We're working class folks. We're busy with families and lives.

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Speaker 2: Politics isn't in our DNA and our blood. We don't

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Speaker 2: wake up every day thinking about politics. Once our folks

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Speaker 2: are in charge, I think we feel like we can

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Speaker 2: kind of rest on our laurels a little bit, quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: and go back about our lives. Democrats never think that way,

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Speaker 2: of course, So we've seen in all these special elections

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Speaker 2: save Tennessee, including last night, Democrats are flipping seats. Are

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Speaker 2: you alarmed? Miami? The special election Georgia, Virginia, New York,

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Speaker 2: save Tennessee a little tighter than we'd like it. What

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Speaker 2: do you say about it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Chris, special elections are special. What you're seeing is

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Speaker 5: you're seeing a lot of anger built up and their

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Speaker 5: voters are motivated. Yes, our voters get a little they're happy,

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Speaker 5: and so they're not as motivated to turn out. And yes,

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Speaker 5: I'm concerned about any loss that we have Tennessee. I

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Speaker 5: was excited to get a win there. You know that

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Speaker 5: district was actually our plus ten we want it. It's

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Speaker 5: a by nine points. We got involved at the end.

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Speaker 5: But like I go back to the fact that you

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Speaker 5: know what we have.

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Speaker 6: We have.

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Speaker 5: The President said we have to win the mid terms.

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Speaker 2: This is how we do it.

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Speaker 5: What you're seeing across the country, you're seeing redistricting play out.

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Speaker 5: I think that will pick us up a net positive

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Speaker 5: number of seats. The number of competitive seats will go

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Speaker 5: down as a result of redistricting. We're recruiting superior candidates

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Speaker 5: and we have superior firepower. The Republican National Committee right

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Speaker 5: now is more money than the DNC and all the

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Speaker 5: Democrat federal committees combined. We are doing everything we can

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Speaker 5: right now to set the stage. And what you saw

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Speaker 5: last night from the President is in going to Pennsylvania

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Speaker 5: communicating directly with the American people. We're going to have

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Speaker 5: a midterm convention. We're going to have the President on

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Speaker 5: the road all the time. He is committed to barnstorming

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Speaker 5: the country. We are going to do everything humanly possible

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Speaker 5: to make sure that we're successful in these seats. It's

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Speaker 5: not going to be easy, but we have to have

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Speaker 5: everybody working together. We have to ring the bell and

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Speaker 5: we have to convince these people that have voted for

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Speaker 5: the president three times now to come out and vote

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Speaker 5: for these down ballot candidates. And the reason why is

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Speaker 5: because otherwise the presidency for the Donald Trump is over.

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Speaker 2: We gotta win the midterms.

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Speaker 5: That's our only goal.

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Speaker 2: I got a couple of questions from folks asking me

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Speaker 2: about turnout. I mean, we know, you know, I covered

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Speaker 2: the specific Pennsylvania twenty twenty four election, and the way

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Speaker 2: it was done in Pennsylvania was remarkable. People like Presler

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Speaker 2: and Turning Point, and of course the RNC and the

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Speaker 2: Trump organization all working hand in glove. I'd never seen

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Speaker 2: such harmony between so many different organizations to get voters

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Speaker 2: turned out. Joe, do you have that same apparatus? Can

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Speaker 2: you guys turn it out like Chairman Wantley before you

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Speaker 2: and Laura Trump the co chair.

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Speaker 5: Yes, they did a phenomenal job. But yes, I'll so

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Speaker 5: just give you my background. I've spent twenty two years

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Speaker 5: became my walking coordinator, then became a local club chairman,

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Speaker 5: and my party state, my county chairman, then the state chairman,

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Speaker 5: now the national chairman. I did that by focusing on

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Speaker 5: the fundamentals, and that's getting out the vote, protecting the vote,

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Speaker 5: and red string voters. We're going to continue to do

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Speaker 5: that here. But yes, what you have right now within

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Speaker 5: the Republican Party is you have an organization that we

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Speaker 5: talked to the White House every single day. We work

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Speaker 5: at the White House every day. We work with our

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Speaker 5: sister committees every day, and all these other groups out

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Speaker 5: there like Turning Point and Presler and the America First.

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Speaker 5: We work across the spectrum. Group we embrace. We want

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Speaker 5: them out there working hard with us because all of

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Speaker 5: our partners working together, I always say whatever team could

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Speaker 5: unite their coalitions more will be successful, and we'll continue

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Speaker 5: to do that here. It's a priority of mine to

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Speaker 5: make sure that we're working together, we have open communication,

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Speaker 5: and that we have all boots on the ground, all

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Speaker 5: working together and listen. It's not easy, but I think

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Speaker 5: that with this president. What I tell everybody is everything

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Speaker 5: revolves around the present. If people campaign with the president,

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Speaker 5: if they focus on the president's policies, we're going to

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Speaker 2: Joe, ten seconds. What's one thing Congress could do the

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Speaker 2: Republicans to control it to help you or work and

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Speaker 2: turn out voters next fall for Republicans. What's one thing

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Speaker 2: Congress could do? If you could wave a magic wand.

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Speaker 5: Get rid of the philibuster, follow the president, pass all

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Speaker 5: these things, create universal voter id, make sure we're doing

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Speaker 5: everything right and listen to the president and will be successful.

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Speaker 2: Get rid of the philibuster. Okay, The chair of the

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Speaker 2: the RNC is Joe Gruder is grateful for your time, sir,

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, come back and see us.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Morning minute, got a very nice email from Gene. I

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Speaker 2: think it is Jean said, good morning, Chris. I just

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Speaker 2: had to respond to your admonition off the top of

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Speaker 2: the week of Margaret Brennan at Face the Nation. It

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Speaker 2: was priceless. I want to watch it on a loop.

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Speaker 2: I gotta go back. I've gotten more notes about that rant.

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Speaker 2: I apparently went off on Margaret Brennan this week fanst Eddie.

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Speaker 2: I've forgotten even what I said, but I've had a

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Speaker 2: couple of people say that they thought it funny that

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Speaker 2: I referenced Hobby Lobby. I don't even remember the reference.

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Speaker 2: But she said, I'm a transplant from Hugh Hewitt's morning show.

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Speaker 2: And as another one of your callers said, you're growing

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Speaker 2: on me like a fungus. Apparently, I'll take it. That's

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Speaker 2: a compliment. I guess we could. You know you're growing

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Speaker 2: on me is a is a nice thing. I'm an

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Speaker 2: old dittohead, she said. And Bobby, as people are taking requests,

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Speaker 2: I guess for Christmas bump music, now, a little Mannheim

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Speaker 2: steamroller in the Christmas bumper rotation would be wonderful. And

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Speaker 2: memory of Rush, she said, you got it. I bet

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Speaker 2: we can do that. Roger Dat all right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Bob's are DJ our Christmas DJ. A lot of nice

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Speaker 2: emails and I appreciate it. You can send me a

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Speaker 2: note at Chrisstiggall dot com if you'd like. My email

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Speaker 2: address is right there. I got a note yesterday from

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Speaker 2: Ronald who said, Chris, my name is Ronald. I listened

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Speaker 2: to your show daily, and I just want to say

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Speaker 2: how much I appreciate what you're doing. I've always gravitated

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Speaker 2: to talk shows in which the host gives a balanced

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Speaker 2: view of each topic.

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Speaker 6: You do that.

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Speaker 2: I enjoy it. I also enjoy the masterful job you

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Speaker 2: do in sharing the gospel message through your show, especially

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Speaker 2: during one of the darkest times in our recent history,

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Speaker 2: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. You once said that you're

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Speaker 2: not a pastor or a theologian. Well, I happen to

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Speaker 2: be both, and I couldn't have done a better job

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Speaker 2: communicating the truth of God's Word and the mission of

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Speaker 2: Christ as you did that week. I wanted to encourage you,

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Speaker 2: both as a broadcaster and brother in Christ, keep doing

862
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: the wonderful job you're doing. Merry Christmas, Ronald. You know

863
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: I don't read that to be self aggrandizing. I read

864
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: it one because it was incredibly kind, but too it

865
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: is so important, It is so important this year, maybe

866
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 2: more than ever, to remember the love of Jesus and

867
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 2: the whole reason for the season this I am probably

868
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: more challenged this year personally than I have ever been

869
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 2: if i'm If I'm going to be wholly honest with you,

870
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 2: there are so many blessings that I personally have that

871
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 2: my family has. I know so many people who are

872
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 2: struggling so mightily this year with various things, deaths of children,

873
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 2: severe illnesses that then they're not sure they're going to

874
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 2: come through, spousal deaths, severe injury, and sometimes just in

875
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: the day to day busyness of my life, I forget that.

876
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that I told my church

877
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 2: that I wanted to lead a Sunday school group starting

878
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 2: in the new year is because I want to continue

879
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 2: to stay focused on His word and the truth of Jesus,

880
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 2: because it's getting rocky out there. It always is rocky.

881
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 2: We're not promised much, but we are promised eternity with Him.

882
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 2: That's what this whole season's about. Robert. I appreciate the reminder, Ronald,

883
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 2: excuse me, thank you, and Mary Christmas, Hey there, Merry Christmas,

884
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: and welcome back. It is always a pleasure when we

885
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: can spend some time with the great doctor Ben Carson.

886
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 2: He used to be a cabinet secretary in Trump's first administration.

887
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 2: He's still doing some more work in the current Trump administration.

888
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 2: And he's also at the American Cornerstone Institute now and

889
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 2: an organization that you ought to follow if you don't

890
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 2: on x Americancornerstone dot org the website as well, and

891
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 2: doctor Carson, Merry Christmas to you.

892
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 11: Welcome, well, thank you, Mery Christmas. Glad to be with

893
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 11: you again.

894
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: We bumped into missus Carson on Capitol Hill last week.

895
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: I understand she is leading some of the congressional I

896
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: didn't know this even existed, but she was explaining to

897
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: me that she leads some of the congressional spouses in

898
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 2: caroling or Christmas music on Capitol Hill.

899
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 11: She loves caroling, so she's get all people involved here

900
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,240
Speaker 11: at Ala Sorda, all over the place.

901
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 2: She's such a trip. I love you, know you and

902
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 2: I visited earlier in the years. She's a riot and

903
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,399
Speaker 2: we have so much fun when we get to visit

904
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 2: with her. I know you guys now that you're kind

905
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 2: of back in DC quite a bit when we talked

906
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,479
Speaker 2: last in the summertime. I know you enjoy traveling around

907
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: a lot. When you're back in Washington, do you do

908
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 2: you miss it or can you get out of that

909
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 2: town fast enough?

910
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 11: Well? I enjoy what we do, and you know, trying

911
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 11: to help people to recognize that we the American people,

912
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 11: are not enemies. Working on the MAHA program, you know,

913
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 11: the Religious Liberty Commission, all these things is so important

914
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 11: to our country for future.

915
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: One of the things that you and I discussed in

916
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 2: a conversation earlier this year. I asked you about the

917
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 2: MAHA movement and you said, look, I'm thrilled. I mean,

918
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 2: if RFK Junior is the guy to bring it to

919
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 2: everybody's attention, great, But I think in many ways, you

920
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 2: as a medical practitioner, you think, boy, this is a

921
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 2: long time in coming. It's a shame that we haven't

922
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 2: been maybe preaching these things earlier, looking at what we're

923
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 2: putting in our food.

924
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 11: And the like, and our lifestyle in general. You know,

925
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 11: our life expectancy was continuing to go up until about

926
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 11: three or four years ago, and since that time it

927
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 11: has not been going up, and in fact has been

928
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 11: going in the other directions and I think that's enough

929
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 11: to really wake us up. I'm finding that this is

930
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 11: an issue that is very important across political spectrums. Everybody

931
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 11: wants to be healthy, to lead a normal life expectancy,

932
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 11: So not finding a horrible lot of resistance. But do

933
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 11: remember when people do things that don't make sense frequently,

934
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 11: it's because they're making money. And that's what we have

935
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 11: to understand. That's where to get the food producers to understand.

936
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 11: Right now, we take food from the farm, and we

937
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 11: do so many things to it that by the time

938
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 11: it gets to your mouth, it's a completely different thing.

939
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 11: And we've leached out all the nutrients. And I think

940
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 11: that has a lot to do with some of the

941
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 11: things that are going on in our society, all the

942
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 11: chronic illnesses, what we're seeing in our children, some of

943
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 11: the mental things that are going on, even Alzheimer's. I

944
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 11: think all of it has to do with the kind

945
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 11: of nutrition that we put into our bodies.

946
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 2: You also have a very distinguished career in studying things

947
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 2: like poverty, homelessness, people that need help with food benefits,

948
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 2: snap benefits, housing and urban development, people that you maybe

949
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: can't afford to rent. We have this discussion today afford

950
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 2: this kind of broad word affordability. You also studied it

951
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 2: through government agency. And I guess what should average Americans

952
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 2: who are fortunate enough to have a home and fortunate

953
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 2: enough to have food at Christmas time? What should we understand?

954
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: Because I think there is a there's this fine line

955
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 2: between there israel need and then there are people that

956
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 2: are gaining the system. And we're exposing all this fraud

957
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 2: and it's very frustrating for the American taxpayers. So right,

958
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: it's being both compassionate but also steely eyed about the fraud.

959
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 11: Yeah, well there's no simple solutions. But you know, recognize

960
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 11: that nearly one hundred and eighty six thousand dead people

961
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 11: received food stamps or snap enom last year. That's ridiculous.

962
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 11: And three hundred and fifty five thousand people were enrolled

963
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 11: in multiple states getting benefit from different places. There's one

964
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 11: person I saw was in seven different states getting benefits.

965
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 11: And there's really not much consequences when people do things

966
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 11: like that, that's the unfortunate thing. So what's to discourage them?

967
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 11: And you know, I remember as a kid growing up,

968
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 11: you know, we grew up in poverty, but I used

969
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 11: to hear a lot of the adults talking about how

970
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 11: they could get over on the program and how easy

971
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 11: it was to get extra benefits, and then there were

972
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 11: people like my mother who would say, don't listen to

973
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 11: that stuff. There are wonderful opportunities. If you take advantage

974
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 11: of them and educate yourself, you won't need to be

975
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 11: trying to get over on the programs. We need to

976
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 11: hear more messages like that, and then, you know, we

977
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 11: also have to recognize the times that we're in. I

978
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 11: bought my first house when I was thirty three years old,

979
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 11: and it costs one hundred and twenty six one thousand dollars.

980
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 11: That very same house today is six hundred and six

981
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 11: thousand dollars, and salaries have not kept up with that

982
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 11: kind of escalation and price. So I think that's one

983
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,760
Speaker 11: of the reasons that so many of our young people

984
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 11: are discouraged and are looking for some other system. And

985
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 11: that's why people like man Donnie can be successful even

986
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 11: though they never produce what they say they're going to produce.

987
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 11: It sounds good when you're in a situation where you

988
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 11: don't see a lot of hope for your own future.

989
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 2: I saw a story that rent is starting to fall

990
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 2: pretty aggressively, and many believe. I know jd Vance has said,

991
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 2: and other members of President Trump's cabinet have said, illegal

992
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 2: immigration by the tens of millions, people who are in

993
00:53:54,760 --> 00:54:00,320
Speaker 2: the country illegally are largely tied, not exclusively, but actually

994
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 2: tied to the inflation of costs for both rent and homes.

995
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: You agree with that, And by the way, as President

996
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 2: Trump has deported more and more, is there a correspondence

997
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: there with rents dropping.

998
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a simple case of supply and demand, and

999
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 11: you bring millions and millions of people from the outside

1000
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 11: who are competing for the very same housing as our population.

1001
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 11: Obviously it's going to cause a major spike and prisis.

1002
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 11: But as you get rid of those people and move

1003
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 11: them back to where they came from, obviously that's going

1004
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 11: to have a military impact on the crisis. So it's multifactorial.

1005
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 11: There are a lot of things that are involved in Unfortunately,

1006
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 11: the current administration is tackling it from several different angles,

1007
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 11: and it's starting to show up in the pricing. Also,

1008
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 11: it's interesting that there's a lot of technology that is

1009
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 11: going into house building. I was in Chicago last week

1010
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 11: and I went to a factory a company called light

1011
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 11: Speed where they're integrating AI into robotics and watching these

1012
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 11: things put together a house, it's pretty amazing. It picks

1013
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 11: up the two by fours, the four by four, the

1014
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 11: two by six's handles, it no people in the way,

1015
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 11: and very quickly assembles a wall of a house in

1016
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 11: a matter of minutes. Can put up an entire house

1017
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 11: in a week. And think about that, the labor costs

1018
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 11: diminished significantly, probably thirty percent of the cost. And if

1019
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 11: we do that, and we also get rid of all

1020
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 11: the regulations, take the low hanging first, the duplicate, regular regulations,

1021
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 11: some different agencies. These are all things that add costs.

1022
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 11: And we are going to be looking at an administration

1023
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 11: that's attacking all of those things. And I think probably

1024
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 11: within the next six months you're going to see some

1025
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 11: pretty dramatic changes and afford the.

1026
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 2: Doctor, doctor Ben Carson is with us, and just a

1027
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 2: couple of minutes left. May I ask on AI because

1028
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 2: I think this is interesting and you're a deeply thoughtful guy,

1029
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 2: you're a man of faith. You come from medicine. AI

1030
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 2: is making amazing advances in medicine as well. Are you

1031
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 2: bullish generally speaking given what you just said, because there

1032
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 2: are a lot of people that are terrified of it.

1033
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 2: They think it evil, They think at replacing human beings,

1034
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 2: they and jobs, and that we're basically going to be

1035
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 2: our overlords. How does doctor Ben Carson see AI?

1036
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 11: Well, I heard a lot of the same arguments with

1037
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 11: the Internet when it came along. I mean, we're always

1038
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 11: afraid of new things when they come along, and people

1039
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 11: will always find ways to abuse them. So there's no

1040
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 11: question about that part of human nature. But you know,

1041
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 11: doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to advance, and we

1042
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 11: will have to regulate it, you know. I think about

1043
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 11: how it's going to be used in education, virtual reality

1044
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 11: mixed with AI. Can you imagine teaching children about history

1045
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 11: when they can be right there. That's going to be

1046
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 11: pretty exciting. But of course, if you don't control it,

1047
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 11: they will disappear into their own little world. It's hard

1048
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 11: enough to get them off the xbox, so.

1049
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 2: Or fill their heads full of things that are completely untrue.

1050
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 6: Right.

1051
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: Whoever programs the things can have a lot to do

1052
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 2: with the outcome of people's learning.

1053
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 11: Seeing it's going to have to be very, very vigilant

1054
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 11: to keep that from having a delitarious effect in our children.

1055
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: Doctor Ben Carson is at the American Cornerstone Institute, former

1056
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 2: HUD secretary under President Trump's first administration, continuing to work

1057
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 2: on a number of very important issues with this Trump administration.

1058
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 2: And Doctor Carson, we are thrilled to have you this morning.

1059
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 2: We really always appreciate your wisdom, and I hope you

1060
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 2: and your family have a great Christmas.

1061
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,959
Speaker 11: Sir, thank you, thank you so much.

1062
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 2: You know who we have coming up shortly. I'm so

1063
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 2: excited about this. I just as a kid, I remember

1064
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 2: growing up in my grandparents on the weekends, Friday night

1065
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 2: was Heehaw night fast Eddie and on he Haw you know,

1066
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 2: all the country music greats would show up and play.

1067
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 2: Ricky Skaggs for people that are vintage country fans. That

1068
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 2: guy is still doing it. He's still out touring and

1069
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 2: he's going to stop by the show coming up in

1070
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 2: about an hour. That is so much fun. A couple

1071
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 2: of days ago, I had a story here from the

1072
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 2: Post Millennial and you probably heard about it by now,

1073
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 2: and I just didn't have a chance to get to it.

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Speaker 2: Not a surprise, and Julie and I talked about this.

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Speaker 2: Julie Kelly when talking about the J six pipe bomber.

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Speaker 2: This Brian Cole character of Woodbridge, Virginia, aged thirty. They

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Speaker 2: arrested him, as you know, but the Biden FBI knew

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Speaker 2: his identity since twenty twenty one. Folks, beg your pardon.

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Speaker 2: We're just going to let that slide. January twenty twenty fifth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five report from the J six Select Subcommittee

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Speaker 2: on this J six event. As the FBI continued analyzing

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Speaker 2: large data sets from the carriers, that is, cell phone carriers,

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Speaker 2: certain devices exhibited behavior consistent with this suspect Brian Cole.

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Speaker 2: For example, in April of twenty twenty one, the case

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Speaker 2: team identified a user who was in the area of

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Speaker 2: the DNC at the time. The same guy, Brian Cole,

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Speaker 2: could be seen on video footage using his phone. The

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Speaker 2: FBI requested and received historical sell to how sorry sell

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Speaker 2: tower data for the user, and as of April twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, the case team was attempting to further analyze

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Speaker 2: the user's move. It's ultimately unclear what happened. They dropped it,

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Speaker 2: they stopped. They were too busy running around arresting grandmothers

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Speaker 2: who just showed up to listen to Trump speak, So

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Speaker 2: the Biden White House and the Biden DOJ and Merrick

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Speaker 2: Garland Knew Joy read of all people over there at

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Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club, the headquarters for Black America, number thirty nine,

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Speaker 2: if you please.

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Speaker 12: Paul, I don't know why a Marigarland escapes the smoke.

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Speaker 12: I don't understand why he escapes the smoke. Even the

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Speaker 12: Epstein files thing. I'm like, wait a minute, you tell me.

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Speaker 12: Nine months into this administration, the podcast guys are claiming

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Speaker 12: they caught the mind.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 12: I don't know if this young man is the person

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Speaker 12: that put the pipe bombs in these I don't know,

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Speaker 12: but I know they said we saw the case in

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01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 12: nine months. Mary Garland was there for four years? What

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Speaker 12: were you doing the Epstein files?

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Speaker 2: Merrick?

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Speaker 12: What were you doing for four years? You had the

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01:00:55,720 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 12: same evidence, the same files. Why did you release them?

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Speaker 2: Folks? That's Joy read one of the most lunatic Trump

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Speaker 2: derangement syndrome people in history on with Charlemagne thha God.

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Speaker 2: Now again, this show purports to speak for all of

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Speaker 2: Black America, and they're now wondering what was Merrick Garland

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Speaker 2: and the Joe Biden doj doing. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: they were doing. Joy. Targeting Christians, targeting pro life families,

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Speaker 2: targeting parents at school board meetings. That's what they were doing. Joy.

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Speaker 2: If you're truly interested in the answer, I know you're not.

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Speaker 2: I just want to pause for a moment and say

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Speaker 2: thank you again to everyone who has joined this angel

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Speaker 2: Tree Christmas campaign. This has been so wonderful to see

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Speaker 2: the growth in this thing, and with a week and

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Speaker 2: a half to go, I won't lie to you. I

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Speaker 2: need a favor. I'm up against it a bit because

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Speaker 2: I sort of stuck my deck out and told the

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Speaker 2: Prison Fellowship people I think we can help twenty six

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Speaker 2: hundred kids this year, and I do. I still believe

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Speaker 2: that's true. I'm praying that's true. I believe this audience

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Speaker 2: is going to help us get there. Thirty dollars is

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Speaker 2: what it takes from you, and you know as well

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Speaker 2: as I do. You can't buy a couple of pizzas

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Speaker 2: for thirty dollars anymore. Sadly, this angel Tree campaign for

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Speaker 2: thirty dollars gets a toy, a present in the hands

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Speaker 2: of a child who has a parent, again through no

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Speaker 2: fault of their own, a parent in prisoned, incarcerated for

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, not the kid's fault. No child should go

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Speaker 2: without a present. No child should feel unloved or not

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Speaker 2: thought about it. Christmas Prison Fellowship Ministry makes sure that

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Speaker 2: a note, a handwritten note from the parent is included

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Speaker 2: with this gift and a Bible. All of that is

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Speaker 2: distributed to a child the instant you give that thirty

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Speaker 2: dollars gift. If you can do that, just thirty bucks

1144
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 2: is going to go a long way. If you can

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Speaker 2: do more, I appreciate it. I'm trying to get to

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Speaker 2: twenty six hundred kids by the end of next week.

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Speaker 2: Can you help a couple ways to do At Chrisstigold

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Speaker 2: dot com. There's a banner at the top of my

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Speaker 2: website or called eight eight eight two zero six twenty

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Speaker 2: seven ninety four eight eight eight to zero six twenty

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Speaker 2: seven ninety four. My Pillow is excited to announce they're

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Speaker 2: having their biggest three in one sale ever with a

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Speaker 2: limited edition product, a back in stock special, and the

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Speaker 2: closeout deal you're not going to find anywhere else. My

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Speaker 2: Pillow bedsheets only twenty nine eighty eight, any color, any style,

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Speaker 2: and any size, even the king size regularly priced at

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Speaker 2: one nineteen ninety eight, now only twenty nine eighty eight.

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Speaker 2: Once they're gone, though they're gone for good. My towels

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Speaker 2: are finally back in stock, but not for long. Get

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Speaker 2: a six piece my towel set, regularly priced at sixty

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Speaker 2: nine ninety eight, now only thirty nine ninety eight, And

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Speaker 2: for the first time and the only time, get their

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Speaker 2: limited edition Premium My pillows made with Giza cotton and

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Speaker 2: a designer gusset queens starting at seventeen ninety eight kings

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Speaker 2: at nineteen ninety eight, and for a limited time, when

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Speaker 2: you order over one hundred dollars, you'll receive free shipping

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Speaker 2: plus one hundred dollars in free digital gifts eight hundred

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Speaker 2: nine three two fifty fifty six promo code Chris, or

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Speaker 2: use that promo code at MyPillow dot com promo code Chris. Hey,

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Speaker 2: how's it calling? Merry Christmas? Welcome in to the Stagall Show.

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Speaker 2: I am thrilled to have you on board today. Looking

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Speaker 2: live at Las Vegas, Nevada on the Salem News Channel.

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01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 2: One of the uh maybe one of the casinos, probably

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01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 2: all decked out for the holidays. Eight five five. Stigall

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Speaker 2: is how you reach us today. You can catch everything

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01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 2: you need social media wise. You can email me to

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01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 2: got to report the other day. You Facebook users, thank

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01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:36,439
Speaker 2: you been active over there, particularly on Facebook. Always great

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01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 2: to have you on board wherever you get there. If

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Speaker 2: you follow along on X We're busy over there at

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01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 2: Chris Stigall. You can follow on Instagram. Hope that you

1182
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 2: do even from time to time. My monkey around on TikTok.

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01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 2: Not exactly my favorite platform, but I try as well

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01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 2: as the three times a week newsletter. You know, I

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01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 2: am cranking out the Harump Society every other day basically

1186
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 2: of the week Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it's Choco Block. I've

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Speaker 2: got a new one coming out today. And for those

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01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 2: of you who have been unbelievably generous in our Prison

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Speaker 2: Fellowship campaign, any donation is generous, some of you just

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Speaker 2: go over the top and I can't believe it, And

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01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 2: so we tried to come up with a little something

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01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 2: as a thank you, and so anyone who's willing to

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Speaker 2: help juice this thing a little bit, because we're again

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Speaker 2: we're trying to get to twenty six hundred kids, folks.

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Speaker 2: It was an ambitious goal that I set, and I

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Speaker 2: need your help getting there. I'm not going to lie

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Speaker 2: to you, and I don't mean to be obnoxious about this.

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Speaker 2: I never mean to browbeat people about anything. This is

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Speaker 2: just an important, wonderful charitable organization. The Prison Fellowship people.

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Speaker 2: They exist to do nothing but expose children to the

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Speaker 2: love of Jesus. That's what they do, and they do

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Speaker 2: it for some of the most troubled kids in the

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Speaker 2: country and families because they have incarcerated parents. And again

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Speaker 2: I realize some people say, well, well, the parents screwed

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01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,919
Speaker 2: up there in jail, that's on them. I understand that

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01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 2: they're not asking for you to take sympathy on the parent.

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01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 2: What they're trying to do is give these kids a

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01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 2: little hope and a little joy at Christmas time with

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Speaker 2: a note from their parent that says, I haven't forgotten you.

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Speaker 2: And as you know, if you have anybody in your life,

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01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 2: or if you have friends in your life who have

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Speaker 2: screwed up and had to pay the price for that,

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Speaker 2: they're not all irredeemable. Many of them have families and

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Speaker 2: they'd like to get back to those families. But in

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Speaker 2: the meantime, those kids feel lost without their parent. So

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Speaker 2: Prison Fellowship gives that toy, and gives that handwritten note,

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Speaker 2: and most importantly gives them a Bible at Christmas. Thirty

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Speaker 2: dollars gets it done. Thirty dollars And I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you have the ability to do it, but boy,

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Speaker 2: just as a personal favor from me to you, I'm

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Speaker 2: asking this Christmas, can you help. We're trying to get

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Speaker 2: to twenty six hundred kids. I'm kind of doing the

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Speaker 2: rough back of the envelope math. I need about one

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01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,919
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty people in this audience for the next

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Speaker 2: days that we're here until Christmas to step up and

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Speaker 2: give at least thirty dollars. Some of you have been

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Speaker 2: so incredibly kind to do more than that, and I'm

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Speaker 2: thankful to everyone who gives anything, and for some of

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Speaker 2: you that have stepped up and given a thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: or more, just a small token of my thanks, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to give you a lifetime subscription to the Herum

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Speaker 2: Society for Life. That's a membership for good. So if

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Speaker 2: that's of interest to you, if that's a little incentive

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Speaker 2: and a little help to encourage you, if you have

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Speaker 2: the means and you've been blessed, please be a blessing

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Speaker 2: to many other kids. By the way, the math on

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Speaker 2: this thing, I was just looking at it. Here's how

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Speaker 2: it breaks down. One hundred and fifty dollars and that

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01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 2: helps five kids experience a Christmas that they may otherwise

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Speaker 2: not get. Three hundred dollars helps ten kids, six hundred

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01:07:54,520 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 2: dollars helps twenty, twelve hundred helps forty kids. So if

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Speaker 2: you can be a blessing in any way, whatever, even

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01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 2: if it's five bucks, I don't care. A couple of

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01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 2: ways to do it christigall dot com and there is

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01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 2: a banner right at the top of the page. I

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01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 2: hope you'll do this. I hope you'll help. I'm confident

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01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 2: this audience is going to step up in a big

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 2: way because I know you. I know your heart. You've

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 2: been kind all year long, and as this new show

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01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 2: gets underway in this first year, you're kind of You've

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01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 2: bought in early. As this show continues to grow, You're

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01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 2: particularly special to me because you've been here in your

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Speaker 2: number one and helped people who genuinely need it. And

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Speaker 2: I as a new show getting to know so many

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Speaker 2: in this audience for the first time, I get it.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to figure out whether you'd want to ride

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Speaker 2: with this show or not. But it's not about the

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01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 2: show today. It's about helping these kids, and I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll help me help the prison Fellowship folks do the

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Speaker 2: work that they do. Eight eight eight two zero six

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Speaker 2: twenty seven ninety four is the Angeltry campaign number. If

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Speaker 2: you want to call them give directly. Eight eight eight

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Speaker 2: two zero six twenty seven ninety four. Again, thirty dollars

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Speaker 2: helps one child. Can you do it today? Or Christigall

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Speaker 2: dot Common Click on that banner there at the top

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Speaker 2: of the page. I appreciate you out on the campaign

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Speaker 2: trail talking affordability. This is obviously the White House's goal.

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Speaker 2: President Trump, I love this analogy again. He is the

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Speaker 2: explainer in chief, he's the communicator in chief, he's the

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Speaker 2: joke teller in chief. This is the number forty eight

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Speaker 2: last night Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, and we're bringing back cold.

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Speaker 8: But my administration cannot talk about anything else except when

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Speaker 8: they say the word call. They have to precede the

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Speaker 8: word by two words clean, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: So we only call called clean beautiful call?

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Speaker 8: Is that right, fellas? Because Cole needs a little public

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Speaker 8: relations help. It's a very powerful. It's a very powerful fuel.

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Speaker 8: It's used by China. You know, China makes all our windmills,

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Speaker 8: but they don't have any wind farms. It's a little interesting,

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Speaker 8: isn't it. Wind is the worst. It's a big it's

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Speaker 8: a big. That's a scam. They ruin your valleys, they've

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Speaker 8: ruined your peaks. They and the most expensive energy. The

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Speaker 8: only ones that get rich are the developers who make

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Speaker 8: a fortune. You have to change your windmills, and most

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Speaker 8: of them are made in China. But China has very.

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Speaker 2: Few wind farms.

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Speaker 8: You know why, because they're smart.

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Speaker 11: You know what.

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Speaker 8: They do have a lot of call. They love call,

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Speaker 8: so that's okay. But we have clean, beautiful call, and

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Speaker 8: we brought it back into vogue. We have nuclear, we

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01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 8: have oil and gas. We have sort of everything. We

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 8: don't want. We don't approve windmills. We don't approve it.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 10: We don't like.

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Speaker 2: Things that kill all our birds.

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Speaker 8: And then every time you put one up, only the

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Speaker 8: guy that owns it makes a lot of money.

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Speaker 6: Those guys a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Joke and they are ugly.

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Speaker 8: You're right, sir, But democrats talking about affordability is like

1302
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 8: body in flide preaching about public safety, and they are

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01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 8: really the truly the enemy of the working class when

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Speaker 8: they do it. Because we want to have we got

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01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 8: to have a great energy policy. You know, our oil

1306
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 8: prices are coming down, very substantial energy prices, and honestly,

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01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 8: with that, everything comes down because there's nothing nearly in

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01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 8: the category of oil.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't even know.

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Speaker 6: What second is.

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01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 8: There are seconds and thirds, but it's so far down

1312
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 8: the list we don't even talk about them. You get

1313
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 8: energy prices down, which we're doing with and again, the

1314
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 8: greatest amount of drilling, the greatest amount of fuel being

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Speaker 8: produced right now in our country than ever before. By far,

1316
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 8: it's not even a contest. And when that happens, those

1317
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 8: prices come down. That's why you're seeing oil per barrel

1318
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:55,839
Speaker 8: coming down nicely, very nicely.

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01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 2: The explainer and cheap. No, that was not me. I

1320
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 2: was not at Mount Pocono last night when he started

1321
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 2: talking about windmills. They're i'mly, I don't know who that

1322
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 2: guy was, but that's probably what I would have shouted

1323
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 2: had I been there. So there's President Trump. I loved

1324
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 2: that line. Democrats talking about affordability as Lake Bonnie and

1325
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 2: Clyde talking about public safety. It's pretty good. Kevin Hassett.

1326
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 2: Many people believe Hassett is going to be the guy

1327
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 2: Trump replaces too late Jerome Powell with not everybody's nuts

1328
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 2: about that. Mind, you've heard the criticisms and the financial

1329
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 2: sector about Kevin Hassett. I personally liked the guy. I

1330
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 2: don't have any objections. He went out there talking about

1331
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 2: the move to lower cost. It's all hands on deck

1332
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 2: now to push back on this affordability thing and number

1333
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 2: forty listen.

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Speaker 4: Right, lower energy, lower regulation. You saw, like we just

1335
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 4: had an event with the President where we're talking about

1336
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 4: cafe standards. You know, the Biden administration was saying that

1337
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 4: cars had to have fifty one miles per gallon, which

1338
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Speaker 4: meant they're going to be really.

1339
01:12:57,880 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 2: Expensive electric things.

1340
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 4: And President Trump waive that, and that's going to reduce

1341
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 4: the price of cars by we estimate between one and

1342
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 4: two thousand dollars for the typical car. So that's the

1343
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 4: kind of thing that lowers prices and makes lives better,

1344
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 4: but at supply side.

1345
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, simultaneously, Stephen Miller is back out there and he

1346
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 2: is blasting away on the policy issues related to immigration,

1347
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 2: and I still think that that is a huge issue

1348
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 2: for the American public. I think the drug boat thing

1349
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 2: is still a huge issue. I think these Somali thieves

1350
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 2: stealing taxpayer dollars is going to be a huge issue.

1351
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 2: So prosecuting Democrats, reminding people who Democrats are. At the

1352
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 2: same time you're talking about things we're actively doing to

1353
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 2: better the economy that's important. It look, it's going to

1354
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,799
Speaker 2: be tough sledding. I'm not trying to be Pollyanna about this.

1355
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 2: This is going to be a tough slog When they

1356
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 2: turn the corner they're supposed to be voting, they say

1357
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 2: this week, the Senate has some kind of version of

1358
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 2: Obamacare that they don't expect to get sixty votes to

1359
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 2: make it to a final vote. But the Senate has

1360
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 2: some kind of version for Obamacare subsidies to be phased out.

1361
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 2: Apparently the House does too, and they're going to offer

1362
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:17,759
Speaker 2: up some kind of replacement for Obamacare and subsidies next week,

1363
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 2: which could likely get voted on and be sent over

1364
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 2: to the Senate and get stuck. So what's likely going

1365
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,759
Speaker 2: to happen is we're going to go into Christmas. Congress

1366
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 2: is going to adjourn and go home, and there won't

1367
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 2: be any solution on the Obamacare subsidies. That is not

1368
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 2: going to help with messaging at all. As people are

1369
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 2: freaked out about the hike in health insurance costs, I

1370
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 2: understand that, but keep the faith. I think there is

1371
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 2: there are plans at work, and again in Trump, I

1372
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 2: trust that is my position until it's proven wrong, and

1373
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 2: thus far, with guys like best at and his side,

1374
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,719
Speaker 2: I'm confident better days are ahead in twenty twenty six.

1375
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 2: More minute. I'm really excited about this interview coming up.

1376
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 2: He's on a Christmas tour right now. Merry Christmas, Ricky Skaggs.

1377
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 2: It just takes me to a happy place. Country Music

1378
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs is on tour. He's hopping

1379
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:18,679
Speaker 2: around to various city. He's gonna be with us shortly.

1380
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 2: I don't know where he is. He's out on the

1381
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 2: road somewhere, but he'll be checking in with us, I

1382
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 2: think from a hotel room. But my memory of guys

1383
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 2: like Ricky Skaggs has grown up with my grandparents watching

1384
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 2: he Haw if you ever watched it. I took a

1385
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 2: tour of the Grand Old Opry last year and it

1386
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 2: was the first time I'd ever seen it. I loved it.

1387
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 2: And that's actually where he Haw was shot, which I

1388
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 2: didn't know. And Ricky Skaggs, you know, was on that

1389
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 2: show and just synonymous with my childhood. Actually I remember

1390
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 2: growing up listening to that was you know, country music

1391
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 2: in its classic sense before it became whatever it is now,

1392
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 2: which you know, I'm not one of these, you know,

1393
01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,160
Speaker 2: front porch fist shakers about modern country music. But it's

1394
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 2: amazing how it's you know, the Ricky Skaggs era, the

1395
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 2: George Jones era, and then it's gotten into I don't

1396
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 2: even know what you call it, but more eclectic. I'll

1397
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 2: leave it at that. Once upon a time they called

1398
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 2: it young country, fast Eddie. It was redeveloped to be

1399
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 2: called young country. That was a whole positioning statement that

1400
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,799
Speaker 2: the country station I worked on first out of college,

1401
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,600
Speaker 2: they repackaged themselves and called it young country. That was

1402
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 2: the advent of Shania Twain and all that stuff. If

1403
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 2: you were too young for My mom knows that.

1404
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 7: It's funny my mom came into country music at that time.

1405
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 7: That was her wheelhouse because I got in her car

1406
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:38,759
Speaker 7: she was driving.

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01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 2: Me to a dance.

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01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 7: Once I'm like, you're listening the country, so I know

1409
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 7: exactly where that place and time, because that's also how

1410
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 7: she discovered George Street, who.

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01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 5: I like a lot.

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01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now that's classic country. Just honored at the Kennedy

1413
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,759
Speaker 2: Center Honors, by the way, So that's that's your traditional country.

1414
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 2: But it's you know, the Florida Georgia line stuff, and

1415
01:16:57,680 --> 01:16:59,879
Speaker 2: like it gets a little rappy and a little poppy

1416
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 2: a little, but then it goes back to the roots.

1417
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 2: You know, you're Stapleton types. So it's but anyway, Ricky

1418
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 2: Skaggs is one of the ogs and he's coming up

1419
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 2: in just a little bit. I do want to mention

1420
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 2: that next week, and I'm probably just going to open

1421
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 2: it up so everybody can read it. It's been on

1422
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 2: my mind. At the Harrump Society, I am going to

1423
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 2: tell three Christmas stories that I don't think have ever

1424
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 2: been connected before. I haven't researched it, but in my

1425
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:35,360
Speaker 2: mind I kind of connected them. And it's three moments

1426
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 2: when prayer comforted America and changed the course of history.

1427
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 2: I thought it an appropriate theme for the Christmas season

1428
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 2: as we head toward it. So that's next week at

1429
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 2: the Horump Society. I've got a new edition coming out today,

1430
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 2: but next week is sort of a three part theme

1431
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 2: week on prayer, and this is the fastest growing newsletter

1432
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,200
Speaker 2: on substack. I hope you can join us over there.

1433
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:04,799
Speaker 2: Really looking forward to next week. Will our net Jason

1434
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 2: Bateman and Conan O'Brien. I don't have time to get

1435
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 2: into this at this very moment, but I'm going to

1436
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 2: play for you. Coming up one of the most incredible

1437
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 2: exchanges between three friends dealing with grief. Now, I don't

1438
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 2: know how you deal with grief. I don't know if

1439
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 2: that's an uncomfortable subject for you. But guys who are

1440
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 2: funny again, setting aside their politics, I think they are

1441
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 2: pretty funny guys and their friends. There's nothing more difficult

1442
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 2: than when a beloved friend, particularly for men, is going

1443
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 2: through a tough time. You know what I'm saying, Ed,

1444
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 2: You're not the most I mean, like, I love you.

1445
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 2: But the one thing you don't like is when things

1446
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 2: get emotional.

1447
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,799
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm not good. I'm always emotional.

1448
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 2: Men don't do it well. You know, when a guy's grief. Men,

1449
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 2: I'm not picking on you. It's such a tough thing

1450
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 2: for men to do. Absolutely. I think Conan O'Brien and

1451
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,080
Speaker 2: Will Arnett and Jason Bateman have figured out how to

1452
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 2: do it. I admire it that's coming up. This is

1453
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,719
Speaker 2: a thrill, you know. In my radio career now twenty

1454
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 2: five years running, I've done a lot of different things

1455
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 2: talk radio for the bulk of it now. But my

1456
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 2: very very first job, and you may not know this,

1457
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 2: but the very first job I had out of college

1458
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 2: was on a country music station. I did overnights for

1459
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 2: I don't know, over a year on a country music station.

1460
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 2: I interned on a country music station before that, so

1461
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 2: and I grew up around country music. I remember my

1462
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 2: parents and grandparents listening to it. So it was such

1463
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 2: a thrill when I found out we were going to

1464
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 2: be able to talk to a Hall of famer in

1465
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 2: the country music world, a fifteen time Grammy winner. And

1466
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 2: now he's out on tour as we speak tonight. He's

1467
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 2: going to be in Nashville, Indiana for at the Brown

1468
01:19:53,479 --> 01:19:56,360
Speaker 2: Country Music Center. Who am I talking about? Ricky Skaggs,

1469
01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,679
Speaker 2: the one and Only and his Kentucky thunder Christmas tour.

1470
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Speaker 2: Mister Skaggs went and honor good morning, Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 13: Oh thank you, Chris, Merry Christmas to you sounds lucky

1472
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 13: you had a good foundational background to get started in life.

1473
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 2: I did, you know, before I even knew what I

1474
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 2: was listening to. I was sort of steep steeped in

1475
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 2: it before I even knew what I was really enjoying.

1476
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 2: It's interesting too, because I grew up, you know, as

1477
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:26,160
Speaker 2: a kid in the right there in the wheelhouse where

1478
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 2: you were cranking out hits, and at the time, I

1479
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 2: don't think I really kind of knew, kind of formatically

1480
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 2: what it meant to people. I've interestingly watched it. I

1481
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,839
Speaker 2: know you have how country music has evolved and shifted

1482
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:43,759
Speaker 2: from when you started and to today and the different

1483
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 2: but you've never wavered. That's what's interesting about you. Once

1484
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 2: you hit a zone, you've stayed there. Yes, yeah, that's

1485
01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 2: all I know how to do.

1486
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 13: I can't really I can't sing rap, so I can

1487
01:20:55,200 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 13: tell a story or two, but no, it definitely has

1488
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 13: changed a whole lot, Chris, as you will put it.

1489
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,879
Speaker 13: But you know, they're finding their way in blending country

1490
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:12,600
Speaker 13: with lots of different kinds of sounds. And I just

1491
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 13: love staying with what brought me to the party, you know,

1492
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 13: and I'm thankful, at seventy one years old that people

1493
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:25,679
Speaker 13: swilling to lay down, you know, fifty seventy five dollars

1494
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 13: whatever it cost to get in, you know, to buy

1495
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 13: a ticket, to still come and see us play, and

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01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 13: saying so I'm grateful.

1497
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 2: How often do you tour these days?

1498
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:36,639
Speaker 6: Quite a bent.

1499
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Speaker 13: We had a really good summer, and like you said,

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01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:42,760
Speaker 13: we're on this Christmas tour to kind of finish up

1501
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 13: the year, and we'll start again the first weekend in

1502
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:51,360
Speaker 13: January up in Manassa, or not Manassa's Virginia, but up

1503
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 13: in northern Virginia in the DC area a little place

1504
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 13: called the Birchmere that we play every year. That's usually

1505
01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 13: our place we try out new material and see if

1506
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 13: they're going to walk out or if they're going to stay.

1507
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 2: So that's really interesting, Ricky. I would not have thought,

1508
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 2: I know, the Birchmere, and I would not have folt

1509
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 2: frankly that Virginia, uh and the suburbs of d C

1510
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 2: would be where Ricky Skaggs has beloved. But obviously you

1511
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 2: do very well. And that's what's so funny about country

1512
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 2: music is I think people assume, well, unless he's in Alabama,

1513
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 2: he's probably not going to set a show. But I

1514
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 2: know that's not true. You found it to be true

1515
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:29,759
Speaker 2: wherever you go anywhere in the country.

1516
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 13: I would imagine, Well, we've got a lot of fans,

1517
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 13: like you know, many of many of them are you know,

1518
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 13: old people and their parents, you know, but that's okay.

1519
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 6: We love them.

1520
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 13: And but you know, one of the things that I

1521
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 13: see with a whole lot of the younger country artists

1522
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:53,719
Speaker 13: is that they know my history, they know the music

1523
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 13: that I've done, and they love the bluegrass blend with

1524
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 13: the country music that we do. So it's great, you know,

1525
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 13: I'm thankful. You know, the Grand Old Opery just celebrated

1526
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 13: one hundred years of starting in nineteen twenty five and

1527
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 13: twenty twenty five now, and we just celebrated one hundred

1528
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 13: years of that show that has touched not just America,

1529
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:22,439
Speaker 13: but has touched the world.

1530
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 6: It's amazing that it's gone through all, you know, world

1531
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 6: wars and all.

1532
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:33,719
Speaker 13: Kinds of things, and just to see that it's still standing,

1533
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 13: it's amazing.

1534
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 2: Ricky. That's as I understand it, and I didn't know

1535
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 2: about it. I have to confess, I'm sorry. I hadn't

1536
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 2: known about this until now, although I'd heard it, I'd

1537
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 2: listened to it, like I said, growing up, But that

1538
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 2: grandled Opry show, that radio show is the longest continuously

1539
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:52,639
Speaker 2: running radio show without interruption for like one hundred years. True,

1540
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 2: it is, it truly is.

1541
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 13: You know, even when COVID came and we couldn't have

1542
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 13: people in the building, me and Marty Stewart and Vince

1543
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 13: gill h went and and you know, did Saturday Night show,

1544
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 13: you know, just for people streaming and and uh and radio.

1545
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 13: You know, we were not going to let some you know,

1546
01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 13: plandemic mess us up. We were gonna We're going to

1547
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 13: keep playing, keep going.

1548
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 6: So uh, you know it's withstood that.

1549
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something, I not not to do

1550
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 2: a commercial. By the way, Ricky Skaggs Show. If you

1551
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 2: want to go tonight and you happen to be in

1552
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 2: or around Nashville, Indiana, are there still some tickets available?

1553
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 2: I want to mention that on the eleventh, still some

1554
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:37,639
Speaker 2: tickets available. Ricky Skaggs dot com slash Tour Ricky Ricky

1555
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 2: Skaggs dot com slash Tour Cincinnati to come and Bristol

1556
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 2: after that. If you're looking for some Christmas music, but

1557
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 2: on on the Grand Old Opry front. My wife and

1558
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 2: I just this year took that tour formally. I'd never

1559
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 2: done that before, and I have to tell you, and

1560
01:24:56,120 --> 01:25:01,640
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, if you have any kind of entertainment

1561
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 2: history appreciation music, the way they do that tour, they

1562
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 2: bring you out on the stage and let you stand

1563
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:13,839
Speaker 2: there in that circle. I defy anybody to not feel

1564
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 2: really special and feel the electricity in that place. The

1565
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:19,719
Speaker 2: way that's done and presented, it really makes you feel

1566
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 2: you can appreciate how someone from humble beginnings becomes star

1567
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 2: in that center stage and what it means to you

1568
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,960
Speaker 2: guys in country music, well, it really does.

1569
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 13: I mean it's we call the Old Raman Auditorium, which

1570
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:37,839
Speaker 13: was built in the eighteen hundreds.

1571
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 6: It was Union Gospel Tabernacle. It was a church.

1572
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 13: Nowadays they call it the Mother Church of country music.

1573
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 13: And then we got the Big House, you know, the

1574
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 13: Opera House now out on off Browley Parkway run on

1575
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 13: the river there, Cumberland. But you know when we moved

1576
01:25:56,560 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 13: out there in nineteen I guess seventy five, they cut

1577
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:05,559
Speaker 13: a big circle of a piece of the stage from

1578
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 13: the Ramen and brought it with them and set it

1579
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:09,320
Speaker 13: out there.

1580
01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:12,160
Speaker 6: So a lot of these young artists that.

1581
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:17,599
Speaker 13: Come, they they literally bowed down and put their hands

1582
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 13: in touch that, you know, that that circle especially, you know,

1583
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 13: just something that gives them some connection to the past.

1584
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:31,160
Speaker 6: And because I grew.

1585
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 13: Up at a time that Roy Acuff was still alive,

1586
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 13: Minnie Pearl was still alive, and Grandpa Jones and Ernest

1587
01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:42,640
Speaker 13: Tubb actually inducted me into the Grand Ole Opry in

1588
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 13: nineteen eighty one, so that was you know, I had

1589
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 13: great connections with those people and admired them so much,

1590
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 13: you know. And I had listened to that radio show

1591
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:59,680
Speaker 13: since I was a kid, listening with my grandfather in

1592
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 13: his forward pickup truck out by the barn where there

1593
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 13: was no electric line so that we could get you know,

1594
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 13: not have any kind of disturbance, you know.

1595
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 6: So that was really really great.

1596
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 13: And I'm just so thankful to be to be a

1597
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:15,759
Speaker 13: member of the Opry.

1598
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 2: And one rookie I didn't know, go ahead, go ahead,

1599
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 2: please go ahead.

1600
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 13: Well, one of the coolest things that I ever got

1601
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 13: to do.

1602
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 6: There was an old man named Uncle Jimmy.

1603
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 13: Thompson, and he was the first musician that actually played

1604
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 13: on the Grand Ole Opry when Judge George D.

1605
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:40,679
Speaker 6: Hay, the Solemn Old Judge they call him, uh, came

1606
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 6: on the air.

1607
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 13: They'd come from you know, the radio show was you know,

1608
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 13: it was NBC back then, and uh so they cut,

1609
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 13: you know to Nashville, and uh, Judge Hay was sitting

1610
01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 13: there and saying, well, you've been listening to Grand Opera

1611
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 13: from New York, but now you're going to be listening

1612
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 13: to the Grand Old Opry. And Uncle Jimmy Thompson, this

1613
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 13: old fiddler that fought in the Civil War.

1614
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 6: Man, I'm telling you, I mean he was old.

1615
01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 13: He sits there and plays this fiddle, you know, and

1616
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 13: uh it was the first song ever ever played on

1617
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 13: the Grand Ole Opry.

1618
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 6: It is called Tennessee Wagner.

1619
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 13: I got to play his fiddle on the one hundredth anniversary,

1620
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 13: sitting in that circle and getting getting to play that

1621
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 13: old tune and all these Opry members behind me back there,

1622
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 13: and it was it was otherworldly, It truly was.

1623
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 8: It was.

1624
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:46,799
Speaker 2: It was like it going to be almost like your church.

1625
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I mean it in many ways, you know

1626
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 13: it is you know, we we love we love the

1627
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 13: Opry and and uh but It really felt in my

1628
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 13: heart that we were closing a chapter from one hundred

1629
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:05,760
Speaker 13: years and opening up a new chapter, you know, for

1630
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:08,560
Speaker 13: the for the next hundred years.

1631
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 2: I told you earlier in the show Colin O'Brien, and

1632
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 2: I don't know how long ago this happened. Lost both

1633
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 2: of his parents tragically. Want His father died of old age,

1634
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 2: but his mother died two days later. His friends Will

1635
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 2: Arnette and Jason Bateman, the actors, joined him on his

1636
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 2: podcast and talked about how they helped him with this

1637
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:29,559
Speaker 2: grief of losing two parents so quickly. I just loved

1638
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 2: the story. Listen, bring up a touch of actual. This

1639
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:34,680
Speaker 2: is real personal subject for you.

1640
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 14: Okay, I know what it is in the family, yep,

1641
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 14: my parents. So well, First, let me just say the

1642
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 14: timelinecause I have it here. I wrote it down last

1643
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 14: year because the timeline was so good.

1644
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1645
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 14: And so I hear that that your your dad passes away,

1646
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:52,559
Speaker 14: and I text you that day or the next day

1647
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 14: and I said, hey, listen, I'm sorry to hear about

1648
01:29:54,080 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 14: your dad's passing, sending love from our family to years

1649
01:29:56,760 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 14: and you wrote thank you. Will to be honest, blame Bateman.

1650
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:04,639
Speaker 2: For the death of my for the death of my father.

1651
01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 14: The day after his father dies. Yeah, right, so I wrote,

1652
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 14: it's not a terrible theory, and Conon texted me back,

1653
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 14: he killed my dad.

1654
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 2: God, my dad.

1655
01:30:17,840 --> 01:30:20,120
Speaker 15: Can I say, in fairness my dad would have loved

1656
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:25,799
Speaker 15: this so so.

1657
01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 14: So uh so then Baban, Babean. I tell Babman this,

1658
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:31,680
Speaker 14: we're dying. We're doing a thing that day, so he

1659
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,759
Speaker 14: the next day, Bateman texts you and he says, Arnette

1660
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:39,519
Speaker 14: tells me you're on to me. Yes, and ConA text Baban.

1661
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 14: He says, Baban, do yourself a favor, favor, turn yourself in.

1662
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1663
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:52,519
Speaker 14: Two days after your dad passes. Of course your mom

1664
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,200
Speaker 14: passed away, Yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming.

1665
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 14: Which did not see coming. So I text you two

1666
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 14: days after I knew your boss. I said, Bagman is

1667
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 14: asking for your sister a street address.

1668
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay to give.

1669
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:15,760
Speaker 14: Yeah, And you were busy that weekend.

1670
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 2: Like a day and a half later.

1671
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:20,920
Speaker 14: Your texted back, just seeing this now, fantastic six twenty

1672
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,680
Speaker 14: five Boilston Street, Department Twelve's you tell Babman to make

1673
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:24,759
Speaker 14: it look like a robbery.

1674
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 2: You know it's weird.

1675
01:31:30,840 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 15: I swear to God, this is how I grieve. I

1676
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 15: know everyone has their way.

1677
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 2: I just love that. I admire good friendships, gallows, humor,

1678
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call that. I just thought

1679
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:46,360
Speaker 2: that remarkable. I mean, what a remarkable thing to have happened,

1680
01:31:46,439 --> 01:31:48,720
Speaker 2: lose your parents two days from one another, but to

1681
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 2: have that kind of good cheer and share it with friends.

1682
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 2: It's it's really something I thought that was cool. Made

1683
01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:55,639
Speaker 2: me smile yesterday. So that's a wrap for another Christa

1684
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 2: Gall Show podcast. Thanks for committing to it listening to

1685
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 2: it all the way through. I like that about you.

1686
01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:03,240
Speaker 2: Hope you'll leave it a five star review and a

1687
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 2: written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We'll see you next time

1688
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:09,400
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