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Speaker 1: the Secretary of War speak to the generals and admirals,

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Speaker 1: beards to guarantee high standards. If that's what you want

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Speaker 1: to do, smear the Secretary of War and completely not

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Speaker 1: listen to everything he said. You are a member of

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Speaker 1: the Bulwark. You claim to be a conservative, but of

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Speaker 1: course you fail at the task of just being a

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Find everything I do over at Tony Katz dot com.

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Speaker 1: This was the post from Tim Miller, and this post

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Speaker 1: is fully and completely ignorant. The attack on Pete Hegseth unnecessary,

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Speaker 1: certainly based an innuendo. You engage it as an allegation,

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Speaker 1: and then you point to one thing he talked about,

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Speaker 1: which was the idea of beards. Yes, that actually did

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Speaker 1: come up. What came up was the idea of standards

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Speaker 1: constantly and consistently, the idea of standards that we have

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Speaker 1: a certain way to assure the best possible result. And

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Speaker 1: one of the things you don't do is engage this

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Speaker 1: idea of you could do this, and you could do that,

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Speaker 1: could do everything, and you don't have everybody rowing in

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Speaker 1: the same direction. Why in the world is it so

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Speaker 1: necessary to make your bed every morning?

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Speaker 1: Should I? Should? I wait for the military people to

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Speaker 1: the military people answer that question. Why, oh why is

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Speaker 1: it important for someone in the military to make their

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Speaker 1: bed every morning? Tell me the chat room, Go to

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Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Tony kats tell me there, Tell

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter x at Tony Katz, Tell me on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: Tony Kats Radio. Email me Tony at Tony Kats dot com.

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Speaker 1: If you have my number, you can text me, but

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Speaker 1: Why is it that it's important to make your bed well?

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Speaker 1: Claudia believes that the answer is disciplined. Certainly that can

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Speaker 1: be the answer, as I know the answer to be.

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Speaker 1: The reason that you make your bed in the morning

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Speaker 1: which I would argue in the military is pretty dang important,

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Speaker 1: not important to the bulwark. How you prepare yourself, the

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Speaker 1: the world, That is part of the standard. And of

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Speaker 1: course it goes far beyond the concept of the beard.

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Speaker 1: It goes to the idea of what it is we expect,

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Speaker 1: And Secretary Headset went into a conversation regarding what it

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Speaker 2: Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the definition of

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Speaker 2: That's why today, at my direction, we're undertaking a full

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Speaker 2: inside our formations, undercutting commanders and NCOs. No more. Setting, achieving,

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Speaker 1: That is everything I voted for, every last bit of it.

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Speaker 2: If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs,

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Speaker 1: Tota. Those who cannot do the job cannot do the job.

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Speaker 1: They can do other jobs, let them, let them serve.

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Speaker 1: But there are some jobs that if you cannot do it,

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Speaker 1: And nothing about your feelings matter. Your feelings don't matter,

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Speaker 1: That is seen as exactly what we need. That is

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