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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Diego Morales he announced a voter registration

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Speaker 2: Are not so hot.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans, they're making an effort to at least meet

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Speaker 3: What I love about this is the liberals and the

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Speaker 3: But all this is is the Republicans taking a page

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Speaker 2: Too, guys, and they lose their mind.

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Speaker 3: We can play that game too, and Democrats are like,

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Speaker 3: and I do it under the TPUSA banner, what type

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Speaker 1: You're right turning point USA and also Club America. They

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's so amazing what Charlie Kirk did

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Speaker 1: Another thing that is happening with Turning Point USA is

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Speaker 1: Well, it does show you that whichever political coalition happens

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Speaker 1: So Indianapolis Police they have detailed youth curfew plans.

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Speaker 2: This ahead of spring break.

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Speaker 2: Is more important. You should have both of them, right.

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Speaker 3: Something that's important here. These aren't new curfew regulations. This

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Speaker 1: So you've got police they're going to be using their

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Speaker 1: A State of Indiana nearing completion of a massive one

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Speaker 1: So we haven't heard anything that any of these issues

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Speaker 1: All right, let's give an update on Xandra's story from

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Speaker 4: I have so many dms right now that I'm still

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Speaker 4: So I actually just released that this morning. I'll be

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Speaker 4: making a video about that this afternoon. But he feels like,

446
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Speaker 4: you know, there's something happening where the mother's family. One

447
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Speaker 4: of the family members works in the prosecutor's office and

448
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Speaker 4: feels that there's some poll there, and so he's just

449
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Speaker 4: in this battle. And I've seen all the documents, I've

450
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Speaker 4: seen everything that he's haunted to go through throughout all

451
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Speaker 4: of this, and he's just like, look, I love my daughter.

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Speaker 5: I just want fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we appreciate you bringing some attention to these

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Speaker 1: stories and highlighting them.

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Speaker 2: Wybc's John at Cris, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So. Attaching the say back to AFISA reauthorization is classic

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Speaker 1: Washington politics, but this time done with a purpose, right,

459
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Speaker 1: getting conservative priorities through while the left resists at every turn.

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Speaker 2: But we also have to question is it just the

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Speaker 2: left that is resisting.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Anna Paulina Luna, representative from Florida. So

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Speaker 1: the only realistic way to pass the Save Act through

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Speaker 1: the Senate is to attach it to a must pass

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Speaker 1: reauthorization of FAIZA. And she said that on x that

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Speaker 1: the Senate has failed the American people by refusing to

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Speaker 1: advance the Save Act, So now we have to put it.

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Speaker 1: We got to attach it to something else. That is

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Speaker 1: so typical Washington politics.

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Speaker 3: Actually, what I love about this is we heard something similar.

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Speaker 3: We had some audio yesterday or the day before from

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Speaker 3: Senator John Kennedy who talked about this, and he talked

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Speaker 3: about the way, you know, we know that the Save

474
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Speaker 3: Act is held up in the Senate right now because

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Speaker 3: the Democrats can filibuster it. You essentially need sixty votes

476
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Speaker 3: to get anything passed for the most part out of

477
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Speaker 3: the Senate. Now, there are some ways around that, and

478
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump has really been pushing a you know, Majority

479
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Speaker 3: Leader John Thune to get rid of the filibuster. Okay,

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Speaker 3: there's pros and cons with that, because as soon as

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Speaker 3: you get rid of it for this specific situation, then

482
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Speaker 3: when the Democrats are in power, the Republicans don't have

483
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Speaker 3: it a tool to block, you know, crazy Democrat issues

484
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Speaker 3: that they want to push through. But Senator John Kennedy

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Speaker 3: mentioned including it in a reauthorization bill, and that's what

486
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Speaker 3: Anna Luna is talking about here, putting it in this

487
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Speaker 3: different one, just talking about putting it in the in

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Speaker 3: the Pfiser reauthorization bill. And I thought it was interesting

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Speaker 3: that Senator Kennedy at the time said that he's in

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Speaker 3: the minority by having it put inside of another bill

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Speaker 3: for reauthorization like this. So I think it's great to

492
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Speaker 3: hear that Representative Anna Paulina Luna has come out kind

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Speaker 3: of basically saying the same thing that Senator Kennedy said is, Look,

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Speaker 3: we don't have to nuke the filibuster. There are other

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Speaker 3: ways that we can get this done, and here's a

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Speaker 3: great way to do it. I think we need more

497
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Speaker 3: people from Congress to start pushing this so that Senator

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Speaker 3: Kennedy doesn't feel like he's in the minority with this

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Speaker 3: option anymore.

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Speaker 1: Right, So, what you've got here is that people like

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Speaker 1: her trying to work within this system to defend fair elections.

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Speaker 1: She's trying to get it done any way possible, and

503
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Speaker 1: strategy matters. If you believe in election security and you

504
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Speaker 1: support these tactics, that's actually going to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: It's not symbolic that you've got, you know Thune saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: we don't have the vote, so it's going to fail.

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Speaker 2: Well put it into something else then that won't fail.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really smart, and I think that it's been

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Speaker 3: clear at least my interpretation of it is John Tune

510
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Speaker 3: doesn't want this Act passed. And that's been part of

511
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Speaker 3: the problem here, is that, Yeah, I know that we

512
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Speaker 3: need to get at least all the Republicans and a

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Speaker 3: bunch of Democrats, if we're going to get to sixty

514
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Speaker 3: votes in the Senate and get this pass, but we

515
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Speaker 3: haven't even been able to get all the Republicans on

516
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Speaker 3: board with this. We know none of the Democrats are

517
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Speaker 3: going to come on board with this, but we can't

518
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Speaker 3: even get the Republicans on board with it. He said

519
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Speaker 3: that he doesn't want to nuke the filibuster, and I

520
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Speaker 3: understand that, I get it, But there are these other ways,

521
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Speaker 3: and this is typical. The Senate is filled with parliamentary

522
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Speaker 3: procedures and tricks that they can do to kind of

523
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Speaker 3: either stall bills or move them forward, and that's baked

524
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Speaker 3: into the way the Senate operates. We're never going to

525
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Speaker 3: get rid of this, so sometimes you got to look

526
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Speaker 3: for creative solutions. And putting it as part of the

527
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Speaker 3: Faiza Act reauthorization seems to be a pretty darn good.

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Speaker 2: Creative, creative workaround, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely it is, And I don't understand why John Kennedy,

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Speaker 3: Senator Kennedy feels like he's in the minority with the strategy.

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Speaker 3: It seems to be like, okay, great, let's tuck it

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Speaker 3: into something else we want. So that gets me back

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Speaker 3: to the point that I made that I think there's

534
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Speaker 3: a lot of Republicans unfortunately, that don't want this pass,

535
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Speaker 3: which completely blows my mind. I don't understand how you

536
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Speaker 3: can have an eighty twenty issue which voter id is

537
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Speaker 3: the Conservatives and Republicans are on the eighty percent side,

538
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Speaker 3: stupid Democrats are on the twenty percent side, and yet

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Speaker 3: you've got this option. But Senator Kennedy thinks he's in

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Speaker 3: the minority with it.

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Speaker 1: There are some people that say that it is a

542
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Speaker 1: concerted uniparty effort to end Donald Trump, lose the mid terms,

543
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Speaker 1: have him impeach, have him removed, and that's where they

544
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Speaker 1: hope that the MAGA movement completely dies. John Thune says

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Speaker 1: that the Save Act will be brought to the Senate

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Speaker 1: floor for a vote.

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Speaker 2: Man, maybe next week.

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Speaker 7: We don't have the votes either to proceed get on

549
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Speaker 7: a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got

550
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Speaker 7: on it. But that is just a function of math,

551
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Speaker 7: and there is anything I can do about that. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I understand the President's got a passion to see this

553
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Speaker 7: issue addressed, as we all do. Does he understand that vote, Well,

554
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 7: we've conveyed that to him. But we will continue to

555
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Speaker 7: make that argument because I think it's important that everybody

556
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Speaker 7: understand that this really is about it's about the votes,

557
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Speaker 7: it's about the math. And I'm for better worse. I'm

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Speaker 7: the one who has to be the clear eyed realist

559
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Speaker 7: about what we can achieve here, and so we'll continue

560
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Speaker 7: to convey that. And I think that we're going to

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Speaker 7: have the fight on the floor. We're going to vote

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Speaker 7: on this, We're going to put it out and we'll

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Speaker 7: give the Democrats the opportunity to cast their vote on

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Speaker 7: whether or not they think non citizens ought to vote

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Speaker 7: in American elections.

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Speaker 1: He's saying we don't have the votes. That's why he

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Speaker 1: hasn't called it. He's saying, this is all math. Okay,

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Speaker 1: call it, and let's see exactly who is refusing to

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Speaker 1: vote for it.

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Speaker 3: Exactly record this concept that we can only bring something

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Speaker 3: to the floor if we know that we've got all

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Speaker 3: the votes. No, I don't care about that. I want

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Speaker 3: every single politician to vote on this and tell us

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Speaker 3: where do you stand on voter ID and I want

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Speaker 3: you on the record, your cards, exactly, show us what

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Speaker 3: you got. I want you on the record as to

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Speaker 3: where you stand on this. Issue that eighty percent of

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Speaker 3: American support, but for some reason we've been fighting for

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Speaker 3: months and months and can't get any movement on this. Yes,

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Speaker 3: John Thune should absolutely call a vote and make everyone

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Speaker 3: go on record as to where they stand.

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Speaker 1: You've got even the view, the view admitting that this

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Speaker 1: is a issue that most people majority of people in

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Speaker 1: this country support.

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Speaker 8: Eighty three percent support voter ID requirements, ninety five percent

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Speaker 8: of Republicans, seventy one percent of Democrats, seventy six percent

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Speaker 8: of black people, eighty two percent of Latino eighty five

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Speaker 8: Like you go across the board, people are.

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Speaker 2: Okay with that.

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Speaker 3: Listen to those numbers they just threw out there. I

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Speaker 3: mean that is I don't know if there's another issue

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Speaker 3: in this country right now that has that much support

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Speaker 3: behind it across all racial democratic graphics, across all political demographics,

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Speaker 3: across the board. And so I go back to this

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Speaker 3: point that I think John Thune by not calling this

596
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Speaker 3: vote is protecting some Republicans that don't want this, Because

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Speaker 3: if it was just Democrats that had to go on

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Speaker 3: the record and all the Republicans support it, then why

599
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Speaker 3: not just call a vote, get everybody out there, and

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Speaker 3: can you imagine stack those two things together. The President

601
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Speaker 3: at a State of the Union saying I want you

602
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Speaker 3: to stand up if you believe we should focus on

603
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Speaker 3: American citizens first and not illegal aliens. And then you

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Speaker 3: had that image of all of the Democrats sitting on

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Speaker 3: their hands, and then stack that with calling a vote

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Speaker 3: on this and making all the Democrats go on record

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Speaker 3: against it. Even if it doesn't pass, that's still valuable

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Speaker 3: for two reasons. Not only do we know where everybody stands,

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Speaker 3: but also that is going to make a great campaign

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Speaker 3: commercial from you, your.

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Speaker 2: True colors, Let's see what you stand for.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Chuck Schumer and he's saying that the

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Speaker 1: Save America Act will allow I to kick tens of

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Speaker 1: millions of.

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Speaker 2: People off the voter rolls.

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Speaker 1: So here you have Chuck Schumer admitting the voter rolls

617
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Speaker 1: are plagued with illegals.

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Speaker 6: It's about voter registration. It makes it. It allows ICE

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Speaker 6: to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls,

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Speaker 6: off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election day.

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Speaker 6: And you show up and you say you're not registered anymore.

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Speaker 6: You're not registered here, You're not on the rolls. And

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Speaker 6: they say I didn't know that this is a bill

624
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Speaker 6: that destroys the country. And it is not about showing

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Speaker 6: id when you show up to vote. It's about the

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Speaker 6: voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know,

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Speaker 6: and taking the rights in a algorithm put together by Ice,

628
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Speaker 6: put together by Doge and Musk. It's an outrage and

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Speaker 6: that's why so many people don't want to pass it.

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Speaker 3: How many more trigger bombs could he throw off there? Ice, Doge, Musk,

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Speaker 3: I'm surprised you didn't call it fascism. You want to

632
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Speaker 3: call everybody Nazis, but that has become I mean, Ice

633
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 3: is the new It's the new fascism. It's the new Nazi.

634
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Speaker 3: It's the trigger word that the Democrats use to throw

635
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Speaker 3: in there when it really has nothing to do with

636
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Speaker 3: any of that, to get people all worked up and

637
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Speaker 3: to name call across the board.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer making the argument, but I know in his

639
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 1: mind he's making the argument of why not to pass it.

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Speaker 2: But in my mind, that's the argument for passing it.

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Speaker 3: Right, we'll get maybe a ton of illegals purged off

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Speaker 3: the voter rolls and won't.

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Speaker 2: Allow them to vote.

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Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, it's dust, it's it's musk,

645
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Speaker 3: it's doge, it's ice. And if you support this, you

646
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Speaker 3: don't like dogs too.

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Speaker 1: So here's the White House Press Secretary, and she's saying

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Speaker 1: that the Act does not prohibit anyone from voting, with

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Speaker 1: the exception of illegal aliens.

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Speaker 5: The media. Let me be very clear.

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Speaker 9: The Save America Act does not prohibit anyone from voting,

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Speaker 9: with the exception of illegal aliens. And the greatest way

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Speaker 9: to disenfranchise American citizens from voting in American elections is

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Speaker 9: to allow legal aliens to vote, which is what Democrats

655
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Speaker 9: want to do. We see it taking place in Democrat

656
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Speaker 9: jurisdictions at the state and local level across this country.

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Speaker 9: So the Save America Act corrects that. And as far

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Speaker 9: as married women who have changed their name, if they're

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Speaker 9: already registered to vote, they're entirely unaffected by the Save Act.

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Speaker 9: And for the small fraction of individuals who have changed

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Speaker 9: their name or their address, they can still register to vote,

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Speaker 9: of course, they just have to go through their state

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Speaker 9: processes to update that documentation. And this is something that

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Speaker 9: the American people, married women and minorities and people all

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Speaker 9: across this country who Democrats are insultingly saying cannot do this.

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Speaker 9: They're already doing it every day, going to the Social

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Speaker 9: Security Office, going to the DMV, and I think it's

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Speaker 9: frankly insulting that the Democrats are saying that there are

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Speaker 9: certain groups of people in this country who aren't smart

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Speaker 9: enough to update their documentation to allow them to vote again.

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Speaker 9: This is a huge myth, and thank you for giving

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Speaker 9: me the opportunity to address it.

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Speaker 1: Yep, you've got some Republicans who aren't backing down from this,

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Speaker 1: and they're going to be using procedural tools to make

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Speaker 1: sure that bills like this pass and even attach it

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Speaker 1: to other things.

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Speaker 3: I love that audio from Press Secretary Caroline Levitt because

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Speaker 3: she says what all of us have been thinking, and really,

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Speaker 3: we've seen it posted on social media for years now.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats think you're too dumb. They think you're too

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Speaker 3: dumb to be able to register to vote.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to ninety three WYBC. It is time for

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Speaker 2: the best audio of the day, and we have.

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Speaker 1: To tap into a silly but surprisingly divisive internet debate

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Speaker 1: about how to say a brand name. People online just

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Speaker 1: love taking these small quirks and turning them into these

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Speaker 1: big viral conversations, especially when your pet is involved. So

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Speaker 1: what you have here is a comedian. His name is

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Speaker 1: Ben Lapidus, and he turned a joke into a full song.

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Speaker 1: It ended up racking up millions of views and sparked

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Speaker 1: an online debate about pets smart. He wants to know

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Speaker 1: is it pet smart or pets mart?

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Speaker 2: I got a question, is it pet smart or pets marts?

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Speaker 2: Are you saying that pets are smart?

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Speaker 8: Or are you saying you're.

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Speaker 9: A mark for pets?

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Speaker 3: Music is aggressive?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we put this video on the mind and

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Speaker 1: it's like four or five dudes sitting around in an office.

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Speaker 1: They're just wearing white shirts and ties and their dress pants,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he just starts blaring that, Look.

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Speaker 3: We've got a lot of problems in this country. We've

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Speaker 3: got a war with Iran. We're talking about the Save

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Speaker 3: Act and voter id. It's always good to have something

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Speaker 3: lighter in here. And I do love a silly nonsense

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Speaker 3: topic like this where the debate goes next lets on

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Speaker 3: social media. I my assumption. I always assumed it was

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Speaker 3: pet smart. That's the way I always thought of its

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Speaker 3: pet smart. If you own a pet and this is

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Speaker 3: the smart way to take care of your pet here

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Speaker 3: at pet Smart. I never even thought of it as

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Speaker 3: a possessive pets pet apostrophe smart.

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Speaker 1: Well pet Smart finally weighed in, they clarified the company

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Speaker 1: sees it as pet smart.

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Speaker 2: Yo, we heard you've got a.

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Speaker 5: Question and you want answers.

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Speaker 3: Is it pet smart or pets Smart. It's pet smart case.

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Speaker 6: Clothes, So no more screaming. You're scaring the pets.

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Speaker 1: So they say the emphasis is on pet first, pet smart.

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Speaker 1: I mean they should have hired these guys for guerrilla marketing,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, right.

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Speaker 3: Exactly what'll we talk about? Last week the fast food industry.

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Speaker 3: Fast food industry had their best marketing ever with the

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Speaker 3: silly Little Burger wars with the CEOs, And now this

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Speaker 3: is probably the best marketing that pet smart could have

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Speaker 3: ever come up with. And again, I love silly internet debates.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like a palate cleanser with all the

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Speaker 3: bad news in the world. Whether you go back to

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Speaker 3: the dress and what color is it? Is it blue

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Speaker 3: and black or is it gray? You remember that one,

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Speaker 3: but there's been many of these over the years. Mexican

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Speaker 3: Pizza talked about that on this show. Before you Know,

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Speaker 3: you talk about, you know, the Mexican pizza goes away,

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, everybody online loses their mind

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Speaker 3: because I can't get it at Taco Bell anymore. I

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Speaker 3: love a good silly debate, and I'm glad to see

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Speaker 3: that I was on the right side of this debate. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: it's pet Smart.

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Speaker 1: So pet Smart started as pet Food Warehouse nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: They rebranded to pet Smart in nineteen eighty nine with

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Speaker 1: pet and smart and different colors so you would.

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Speaker 2: Get the hint.

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Speaker 1: Officially became pet Smart in two thousand and five. We've

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Speaker 1: got Corey Grass who's going to join us next former

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Speaker 1: FBI special agent, and we're going to talk about sleeper

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Speaker 1: cells and more. That's on the way from ninety three

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Speaker 1: WYBC