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Speaker 1: So everyone's mad and ran Paul and this is fascinating

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Speaker 1: Casey Show. I'm rob Ethan's in for Casey. So Ran

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Speaker 1: Paul was throughout this whole shutdown process, the one Republican

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Speaker 1: of course we're ripping on him. And then once the

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Speaker 1: the Democrats that go along, he tried to hold the

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Speaker 1: because that's fascinating as well. But we are now at

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Speaker 1: as a country. Everything is unaffordable, the spending is continuing.

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Speaker 1: They're like just totally out of control. And now the

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Speaker 1: official stance of the Republican Party is ran Paul's the

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Speaker 1: bad guy for going I.

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Speaker 2: Think we've kind of spent enough. Maybe we should stop

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Speaker 3: Isn't that a fascinating indictment of congressional Republicans that.

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Speaker 2: Ran Paul won. The few Republicans who are doing the

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Speaker 3: The people and is standing up against the Biden spent

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Speaker 3: represented themselves to be against. And now when he is

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Speaker 2: And they do it to Thomas Massey too. It's a shame. Well,

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Speaker 2: why do they hate this show?

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Speaker 1: They hate this show because we tell you exactly what

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Speaker 1: they're doing, and as principled people, we say, huh h,

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Speaker 1: we're not on anybody's team. And the team we're on

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Speaker 1: is the team of the listener. And you're getting screwed.

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Speaker 1: And when the I always see this with people, even

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Speaker 1: let's work through this for a second. I saw some

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Speaker 1: guy post this yesterday. I like Rob's fuse. I just

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Speaker 1: I feel very childish with these politicians the way he

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Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do? Say? Please stop screwing everyone?

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Speaker 1: This is the question I always come back with, How

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Speaker 1: should I handle it better? Please don't screw us over,

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Speaker 1: Please don't tax us into oblivion, Please don't rack up

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Speaker 1: thirty eight trillion. If we're talking about the net, Like

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Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do. How should I handle

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Speaker 1: it better? If the name calling really bothers you? Well,

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Speaker 1: we already tried the please because you were there. I

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Speaker 1: was there at the property tax rally on Saint Patrick's day,

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Speaker 1: say please, governor stop screwing us, please do something to

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Speaker 1: address the property tax issue in UH Indiana. And look

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Speaker 1: how that turned out. Nobody did more for those guys

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Speaker 1: than me. And what did it get us? The same

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Speaker 1: thing it got us, anyway, And you were very nice

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Speaker 1: about it too, you said, pretty please stop screwing us. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and so like I always find that fascinicating. Well, look,

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Speaker 1: you're right on the issues, but I just I don't

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Speaker 1: with Rand Paul. He's doing the stuff that the Republicans

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Speaker 1: say they're supposed to be for. Right, they're supposed to

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Speaker 1: they're for kind of low taxes for some If I

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Speaker 1: kind of get lower taxes. But collectively, I mean think

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Speaker 1: why is that? Okay? What has the federal government done

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Speaker 1: to earn that? So Rand Paul was holding up the

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Speaker 3: And what happens and then when's that vogue going to come?

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the big question right now. The latest update.

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Speaker 4: I'm just down the hall from the Senate chamber. Rand Paul,

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Speaker 1: So basically, unless you play by whatever hostage situation rules

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Speaker 2: Sound familiar, Ethan, It sounds very familiar.

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Speaker 3: But I'm also trying to understand the terminology he used.

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Speaker 2: Parochial.

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Speaker 3: The primary definition is relating to a church parish having

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Speaker 3: a limited or narrow outlooks. So what about this has

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Speaker 2: All right? So what Ran Paul?

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Speaker 1: Now he's upset about the spending. He would have voted

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Speaker 1: no anyway. But what he was holding this up on

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's just a straight funding bill. There's no games here,

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Speaker 2: there's no Shenanigans here.

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Speaker 1: It's just Joe boll They didn't say Joe Biden's business

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Speaker 1: as usual, but it's just Joe Biden's government as usual.

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Speaker 2: But what was tucked in the bill because there's always stuff.

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Speaker 1: Giveaways, you know, donors and lobbyists being appeased is now

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Speaker 1: what many of youp are perceiving as a assive change

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Speaker 2: Ever.

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Speaker 1: Now, of course, then the people hate Ran Paul try

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Speaker 1: for weed. No, hemp and weed are very different things.

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Speaker 1: In Kentucky will be harmed by this bill based on

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Speaker 1: the changes they've made.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he explains it better than I do. Here's

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Speaker 5: has been air dropped in that will destroy hemp farming

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Speaker 5: in Kentucky and across the United States. Tucked away on

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Speaker 5: page one sixty three, Title seven, Division Beam of this

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Speaker 5: spending package is a provision that will shut down the

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Speaker 5: hemp industry across the United States. My amendment would strip

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Speaker 5: the provision designed to regulate the hemp industry to death.

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Speaker 5: The bill as it now stands, overrides the regulatory frameworks

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Speaker 1: So sounds like that's a lot different than just funding

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Speaker 1: everything as the status quo, doesn't it Ethan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm really puzzled why they would be opposed

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Speaker 1: Who's getting rich, that's always the question, and they want

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Speaker 1: a novel concept. Someone actually reads the stuff before they

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Speaker 1: vote on it. How many of these you think these

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Speaker 1: people actually read this thing even though they had forty

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Speaker 1: reads the bill says here's where it is. This is

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Speaker 1: harming my constituents. This isn't about continuing the government. This

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Speaker 1: is about making a major change. What do they do.

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Speaker 1: They turn him into the bad guy. They make him

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Speaker 1: out to be the bad guy for saying I'm not

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Speaker 1: voting for this because it's or I'm going to slow

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Speaker 1: this up going forward because it's harming the people who

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Speaker 1: make money.

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Speaker 2: Where I live.

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Speaker 3: They did the same thing with the big bull Crap Bill,

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Speaker 3: which also included spending that will continue to be used

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Speaker 3: to fund the legal immigrants in America