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Speaker 1: This is America's Truck and Network with Kevin Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Moar, thanks for tuning in on this Tuesday morning. Well,

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Speaker 2: we are back from Matt's the Mid America Trucking Show

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Speaker 2: over the past weekend in Louisville, Kentucky, and the best

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Speaker 2: way to describe it is that it was our experience

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Speaker 2: from America's Truck and Network perspective was absolutely excellent. Better

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Speaker 2: than I had expected. However, different than from what I

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Speaker 2: had expected going down there. I had certain expectations. Have

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Speaker 2: been able to go out a little bit and explore

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Speaker 2: a little bit more, you know that Thursday morning where

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Speaker 2: you have the VIP section and so on. I described

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Speaker 2: that last week during our Friday show, and in talking

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Speaker 2: to some of the people overall concern you know, talking

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Speaker 2: to people basically people walking by much the same as

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Speaker 2: on Thursday and Friday all over the weekend. People are

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Speaker 2: optimistic about what's going on. Certainly they're concerned about geopolitical events,

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Speaker 2: but they're still very optimistic and positive about the future

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Speaker 2: of the trucking industry. They think from some of the

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Speaker 2: people that they've talked to the different companies, that things

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Speaker 2: are on an upswing now, like I said on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: I kind of expected to be able to go out

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Speaker 2: and about and visit some of the people before the

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Speaker 2: show opened, but so many people were stopping by to talk,

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Speaker 2: and that was pretty much the theme throughout. I had

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Speaker 2: a lot of people that would stop by the booth

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Speaker 2: and talk, people that were familiar with the show, and

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Speaker 2: people walking by that we're curious as to what it was,

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Speaker 2: what our booth was. But an awful lot of people

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Speaker 2: stopped by took me up on my comments over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks leading up and saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: stop by, give us a chat, talk about what's going on.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Not many people, as I mentioned on Friday show, even

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Speaker 2: over the weekend, not many people wanted. Nobody actually wanted

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Speaker 2: feedback from people. As a matter of fact, I was standing,

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Speaker 2: I was sitting there and this guy comes up. I

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Speaker 2: he says, hey, I got something for you, and I

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Speaker 2: was like Jesus, okay. He reaches in his backpacking he's

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Speaker 2: digging around and all this story of stuff, and he

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Speaker 3: He says, this is for the.

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Speaker 2: Spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, so you have

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Speaker 2: a symbol of it. Got a big kick out of that.

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Speaker 2: a shout out to Chris Bing and a friend of

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Speaker 2: his was with him. Chock Choski is Chocky. Yeah, Chachke

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Speaker 2: is the fellow's name, they said, everybody will know him

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Speaker 2: by that name. And they were around for probably fifteen

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Speaker 2: it was funny because he kept turning to his buddy

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Speaker 2: and he's going, you know, I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: we were talking about you know, we were talking about things.

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Speaker 2: And he said, this guy, you know, as he says,

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Speaker 3: Especially the last four years.

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Speaker 2: One of the things combating fraud and cargo thefts. Another

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Speaker 2: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Now the Administrator stopped by

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Speaker 2: overall planning on going out and talking to more people.

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Speaker 2: I've got some schedules with them. I was managing over

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Speaker 2: Got to talked to Nicole Ward, founder and President of

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Speaker 2: We've had on almost every year, but always interesting talking

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Speaker 2: having those conversations now. It was interesting, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I talk about these when you know somebody

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Speaker 2: from RXO or Averett last week. Actually we're talking about

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Speaker 2: One of the things I always get a kick because

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Speaker 3: You know, all the families.

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Speaker 2: That are there, the the enthusiasm of the kids that

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Speaker 2: was a display of where this lift company shows how

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Speaker 3: Uh, and is how heavy that is?

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Speaker 2: And even the cab itself and kids walking underneath that

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Speaker 2: bit more about this coming up. I'm Kevin Gordon, America

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Speaker 1: This is the raething report on America's drucking network on

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Speaker 5: Chase Elliott won the Cookout four hundred Sunday at Martinsville

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Speaker 5: Speedway for his first win of twenty twenty six, the

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Speaker 5: second at Martinsville and yet another grandfather clock and a

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Speaker 5: career win number twenty two. Denny Hamlet dominated the first

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Speaker 5: Kimi Antonelli wins the Japanese Grand Prix. As more trouble

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Speaker 5: plaguing Formula One in twenty twenty six, max Verstaffen sent

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Speaker 5: Here is former Formula One champion Damon hill on Verstapin's comments.

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Speaker 6: If you're not happy doing something, then you should stop

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think that he should feel obliged

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Speaker 6: To I mean, if he's saying this in order to

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Speaker 3: I don't think that will work.

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Speaker 6: I think that approach where people will just say, well, Max,

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Speaker 6: about it. Maybe, and you can't always get what you want.

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Speaker 6: But the point is that there are lots of people

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Speaker 2: Bit about Matts, a lot about Mattz because, as I said,

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Speaker 2: it was an exceptional weekend, just absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 2: He is the administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Speaker 4: Hey, well done.

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Speaker 8: Supporter of Trump gets a photo with military vehicles with

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Speaker 4: I'm Ley mawin Breaking Now.

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Speaker 8: Questions popping up as to why an army helicopter was

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Speaker 9: Kid Rock, a staunch MAGA supporter of President Trump, standing

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Speaker 9: posting the video online saying God bless America and all

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Speaker 9: those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her,

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Speaker 9: while disparaging California's Governor.

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 8: ABC News Chief Global Affairs Corps sponded Martha raddits the

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Speaker 8: US Army is now investigating of this photo operaks their

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Speaker 7: Now the latest forecast from the Train Heating and Cooling

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Speaker 10: Heading for Tuesday morning, We've got some partly cloudy skies.

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Speaker 10: storms for Wednesday. From your severe Weather station, I'm nine

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Speaker 8: five North, just past the Union Center Boulevard exit. Looking

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Speaker 8: at the closest og camera, it appears this backup US

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Speaker 8: starting underneath the Union Center Bridge.

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Speaker 4: Can't tell what it is exactly.

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Speaker 8: The colors are washed up, but traffic isn't really moving

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Speaker 8: that much, so you are probably going to want to find.

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Speaker 4: A detour at this point.

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Speaker 8: And also it looks like there's heavy traffic southbound seventy

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Speaker 8: five heading towards Westchester Road. However, it's too far to

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Speaker 8: see what that is, so my want to find detours

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Speaker 8: at this point. Your next up that is at one

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Speaker 8: o'clock Breaking news anytime. I'mley Mawen News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 11: Got a hot take, Read the room, Don't let it

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Speaker 8: Love the show.

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Speaker 11: Here's your trucking forecast for the try stay to the

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Speaker 11: rest of the country and the tries sit over night

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Speaker 11: partly cloudy, the low down two sixty three, partly sunny

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Speaker 11: and warmer. Tuesday high of eighty two Wednesday, showers with

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Speaker 11: storms also possible in the afternoon. Highs in the mid seventies,

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Speaker 11: partly sunny, with a chance of showers impossible afternoon storms.

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Speaker 11: Thursday a high of eighty three Nationally, a cold front

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Speaker 11: expected to bring severe storms to the midwest, Great Lakes

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Speaker 11: region and parts of the Northeast through Tuesday. Much of

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Speaker 11: the central and southern US scene above average temperatures to

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Speaker 11: begin the week, followed by a brief cool down in

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Speaker 11: the northern plains by midweek. The northwest meanwhile, see heavy

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Speaker 11: mountain snow.

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Speaker 2: This as America Struck in Network seven hundred WLW. I'm

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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon. I'm pleased to welcome to the show. I

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Speaker 2: am surprised we got a hold. I've seen him running

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Speaker 2: around this entire show, give a talks and all kinds

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Speaker 2: of things.

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Speaker 3: Of course, he is Derek Barrs. He is the administrator

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Speaker 3: of the Federal Motor.

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Speaker 2: Carrier Safety Administration, and fortunately they're right across the aisle

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Speaker 2: from us, so we were able to grab him. And

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Speaker 2: your staff was very great. Yes, sir, this time last year,

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Speaker 2: the announcement was that you were being appointed, and then

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Speaker 2: it's took until October to get confirmed. But quite honestly,

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Speaker 2: I have never seen an organization change so dramatically in

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Speaker 2: such a short period of time. Kind of a different direction,

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Speaker 2: different focus, and quite honestly, kind of a testament to you.

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Speaker 2: Observing the people across the way last year versus yes year,

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Speaker 2: and almost like there's a different attitude. I think you

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Speaker 2: brought something to this organization that they needed.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, well, I thank you for having me. First, I

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Speaker 12: want to tell you how much I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 12: I thank you for the support that you are have

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Speaker 12: given to us, and talking about the great staff that

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Speaker 12: we have at FMCSA, and you're right, I've been all

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Speaker 12: over this this floor at match and talking to all

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Speaker 12: kinds of different people about trucking, about safety, and about

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Speaker 12: this industry. I think if you're not here, you really

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Speaker 12: don't have you can't grasp about how special this place

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Speaker 12: really really.

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Speaker 3: Is and the people and the people and what they do.

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Speaker 3: And then just really how.

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Speaker 12: Thankful we are at FMCSA for the job and the

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Speaker 12: work that these people do every single day, our American

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Speaker 12: truck drivers, our companies, the brokers I mean, mechanics, the

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Speaker 12: people that are logistics, whatever it is inside transportation, and

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Speaker 12: how special this industry really is. You know, it's twofold

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Speaker 12: in my opinion is is that we really have to

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Speaker 12: talk about just delivering the goods, getting things out.

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Speaker 3: But there's also, of course the safety aspect.

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Speaker 12: And what I like about it is, of course it's

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Speaker 12: a highly regulated business, right why wouldn't it be it's

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Speaker 12: about safety. But we also can communicate and talk with

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Speaker 12: one another. And that's the way it's been. I mean,

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Speaker 12: you kind of brought up maybe what the the tone

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Speaker 12: was last year and to where it is today is

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Speaker 12: you know, we.

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Speaker 3: Need to work together, right. We don't solve things with

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Speaker 3: one being on one side and one being on the other.

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Speaker 3: It's about us working together collectively. This may be considered.

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Speaker 2: A political statement, but what I see in this administration

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Speaker 2: is that people have been appointed to different levels of

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Speaker 2: administration that brings something to the table, that have the

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Speaker 2: expertise and maybe you have a couple of brief announcement

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Speaker 2: or talking about what you've done, but you're not here,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't seem many people are in the administration

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Speaker 2: as a resume enhancer. It's people there to get the

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Speaker 2: job done.

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Speaker 12: Yes, I for me specifically, I can say I am

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Speaker 12: here to get the job done. I am here to

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Speaker 12: work with the Secretary and I have a background.

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Speaker 3: Trust me, I didn't need this job. I didn't need

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Speaker 3: this job.

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Speaker 12: I'm not looking for the next political job or the

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Speaker 12: next whatever. I'm looking to do the job that is

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Speaker 12: here in front of me today and about how we

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Speaker 12: can make things better for this industry, how we can

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Speaker 12: I like to use this saying that my dad always said.

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Speaker 3: Boy, he says, you know you're gonna have let.

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Speaker 12: The cream rise to the top, meaning let's let's get

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Speaker 12: out the rot. The secretary likes to use the word

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Speaker 12: there was rot that's building up in the industry. I

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Speaker 12: like to say, let's get rid of the rot so

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Speaker 12: the cream can rise to the top exactly. But again,

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Speaker 12: I didn't need this job. I live at the beach

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Speaker 12: in Florida where I'm from. I had a great job

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Speaker 12: before I've had this.

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Speaker 3: Well. I do get to go home just a little bit,

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Speaker 3: but not very often.

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Speaker 12: But I'm dedicated to working with the team that we

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Speaker 12: have at FMCSA.

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Speaker 3: I'm dedicated to working with the industry.

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Speaker 12: I'm dedicated to working with our state law enforcement partners

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Speaker 12: for us all to work together. And I hope, and

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Speaker 12: I'm glad you've said that that you have seen a

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Speaker 12: change in the direction that we're going, and that's I

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Speaker 12: want that to be sustainable. I want that not to

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Speaker 12: be just this year. I want it to be next

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Speaker 12: year and the year after that. When I'm gone, that

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Speaker 12: that will be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We're speaking with Derek bars He is the administrator of

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Speaker 2: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Speaker 3: And surprise.

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Speaker 2: I was surprised, well, a lot of people around were

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Speaker 2: surprised that you've spent three days here. Yes, and that's

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Speaker 2: kind of unusual. But again with it being hands one,

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Speaker 2: hit the ground running. Yeah, if you're going to be someplace,

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Speaker 2: this is probably the place to be.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate your doing that.

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Speaker 12: Again, You're welcome, and I think that's what we have

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Speaker 12: to be. I mean, our leadership has to be here.

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Speaker 12: I looking around the room right now where you're set up,

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Speaker 12: and our leadership team from headquarters, from in the field,

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Speaker 12: we have some of them here.

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Speaker 3: We have our.

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Speaker 12: Special investigation units that are here as well. I think

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Speaker 12: it's a collective body of us working together. And I

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Speaker 12: do want this to be sustainable. I want this to

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Speaker 12: be a long term. As I mentioned, and I am

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Speaker 12: a hands on guy. I want to talk to you

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Speaker 12: a lot of times. You're like, Okay, I got to

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Speaker 12: go to the I gotta go to the next person.

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Speaker 12: The next person is waiting. I would love to spend

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Speaker 12: more time than I do, but I try to spend

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Speaker 12: as much time as I can.

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Speaker 3: In the future, we'll give you the content.

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Speaker 12: Well, I would love to, you know, I look forward

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Speaker 12: to coming to Ohio and we actually I'm coming up

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Speaker 12: there next month to work with the highway patrol up

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Speaker 12: there with the Utility Commission.

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Speaker 2: I want to keep this AMNU communication available so that

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Speaker 2: you know when stuff comes up that I can talk

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Speaker 2: about it. You know, I see the news bulletins and

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Speaker 2: that type of thing, but maybe having somebody talk about

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Speaker 2: what's coming up and everything you mentioned going around and

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Speaker 2: talking to various people here, what sense are you getting?

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Speaker 2: What kind of a feel are you getting from the

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Speaker 2: participant to talk to industry leaders, you talk to truck drivers,

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Speaker 2: you talk to the general public and stuff.

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Speaker 3: I mean, overall, there is a sense of listening.

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Speaker 12: You've heard us, a sense of where thank you, A

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Speaker 12: lot of thank yous with that. I am. I am

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Speaker 12: not a pessimist. I am an optimist. However, our real

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Speaker 12: job of listening to people action taking action.

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Speaker 3: It's easy for me to sit here and talk to you.

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Speaker 12: It's easy for us to talk to people the sort

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Speaker 12: of things that we're going to do, the things that

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Speaker 12: we are doing. Things we're planning all those type things

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Speaker 12: delivery and I'm about delivery or follow through. If I

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Speaker 12: say that I'm going to do something, I want to

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Speaker 12: do it, just like when I told you I'm coming back.

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Speaker 3: Yes I came back. But it has to be the

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Speaker 3: small things. I used to go.

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Speaker 12: Around years ago when we do outreach talks to drivers, companies,

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Speaker 12: so on and so forth. And it's like I used

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Speaker 12: to always say, do the small things. If your marker

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Speaker 12: lights out, your truck, change it. And I want us

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Speaker 12: to make sure that we at our agency were doing

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Speaker 12: the small things and we're also delivering on the price

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Speaker 12: that we're doing.

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Speaker 2: It's the pride of ownership, the pride of doing your

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Speaker 2: craft and treating it as a not just a job,

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Speaker 2: but as a career as well.

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Speaker 12: And I want us to be I want us to

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Speaker 12: be the best that we can be. You know, I

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Speaker 12: don't need to be better than you know, the transit Authority.

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Speaker 12: I don't need to you better than the Federal Highway.

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Speaker 12: What I need for our people and for me, I

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Speaker 12: want us to be the best that we can be

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Speaker 12: in our craft, in our field of what we do.

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Speaker 12: Every single day we wake up and we have a

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Speaker 12: mission of.

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Speaker 3: Why we're doing what we do.

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Speaker 12: And I say that often in our meetings with our

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Speaker 12: with our staff, is.

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Speaker 3: Why are you here? Who, what, when? Where? And why?

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Speaker 3: But why are we doing the things that we do.

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Speaker 2: We've only got about another minute. They told me, you're

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Speaker 2: on our tight schedule. I'm going to try to I am, but.

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Speaker 12: I'll tell you what, I'm probably gonna end up giving

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Speaker 12: you an extra minute because I think it's very important

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Speaker 12: for us to make sure that your listeners here and

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Speaker 12: hear from me and what our people are doing, and

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Speaker 12: here my heart and about what we picked that up.

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Speaker 2: Just from your attitude and and and then talking to

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Speaker 2: the people and seeing how you're interacting with people. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is not just something like you said. It's not

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Speaker 2: a Roseman answer. You're really into the what is the

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Speaker 2: biggest surprise that you have seen since.

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Speaker 3: You've been just in the position.

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Speaker 12: I think the biggest surprise is is I didn't When

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Speaker 12: I retired from the Florida Hiway Patrol, I ran their

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Speaker 12: commercial vehicle enforcement Bureau as our chief, I think what

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Speaker 12: I have really surprised as how bad and how many

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Speaker 12: bad motor carriers have come into the system, and I

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Speaker 12: mean more like chameleon carriers.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked at that. As we continue to unleash that.

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Speaker 12: And we as we begin to peel back that onion

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Speaker 12: of not realizing how bad this particular issue is, and

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Speaker 12: that's where I'm talking about the action is taking place

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Speaker 12: now and that will be a long operation that we

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Speaker 12: have going on. And then also realizing that the entry

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Speaker 12: level driver training piece, I did not realize how bad

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Speaker 12: that was. And then also the issue ince is a

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Speaker 12: course of non domsovs. So you know there's multifacets of this.

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Speaker 2: From what I'm picking up in terms of the news

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Speaker 2: coverage and stuff like that, doesn't appear as though it's

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Speaker 2: a situation where you're overwhelmed by it, you don't know

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Speaker 2: where to start. It's I'm rolling up my sleeves and

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Speaker 2: I'm fixing this. Yes, when that seems to be the

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Speaker 2: attitude we're sky, how.

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Speaker 3: Do we solve it?

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Speaker 12: My answer to our team is is not know is

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Speaker 12: we got to get the yes. But also a part

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Speaker 12: of getting in yes is within a well defined system,

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Speaker 12: so we can continue to say yes.

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Speaker 3: And that means what.

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Speaker 12: Do we need to change if a rule and a regulation,

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Speaker 12: for example, does it say that we can't do something?

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Speaker 12: We do not need to put barriers within our own

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Speaker 12: entire agency that hog ties us, that doesn't allow us

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Speaker 12: to actually do the work that needs.

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Speaker 3: To be done. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 9: Ye.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you can spend some time with us.

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Speaker 3: I'm so appreciate it.

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Speaker 12: I'd like to talking to maybe a word like me

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Speaker 12: back when I'm actually up in Ohio.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely and seeing that great country up there.

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Speaker 2: You bet, thanks for spending appreciate it. So being with

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Speaker 2: Derek Barrs he is the administrator excuse me, Federal Motor

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Speaker 2: Carrier Safety Administration and just all around nice.

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Speaker 3: This will it's very pleasant. Thanks first, thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for your time. Certainly appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: So, Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: Yes, seven hundred WLW. I'm Kevin Gordon. This is America's

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Speaker 2: Trucking Network. That was a great interview. I really appreciated

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Speaker 2: speaking with Derek Bars. He is a very interesting individual

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Speaker 2: and again somebody who comes to the administration and part

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Speaker 2: of this administration that is not about a resume enhancement.

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Speaker 2: They have accomplished what they wanted to accomplish and had

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Speaker 2: not planned on, did not need this job, but came

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Speaker 2: in anyway once again to serve the country and do

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Speaker 2: some good.

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Speaker 3: So certainly appreciated that.

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Speaker 2: By the way, America's truck and Network supports the mission

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Speaker 2: of Reese Across America. You can hear us every truck

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Speaker 2: for supporting the mission of Reese Across America. That's one

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Speaker 2: of the people that I only didn't get a chance

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Speaker 2: to have on the program. They were very busy over there.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it did seem like they were well. They

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Speaker 2: do a lot of these shows and so a lot

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Speaker 2: of the people were not that I was familiar with,

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Speaker 2: weren't there, and so try to get them on. I

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Speaker 2: will probably have them on because they've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of things coming up in May that we need to

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Speaker 2: talk about. But let's take a look at real quick

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Speaker 2: at oil and gas prices, because again that has been

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Speaker 2: going and spiking and coming down, spiking again depending upon

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Speaker 2: what news comes out of the war with the RAN. Currently,

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Speaker 2: West Texas Intermediate crew is at one hundred and two

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Speaker 2: dollars and eighty five cents a barrel. That is up

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Speaker 2: three dollars and twenty one cents from last time we

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Speaker 2: looked at that on Friday, or three point twenty two percent.

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Speaker 2: Brent crude currently is one hundred and twelve dollars. That

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Speaker 2: is actually down fifty seven cents or zero point five

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Speaker 2: to one percent. What is going on in the Brent

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Speaker 2: crude and what is going on in those markets. Well,

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Speaker 2: let's let's talk about gas prices real quick here. Current

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Speaker 2: average gasoline is three dollars in ninety nine cents nationwide. Now,

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Speaker 2: of course that's going to be different in your state.

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Speaker 2: Nationwide average for diesel is I said gas price to

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Speaker 2: three dollars and ninety nine cents. Nationwide, Diesel prices are

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Speaker 2: five dollars and forty two cents nationwide. In my neck

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Speaker 2: of the basically, let me back up here. The highest

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Speaker 2: nationwide high of five dollars and fifty eight cents five

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Speaker 2: dollars and eighty eight cents is in California, to a

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Speaker 2: low of three dollars and twenty six cents in Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: In my neighborhood, my zip code, gas currently is at

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Speaker 2: three dollars and sixty five cents. That is actually down

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Speaker 2: four cents from last week. Now the high and again

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Speaker 2: this is interesting when you've got a low of three

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Speaker 2: sixty five and a high of three ninety nine. That

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Speaker 2: three ninety nine number is up twenty cents from last week.

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Speaker 2: Diesel currently is at four dollars and forty seven cents,

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Speaker 2: which is down two cents from last week. And then

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Speaker 2: the high of five dollars and twenty nine cents is

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Speaker 2: actually up thirty cents from last week. So when you've

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Speaker 2: got diesel prices at four forty seven to a high

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Speaker 2: of four of five dollars and twenty nine cents, you

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Speaker 2: got about an eight almost a seventy some cent difference.

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Speaker 2: So it pays to check those apps, make sure that

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Speaker 2: you're getting the lowest price, and making sure that you

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Speaker 2: keep those or checked on a periodic basis, just to

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Speaker 2: make sure that you're not overpaying. I mean, nothing worse

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Speaker 2: than paying seventy cents more for a gallon of diesel

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Speaker 2: or fifty cents more on a gallon of gas when

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Speaker 2: you don't have to. Now, as far as what's going

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Speaker 2: on in the markets, Phil Flynn had a very interesting

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Speaker 2: energy report yesterday morning, talking about Iran should be running

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Speaker 2: out of options. They're running out of leaders, running out

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Speaker 2: of ammunition, and they have drawn in their neighbors in

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Speaker 2: a joint effort, and what's left of the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 2: Iran's enemy list is growing. Donald Trump said that Saudi

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Speaker 2: Arabia is fighting back. Hard Cutter is fighting back, UAE

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Speaker 2: is fighting back, kuwaits fighting back, ball Rain is fighting back.

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Speaker 3: They're all fighting back.

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Speaker 2: And as we've talked about from the beginning of this war,

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Speaker 2: they lashed out at their neighbors instead of you know,

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Speaker 2: in addition to firing rockets at and missiles at Israel

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Speaker 2: and trying to hit various US bases around the area

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Speaker 2: that they also started firing rockets and missiles into Saudi

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Speaker 2: Arabia and their neighbors. I guess they thought, and the

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Speaker 2: thinking was, I guess on their part was that if

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Speaker 2: they made it difficult on their neighbors, that the neighbors

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Speaker 2: would turn on the US and Israel and say, you guys,

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Speaker 2: got to end this. Instead, it has pissed them off,

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Speaker 2: and they said, you know what, And especially as we

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Speaker 2: talked about last week, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince said, you know,

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Speaker 2: these guys need to be eliminated. We need to get

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Speaker 2: rid of this regime in Iran. And the same thing

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Speaker 2: with Bahrain, same thing with UAE. All of these whatever

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Speaker 2: their plan was, has backfired on them.

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Speaker 3: So that is very good news.

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Speaker 2: All these countries now fighting back. And as Phil Flynn

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Speaker 2: pointed out, and oil does another as it did on

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Speaker 2: the previous weekend Sunday night opening pop and then drop,

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Speaker 2: signaling that the oil markets action as well as the

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Speaker 2: oil curve suggested. Or Ran is on borrowed time. And

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Speaker 2: he talks about in here what the oil jumped up

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Speaker 2: to West Text intermediate crew to hit it high of

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Speaker 2: one hundred and three dollars and thirty eight cents overnight,

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Speaker 2: but then back down to where we were talking about

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Speaker 2: so that popped and then came back down. Also that

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Speaker 2: the West Texas arm sorry Brent crew, jumped up and

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Speaker 2: popped back down. But one of the interesting things that

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Speaker 2: he pointed into is that looking at them may to

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Speaker 2: may contract. So looking out over a year, they are

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Speaker 2: twenty five dollars lower a year out, suggesting that the

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Speaker 2: market does not believe the war is going to be

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Speaker 2: set into a long period of time. Also, Brent crude

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Speaker 2: contracts are down thirty two dollars a barrel from where

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Speaker 2: they are today on these contracts going out a full year,

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Speaker 2: So at least the oil of the oil companies are

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Speaker 2: they believe that this is going to be short lived.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: As far as what's affecting the prices, overnight, benchmark oil

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Speaker 2: prices extended gains on Monday, as Wall Street indexes and

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Speaker 2: European shares advanced. In Chopping trading, an investor focused on

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Speaker 2: the golf conflict that they are feared that the drive

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Speaker 2: and may drive inflation and raise the risk of recession

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Speaker 2: across the globe. I think that's a little wish we'll

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Speaker 2: thinking on the part of the spoon federcgurgitators in the

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Speaker 2: mainstream media, because all indications are is and even. And

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Speaker 2: Phil Flynn, as as I mentioned before, he has his

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Speaker 2: finger on the pulse. He is recognized by Fox Business News, CNBC,

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, Reuters themselves. They always turned to him

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Speaker 2: for quotes, always have them, always have him on the

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Speaker 2: program to talk about what's going on in the oil markets.

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Speaker 2: So I would believe him more than the spoon federal

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Speaker 2: regurgitators in the mainstream media. But he repeated his warning,

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Speaker 2: let me see talking about more reasonable regime. Trump repeated

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Speaker 2: his warning to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz

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Speaker 2: or risk US attacks on Iranian oil wells and power plants,

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Speaker 2: which be ramping this up. Interesting enough mentioned in here,

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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Monday said the Central

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Speaker 2: Bank was committed to getting inflation back to two percent,

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Speaker 2: and then, as policy meant, it was well placed to

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Speaker 2: see how the situation in the Middle East plays out. Now,

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Speaker 2: what they didn't say here in this article is that,

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Speaker 2: in other words, they want to get the inflation rate

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Speaker 2: back to two percent, where it was at the tail

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Speaker 2: end of the first Trump administration before Joe Biden took over.

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Speaker 3: And the inflation rate.

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Speaker 2: Has been above two percent, not only throughout the entire

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Speaker 2: Biden administration, but then the first year of the Trump

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Speaker 2: second term. It's been coming down and then popping back up,

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Speaker 2: going down. Now with the war in Iran, that will

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Speaker 2: probably reflect a little bit higher on the next inflation number. However,

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Speaker 2: they when lion Jerry Powell, just off the cuff says

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Speaker 2: we want to get inflation back to two percent, you

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Speaker 2: know in people's mind that well, this must have spiked

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Speaker 2: above two percent with the Trump administration.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, this has been there for

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Speaker 3: the last five years.

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Speaker 2: So again, also talking in here about Pakistan, has said

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Speaker 2: that it's preparing to host meaningful talks to end the

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Speaker 2: conflict in the coming days, even though Tehran accused Washington

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Speaker 2: preparing a land assault. But either way, they know and

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Speaker 2: talking to some of the reasonable people over there, it

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Speaker 2: appears as though that this could wind down pretty soon,

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Speaker 2: and I'm very hopeful of that. Trump thinks it'll be

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Speaker 2: over some time this week, but we'll wait and see.

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Speaker 3: On that.

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Speaker 2: Well, folks, that does it for us. We're up against clock.

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Speaker 2: Here's stay tuned for red Eye Radio at the top

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Speaker 2: of the hour. I'm Kevin Gordon, Americastruck a network seven

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