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Speaker 1: Dan Regnold, the man responsible for empower You America dot

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Speaker 1: Empower Youoamerica dot Org. Teddy Roosevelt. Welcome back, Dan Reganold.

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you on this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be here. So much jeez, so much

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Speaker 2: news going on. Oh uh yeah, and I agree with

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Speaker 2: your comments Brian about that genie being kind of out

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Speaker 2: of the bottle now. But hey, if people want to

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Speaker 2: get away from all the news of the last weekend

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Speaker 2: and stuff, I'm just inviting everyone. Tomorrow night, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to be doing a class as part of our America

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Speaker 2: two fifty series on Teddy Roosevelt, our twenty sixth president.

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Speaker 1: What would what would Teddy do? Dan Reagan, real quick

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Speaker 1: here on the you mentioned the genie being out of

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Speaker 1: the bottle, and I just got a response from a

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Speaker 1: good friend and of the greater since I you're Rob

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Speaker 1: Ryder mentioning, Yeah, that's an interesting point about the genie

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Speaker 1: being out of the bottle, and my followed up with it. Dan,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was rather interesting, and it's sure not

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Speaker 1: what Iran expected. But they started launching missiles at all

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Speaker 1: the surrounding Arab countries. Well, of course, I guess they

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Speaker 1: thought that that might get the Arab countries to collectively

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Speaker 1: condemn the United States for causing the chaos that ensued

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Speaker 1: with Iran. Willy nearly just launching missiles and apparently don't

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Speaker 1: hit what they're looking or what they're aimed for. They're

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Speaker 1: hitting civilian targets. Well, all the Arab nations that have

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Speaker 1: been impacted have stood up and said and they're condemning Iran.

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Speaker 1: I think the Middle East is sick of Iran with

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Speaker 1: that response. I think they're like, you know what, this

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Speaker 1: is the beginning of the end of a ron. Let

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Speaker 1: them get the job done. Did They've done nothing but

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Speaker 1: so chaos and and and just and in violence and

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Speaker 1: death in this region. So let's start over. Do you

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Speaker 1: think we're near that point?

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Speaker 2: Dan, Those those other countries just want this, just want

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Speaker 2: them to go away. They're they're just tired of all

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Speaker 2: the all the drama that's going on. And uh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I think you're exactly right on that.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sorry we're talking about Teddy Roosevelt.

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Speaker 2: Would but but uh, you know, you you ask what

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Speaker 2: would Teddy do? Well, he would he would speak softly

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Speaker 2: and carry his big stick. This is a bigger than

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Speaker 2: life personality. And the reason I wanted to look at

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Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt's life, Brian, was, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: when it was, but I saw a picture on Mount

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Speaker 2: Rushmore of the four presidents. You've got Washington, You've got Jefferson,

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Speaker 2: Teddy was the one that knew the least about And

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Speaker 2: I had to ask myself, why was he so important

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Speaker 2: just but as I started to learn about him, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he just was a bigger than life personality. People the people,

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Speaker 2: He suffered the amazing tragedy of what of finding his

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Speaker 2: you've ever seen a picture of his pearl handled revolver

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Speaker 2: he would carry around. And the people in South Dakota

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Speaker 2: and they say, let's get rid of this Roosevelt guy.

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Speaker 2: Let's make him vice president. He was almost like he

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Speaker 2: somebody who Trump likes a lot and McKinley's second term.

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Speaker 2: McKinley's assassinated the first month, and Teddy Roosevelt, at forty three,

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Speaker 2: all these problems as a coal strike that shuts down

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Speaker 2: the entire country. People are out walking the streets, no heat,

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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, people create the Teddy Bear,

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Speaker 1: That's where that came from.

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Speaker 2: That's where it came from. He has he has huge

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Speaker 2: larger than life hero. He he he creates the Rough Riders.

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Speaker 2: When when our battleship in Cuba, the battleship Maine is

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Speaker 2: beers on me. I mean, this is you know, this

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Speaker 1: I had to look up because I kept here, you know,

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Speaker 2: It was amazing when you see the picture of him.

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Speaker 2: And he loved the military. He loved everything everything about it.

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Speaker 2: You know, this is during the time Brian where nine

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Speaker 2: I kind of clipped, it's amazing about this is a

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Speaker 2: If we could, if where what happened in the last

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Speaker 2: any immigrant who assimilates will be treated equally, irregardless of

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Speaker 2: their racer nationality. But they must they must assimilate. They

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Speaker 2: must have one country. It's got to be this country.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have one language, one flag. How do

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Speaker 2: we get so far away from that?

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Speaker 1: Oh, my word, that was exactly what I was thinking

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Speaker 1: when you were saying that.

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Speaker 2: Boy he will He kind of grooms William Howard Taft

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Speaker 2: but he's such a strong leader he can't watch other

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Speaker 2: bull moose. And he keeps talking for an hour.

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Speaker 1: Bad assery.

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Speaker 2: He is a bad ass ory. And then he's got

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Speaker 2: He's lauded by everyone. But he takes this trip on

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Speaker 2: of Doubt, where he almost dies. His son's with him.

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Speaker 2: He loses twenty five percent of his entire body weight.

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Speaker 2: There's fever everywhere, and he barely makes it back, but

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Speaker 2: He was the guy when people were when he was

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Speaker 2: He developed the workman's compensation system really nationwide, and people

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Speaker 2: just loved him. For what he did, and that's the

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Speaker 2: class we're going to talk about tomorrow night. He's just

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Speaker 2: an incredible larger than life.

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Speaker 1: Character, clearly, and I thank you so much for doing

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Speaker 1: all the research on that. Honestly, I'm in your position,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think about Teddy Roosevelt and I at

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Speaker 1: least the ones on the Mount Rush where I know

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Speaker 1: him least, and going to solve that problem. Tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna get seven pm. It's a virtual class, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it. Log in from the comfort of your

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Speaker 1: It's gonna I know you always do a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for doing the laboring or on Teddy Roosevelt.

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Speaker 1: For everybody to night seven pm. We're all going to

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Speaker 1: be tuned in. Dan, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, Brian, and good morning to everyone.

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Speaker 2: And tell my friend Christopher I said, hello, Okay, he's

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