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Speaker 1: fifty five KRSSEE morning show. Running for US Senate, currently

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Speaker 1: a member of the House Representatives, probably serving Kentucky sixth

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Speaker 1: Congressional district since twenty thirteen, Andy Barr. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: fifty five carssee morning Show. It's pleasure to have you

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am doing much better today. Not going to go

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Speaker 1: through my health history with you, sir, but it'sufficed to

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Speaker 1: say to my listeners and no, I've been struggling late.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great and I feel really good today. So

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Speaker 1: and I hope you can say the same. What's the

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Speaker 1: motive good? What's the motive to run for Senate? Andy Barr?

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Speaker 1: What's your primary goal? And what do you hope to accomplish?

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Speaker 1: If you could pick one singular issue that you want

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Speaker 1: what would you say? It would be?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean the problem we have in this

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Speaker 2: people who want to commit suicide. They want the country

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Speaker 2: a lot of different ways. They want to open our

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Speaker 2: to punish success by embracing socialism over free enterprise. They

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Speaker 2: want to use the fear of climate change to drive

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Speaker 2: an irrational shift away from reliable energy, which would destroy

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Speaker 2: and undermine our international competitiveness. And they want to weaken

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Speaker 2: our defense budget. They want to weaken our military with DEI.

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Speaker 2: They want to rationalize terrorism and anti semitism and appease China.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of issues in there, but it's

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Speaker 2: all fundamentally linked to this idea that there is a

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Speaker 2: everything that makes our country strong and good. And so

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Speaker 2: I'm running to prevent the suicide. I'm running to restore

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Speaker 2: the American dream. And as President Trump says, make America

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Speaker 2: great again, and that's what we mean when we say

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Speaker 2: make America great again. We mean to prevent the suicide

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Speaker 2: and to restore the greatness of our country. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: why I'm running for the United States Senate.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I embrace everything you just said, because there

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Speaker 1: believe the concept that, oh, they don't want to bring

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, this is just to bring down the United States

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Speaker 1: of America. I mean, look what happened to Europe talking

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Speaker 1: Trump comes in and he wants to undo the energy policy,

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Speaker 1: weekend is important thing to have. You can't do it

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Speaker 1: the government isn't offering a subsidy to help us with

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Speaker 1: our energy bills like they are with Obamacare, are they, Andy, Well, that's.

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Speaker 2: Right, and you know, this religion of sustainability over American

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Speaker 2: competitiveness is what is going to threaten our ability to

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Speaker 2: at every phase of the stack, and at the very

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Speaker 2: I've been I've been fighting that my entire my entire term.

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Speaker 1: Of Congress, without question. You take the idea of carbon

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Speaker 1: Andy bar on the program, UH trying to get elected

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Speaker 1: in Kentucky for I guess it's Mitch McConnell's seed correct, Andy.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the people of Kentucky seed Well. Mitch McConnell

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Speaker 2: It's an important choice for the people of Kentucky. Uh,

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Speaker 1: It clearly is. And Uh, I just got to stick

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Speaker 1: to the energy policy. You you sound or are clearly

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Speaker 1: and above the all the above type of strategy. Guy,

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Speaker 1: You'll do what's practical to give us efficient and reliable energy,

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Speaker 2: Andy, well, you're exactly right that AI has tremendous promise.

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Speaker 2: That's why they want to annex Taiwan. Taiwan is an

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Speaker 1: We need electricity to run the globe. There is no

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Speaker 2: But you owe it to your philosophy to win, and frankly,

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Speaker 2: Republicans should not be worried about Kentucky and holding the

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Speaker 1: Right, and they'll have an opportunity to make that choice

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Speaker 1: in March, sir, I can't I apologize for not.

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Speaker 2: Knowing that the primary is May nineteenth. May May nineteenth,

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Speaker 2: I'm not in the media market for northern Kentucky. But listen,

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Speaker 2: it's been a privilege of a lifetime to fight big government,

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Speaker 2: to support free market capitalism and free enterprise and cut taxes,

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Speaker 2: greater privilege to represent all of Kentucky, including northern Kentucky, which,

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Speaker 2: let's face it, it is an economic juggernaut for the

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Speaker 1: Up there getting better every day. Andy Barr final on

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Speaker 1: Learn about his issues, where he stands on things help

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Speaker 1: May's coming up fast approaching, Andy bar It's been a

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Speaker 1: great heavy on the morning shows. Good talking with you

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