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Speaker 1: Well, let's start another week here on the big eighty

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Speaker 1: nine WLS. That's Nick Gale right over there. My name

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Speaker 1: is Ray Stevens. We welcome you at three one, two

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Speaker 1: five nine, one eighty nine hundred. But every day we

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Speaker 1: start this show with the pledge of allegiance. Let's go

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Speaker 1: out to Sycamore. This is Chase and God Bless America.

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Speaker 2: A practuagiance to the flout of the United States of

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Speaker 2: America and to the Republic for which it stands one

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Speaker 2: nation under job in malis book Liberty and Justice for All.

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Speaker 1: Now you can send us your pledge of allegiance. We

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Speaker 1: will take it. Three one two five nine, one eighty

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Speaker 1: nine hundred. It's just a nice patriotic way to start

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Speaker 1: each in every day.

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Speaker 3: Beauty four.

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Speaker 4: For spaousca, fors for Mounted Majestine, Oh the fooded, play,

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Speaker 4: good City, sunny, and my good were see de sa see.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty good. That was pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 1: That's Brandy Carlyle, big gap in her tooth. She doesn't

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Speaker 1: hit from my side of the plate, but there's something

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Speaker 1: I find very effervescing about her. I like Brandy Carlile,

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Speaker 1: and it was interesting post Super Bowl she said, you know,

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Speaker 1: we might not all believe in the same things or

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Speaker 1: do the same thing, but deep down inside all of

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Speaker 1: us we'll want to love America. How do you how

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Speaker 1: do you disagree with that? How do you disagree with that?

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Speaker 1: So that was Brandy Carlile from the game yesterday, a

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Speaker 1: But here comes a big play, probably the only one

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Speaker 1: of the game where you went, Wow, that was really something.

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Speaker 5: And they bring a pressure at as well and me,

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Speaker 5: that's when this little game under pressure suit.

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Speaker 6: He's going to four down.

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Speaker 1: On my social media, I just posted one thing last night.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't going to cap the game. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people like to follow the game and post up about it,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, I'm not that vested in this game.

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Speaker 1: Although my daughter did send some audio of what her

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Speaker 1: neighborhood sounded like last night because she lives in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: it sounded like bea route or seventy ninth in May.

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Speaker 1: Here in Chicago, it was out of control last night.

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Speaker 1: But as I did post up the two guys in

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Speaker 1: the I don't know if it was a tom Cat

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Speaker 1: or what they were flying in the flyover. But they

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Speaker 1: bumped as they over Levi Stadium, and I said, this

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Speaker 1: is the reason why we have a choice to choose

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Speaker 1: between a super Bowl halftime show. And while many people

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Speaker 1: agreed with me, some people were like.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know, the ground pounders are the good.

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Speaker 1: I don't care you get what I'm saying here, right,

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna have a fight over minutia. But there

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Speaker 1: was a person that commented, a young lady that commented

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Speaker 1: on my social media. Her name is Kelly McGinnis. I

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Speaker 1: believe Kelly is from Valpoe and she's like, that's my

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Speaker 1: cousin flying that jet, which I thought was wow, pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: She goes listen to you every day, can't wait to

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Speaker 1: hear what you have to say about the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on my social media.

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Speaker 7: So here we are.

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Speaker 1: It is tomorrow, it is post super Bowl. What did

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Speaker 1: you think of the game? Three one, two, five, nine,

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Speaker 1: about that halftime show. Here's Kid Rock from the Turning

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Speaker 1: Point USA halftime show.

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Speaker 8: If you.

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Speaker 9: Take take it by you got it, take because there

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Speaker 9: won't chase fat and you'll love.

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Speaker 10: Somebody and strong and as close as you can't take.

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Speaker 1: Your text your calls three one, two, five, nine hundred.

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Speaker 1: What did you think of the Turning Point US A

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Speaker 1: halftime show? Here is mister Bunny yesterday from the super

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Speaker 7: Battle. Okay, time, okay, so Nick, you watched Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 7: Mister Bunny? I did. And what did you think? Did

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Speaker 7: the music movie? Did you feel the beat? Did you?

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Speaker 7: Did you do it? Feel the beat? Right? But what

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Speaker 7: I mean the idea what the guy was saying.

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Speaker 8: I understand that, but I mean he would say every

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Speaker 7: You understood, you understood that.

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Speaker 8: That's that's kind of like John Trout in the morning

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Speaker 8: when he what did he say? Every time he needs

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Speaker 8: the gears shifting gears? Bad Bunny does the same thing.

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Speaker 8: That's his crutch.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know, maybe maybe we should have reversed roles yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should have watched mister Bunny and you should

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Speaker 7: Hobblo.

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Speaker 1: No, But I mean I don't need to It's like

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Speaker 1: the first time I saw Ricky Martin, I didn't know

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this music moves me. It's like when

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Speaker 1: I go when I go to Tocabo, I don't necessarily

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Speaker 1: know what they're saying, but I'm dancing.

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Speaker 7: Right. Well. The one thing that was the greatest thing

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Speaker 8: It reminded me of the young ladies that tork on

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Speaker 8: But you know, he did some footwork up there. I

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Speaker 1: I find that I didn't watch the halftime show that

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Speaker 1: what happened to your dad's Ford.

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Speaker 8: But I find that very interesting as an engagement involved. No,

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Speaker 8: there was a marriage involved.

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Speaker 1: I was a marriage and it's official. And what happened

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Speaker 1: was is this couple that was there, they invited mister

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Speaker 1: he invited them to the halftime show. So not only

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Speaker 1: did not see the portion of the show because again

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Speaker 1: I watched the Turning Point USA halftime show. Nick is

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Speaker 1: bringing us the live color if you will on the Super.

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Speaker 7: Bowl Dog I was awful.

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Speaker 1: Now lady, they saying, was she Tom Did you watch

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Speaker 7: No? I did, Okay, you were watching Pink Floyd.

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Speaker 7: Hey see this is this? Was that a choice?

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Speaker 1: I knew this was going to happen because I said

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Speaker 1: to bring the Super Bowl halftime showed a lot.

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Speaker 7: It sucked.

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Speaker 1: Did it really suck? Three one, two, five, nine, one

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Speaker 1: listener to kind of helped me through and take me

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Speaker 1: through this because I thought the Turning Point USA show

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks were texting online and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: But a lot of folks were saying, well, why is

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Speaker 1: Branley Gilbert singing dirt Roodo Anthem by Jason Eldan And

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Speaker 1: the reason being is that he wrote that song. And

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Speaker 1: what what that song kind of did was it melded

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Speaker 1: he did. I thought Turning Point and again, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: what the NFL was trying to do with mister Bunny.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to grow their audience. And the NFL, trust me,

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Speaker 7: They'd be nuts not too.

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Speaker 1: You look at the World Cup that's going to be

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Speaker 1: let's go to a woodstock. John is here this morning.

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Speaker 3: Hi John, Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 12: Thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I thought the game was terrible. I know every NFT

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Speaker 12: worst representative for a Super Bowl team I've seen in

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Speaker 12: my fifty two years on Earth. I think the halftime

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Speaker 12: least you had activity like every other NFL halftime show

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Speaker 12: they've had. I just thought, and if you weren't, it

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Speaker 12: was just very lily White. I guess they should say

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Speaker 12: I'm a person.

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Speaker 7: That's a good way to put it.

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Speaker 12: But yeah, I'm just saying. I mean it was. It

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Speaker 1: Think about that, John, six million people watching, and that

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Speaker 1: a year to prepare. Next year's show will be a

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Speaker 1: lot different. But I think lily White isn't a bad

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Speaker 1: way to put it. It was very straightforward. There was

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Speaker 7: You wissay in your fish. Everybody else sucks, but I

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Speaker 1: We had a Tom holding for us online or at

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Speaker 1: three one two five nine nine hundred. He had to run,

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Speaker 1: but what he wanted me to do was play the

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Speaker 1: section of kid Rock from the Cody Johnson Until You

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Speaker 1: Can't song where he stopped and he said, you know

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Speaker 1: what I I woke up and I thought this song

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Speaker 1: needs another verse. And this is that Bible verse section

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Speaker 1: from the song last night. This is the turning point

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Speaker 15: Who died for all our sins hanging from the cross.

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Speaker 15: You could give you the life after Jesus, and it

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Speaker 15: can't you to a second chance till you can't take case.

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Speaker 7: They're usually in the in the nest. Good morning, Ray

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Speaker 1: Turning Point USA put on a wonderful All American halftime show.

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Speaker 8: No, no, I'm burning the coating off of the copper

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Speaker 8: Spin if you will, a rotation, you can smell it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, smell blind. Yeah, getting better though, taking your ivermcton.

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Speaker 1: I think I caught something from you, gampd. Yeah, interesting

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Speaker 1: Moment they land, they're apprehended by Guinea authorities. They are

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Speaker 7: A full disclosure.

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Speaker 7: John, Welcome to WLS.

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Speaker 16: Good morning, Hey, good morning, great. Thanks for actually pronouncing

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Speaker 7: Hey, did I get most of that right?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, that was a pretty good overview. They were flying

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Speaker 16: now the Embassy has it classified as a lawful detainment.

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Speaker 16: If it's classified as a lawful detainment, that doesn't spark

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Speaker 16: red flags and the State Department. So therefore it doesn't

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Speaker 16: get the urgency that needs. And so here we are,

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Speaker 16: day forty, sitting with two American citizens sitting in Guinea. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 16: there's people in the prison there. My brother's telling me

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Speaker 16: that are surprised and shocked that they're still there as

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Speaker 16: shoe hass citizens on their fortieth day.

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Speaker 1: And this is not a nice place to be this

446
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Speaker 1: prison is not a nice place to be, and correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong here. But didn't somebody from the

448
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Speaker 1: US embassy or a US official, somebody went there to

449
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Speaker 1: visit your brother and his co pilot and gave him

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Speaker 1: some medication or whatever, an award off malaria or something else.

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Speaker 1: And wasn't that about the give and take of the

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Speaker 1: context they've had with anybody there.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, that's the embassy.

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Speaker 16: You know, they've given them some malaria pills and some

455
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Speaker 16: snacks and some I think earplugs and eye I wear

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Speaker 16: whatever things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: But you're talking about you're talking about, yeah, some vitamins,

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Speaker 1: some things to ward off malaria, and a couple you know,

459
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Speaker 1: protein bars basically is what they were given, right, right.

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Speaker 16: So we need we need representation at the administrative level.

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Speaker 16: For example, Nick Checkers is a high level official. Uh

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Speaker 16: he's he visited Conacry, Guinea to attend the inauguration of

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Speaker 16: the president just back in January. And I don't think

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Speaker 16: and I'm pretty sure that he was never aware while

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Speaker 16: he was visiting Guinea that there was two US citizens

466
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Speaker 16: in prison in Conacrey, because he was never informed. Furthermore,

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Speaker 16: last months in January, as we know Marco Rubio met

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Speaker 16: with officials from Guinea and shook hands over a mineral deal. Meanwhile,

469
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Speaker 16: two US citizens are in prison, and I guarantee you

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Speaker 16: Mark Rubio didn't know about this. Now, I don't thin

471
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Speaker 16: guess to blame those guys directly, it's just that they

472
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Speaker 16: were never informed and so there's a breakdown in communication

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Speaker 16: because it goes back to there's no urgency from the

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Speaker 16: State Department because it's not flagged in their system as

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Speaker 16: unlawful detainment. So that's why this is starting to get

476
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Speaker 16: traction now, and that's how things work. It's just if

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Speaker 16: it gets to the executive branch, to the highest levels,

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Speaker 16: that's all we need. There's a case last year if

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Speaker 16: you google it, two British soldiers or two British men

480
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Speaker 16: came down from the UK to I think retrieve a

481
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Speaker 16: weather balloon or something like that and just pick up parts.

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Speaker 16: They had all the permits, everything they needed. They were

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Speaker 16: detained for one hundred days in the same prison because

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Speaker 16: they did. They were accused of being spies. So they

485
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Speaker 16: spent one hundred days in prison, back and forth, back

486
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Speaker 16: and forth, back and forth. Files this that promise is

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Speaker 16: broken and it took one of their officials might might

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Speaker 16: have been the Prime Minister or somebody at that level

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Speaker 16: to actually get them out of prison. So that was

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Speaker 16: the last and for the first letter I got from

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Speaker 16: my brother before he went into prison, he sent that

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Speaker 16: to me from one of the guards.

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Speaker 1: What the thing is here is if your brother's clear

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Speaker 1: to land. If he's not clear to land, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: fly somewhere else. They allowed into land and then they

496
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Speaker 1: you know, so I'm not going to try to fill

497
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Speaker 1: in the lines with what's going on here. My job

498
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Speaker 1: today was to have you on to tell the story,

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Speaker 1: and now the job of the wls A eight ninety

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Speaker 1: listeners to call their representatives and everybody they can to say, Hey,

501
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Speaker 1: this is going on and we need something to be

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Speaker 1: done about this as two American pilots sit in jail

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Speaker 1: in Guinea. You're gonna be contact today by John Garcia

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Speaker 1: from ABC seven. We've reached out to a couple of

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Speaker 1: our friends, Rob Mark Alford, Congressman Mark Alford. We're going

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Speaker 1: to reach out to Ron Johnson and a few other

507
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Speaker 1: people to make sure this gets up there to the

508
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Speaker 1: highest level. We won't let this go and notice and

509
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Speaker 1: we'll call you back and make sure that this thing

510
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Speaker 1: gets up to the highest highest in the food chain.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, and I want to shout out things to say

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Speaker 16: thanks to Gary Francis, White House correspondent. He actually reached

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Speaker 16: out on Friday. We're awaiting official response from them.

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Speaker 18: Illustration.

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Speaker 16: Also John McGuire, congressman in Virginia, he's been great, great guy.

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Speaker 16: He's he's actually willing to go out to Guinea if

517
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Speaker 16: he needs to. He and his staff Chris and Ben,

518
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Speaker 16: have been great. So my brother Brad just moved to

519
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Speaker 16: Virginia about three months ago, and so I want to

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Speaker 16: thank those guys for what they're doing, because that's been

521
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Speaker 16: the one congressman that's really been willing to fight for

522
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Speaker 16: us and try to get them released.

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Speaker 7: And so interesting story.

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Speaker 1: And I guarantee you this is it's exclusively on WLSA

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Speaker 1: A ninety this morning.

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Speaker 7: John. This will move quick.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll pay attention to this and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: we'll have better news in the days ahead.

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Speaker 16: Good to have you on, man, Yeah, thanks for doing this,

530
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Speaker 16: and we'll yeah, we'll hopefully be on and within a

531
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Speaker 16: week and hopefully they'll be back home and we'll have

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Speaker 16: Brad on.

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Speaker 1: Right on there you go on. Appreciate you man. We're

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Speaker 1: thinking of your family, Nick Ale Race, David's glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: A three one two, five, nine one eight nine eighty

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Speaker 1: nine hundred.

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Speaker 7: Kid Rock my name is Kid Rock.

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Speaker 1: Want the tickets We've got them before they go on

539
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Speaker 1: sale this morning. Put a little a note in your

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Speaker 1: phone at seven thirty five. Kid Rocks Freedom two fitty Tour.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're driving around and f two fitties. Nick,

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Speaker 1: is that what that is? I think it's a nation's birthday. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. Road to Nashville with Parker McCollum.

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Speaker 1: You'll like him. A couple of text messages here, Ray

545
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Speaker 1: that dude's advertisement running for Congress is worse than cars

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Speaker 1: for kids.

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Speaker 7: Hey man, we just take the money. That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: Six three zero texture. Sounds like the country they landed

549
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Speaker 1: on needs some freedom. Talking about our last guest, John

550
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Speaker 1: Schlinker talking about his brother who is in a Guinea jail.

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Speaker 1: Landed there on the twenty ninth, Nick, you made mentioned

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Speaker 1: of something that happened there.

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Speaker 8: On the twenty eighth, their presidential election took place, and

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Speaker 8: there was an actual alert out by their embassy advising

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Speaker 8: against travel during that time.

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Speaker 1: Ray that smell you guys were talking about in the air,

557
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Speaker 1: that's the stench your cesspool is creating. The natural smell

558
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Speaker 1: most people have been indoors since it's been so cold.

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Speaker 1: It's the stench that Chicago's creating. Talking about the smell

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Speaker 1: that's permeating our airspace. Yeah, it smells like a mix

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Speaker 1: between Nick's deviled eggs and some burning aluminum and the

562
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Speaker 1: wire the coating off the wires he burns off to

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Speaker 1: take his copper to the recycling joint. Yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to play Don Lemon, Don Lemon, and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: give Don Lemon anymore props than he's already got lately.

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Speaker 1: And I mean props is a loose term there, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's been in the news a lot lately.

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Speaker 1: But this is Don Lemon. More of him outside churches

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Speaker 1: talking to people Christians about what they think of what's

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Speaker 1: going on in the country.

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Speaker 7: And I just want to play you.

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Speaker 1: Why I think Sunday Service more and more I start

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Speaker 1: to pay more attention to the words written and read

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Speaker 1: is because I don't know if I could have handled

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Speaker 1: this guy up in my face asking these questions bear

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Speaker 1: with me while you listen to this, you think jehamas Christian.

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Speaker 13: Here I wants to praise the Lord with my son,

578
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Speaker 13: and now I got to go home.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry that you guys are so angry.

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Speaker 19: I'm I'm just chronically I'm not with the group.

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Speaker 13: Oh what do I have to say?

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Speaker 19: Can you understand why they're angry?

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Speaker 9: I don't.

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Speaker 13: I don't understand any of this because I'm a simple man.

585
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Speaker 13: I'm a simple man who loves the Lord and as

586
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Speaker 13: a good father. This is what we look forward to,

587
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Speaker 13: is come and being with our family and in praising Jesus.

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Speaker 13: And that's not something that we have to run away from.

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Speaker 13: So we This is kind of a bad day for us,

590
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Speaker 13: but uh, you know, we're going to heaven. So that's

591
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Speaker 13: the best news we got.

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Speaker 19: Do you understand that some of these folks feel voiceless?

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Speaker 13: I don't understand because right now I'm so upset. Right now,

594
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Speaker 13: I don't really have a much I'm thirsty, and I

595
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Speaker 13: can't think very clearly. So what I want to do

596
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Speaker 13: is to say, we love you my son, and I

597
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Speaker 13: love you guys.

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Speaker 19: And that's I'm a journalist.

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Speaker 13: The simplest thing we can say is that we love

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Speaker 13: you guys. You guys, well, whoever's here in this house, okay,

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Speaker 13: we don't we don't distinguish between.

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Speaker 1: They they break into another church outside of church, and

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Speaker 1: they're they're asking this guy after Sunday service or disrupting

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Speaker 1: Sunday service. And this is just some of the fallout

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Speaker 1: that's happened from the last time, Nick. But it just

606
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Speaker 1: goes to show you here's a guy, and this guy

607
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Speaker 1: looks like he could have handled himself. Right, he's there

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Speaker 1: with his kid, and his kid looks like he could

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Speaker 1: have handled himself. And here's people that are worshiping on

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Speaker 1: Sunday service.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody buys in to this nonsensical lunacy that captivates America.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody thinks that you can lop off of somebody's

615
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Speaker 1: anatomy and they become a woman. Not everybody thinks that way,

616
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Speaker 1: And not everybody permeates their world with the ridiculousness of

617
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Speaker 1: every minute of minutia that defines the political left or right.

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Speaker 1: Some people just believe in going and doing what they do,

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Speaker 1: having enough money left at the end of the week

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Speaker 1: to give a little back to the Lord and praising

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Speaker 1: Jesus is what this guy did.

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Speaker 7: And you know, I was at service yesterday with.

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Speaker 1: My Bellajina Marie and one of the I know at

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Speaker 1: aur absolute best and I know it are absolute worst.

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Speaker 1: But my favorite thing about this woman is when she

626
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Speaker 1: puts her hands up and she recites the words of

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Speaker 1: the Gospel as the preacher is telling it to her.

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Speaker 1: I haven't quite got to the point where I put

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Speaker 1: my hands in the air and do that, But you know,

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Speaker 1: when you live with that kind of inter faith, when

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Speaker 1: you have the ability to walk away from agitators like

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Speaker 1: Don Lemon and he says he's a journalist, but he's

633
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Speaker 1: an agitator. Isn't that really a better way to live?

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Speaker 1: Isn't that really how you want to be in your life?

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Speaker 1: And I haven't got there yet, but I want to

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Speaker 1: get there, and I don't know if that's even possible,

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Speaker 1: but I'm trying. But man, I got to tell you,

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Speaker 1: if somebody ran into me outside of church and they

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Speaker 1: were attacking my girl, that guy would be on the floor.

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Speaker 1: And I hate to sound like that when I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to get to a place where I don't think like

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Speaker 1: that anymore. But I can't because I'm too caught up

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Speaker 1: in this nonsense each and every day.

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Speaker 7: But wouldn't you like to be like that guy? There?

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Speaker 1: Isn't that why we profess to be better people? After

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Speaker 1: a Sunday Service. I just thought that guy showed such

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Speaker 1: great resolve, and really that's why, that's why Jesus died

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Speaker 1: on a cross for us right there, for that kind

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Speaker 1: of beauty and love. And man, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I'll ever get there in my life, but I am

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Speaker 1: going to try, and I think a lot of us

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Speaker 1: should do that. I just wanted to play that because

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Speaker 1: Don Lemon's trying to catch that guy and a gotcha moment,

654
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Speaker 1: and that guy played it beautifully.

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Speaker 7: We're using the buildings as sort of a stonehenge.

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Speaker 1: Now, Nick, you'll recall just a couple days ago, the

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Speaker 1: sun was right in the middle of those two buildings,

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Speaker 1: wiled to our right, but now it's moving farther to

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Speaker 1: the north. You know what that means. As Michael Gray

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Speaker 1: plays the oohs in the osset, is a beautiful morning

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Speaker 1: and we get this beautiful vantage right over Lake Michigan.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, this hope springing eternal. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do forty today and the sunshine won't be long

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Speaker 1: till you're at the Credit Union one Amphitheater Saturday, May sixteenth.

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Speaker 7: You'll be there.

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Speaker 1: We'll have tickets at seven thirty five this morning. Kid

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Speaker 1: Rock I thought he did a nice nice job on

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Speaker 1: turning Point USA's halftime show last night. We'll give those

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Speaker 1: away at seven thirty five at the seven fifty this morning.

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Speaker 1: Okay mac Hollins for the New England Patriots receiver coming

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Speaker 1: into the stadium last night in a mask almost like

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Speaker 1: silence of the lambs and ankle chains and change. What

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Speaker 1: the hell was that about? We'll talk about that at

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Speaker 1: seven fifty this morning. But as you get over the

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Speaker 1: halftime showing what you watched and whether or not you

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Speaker 1: could understand it or not, the business of the world

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Speaker 1: moves forward with Russia and the United States and Iran

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Speaker 1: with nuclear arms treaty ending, and these talks going on

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Speaker 1: in Oman. Now, if you listen to the president, if

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Speaker 1: you listen to the president of Iran, they say these

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Speaker 1: talks are going on nicely. They started nicely, but really,

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Speaker 1: where will they go? I guess that's the first question

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Speaker 1: for General Richard Newton this morning, senior national security contributor

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Speaker 1: to News Nation. Where does this all end up, sir, Hey.

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Speaker 17: Very good morning.

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Speaker 18: By the way, I love the kid Rocks show. I

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Speaker 18: thought that was awesome. He only lives about a mile

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Speaker 18: or so from us down here.

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Speaker 7: Oh is that right? Could you stop over there and

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Speaker 7: tell the kid we said, Hi, I go by.

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Speaker 18: There when I ride my bike byther all the time.

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Speaker 18: Right freezing, freezing here. It's fifty six degrees. It's going

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Speaker 18: to get to seventy four. So we got our we

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Speaker 18: got our jackets on it. By the way, good morning,

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Speaker 18: happy money to you, rate everybody else out there to

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Speaker 18: be with you get UH, specifically the Iranian talks and

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Speaker 18: their talks. My bottom line is this is a a

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Speaker 18: regime that is digging in, has no desires to change

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Speaker 18: its ways at all. I give a lot of credit

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Speaker 18: to the Trump administration, President Trump personally for trying to

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Speaker 18: engage UH with the avenue of approach using diplomacy. I

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Speaker 18: think that's that's that's a very good step. I think

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Speaker 18: we'll probably go through another round of quote talks, UH,

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Speaker 18: but really not just on a table with regard to

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Speaker 18: Iran continue to pursue a nuclear weapon which would upend

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Speaker 18: the entire Mid East. But also we are trying to

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Speaker 18: pursue diplomatically for them to curb their ballistic missile production,

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Speaker 18: their drone production, which by the way, Russia is using

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Speaker 18: on the front lines against Ukraine their shroud A series

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Speaker 18: of drones, but also continue to support their terrorist proxies.

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Speaker 18: Yes has the la Hamas, the Hoosis and also proxy

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Speaker 18: groups trying to put harms way American forces into Rock

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Speaker 18: and Syria. And then just the human rights discussion. I mean,

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Speaker 18: it's all on the table. I don't think these guys

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Speaker 18: want to negotiate. I don't think they want to come

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Speaker 18: to a solution. I think they're just looking to survive

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Speaker 18: another ten years, and that's what they are. I think

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Speaker 18: the President knows that. But we're still going to pursue

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Speaker 18: these talks. We'll see what comes out. But they're on

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Speaker 18: the clock. I don't think we're going to be putting

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Speaker 18: up with this much longer.

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Speaker 1: You know, you talk about the human rights aspect of this,

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Speaker 1: and this goes back to when this all changed in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, right, And we don't have an exact

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Speaker 1: number of people that have been murdered since this uprising,

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Speaker 1: if you will, in Iran, But nobody really seems to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to that. Right, everybody's too worried about what's

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Speaker 1: going on in Minneapolis, and you know, the big shiny

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Speaker 1: thing is taking Why is nobody on the left to

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Speaker 1: crying what's happened to these people in Iran? And I

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Speaker 1: know we can't go in there and change in ideology

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Speaker 1: and a theocracy, but why aren't more people concerned with

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Speaker 1: any of this?

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Speaker 18: Well, I strength I would underscore to our listeners the

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Speaker 18: fact that I was at pilot training in nineteen seventy

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Speaker 18: nine in Del Rio, Texas, flying jets, and we had

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Speaker 18: hundreds of Iranian student pilots who are by the way,

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Speaker 18: allied with us under the Shaws regime, and we're dear

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Speaker 18: allies of us in the mid East. And then all

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Speaker 18: of a sudden that I know vividly, their families were upended.

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Speaker 18: If they went home, they would have been murdered, and

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Speaker 18: so forth. How do you like that for starting off

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Speaker 18: a new regime with regarding the Islamic Revolution in nineteen

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Speaker 18: seventy nine and so forth? Fast forward to now, I

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Speaker 18: would estimate there's certainly hundreds of thousands of too millions.

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Speaker 18: That's a big number. It's a ninety million population of

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Speaker 18: the Iranian nation have been forced into jail. There's been

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Speaker 18: you know, thousands of thousands killed in the streets and

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Speaker 18: even behind those jails and so forth. This is a

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Speaker 18: brutal regime. They have been so for for forty seven years.

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Speaker 18: They are all about a brutal understanding of Islamic law,

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Speaker 18: and their theocracy is not about, you know, quote trying

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Speaker 18: to create any modicum of civil obedience. But really they're

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Speaker 18: going out to kill and terrorize people for their own

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Speaker 18: diabolical Islamic fundamentals, you know, desires. Okay, that's a mouthful.

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Speaker 18: This is a bad group of people. And they also

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Speaker 18: give them arms such as nuclear weapons or certainly what

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Speaker 18: they showed when they struck Israel and our US men

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Speaker 18: and women in our in our installations in the East

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Speaker 18: with ballistic missiles and drones. Really they're they're just trying

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Speaker 18: to hang on for another ten years. That's really their

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Speaker 18: endgame here.

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Speaker 1: So really this is this is a time for change,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. But but now and I

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Speaker 1: don't and sometimes I ask you to read it the

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Speaker 1: tea leaves and look into the crystal ball. But with

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Speaker 1: Trump saying, uh, you know what the if they don't

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Speaker 1: make a deal. Uh, you know, the consequences will be

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Speaker 1: very steep. I mean, what do you think if they

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Speaker 1: don't want to make a deal, and we know that

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Speaker 1: they've got China, we know that they've got Russia, what

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Speaker 1: action does the United States take? Does that big beautiful

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Speaker 1: armada does it strike them again?

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Speaker 3: It does?

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Speaker 18: And by the way, uh, China and specifically Russia have

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Speaker 18: been fairly muted in all this with regard to the

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Speaker 18: Iranian instability that's going on internal to our country. Interestingly enough, Uh,

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Speaker 18: they'll make some public for announcements, but not what we've

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Speaker 18: seen because actually Russia, I did an op ed over

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Speaker 18: the weekend, and one of my points that I tried

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Speaker 18: to make clear is that Russia is in a little

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Speaker 18: bit of a corner. We're going to get your point

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Speaker 18: here in the second on the question, but Russia is

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Speaker 18: a little bit of a corner because they've been, you know,

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Speaker 18: on allied supporters of Iran, but they have not dipped

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Speaker 18: their toes into the instability because they're entangled in their

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Speaker 18: own mess which regard to you retrain, you know, on

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Speaker 18: the front lines and so forth, and so that's a

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Speaker 18: challenge for them. So they've lost face diplomatically, internationally publicly

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Speaker 18: in terms of their long term support of Iran. And

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Speaker 18: if they decide to go in and entangle themselves inside

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Speaker 18: of what's happening with Iran and provide their support, they

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Speaker 18: can become strategically involved and bogged down when they've got

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Speaker 18: a mess on their hands, you know, in don Bass

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Speaker 18: and so forth. Okay, back to point here. I believe

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Speaker 18: what the United States has done, and I salute again

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Speaker 18: the administration led by our US Central Commander Emil Brad Cooper.

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Speaker 18: We have amassed a significant both offensive defensive capabilities that

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Speaker 18: we are at a historical moment that should these talks fail,

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Speaker 18: and I anticipate that they will, that we are in

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Speaker 18: a position to strike Iran. Not what we saw from

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Speaker 18: a historical moment back on June twenty second, with those

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Speaker 18: seventy two bombers and thirty time a Kouzmasi from a

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Speaker 18: submarine going after nuclear weapons development facilities, but a longer

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Speaker 18: campaign three to five days, perhaps in the two weeks,

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Speaker 18: that will truly, in my view, create the conditions of

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Speaker 18: an internal collapse of that diabotical regime, specifically on the

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Speaker 18: civilian leadership, but also the military leadership of Islamic Revolutionary

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Speaker 18: Guard or another paramilitary organizations that have terrorized the Iranian

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Speaker 18: citizens as well as terrorized the neighborhood around the Minis

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Speaker 18: specifically Israel, but even our Gulf allies such as Saudi

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Speaker 18: and United Air Membrates and so forth. So I think

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Speaker 18: that's where we're headed right now. We've got plenty of

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Speaker 18: firepower there, both from an offensive aspect. But what's key

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Speaker 18: here and what the teelies are ray, is the fact

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Speaker 18: that we have added tremendous defensive capabilities to protect our

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Speaker 18: forty to fifty thousand troops in the region, as well

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Speaker 18: as our allies Israel, but also as I mentioned, Saudi,

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Speaker 18: United Air Rememorates and others with the Army fad highouse,

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Speaker 18: two area defense systems and other defensive capabilities that we

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Speaker 18: poured into the region.

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Speaker 1: I think when Trump said they obliterated or we obliterated

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Speaker 1: the Iran's nuclear capabilities, that took a lot of the

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Speaker 1: edge off of people worrying about Iran in their capabilities.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, and this is General Richard Newton,

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Speaker 1: senior national security contributor to News Nation that flyover last

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Speaker 1: night the two pilots fist bumping each other.

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Speaker 7: How cool was that? As a flyer yourself, wasn't that awesome?

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Speaker 14: Oh?

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Speaker 18: As you say in the ready room, that was seriously cool.

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Speaker 18: That was my you know, I used to command twenty

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Speaker 18: eight operations get the Bomber Group at Elser Airforce based

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Speaker 18: out of Rapid City, South Dakota. I was so proud

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Speaker 18: of just being an American at that moment, but so

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Speaker 18: proud of our military. And the fact is that they're flying.

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Speaker 18: You noticed right at the end of the fly by

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Speaker 18: they kicked it into burners.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 18: Fine. Also, I mean we're f fifteens and FAA teens

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Speaker 18: Navy aircraft as well. It was just a great moment

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Speaker 18: and feel proud being an American citizen knowing that our

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Speaker 18: men and women are all volunteers, all two million of them, right,

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Speaker 18: don't get me started here. They all under the sound

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Speaker 18: of guns and they are ready to do whatever the

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Speaker 18: President United States, as our commander in chief, determines that

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Speaker 18: we need to pursue to protect the American people and

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Speaker 18: protect others.

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Speaker 1: It was my favorite part of the Super Bowl experience yesterday.

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Speaker 7: General.

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Speaker 1: Always nice to have you on. Coolest guy in the room,

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Speaker 1: man flyer General. You know, we'd just like to hang

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Speaker 1: out with you sometime and ride our bike past kid

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Speaker 1: Rocks house. Always nice to have you on pal grab

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Speaker 1: us some more of your thoughts on the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: coming up here at seven fifty this morning.

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Speaker 7: Last night it was Kid Rock. It was the Turning

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Speaker 7: Point USA halftime show.

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Speaker 1: Some say as many as six million people watch that,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a good number. Right, it's a

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Speaker 1: non traditional way to watch a concert.

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Speaker 7: I know that on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: They were supposed to be able to stream on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: there were some music licensing rights. They weren't able to

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Speaker 1: do that. So I think six million is a pretty

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Speaker 1: good number. Now put that in context with people who

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Speaker 1: watched CNN as a network last week, four hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety five thousand people watch CNN in primetime. Six million

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Speaker 1: people watched a Turning Point USA halftime show. I think

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Speaker 1: that is a big number. Maybe I should have used

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Speaker 1: a Fox or Newsmax as a better conparison because they

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Speaker 1: actually have of viewers. Speaking of Fox, let's go to

872
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: our friend Devin Brown, Evan Brown, Fox News Radio, the

873
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: latest in the Nancy Guthrie search and what this all

874
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 1: means now, I guess Evan, I want to start here

875
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: this morning, and good morning, sir.

876
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 7: Good morning.

877
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: Former FBI Assistant director Chris Swecker had some questions last

878
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: night and he SARTs he doubts whether or not Nancy

879
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: Guthrie may still be alive. I know this is only

880
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: one man's opinion, but my goodness, we're now what nine

881
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: ten days out on this. She doesn't have her medication.

882
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: We really don't have any concrete evidence of these kidnappers.

883
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 5: What's the latest, Well, the latest is that tonight at

884
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 5: five pm local time Tucson is the deadline, and yesterday

885
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 5: or I think Saturday maybe the video was posted again

886
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 5: by the Guthrie family. Savannah Guthrie there between sitting between

887
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 5: her two siblings saying they will pay what the what

888
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 5: the ransom is and the ransom demand is, and that

889
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 5: they still want proof of life, but they're willing to pay,

890
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 5: and that they want to be in contact with them.

891
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 5: The number that we have been told is six million dollars.

892
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: Well, kind of a random and you know there were

893
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: also people over the weekend. Yeah, talk to random number.

894
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 7: It's a random number.

895
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:34,959
Speaker 5: Why six million?

896
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 7: Why not five? Why not?

897
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 5: Why not fifteen?

898
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 18: You know?

899
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 7: Why not something that.

900
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 5: You know, most people don't think in terms of numbers

901
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 5: like that, right, So that could lead to some speculation

902
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 5: that maybe they're after something specific, or maybe there's more

903
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 5: than one of them that they're looking to split the money.

904
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 5: And you know, splitting six million between two or three

905
00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 5: people is actually kind of easy math. But regards guardless,

906
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 5: you know, we don't really know what that means. We

907
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 5: are beyond the days of you know, stacks of hundreds

908
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 5: with nonsequential serial numbers and no mark bills and no

909
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 5: die packs and.

910
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 3: Leave it in a bag at the at the.

911
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 5: Mailbox at the corner First and Maine between five and

912
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 5: six o'clock. We don't do that anymore because now they're

913
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 5: demanding things in bitcoin, and if the bitcoin wallet is

914
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 5: you know, out of let's say Eastern Europe or Central Africa,

915
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 5: it's going to be very hard to get law enforcement

916
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 5: to help track that down. So it's obviously not a

917
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 5: good situation. And you can imagine the Guthrie family be

918
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 5: willing to pay anything to have their mother back. And

919
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 5: I guess Savannah Guthrie has access to this kind of

920
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 5: money at least or the family does anyhow, So you

921
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 5: know that's you know again, was Nancy Guthrie targeted because

922
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 5: of her famous and presumably wealthy daughter. Maybe we don't

923
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 5: really know. There's some also some talk about cartel involvement,

924
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,240
Speaker 5: because in that part of the country there is cartel

925
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 5: activity and they often take people hostage and demand payment. However,

926
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 5: some of the experts we've spoken to have said that

927
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 5: this isn't really playing out like that. The cartel's usually

928
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 5: are very forthcoming and very talkative to the police because

929
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 5: they want to get a payment out of this.

930
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: There's also been a lot of talk of whether or

931
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: not this could have been done by somebody close to

932
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: the family, because they say the kind of the things

933
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: that surround this case would lead so they knew who

934
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: the camera was, they knew she needed her medicine. If

935
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: she is still alive, they have to have access to

936
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: that medicine. And there's so many questions to get through here,

937
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: and we're going to answer some of those. Evan Brown

938
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: is here.

939
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 7: From Fox News Radio.

940
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 8: Nick Evan about the six million Do you know how

941
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 8: they received that particular demand? And I know that there

942
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 8: was concerns early on about lines of communication.

943
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been very little that we've been told about

944
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 5: the specifics, and you can imagine that law enforcement is

945
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 5: playing a lot of it close to the vest and

946
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 5: they've advised probably the Guthrie family did not be very

947
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 5: talkative to the public on this. I'm going to draw

948
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 5: a little parallel here if you go back to the

949
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 5: Idaho murders, the murders of the four college students in

950
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 5: the house, that took about a month to track down

951
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 5: a suspect.

952
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 7: And during that whole month.

953
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 5: All of the speculators, all of the amateur sleuths online,

954
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 5: and every law and order and CSI.

955
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 7: Fans was a lot of them.

956
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 5: They're bungling this, they don't know what they're doing, this, that,

957
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 5: and the other thing. As it turned out, they knew

958
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 5: exactly what they were doing, and we're conducting a very

959
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 5: thorough and very well done investigation. As it turned out,

960
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 5: this suspect who was now the convicted killer I had

961
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 5: ditch town and was on a cross country jaunt involving

962
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 5: his own parents, and they had to track him down

963
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 5: and had to do that, you know, you know, it

964
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 5: was a big country, right They had to track him

965
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 5: down and get a hold of him and find him

966
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 5: and get him into custody. That took a lot of work,

967
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 5: but it was actually very well done work on the

968
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 5: part of those local police and their partners at the

969
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 5: state and federal level. I would give the Pima County

970
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 5: Sheriff some grace and space here right now.

971
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 7: Let them do their work.

972
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 5: We can after action. This, after the action, we can

973
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 5: find out if they were good at this or not

974
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 5: good at this after the fact, and hopefully after the

975
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 5: fact means Nancy Guthrie coming home safely and getting medical

976
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 5: attentions she needs, and getting whoever did this behind bars,

977
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 5: because no matter who it was, a random criminal, someone

978
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 5: the family knows, a cart tell outfit. It's all illegal

979
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 5: and they should go to prison for it.

980
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: Interesting that we did see images and this was on

981
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: your network yesterday, would appear to be two officers, two gentlemen,

982
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,479
Speaker 1: looking in what to me look like either a sewer

983
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: drain or a septic.

984
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 7: Of drain or cover.

985
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: And that would lead me to believe, Okay, if we

986
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: know this is a hard fast and again here you go, right, Evan,

987
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: this is that slew thing that we're all doing online

988
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: or on the radio. Is if they do believe she's kidnapped,

989
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: what in fact were they looking for? Yesterday, So a

990
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: lot of you know, I just wish this, This is

991
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: my wish on all of this. You know, we all

992
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: hope these things end, you know, you know, the way

993
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: we want them to. But six hundred thousand people annually

994
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: go missing in the United States and.

995
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 7: Don't get this kind of attention exactly.

996
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: And that for me is tough because I know that

997
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, and you know I get it. It's it's

998
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: a you know, we look for the shiny object in

999
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: America and we certainly aren't focused on this, but these

1000
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: all deserve our attention.

1001
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 7: My friend, Thanks for the latest. Always good to talk

1002
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 7: to you. You got take care.

1003
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: Evan Brown from Fox News Radio in the beginning nine

1004
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: WLS and there was a there was a gentleman that

1005
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: was a former sheriff of one of the adjoining counties

1006
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: to Pima County yesterday that said pretty much the same thing.

1007
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: You know, we just stop and think about what we're

1008
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: doing here. And I almost wonder, Nick, is it because

1009
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: when this broke some of these networks, man, they went

1010
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven wall to wall, and okay, well,

1011
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: it gives us something else to talk about other than

1012
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,240
Speaker 1: what's going on in Minneapolis, right but then I wonder aloud,

1013
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, and again I watched Fox and Newsmax. I

1014
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: should probably spend some time watching CNN, just to be

1015
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: a little more versed on what's going on out there

1016
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: in the news verse. But now can they not go

1017
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: away from it because they've given so much to it.

1018
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, but ten days out now it's not

1019
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: looking good. And they still got the drones flying over

1020
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: the house and everything else. And again, just to go

1021
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: back to my point I made there with Evan, is

1022
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: if they thought this was a kidnapping, what are they

1023
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: doing in the sister's house at night with the pictures

1024
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,479
Speaker 1: the technology to look for whatever they might.

1025
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 7: Find a blood?

1026
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: Because people don't abduct old people. It's like point zero

1027
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: two of abductions out of that six hundred thousand that

1028
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: I talked about. And generally it does come down to

1029
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: somebody that knew the family or a family member in

1030
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: instances like this. And to your point, Nick, and this

1031
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: is a good point you brought up, is where are

1032
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: these ransom notes or any of the stuff coming from.

1033
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: They say that it's so technological they can't uncode where

1034
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: any of this is coming from. That's the day and

1035
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,479
Speaker 1: these are very smart people. And whoever's writing these ransom notes,

1036
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: they even said, you know, people don't write this chromatically correct,

1037
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: So that's some just to take.

1038
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 7: Into to mind.

1039
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: Either way, little good thought for a older woman that's

1040
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: been abducted, But don't forget about the six hundred other

1041
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: thousand people that go missing each and every year. Watching

1042
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: your markets here this morning, Nick, I'm watching the dow.

1043
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: It's down this morning. It's down to fifty forty. That

1044
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: is amazing. Now for the first time ever, closes over

1045
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: fifty on Friday. Now Trump is saying, by the end

1046
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: of my term, it's over one hundred thousand. If that's

1047
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: the case, Nick, buy you a new boat. Yeah, really,

1048
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: I'll buy you a nice new boat, you know, maybe

1049
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: like a fourteen foot grumming with a nine to nine

1050
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: merk on the back of it. You call my buddies

1051
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,240
Speaker 1: up in Lake County water Sports, get you hooked up. Hey,

1052
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: they've got electric motors. Would that be something that they've

1053
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: heard you say that in that spot.

1054
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm like meh, They're like, now they're pretty cool,

1055
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 7: And I'm like meh, yeah, like now they're pretty cool.

1056
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: But I'm like meh, Nick. So last night watching the

1057
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl getting ready, and we were you know we do.

1058
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: We don't watch a lot of TV in my house,

1059
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: and when we do, usually it's news and that just

1060
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: causes me all sorts of problems. I had her convinced

1061
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: that we were getting twelve inches of snow over the

1062
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: weekend because she never watches the news, doesn't watch the weather,

1063
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: doesn't know what's what's the weather going to be like today?

1064
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: My favorite is what's you talk about on the show today? Like, well,

1065
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: why don't you listen? Yeah, I'm so busy. I'm working out.

1066
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: And if if you see the pictures of me on

1067
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: social media with her and her cowboy hat, oh boy,

1068
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: how you'd bon But here's the thing I say to her,

1069
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: I go baby, because she she likes to cook. Right,

1070
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: you know, Nick, you like to cook too, You're the

1071
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 1: guy in your house to cook. Well, she fancies herself

1072
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: as somebody that can throw together anything, no recipes, and

1073
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: she's really good at it.

1074
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 7: And any Super Bowl in the past, we've had out

1075
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 7: the acoutrements, the spread, right, I got my I got

1076
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 7: my lunchibles. They call that a Chikuteri board, but I

1077
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 7: say it's lunchables. For adults.

1078
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: Right, She's got out the salamis, she's got the prov

1079
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: A loans, she's got all the cheeses and the you know,

1080
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: the Italian sausage. And then I'm waiting on the hot

1081
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: wings and the you know, the Buffalo chicken raps.

1082
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 7: And she's like, well, I made soap. Really, I said,

1083
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 7: you did what.

1084
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 13: I'm like, soup.

1085
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Speaker 7: You're gonna love it. It's my chicken noodle soup. You're

1086
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 7: gonna love it. It's the best ever.

1087
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 6: And you've been feeling sick lately. This will nurse you

1088
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 6: back then. And I said, well, that's not gonna work

1089
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 6: for me. Because it's the Super Bowl. I need a

1090
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 6: grease wheel. And so I go, no, you know what

1091
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do.

1092
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 7: I go, I'm gonna go with the healthier option.

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00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: We just got a new Buffalo Wild Wings or some

1094
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: of you might call them b W three's, which is

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00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: the Chicago thing. I'll call them the Buffalo Wild Wings

1096
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: and I'll get some some chicken with sure. So I

1097
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: call the Buffalo Wild Wings over. It's a brand new

1098
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: to go location, just the adjacent to my house. And

1099
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: uh and uh, I said, hey, I'd like to order

1100
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: some chicken wings, and she goes, what halftime show are

1101
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: you watching? I said, probably the turning point USA one. Wow,

1102
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: no nuggets for you. You've been profiled. No, she didn't

1103
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 1: ask that, but they were so slammed. I couldn't get.

1104
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,240
Speaker 1: I couldn't get, you know, chicken wings. They were They're like, sorry,

1105
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: we're not taking any orders.

1106
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 11: I mean, Nick could have helped you out with some

1107
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 11: chicken wings.

1108
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, we could have.

1109
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 8: We could have cooked up Mother Clucker. Yeah, it's funny.

1110
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 8: You guys had soup because I had soup.

1111
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing because I didn't see that on our

1112
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: social media. Usually whenever Nika boils a pot of soup, yeah,

1113
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, social Stephanie puts it on social media.

1114
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 8: This was a barley mushroom. Oh you know what, she's

1115
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:47,240
Speaker 8: pooping herself this morning. That one because the chicken.

1116
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: She and I had a little tay to tay last night.

1117
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into it, but social Stephanie

1118
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: posted up on Instagram what what do we think of

1119
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: the Bad Bunny halftime show? And of course, to this audience,

1120
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to.

1121
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 8: Happen a lot of people are gonna be negative and complain, but.

1122
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 7: It's exactly what she wants, right.

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00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: This is this is gonna this is gonna win the

1124
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: social media post contest of the week because people were

1125
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: up in arms over eh. So I did end up

1126
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: going to uh Lumel Noddy's. Luke cooked up a pizza

1127
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: for me thirty five minutes good to go. So Louz

1128
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: came through because man, I'm gonna tell you, I didn't

1129
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: think that. And I don't get me wrong. I like

1130
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: soup and I know it's the Super Bowl, but come on, now,

1131
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: did you happen to see this character, Mac Collins as

1132
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: a receiver and he had a couple catches last night,

1133
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: but he walked into the super Bowl last night? And

1134
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: I don't know in what reference his outfit was. You know,

1135
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: like everybody's wearing their best, right. They're coming in in

1136
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: adulgy and gobana and they're they're all fancied up and

1137
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: there they look like they're going to the super Bowl, right,

1138
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: and it's and they're coming in and they're making an

1139
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: entrance in this Mac Hollins guy comes in and he's

1140
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: wearing a plastic mask over his face and he's shackled

1141
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: and chained now and let me set the table for you.

1142
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: He's a white guy and he's carrying the jersey of

1143
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: his coaches high school jersey, and he wore that later.

1144
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: And he shouldn't have done that because it looked like

1145
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 1: a s medium on him. But I don't know what

1146
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: that was in reference to. Now, there was some kind

1147
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: of a note that he was carrying with him that

1148
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: made some reference to a prison in Colorado, but I

1149
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: don't know. But the thing I couldn't I couldn't take

1150
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: away his He walked in and shackles and change, which

1151
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: was fitting because the Seahawks defense pretty much had these

1152
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: guys shackled and chained all game, right right, So it

1153
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: was some kind of a political statement, Nick or Thomas,

1154
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: would you look that up for me?

1155
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 7: See?

1156
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: I know that there was there was a reference made

1157
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: to a prison somewhere in Colorado where they keep a

1158
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: lot of high level prisoners, but I don't know what

1159
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: the tie in was as to what the political message was,

1160
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: and I was too lazy to look it up. That's

1161
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: why I have Tom. He's like my consul Lari, Hey, Tom,

1162
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: could you do this for me? Y?

1163
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 7: He just goes, whyo, whatever you need?

1164
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: Ray, Ray some of the people were complaining too about

1165
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,919
Speaker 1: what it was parking was at the Super Bowl. Listen, man,

1166
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: if you go to a Super Bowl and god knows

1167
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,919
Speaker 1: what you're paying for tickets, I mean, they're just ridiculously expensive. Sure,

1168
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: five grand? Are you kidding me to sit up in

1169
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: the nosebleed sections? Well, if you're going to be at

1170
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: Levi Stadium, you're going to pay twenty thousand dollars for

1171
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: a good ticket. And people were all up in arms

1172
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: because of the price of parking. Parking as much as

1173
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: four to six hundred dollars per space make it tough

1174
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: to tailgate if you want to get three or four spaces, right,

1175
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: But I would think that if you're going to an

1176
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: event like the Super Bowl, your wallet's wfo anyway, So

1177
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: four or five, six hundred dollars for parking is probably

1178
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: commiserate with what you're playing.

1179
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 7: For the tickets anyway. Right.

1180
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: But twelve Super Bowls for the New England Patriots, they

1181
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: have won six of those, obviously lost six a cheesy math, Right.

1182
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 11: I've got your answer here, I think so. The reference

1183
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 11: for the jumpsuit was eighty X Florence, a supermax prison

1184
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 11: known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies, probably best known

1185
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 11: for housing inmates who have been deemed too dangerous, too

1186
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 11: high profile, or too great a security risk for even

1187
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 11: maximum security prisons, for inmates in need of the tightest control.

1188
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 11: As of twenty twenty two, the only inmates publicly known

1189
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 11: to have been incarcerated there are Ramsey, Yusef and El Choppo.

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00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 7: So I don't know if it was a political statement,

1191
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 7: because everybody.

1192
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 11: I think it was a Hannibal Lecter thing, right. I

1193
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 11: think he's just like, oh, yeah, this is the baddest

1194
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 11: of the bat and I'm one of them and I've

1195
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 11: got the mask on.

1196
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, But boy, they certainly did, because I know a

1197
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: lot of people saw that and are like, all right, well,

1198
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,439
Speaker 1: what is this political statement? And coming up this morning

1199
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Speaker 1: at A twenty one, we'll talk about Nick's views of

1200
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: mister Bunny's performance. Will play a little mister Bunny.

1201
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 7: We are glad you're here.

1202
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: This morning, Berman and Berman on the Bears wraps up

1203
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: the football season a LAH twenty twenty five, twenty six.

1204
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: Coming up this morning, it's an eight thirty five. We'll

1205
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: talk Super Bowl and what is ahead for your Chicago Bears.

1206
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: Eight thirty five this morning, Nick, and I'll cover mister

1207
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: Bunny and some of the Super Bowl nonsense from yesterday

1208
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: twenty one. But right now I like Military Mondays here

1209
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: on the Big eighty nine because it gives us a

1210
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: chance to sometimes we all fight like fools, and let's

1211
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: face it, without the men and women that fought for

1212
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: us to have this right, we could never do this.

1213
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: So we take Military Monday serious around here, so let's

1214
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: get after it. This is a veteran Roasters cafe that

1215
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna put them on the spotlight this morning. They're

1216
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 1: located right here in Talent one sixty one North Clark Street.

1217
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: They opened up in twenty seventeen and what they say

1218
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: their mission is is to create opportunities for at risk

1219
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: veterans right here in the heart of the city. Mark

1220
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: Doyle is here and that name rings a bell with me.

1221
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to that in a second. Mark, Welcome

1222
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: to WLS.

1223
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning you guys. Thanks you so much

1224
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 3: for I love that you're doing this and that you

1225
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 3: focus on it, and just thanks for always remembering who

1226
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 3: we are.

1227
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: What we do will mean that the way that you

1228
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: can help us is let your brothers and sisters know

1229
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: that if they need a hand, or if they want

1230
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: a little business shout out, or if anybody needs assistance,

1231
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: that would be willing and be all hands on deck

1232
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: to help people out, because you know, we've got to

1233
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 1: give back to folks like you that have paved the

1234
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: way for people like us. So the thanks goes to you.

1235
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: Do me a favorite, tell me mark your name rings

1236
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: a bell with me. Aren't you also the guy that

1237
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: founded Rags of Honor?

1238
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, yes sir. All right, yeah, so we

1239
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 3: did that about nine years ago. I was a civilian,

1240
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 3: spent the year in Afghanistan. That's part of an anti

1241
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 3: corruption task force. There were four of us who are

1242
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 3: civilians that attached to this anti corruption task force. And

1243
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 3: when I got back here in Chicago, there were just Chicago.

1244
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 3: There were two thousand homeless veterans in Chicago. And for

1245
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 3: the I got back in twenty twelve, spent the year

1246
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 3: I lectured at the Naval Postgraduate School, and then one

1247
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 3: day just decided we need to do something just to

1248
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 3: make a difference. So we started Rags of Honor as

1249
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 3: a soak screen and apparel company. Just went to work,

1250
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 3: hired six out of a local shelter, and without it,

1251
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 3: I didn't have a game plane. I just said, we

1252
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 3: got them. We have to do what we can to

1253
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 3: make a difference, and so we did, and we started

1254
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 3: with Rags of Honter, and in twenty seventeen we branched

1255
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 3: out to you know, the term cup of Joe has

1256
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 3: its derivations in the US Navy, so I thought it

1257
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 3: would be just an appropriate fit to build another vertical

1258
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 3: for veterans struggling, So we started Veteran Roasters. We roast

1259
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 3: here in Chicago, and last year we were fortunate enough

1260
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 3: to get an opportunity downtown. We're at the airport as

1261
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 3: well for anybody who's applying American Terminal three T fifteen,

1262
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 3: we've got a spot out there, and then we have

1263
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 3: this spot at one sixty one North Clark Street. And

1264
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 3: to your point earlier, we've now hired over one hundred

1265
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 3: and study seventeen almost veterans since we opened both companies.

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01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: And you know, much gets made about a coffee at

1267
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: the cost of it. Some of these other coffee shops,

1268
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: and I don't want to get into their names, but

1269
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: you know who I'm talking about here. But this year,

1270
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: where you guys are you know, every every single cup

1271
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: that you pour helps a veteran and I think that

1272
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: that's amazing. And again it's located at one sixty one

1273
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: North Clark Street. So if you find yourself in the

1274
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,200
Speaker 1: in the city, whether it's for your gig or maybe

1275
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: just down here visiting, make it a point to if

1276
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 1: you want to carry your cup around, you know, your

1277
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: little latte cup. Don't get it from one of these

1278
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 1: places that doesn't care about the men and women that

1279
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: helped shape a nation. Get it from our friends at

1280
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: the Veteran Roasters. How Mark, and this is Mark Doyle

1281
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: from Veteran Roasters, a part of our Military Monday, how

1282
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: do people get involved with the mission of what you've created?

1283
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: How do people if they need to find a gig

1284
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: or maybe get themselves a little uh you know, you know,

1285
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: back up on the on their feet. How do they

1286
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: how do they get in touch with you?

1287
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 3: So the best way to get in touch with me

1288
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 3: is I will give you my email and it is

1289
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 3: the parent company. It's Mark with a K at Rags

1290
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 3: of Honor dot Us Market Rags of Honor dot Us.

1291
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 7: That's easy enough to remember.

1292
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:31,800
Speaker 1: Market Rags of Honor dot Us will put that out

1293
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: there on our on our social.

1294
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 7: Media's as well. What what is in this? Uh?

1295
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: I mean you know you you, you obviously have done

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Speaker 1: tremendous outreach on behalf of the men and women that

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Speaker 1: have served. What do you what do you see that

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Speaker 1: they that they gained from this? I mean when when

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when you close the

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Speaker 1: shop up, what do you take from it?

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Speaker 7: It's like, yeah, I'm doing something worthwhile.

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Speaker 3: Here here is the real takeaway and you hit it earlier.

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01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 3: They need a place to live and you need to

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01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 3: have gainful employment, like that is the baseline. But and

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01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 3: if you and I'm you know, I know that you

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01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 3: are a separate five Award winner, so I know that

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Speaker 3: you are, so you will understand this as well. Some

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Speaker 3: of your listeners, especially those who have served a sense

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Speaker 3: of purpose. One of the things that plagues returning veterans

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Speaker 3: is they separate from their units, people who they blood, sweat,

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Speaker 3: and peers together. And it's not that civilians don't care

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Speaker 3: about them, they just don't have the same things in common.

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Speaker 3: And so we see that and what creates this loss

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Speaker 3: of a sense of purpose creates just a system of

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Speaker 3: isolation and isolation leads to drinking and needs, you know,

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Speaker 3: just bad habits. And I've seen it one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty times right, And we also fund a procedure that

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Speaker 3: helps secure posts stress. So I've seen this in its

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Speaker 3: most egregious sense as well, so the sense of purpose

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Speaker 3: that they are part of a unit, they have a

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Speaker 3: place to go every day, they're proud of what we

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Speaker 3: put out. They're working alongside other veterans, and they get

1323
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 3: to go home and say we had a great day.

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Speaker 3: I pay a living wage to two people who are

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Speaker 3: three people at this cafe, two of whom Rose and

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Speaker 3: Lewis were homeless seven months ago until we've trained them up,

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Speaker 3: got them, bereiched the training, and now they run the cafe.

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Speaker 3: So in our own little way, we're not changing the

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Speaker 3: whole world, but we're changing the world around us every day.

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Speaker 1: You know, I like folks like you because it's like

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Speaker 1: it always reminds me that I know I've told this

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Speaker 1: story before, and it's a goofy analogy here, but you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like the guy walking down the beach and he's

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Speaker 1: throwing a starfish back into the beach, and there's millions

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01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: of starfish on the beach and somebody says to him,

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Speaker 1: you can't possibly save all these starfish. What are you doing?

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01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: And he said, you know what it matters to that

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Speaker 1: one did? I just save it? And that's that's what

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01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: you're doing. And by way of that is it makes

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01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 1: people today are bitching and moaning about what Super Bowl

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01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: halftime show they watched, and this is the stuff that

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Speaker 1: we need to concentrate on because this is what matters.

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Speaker 1: So if you're in the American Terminal and you see

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01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: Veteran Roasters, or maybe you're downtown here in town and

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Speaker 1: you're on A one sixty one North Clark or even

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01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: in the area, even if you're blocks away from it,

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Speaker 1: make the trek on over to make a difference in

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Speaker 1: somebody's life because you're doing it, man, and that means

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Speaker 1: a lot to people.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Nat, Or you can go to Betteran Roasters dot com.

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Speaker 3: We have we ship all over the country and so

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Speaker 3: and so Veteran Roasters dot Com will ship right to

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Speaker 3: your door. But to your point, I founded this funded

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Speaker 3: with my own money. Do not take a salary normally

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01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 3: ever take a salary. So every single thing that every

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Speaker 3: dollar that comes in, every cup of coffee, we sell

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01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 3: to your point good roles right back into the company

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Speaker 3: to hire more better and keep them on their feet.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't think that being a barista take

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Speaker 1: some skill. We bought a coffee maker for the family,

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Speaker 1: one of these rebel coffee makers where you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's you know, to get down to the to the

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01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts of the coffee and the puck is

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Speaker 1: what they call it. Nick, you know, and you need

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01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 1: a good coffee to start with, and it certainly sounds

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Speaker 1: to me like you could get that at Veteran Roasters

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 7: Mark.

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Speaker 1: It's always nice to talk to you. I knew I

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Speaker 1: knew you from somewhere. And thanks for bringing up my

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Speaker 1: simper Fi Award. It means a lot that you that

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Speaker 1: you dug that far on me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we love it. Anybody does what you guys do

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Speaker 3: every day and it really really really means a lot.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for thinking of.

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Speaker 7: Us, buddy. We appreciate you. There you go. That's Military

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Speaker 7: Monday on.

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Speaker 1: W l S A m E ninety more kid Rock

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Speaker 1: tickets tomorrow A kid Rock is going to be Union

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Speaker 1: I Ampatheator on Saturday, May sixteenth, Papa's birthday.

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Speaker 7: He's not going to be there.

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Speaker 1: My dad, he's he's dead, but Arker McCollum will be

1383
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Speaker 1: there as well. I'd love it for him to show off.

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Speaker 1: Think about the good times, the good I do.

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Speaker 7: I do.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm so at ease with this whole death thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, it would have hurt me more if we

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01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 1: didn't have the relationship we did. If I die today,

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Speaker 1: my kids are going to be all messed up. They'll

1390
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: be like, you know, I should have been better to dad.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with your kids.

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Speaker 7: Give it time. I was thinking about you.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about you last night, Nick, because Nick

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Speaker 1: It texts me something about me raising liberal kids, and

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Speaker 1: I thought, wow, wait, wait until Texas and Walker Texas

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Speaker 1: and Walker Junior are sixteen and seventeen years old, Bud,

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Speaker 1: you ain't seen nothing yet.

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Speaker 7: Nothing.

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Speaker 8: Well, at least they know that the greatest president on

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Speaker 8: earth was Ronald Reagan one, the second was Donald G.

1401
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 7: Trump. Walker and Texas Ranger.

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Speaker 1: That's what they think now, because you're the only influence

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01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: they have in their life. Wait till there's a woman involved,

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01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: well there is their mother. No, I mean, wait till

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01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: somebody else comes in. I would say that I have

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01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: a one daughter that's neutral, one daughter that's a liberal,

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Speaker 1: and one son that's a conservative.

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Speaker 7: And I told him you called him a lib. I

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01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 7: didn't mean Connor.

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Speaker 1: Well, he didn't know that because I was sitting there

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01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: with him and I said, you know, Nick just accused

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01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: me of raising a bunch of libs.

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Speaker 7: And he goes, well, let's go visit Nick right now.

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01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 7: I know he wants to kick So we're gonna we're

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Speaker 7: gonna go visit. We're gonna come visit you.

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Speaker 11: Instead of Walker in Texas Ranger. You should call his

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01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 11: kids doctor Quinn and medicine woman.

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01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 7: Wait.

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01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,800
Speaker 8: Wait, because you know I love it, you know, Wait,

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01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 8: do you think this is hard?

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01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:32,519
Speaker 7: Wait?

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Speaker 1: My friend, last night we were watching the Super Bowl, Nick,

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01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: you watched a mister Bunny.

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01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 7: And what did you think of mister Bunny?

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01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 8: I mean, you know he was okay, I guess a

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 8: little flashy. Let me play a little bit of me

1427
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 8: mister Bunny.

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01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 7: Here.

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 1: This is mister Bunny from last night's halftime show. Okay, okay, okay, okay,

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01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: got a groove.

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01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was a groove, gotta beat. It

1432
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,519
Speaker 8: was all in Spanish. I didn't know what he was saying.

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01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, he said Nick Gailee is raising liberals. That's what

1434
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:25,720
Speaker 11: he said in Spanish Quinn medicine.

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01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 7: Medicine woman.

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01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh what I mean, but I mean the

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01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:31,799
Speaker 1: production had to be a production.

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01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 8: Production was pretty good, Yeah, I thought, you know, and

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01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 8: and he had some messages in there about lifting up

1440
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 8: Puerto Rico and stuff like that, and you know that's fine.

1441
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 8: Puerto Rico, you know, has suffered a lot of problems

1442
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 8: since that hurricane last year, and you know she'd give

1443
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,879
Speaker 8: him a little support, enough support.

1444
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: You seem to took some umbrich to him dancing on

1445
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 1: top of a four pickup truck.

1446
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,520
Speaker 7: Well, that's just disrespect.

1447
01:11:58,680 --> 01:11:59,639
Speaker 11: Was just a little unsafe.

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01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:00,440
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 8: Well yeah in nineteen seventy four f one hundred nice

1450
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:07,639
Speaker 8: trock Okay, Yeah, so I mean it.

1451
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 7: Was what it was.

1452
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:11,679
Speaker 8: And I guess, you know, my only point of contention

1453
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 8: was I couldn't understand anything you feel.

1454
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: As an American and you are you are a conservative American.

1455
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you were let down last night?

1456
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: You feel the NFL let you down? I mean, this

1457
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: is a Puerto Rican singer. This guy's so that you know,

1458
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is part of the United States. But you

1459
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 1: did not like, and I think and it's not just you, Nick,

1460
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: it's everybody. There's a lot of people that didn't like

1461
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't go with something that was

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01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more middle of the road.

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Speaker 8: They never played to the middle of the road. Well

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Speaker 8: they haven't for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Three one, two, nine hundred what you say, hello, Ray?

1466
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: Ray from an eight one to five texture. I don't

1467
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: know about this. Fox reported this morning at about five

1468
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,639
Speaker 1: in the morning that to Turning Point USA had ten

1469
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 1: million live TV viewers and twenty five million streamers last

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01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:00,920
Speaker 1: night for the ALLOA and halftime show.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you didn't know all the numbers last night, so.

1472
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,759
Speaker 7: And at one point I think there was six.

1473
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: And the thing is is it will continue to grow,

1474
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: right because people are going to watch this so and

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:11,680
Speaker 1: that's the thing. But they're still going to watch and

1476
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: they will watch the halftime show too.

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01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 7: But just to just to you know, the the.

1478
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 1: Juxtaposition here is the NFL had a year to plan

1479
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: for this show, Turning Point USA.

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Speaker 7: Had a week and a half nothing.

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Speaker 1: And for me, because Nick watched Bad Bunny or Mister Bunny,

1482
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,679
Speaker 1: I said I was going to watch the Turning Point

1483
01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:37,799
Speaker 1: USA show, not because that's, you know, just what we watched,

1484
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 1: probably because you don't have the ability to stream well.

1485
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:45,799
Speaker 8: And I didn't watch any pre game. I was focused

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01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 8: on the Puppy Bowl. Okay, team Fluff won, by the.

1487
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Speaker 1: Way, Nice, I'm glad you watched that, but I thought

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01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: it was well done. And the thing is is it

1489
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: wasn't over the top. It wasn't hey, you know, middle

1490
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: finger to you that think this way, it was just

1491
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: more of a kind of a rock and roll country

1492
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: centric show. It's incorporated a lot of a lot of Jesus.

1493
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: And here's a kid rock singing a first that he

1494
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 1: made to a song sung by Cody Johnson until you Can't,

1495
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: which is a wonderful song. You know, Nick, there's a

1496
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 1: lyric that just keeps sticking out of me of that song.

1497
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: It just keeps that is, you can always put a

1498
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 1: diamond on her hand until you can't.

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01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 7: Thanks for that. But here's the Bible section.

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01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:30,439
Speaker 14: There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that

1501
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:32,440
Speaker 14: could use some dust and off.

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01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 4: For all those sins hanging from the crop.

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 15: You can give you a love to Jesus, and you

1504
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 15: can't you a second chace till you can't.

1505
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 4: If you gotta take take it, take it.

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01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 7: By your god. You know, I don't know if Kid

1507
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,720
Speaker 7: Rock fifteen years ago can do that.

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01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: You know, the guys he's grown up. Sure, And I'll

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01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:10,160
Speaker 1: just like eminem, you know. And and sooner or later,

1510
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 1: all these guys, they they come around and and they're

1511
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: right back to where we are. Three point two five

1512
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: eighty nine hundred. Larry is in Joliet. I wants to

1513
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: say that mister Bunny was tossing some gang signs.

1514
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Larry, No.

1515
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 20: No, no, don't get me wrong, Ray Nick, Good morning guys.

1516
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 20: After after they spiked the ball bed Bunny came to

1517
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 20: the corner of the end zone and there are a

1518
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,799
Speaker 20: bunch of people around him with flags. One gentleman exactly

1519
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 20: to the right of him carrying a blue over white flag.

1520
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 20: I don't know what country or whatever that represents. But

1521
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 20: he had the gang signs all done by his waist

1522
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 20: and it was his He was holding the flag in

1523
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 20: his left hand and he was using.

1524
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:54,639
Speaker 1: His How do you know, I see somebody could flash

1525
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: a gang sign at me, I wouldn't know what the

1526
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 1: hell it was. How do you know these gang signs?

1527
01:15:58,120 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 20: I'm from Joliet Man, come.

1528
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 7: On, seriously, so you know what a gang sign is?

1529
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 20: Yeah, of course, yeah, okay.

1530
01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 18: I'm.

1531
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 7: All right.

1532
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of people flash fingers in

1533
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 1: the air and stuff like that, and I don't know

1534
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: if that means they're a member of Trendy and aga

1535
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: of the Latin Kings.

1536
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,719
Speaker 20: I don't care if it's Trendy, Agua or Latin Kings.

1537
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 20: I know what pitchforks are.

1538
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 19: Man.

1539
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay, you know what.

1540
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: For you, Mary, I'm gonna do a better job of

1541
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 1: making sure I know what gang signs are because I

1542
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: know that if you know, when I have Nick in

1543
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: my truck and he's singing in his arms are flailing,

1544
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:33,559
Speaker 1: I tell him, I'm like, put your hands down, you're

1545
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: gonna get a shot. That just makes him do it harder. John,

1546
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 1: Welcome to WLS. Good morning, Hey, good morning, Go ahead.

1547
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 8: John.

1548
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 12: Oh no, no, I was just if.

1549
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,599
Speaker 17: They're gonna put that stuff in Spanish, why can't they

1550
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:49,879
Speaker 17: close caption everything?

1551
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if there was a is there

1552
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: a portion on our TV, Nick, where we can close

1553
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: caption so we know what they're saying. I tell you what,

1554
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 1: And John, I appreciate your call, John's calling from Roselle.

1555
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: I wish I could watch that when I'm watching Telemundo

1556
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 1: because Gena always comes on right when they have the

1557
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: weather woman on and I'm like, I'm just trying to

1558
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 1: get the weather, and she's like, you don't know what

1559
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: they're saying, and I'm like, yeah, but I'm feeling the vibe.

1560
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 8: Saturday mornings. You should check out Mooie Colliente.

1561
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: I used to watch the Bottle Guillonte and I didn't

1562
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:21,640
Speaker 1: know what the hell he was saying either, But some

1563
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 1: of those people on that show, they were something. They're

1564
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: pretty Let's do a wrap up of the season with

1565
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: our friend Mike Berman. Okay, Berman on the Bears, Berman

1566
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl, Berman next on WLS.

1567
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 7: Well, Michael's been.

1568
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: With us for the better part of preseason, into the season,

1569
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: through the playoffs to talk about football, the Bears, and whatnot. Mike,

1570
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: that was an interesting game yesterday, pretty boring throughout the

1571
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: first half.

1572
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 7: But they say that.

1573
01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: Defense wins championships, and I think we saw that on

1574
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 1: this play last night.

1575
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 17: Yes, the old adage proving true. The Seahawks were the

1576
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 17: best team in the regular season when it comes to

1577
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:06,679
Speaker 17: points allowed, gave up seventeen points a game with a

1578
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 17: swarming defense, and we saw that on display last night,

1579
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 17: and that was a thorough beat down by Seattle. And

1580
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 17: all I could think as I was watching it is

1581
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 17: maybe it's a good thing the Bears didn't have a

1582
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 17: shot to go up to Seattle for the NFC Championship game.

1583
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 17: I say that jokingly, because of course we would have

1584
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 17: loved to see them go, you know, shoot their shot

1585
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 17: against Seattle in the NFC Championship Game. But I think

1586
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 17: that that was a Seattle team that was better than

1587
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:38,720
Speaker 17: the Bears. I don't think the Bears were going up

1588
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 17: there and winning and getting to the Super Bowl. So

1589
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 17: I think it's a performance yesterday.

1590
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:44,640
Speaker 1: I think you were absolutely right. And some of the

1591
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:48,480
Speaker 1: storylines were really cool. I didn't know that Jim harbaughs

1592
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: Son was part of the special teams or the special

1593
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 1: teams coach for Seattle. What a cool storyline that was.

1594
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: But boy, you talk about a city or a town

1595
01:18:57,120 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: or a state that doesn't seem to be able to

1596
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: get anything right. Go back to the Vikings in Minnesota.

1597
01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: And I know Sam Donald wasn't lights out last night.

1598
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: He did just enough to make sure the team did well,

1599
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: But I'm happy for that guy because the NFL sometimes,

1600
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 1: just like life, can provide second chances. An the shirt

1601
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: toed grab one.

1602
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 17: I love that too, well, said Ray, because you know

1603
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 17: what that's an example of it's just when, especially when

1604
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 17: guys get drafted, you know, early in the first round,

1605
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:30,480
Speaker 17: a lot of times you see them stepping into situations

1606
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 17: that are very challenging.

1607
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 19: You know.

1608
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 17: Case in point is Sam Donald going third overall in

1609
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 17: twenty eighteen, stepping into you know, the New York Jets,

1610
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 17: which is you know, that's hard when you're stepping into

1611
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 17: a dysfunctional organization and a team that's bad. That's why

1612
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 17: it earned the third pick in the draft. Yeah, you're

1613
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,839
Speaker 17: coming from usc where you're surrounded by so many good players,

1614
01:19:56,320 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 17: more good players than the other team just about every

1615
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 17: time you take the field. And yeah, he was knocked

1616
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 17: down many times, but got back up, got back up,

1617
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:12,719
Speaker 17: you know, just as many times, and had a great

1618
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 17: season last year in the regular season, but bombed out

1619
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 17: in the playoffs, gets his shot in Seattle, has another

1620
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 17: great regular season and now is pretty flawless in the playoffs.

1621
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 17: And I think that was You're right, he wasn't outstanding yesterday.

1622
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 17: But he didn't turn the ball over and Drake May

1623
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,480
Speaker 17: did three times. And that's a big differential.

1624
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 1: You know, you look at you and I think it

1625
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: was collins Worth that has said it last night. You

1626
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 1: could say what you want about Chris collins Worth on

1627
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: the broadcast team that had the call last year.

1628
01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 17: Here's the guy.

1629
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, here's a guy that's what he does, right.

1630
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: But he talked about listen, Drake May is going to

1631
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: be a star in this league. Yard he is right,

1632
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:52,879
Speaker 1: and he's a young guy. Came out of that quarterback

1633
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 1: class with Caleb Williams, and we know that this guy

1634
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,320
Speaker 1: is going to be a star. But you know, for me,

1635
01:20:58,439 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably why I kind of plus

1636
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm an NF I'm an NFC guy anyway, But that

1637
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,080
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold story for me was one that really that

1638
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: I that I dug.

1639
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:08,639
Speaker 7: But make no.

1640
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: Mistake that coach of Rabel and Drake May over there

1641
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: in New England, they've got something set up there for

1642
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: a little while.

1643
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:19,719
Speaker 17: Oh absolutely. I mean they go from worse to first,

1644
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 17: just like the Bears. They win fourteen games.

1645
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 7: May was.

1646
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 17: The most accurate passer during the regular season he's yeah,

1647
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 17: he's a stud. He was clearly not one hundred percent.

1648
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 17: He'd been dealing with a shoulder injury. But also the

1649
01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 17: Seattle defense was just in his face so fast that

1650
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 17: going back to what you said to start, that was

1651
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 17: a dominant defensive performance by the Seahawks and that's why

1652
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:51,880
Speaker 17: they won that game.

1653
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 7: Well, we know that.

1654
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the season, a lot

1655
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,639
Speaker 1: of things changed. I often say that we're just cheering

1656
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: for laundry, right because you can see all these teams

1657
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 1: moving things around. Al Harris is back to Green Bay,

1658
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 1: so many changes with the Bears organization already, and I

1659
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 1: think that Ben Johnson has this team on the fast

1660
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: track and I think they're going to be good for

1661
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: some years to come. But can we count on you

1662
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:14,800
Speaker 1: for doing Berman on the Bears next year, because I

1663
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: don't want to lose you.

1664
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 17: You know what, don't.

1665
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 9: I'm not.

1666
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:22,640
Speaker 5: I'm not.

1667
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:26,879
Speaker 17: Don't don't consider me a turncoat. Nick Gaale, I don't.

1668
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 1: Like that him and his sissy nails. He still has

1669
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: them on.

1670
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 7: By the way, you know.

1671
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 17: What, if we get if we get the sponsorships lined up,

1672
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 17: I'm back, guys, absolutely sent a blast and I think

1673
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 17: I think that, which he just kind of alluded to.

1674
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 17: You know that the Bears for the first time in

1675
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 17: a very, very very long time, are on solid footing

1676
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,600
Speaker 17: with you know, the coach and the quarterback and some

1677
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 17: of those foundational pieces, and you know, the division's good.

1678
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 17: So there's no gear tease. It's always tough year over

1679
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 17: year in the NFL. The injury situation plays a big role.

1680
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 17: But you know, I think the Bears future looks really bright.

1681
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 17: So would love to be back, guys. And you know,

1682
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 17: it's so much fun talking with you every Monday. So

1683
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 17: appreciate you having me on throughout the year.

1684
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:19,559
Speaker 7: Buddy.

1685
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: It was a it was a good season for the Bears.

1686
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 1: And we'll wrap her up and we'll talk to you

1687
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: again soon. Maybe you could do Berman on the Bats

1688
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,640
Speaker 1: and we can cover the Socks and and and the

1689
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 1: Cubs and in the in the Chicago Dogs.

1690
01:23:31,040 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 7: But always nice to have you on, pal. I wish

1691
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 7: you well and we'll talk soon.

1692
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 17: I like where your head's at ray. Thanks, guys, take care,

1693
01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 17: we'll talk soon.

1694
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:40,960
Speaker 1: I think Charlie Pooth did a heck of a job

1695
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 1: on the national anthem. We'll play a little bit of

1696
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: that for you right here. So Brandy Carlisle did God

1697
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: Bless America. I didn't watch any of the the Green

1698
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: Day pre show. I didn't want to do any of that.

1699
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: But here's a Charlie Pooth singing the national anthem. Folks

1700
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:56,719
Speaker 1: are saying that this is the second best national anthem

1701
01:23:56,760 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: ever done because nothing will ever Eclipse wouldn't Houston, which

1702
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:04,160
Speaker 1: was fabulous. Although I've heard Carrie underwould do the national

1703
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: anthem and it was crazy. And then I've heard Jim

1704
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: Cornelson do the national anthem at the Soldier Field and

1705
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: I think that's my personal best. So now I just

1706
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:16,400
Speaker 1: said this could be the second best, but maybe it's

1707
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,679
Speaker 1: the fourth best. Either way, guy did a great job yesterday.

1708
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:59,800
Speaker 1: This is from Levi Stadium, Super Bowl. Charlie Pooth gave

1709
01:24:59,880 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: me chicken skin. Hope it did for you as well.

1710
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: Then the flyover happens. You see those two very proud

1711
01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:09,879
Speaker 1: flyers fist pumping each other, and one of our listeners

1712
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: that's her cousin that was in that jet. Right after

1713
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: they flip on the afterburners and go to the danger zone. Austin,

1714
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: Austin m again, as I believe his name is the pilot,

1715
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 1: So very cool. It's funny how this social media works, Nick,

1716
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: to kind of bring everybody together or tear everybody apart.

1717
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: The bud commercial from a two one seven texture. That

1718
01:25:33,120 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: bud commercial says it all. They always do it right,

1719
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: you know when I watched that last night because I

1720
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: was waiting for the Budweiser commercially. This is the bud

1721
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:43,599
Speaker 1: Light dust up. There's been some problems for bud Light

1722
01:25:43,680 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: and that one last night. I think they did well. Nick,

1723
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: you said earlier you thought it might have been a

1724
01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,280
Speaker 1: little over the top. Well, it's just a little little corny,

1725
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: kind of corny.

1726
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:55,599
Speaker 8: But I shed a tear at the end. You shed

1727
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 8: a tear, of course I did. As a horse running alongside.

1728
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:02,560
Speaker 8: I mean, this is like America. It's like a Mustang.

1729
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 8: It's America as you can get. And the and the

1730
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 8: and the bald eagles they're flying and they're they're out

1731
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 8: to raise hell and take take America back.

1732
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 7: And I like at the end of the.

1733
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 1: Commercial where the good old boy says the other good

1734
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: old boy you crying right, No, Well that's something man.

1735
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: We finally found out what makes you cry.

1736
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 8: But it's funny because I was texting a couple other

1737
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,759
Speaker 8: people besides you whoa last night and we were all waiting.

1738
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 7: I'm like, where is this damn Budweiser commercial? Yeah, I didn't.

1739
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 7: I didn't watch.

1740
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:33,240
Speaker 17: You know.

1741
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: I always used to to dislike having to watch the

1742
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because you know, when you work on on

1743
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, like a pop station or you're in that genre.

1744
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to talk about the commercials. You got

1745
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 7: to talk about the commercials. Watch for the commercials.

1746
01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: And I did get a text last night from somebody

1747
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 1: within our office.

1748
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:52,760
Speaker 7: It said, watch for the commercials.

1749
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:56,920
Speaker 1: But some of the best commercials for the super Bowl,

1750
01:26:56,960 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: they say, were this, They like the calm Cast Exfinity commercial,

1751
01:27:01,080 --> 01:27:01,800
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park.

1752
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:05,479
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, the the d aging was weird.

1753
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1754
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 11: Is that all AI stuff? Yeah, they're using like AI protocols.

1755
01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:14,320
Speaker 7: Same thing with the Dunkin Donuts. Yeah yeah, but.

1756
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 11: I think it was kind of funny.

1757
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 7: Yeah. Oh I liked it.

1758
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 8: And you know, my my favorite part was Jennifer Aniston.

1759
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 7: And Tom Brady.

1760
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 11: Yeah that was good.

1761
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 7: How do you like these nuts? Yeah? But you know

1762
01:27:27,120 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 7: for Duncan Donuts that's thrown along right sure.

1763
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1764
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it was a whole nineties thing. They

1765
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 11: had Carlton from the Fresh Fire, right.

1766
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, rakle, Yeah. I looked at him and I'm just

1767
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: like laughing. Gina's like, who are these people? Oh man, Yeah,

1768
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:42,719
Speaker 1: don't worry baby.

1769
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 7: Uh.

1770
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 1: Owen Wilson and Sophia Viarga on Telemundo talking about, you know,

1771
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: drumming up the interest for the World Cup. But uh

1772
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 1: oh and then the the Hymns commercial lot of weight

1773
01:27:57,760 --> 01:27:58,720
Speaker 1: loss commercials.

1774
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:04,479
Speaker 7: Uh yeah. What was it on with the Polar Bears.

1775
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 11: That Coca Cola Pepsi making.

1776
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,920
Speaker 8: Making fun of coke? The Polar Bears are now drinking pepsi.

1777
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 7: You didn't even mention the puppy bowl? I did? He did?

1778
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:20,040
Speaker 7: He mentioned fluff one? Yeah, I didn't.

1779
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:20,760
Speaker 14: Uh.

1780
01:28:21,080 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 8: And that's great because you can watch that one early

1781
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:24,560
Speaker 8: because it's usually done by about.

1782
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 11: Yeah dude, yeah, well, just like, oh, there he is.

1783
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 11: The black lab has taking a dump on the field.

1784
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 7: The Most Valuable Puppy Award went to Boba.

1785
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:37,560
Speaker 11: And what's Boba's nationality?

1786
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 7: He's in a halfgan hound? Are you always Halfghan?

1787
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 12: Oh?

1788
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 7: My god, gloves an Halfghan? Are you kidding me? Nic

1789
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:50,760
Speaker 7: Gale's bad for Chicago, New Gale's bad for w l SH.

1790
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:52,400
Speaker 7: Nic Gale's a communist.

1791
01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 1: You watched, Bunny, I watched the Turning Point us say, listen,

1792
01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you watched, right, big deal. Yeah

1793
01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: it's over, you know it's And the thing is, I think,

1794
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:05,160
Speaker 1: by and large, I think America looked okay last night.

1795
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 1: I'll have to go back and watch all the game

1796
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: today and watch all the commercials so I can really

1797
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 1: be up to snuff on this.

1798
01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 7: Yeah. Right, I got better things to do.

1799
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 18: You know.

1800
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 1: NFL still kind of leaves me a little bit lonely,

1801
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to say that. And we

1802
01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 1: do have some sext messages that say, you know it,

1803
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:22,680
Speaker 1: since the kneeling incident, I just can't come back to

1804
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 1: the to the NFL, you know. And if I was

1805
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,920
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit better neck, i'd have been somewhere

1806
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 1: on a snowmobile yesterday. But I wasn't, and I still

1807
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 1: had a pretty darn good time with the whole experience. Now,

1808
01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 1: let's hear what our friend, her friend, Chris Platt has

1809
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 1: to pay, because he will, he will.

1810
01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 7: He takes everything and he puts.

1811
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 1: It under a microscope, and he will say that America

1812
01:29:44,439 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: is as much worse off today because of mister Bunny

1813
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: but either way, it's not the end of the world.

1814
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,439
Speaker 7: It's gonna be okay, gonna be all right. Tomorrow. We're

1815
01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 7: back at it now.

1816
01:29:53,400 --> 01:29:56,479
Speaker 1: We don't have mister Bunny tickets to give away, because

1817
01:29:56,479 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 1: you know what, we're an American radio station with an

1818
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 1: American me, Nick Hale.

1819
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:03,799
Speaker 7: He's just a terrorist. We've got to kid rock tickets

1820
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:04,599
Speaker 7: to give away. Tomorrow.

1821
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:07,679
Speaker 1: We'll give those away early for you. Appreciate you being here,

1822
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Chris plants next, right after Nick