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Speaker 1: You're listening to Software Radio special operations, military news and

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Speaker 1: straight talk with the guys in the community. Hey, this

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Speaker 1: live right now with Congressman Michael Waltz, former or Green Beret.

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Speaker 1: I believe, Colonel correct sir, that's right, still going. I

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Speaker 1: think we're pretty sure I'm going for Congress. Jumping out

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Speaker 1: Actually it was jumping over a knees jare and looked

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Speaker 1: right now. Now, that's a great transition. So still in

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Speaker 1: that's what we would like to always remember it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you fall into that category. And so you have a

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Speaker 1: In order subscription, the kids get one a month. Actually,

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Speaker 1: violent wise, you know, that would be an option if

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Speaker 1: they didn't have like a gun involved, or if it

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Speaker 1: was somebody had a couple of joints on them and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just got the cups put on them.

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Speaker 1: Because that that happens, I'm just say yeah, no, And

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Speaker 1: states are heading in that direction. I think eventually the

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Speaker 1: federal government will as well. And then it's you know,

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Speaker 1: where do you draw new lines with with heroin, with cocaine,

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Speaker 1: with uh you know, I mean all types of other drugs,

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Speaker 1: with meth that have you know, devastated and right now

436
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Speaker 1: with fentnyl, the fentinyl is killing more will kill more

437
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Speaker 1: people this year than covid. Right that's being manufactured in China. Well,

438
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Speaker 1: and that's what's coming over. Is that bad stuff exactly,

439
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: you're hitting it right on the head. It's bad. Yeah,

440
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Speaker 1: it's bad. It's not good. But if it could be

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Speaker 1: made in the USA and provided by some type of

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Speaker 1: facility that was available in the community, and then they

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Speaker 1: can go and you know, like if you go to

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Speaker 1: the e er and you have cancer and you need

445
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Speaker 1: to get some pain meds, they'll give it to you.

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Speaker 1: You'll have it, but they don't let you go home

447
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Speaker 1: until they have overwatched you for the next two hours

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Speaker 1: and then they'll let you go home. So you know,

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Speaker 1: a little regulated. Yeah, it's just interesting, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just because the drug cartels would probably be a little

451
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Speaker 1: bit less, you know, anxious to get over here with

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Speaker 1: their drugs if if we was like nationally lead. I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize that that vote had just happened and that

454
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Speaker 1: you were involved in that, So that's kind of an

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Speaker 1: interesting you know segue there as well. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think about like back in the thirties, But now,

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Speaker 1: I was just saying on the human trafficking piece, it

458
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Speaker 1: is to the tunes of sillions of dollars a week,

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Speaker 1: and as our father, what breaks my heart is thirty

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Speaker 1: of the girls that are migrating across our border. So

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Speaker 1: do the math on. You know, when millions are coming

462
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Speaker 1: across are sold into human sex, slavery, human trafficking, or

463
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Speaker 1: sexually abuse, it really humanitarian prices and to just kind

464
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Speaker 1: of turn a blind eye and really do nothing about it,

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Speaker 1: it's unacceptable. I completely agree with that, and you know

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Speaker 1: it is unacceptable. It's it's I have two you know,

467
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Speaker 1: I have three kids. I know your family, man, it's

468
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Speaker 1: those that are listening to the podcast right now. They're

469
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Speaker 1: probably from a family, so you know, no matter what,

470
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, right, they come from somewhere.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, it's interesting just how something simple

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Speaker 1: could just seem like it say, stop so many issues.

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Speaker 1: But yet you know, I appreciate your take on that,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, thanks are going to bat for

475
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Speaker 1: your constituents and you know, the people that put you

476
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Speaker 1: in office are expecting you to go have these types

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Speaker 1: of you know, philosophies and thought processes. And I've got

478
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Speaker 1: no problem with that. You see a lot of people

479
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Speaker 1: are are totally like one side or the other side,

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Speaker 1: or this or that. I just want to say, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's multiple parties here in this in America for

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Speaker 1: for democracy to be achieved, okay, because that's how it works,

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Speaker 1: is you know, And and I feel like if I

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Speaker 1: was in there and we were talking, it would be

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Speaker 1: a mutual conversation. And are you pretty is it the

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Speaker 1: word bipartisan with your colleagues across the aisle? Are you

487
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Speaker 1: pretty open to hearing both sides? Are they listening to YouTube? Oh? Absolutely, well.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we listen to each other as much

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Speaker 1: as we should. And oftentimes it comes down, frankly, to

490
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Speaker 1: our to our leadership who you know. And that's just

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Speaker 1: gonna sound partisan, but I think, particularly with Speaker Pelosi,

492
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Speaker 1: that really focuses on scoring political points rather than you know,

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Speaker 1: really resolving a situation. But I co founded a bipartisan

494
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Speaker 1: caucus called the Four Country Caucus. As we're four country,

495
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Speaker 1: it's all veterans, and we've all served on both sides

496
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Speaker 1: of the aisle because you know, in the foxhole or

497
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Speaker 1: the plane or the ship, like nobody cares about political party.

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Speaker 1: Then in these bullets, uh perspective, we were willing to

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Speaker 1: die together for that flag. Then we could sit down

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Speaker 1: in a route together, in a roll of personally's and

501
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Speaker 1: hash it out and figure out where we agree or disagree.

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Speaker 1: And so we're absolutely about that. In the committees that

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Speaker 1: I'm on, Armed Services and also Science based and Technology,

504
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of bi partisan work. The media

505
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Speaker 1: doesn't often report on it because the media loves drama, right,

506
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Speaker 1: that's what drives clicks and and viewers and ratings. But

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Speaker 1: good by partisan work actually does get done. We've had

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Speaker 1: a defense bill that has passed every year for sixty

509
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Speaker 1: one year straight to take care of our minimum women

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Speaker 1: out on that wall. So and to do that we

511
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Speaker 1: have to make compromises. Yeah, we do have to make compromises.

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Speaker 1: And that's what relationships are about. Is you know, whether

513
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Speaker 1: you're getting married or you're gonna get into business with someone,

514
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Speaker 1: you have to make compromises in that relationship so that

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Speaker 1: you can see success. It can't just be all one sided.

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Speaker 1: I always say, if you're talking to yourself, you're always right. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you know, if you don't, if you don't throw

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Speaker 1: it out there for someone else to maybe come back

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Speaker 1: and you say, hey, Rad, that's probably kind of a

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Speaker 1: crazy idea. I'll think about that, you know, So back forth, communicate, right,

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Speaker 1: even if it's like Morse code style, you know, like

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Speaker 1: my dad used to be in the Green Berets who

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Speaker 1: do Morse code, did it all the time to be like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're going to communicate. Yeah, it doesn't any

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Speaker 1: good to be the smartest, smartest person in your own

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Speaker 1: mind right all the time. Yeah, that communications and where

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Speaker 1: you're at right now, you know we need all the

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Speaker 1: smart minds. Oh, I'm just gonna leave it at that.

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Speaker 1: I'm recruiting more veterans run for office. And in the

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Speaker 1: late nineteen seventies, three quarters of the Congress and the Senate,

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Speaker 1: the House and the Senate where that's today, we're at

532
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Speaker 1: a record low in our nation's history at six And

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced that record low in terms of that's in

534
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Speaker 1: Congress explains our record amount of dysfunction, because again, it's

535
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Speaker 1: not what we agree on every issue It's about that

536
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Speaker 1: ethos is putting country first, getting the job done, be

537
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Speaker 1: having an objective mindset. If you fail and combat or

538
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: in business like, bad things happen. And that's the mindset

539
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: we need. So I've got green berets, Navy seals, of pilots.

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Speaker 1: We have a record number recruited to run for office

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Speaker 1: this year. And it don't have to be for Congress.

542
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: It can be for city council, for state representatives. You know,

543
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a local tax collector. It's

544
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: that mindset that we need to get back to service

545
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Speaker 1: and put in country above self. Yeah, most definitely, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that's why we have the greatest military in the

547
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Speaker 1: entire world is because it's an all volunteer military right now,

548
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Speaker 1: and everybody there's choosing to be there. Um, some of

549
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: the lifers that are like in their twentieth year. You know,

550
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Speaker 1: you guys joined in a couple of different presidents ago,

551
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Speaker 1: and you guys are still staying through. And so what

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00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: I want to say to piggyback on what you just

553
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, come together, is if all of

554
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Speaker 1: if everybody can just keep passing the budget bill for

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Speaker 1: the military sixty one years with who we have in

556
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Speaker 1: even with as many veterans as we had then, and

557
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Speaker 1: now I like to hear that, okay, because I really

558
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Speaker 1: care about you know, body armor on my guys and

559
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: gals that are fighting and you know at the Redwood forests, Okay,

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00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I mean if we can just and the manatees well,

561
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Speaker 1: and the other thing you know that just other than

562
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Speaker 1: I think your listeners really need to be focused on

563
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Speaker 1: is the threat that's coming from China and front And

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Speaker 1: when I say when I say that, I mean the

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Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party, the government, not the wonderful, amazing culture

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Speaker 1: and people they fully intend to supplant the United States

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Speaker 1: as a global leader. Chairman z, the leader of China

568
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Speaker 1: is openly talking about replacing the American dream with the

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Speaker 1: China dream. And that's not a dream. I want my

570
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Speaker 1: kids and grandkids an authoritarian view of the world that

571
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: I want them growing up. Then their navy is now

572
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: larger United States Navy. They're launching more into space than

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Speaker 1: the rest of the world combined, including the United States

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Speaker 1: and man. At the end of the day, they're doing

575
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Speaker 1: it on our money. Between what our pension funds are investing.

576
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Speaker 1: Wall Street, Hollywood academia. And every time you take a

577
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: stimulus real estate, every time you take a stimulus check

578
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: to Walmart, and it goes right over to Maiden China Manufacturing.

579
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Speaker 1: It's all going over there to fund their military build up.

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Speaker 1: And it is something that we as a country have

581
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: got to wake up to, right. It's almost like how

582
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Speaker 1: forward the company used to make the get the steal

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Speaker 1: and they bring it in one into the factory and

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Speaker 1: then like at Willy Wonka's factory would be off and

585
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Speaker 1: then it shows a Chevy Silverado come out. But instead

586
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: we've gotten complacent of buying off the shelf these products

587
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: that have been mined in other places, instead of owning

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Speaker 1: the mind, the ethical workforce of the mind, keeping it

589
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, from you know, farm to table if you will,

590
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Speaker 1: except you know, yes, steal to Silverado, however you want

591
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: to call it right, So if we can bring that

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Speaker 1: back to the American culture where you know, these big

593
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: boys are pulling the products from their own owned minds

594
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Speaker 1: and their own owned places and then bringing it all

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00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: USA made, I don't know that can help, you know,

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Speaker 1: alleviate the dependency on going overseas to these other places

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Speaker 1: that you reference that do support these big boxed wors Okay,

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Speaker 1: So with that said, Congressman, Colonel American homie that I

599
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: called you on the show. I really appreciate you taking

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Speaker 1: the time take out of your busy schedule to to

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Speaker 1: chat with me and my and my listener that's on

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Speaker 1: right now, and and soft Rep really appreciate you and

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Speaker 1: would love to have you back on and we can

604
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: kind of pick up at another pace if you have

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Speaker 1: any other items that you would like to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say thanks on behalf of me

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Speaker 1: and software and a nation. We are grateful. So welcome

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Speaker 1: home from all those places you've been. If you've not

609
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: been ever welcomed home, So welcome home from those And

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Speaker 1: do you have any last word you like to say? Yeah, thanks, Yeah, Look,

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Speaker 1: it's great to be on with you. Thanks for letting

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Speaker 1: me talk about the children's book Onto the Brave again.

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00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: Everybody can find it on bravebooks dot com. And getting

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Speaker 1: these values, these ideals of service, of sacrifice, of putting

615
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: a call is bigger than yourself, as there was a

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Speaker 1: real focal point in your life, I think so important

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Speaker 1: take it into kids minds at at an early age.

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Speaker 1: Not only will they be a better citizen and a

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Speaker 1: better person, but will be a better country for it.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for letting me talk about a man. Happy

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Speaker 1: to come on with you guys any time and talk

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Speaker 1: about what we're doing with the Armed Services Committee and Congress.

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Speaker 1: You know, still you gotta get over to Normandy and

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Speaker 1: if you get a chance to jump out of a

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Speaker 1: World War two aircraft, who are not even the better?

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Speaker 1: But if you I'll let you. Joy. Remember I'm six

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Speaker 1: five to eighty. You can tandem me, sir. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: might need a bigger parachute for that one. Give me

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Speaker 1: a home V parachute. I have no problem. They can

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Speaker 1: drop a home vy, they can drop rat Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: all I gotta say. Yeah, I'll see it on the

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Speaker 1: on the slope sometime, oh for sure. And thank you Congressman,

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Speaker 1: Colonel Mike Waltz, awesome author, family man and Floridian. So

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Speaker 1: thanks again. And this is rad with Software Radio, same

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Speaker 1: piece you've been listening to self red Radio