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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some economic matters and something that's been

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Speaker 1: Schiff coming up on online. All right, before we begin

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Speaker 1: our regularly scheduled program here on I'm right, we want

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Speaker 1: to do what we always do and honor the fallen

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Speaker 1: And say a prayer for him. Say a prayer for

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Speaker 1: his family. They gave up their boy, and he gave

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Speaker 1: in peace, Warriors, seve to five. All right, now, I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about something that's been bothering me. Just

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Speaker 1: because well there was something this weekend. All right, So

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Speaker 1: last week, you remember Wednesday, Thursday? I remember what day

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Speaker 1: hit me hard, and I told you at the time,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's just some little neighborhood events, some horseshoes whatever.

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Speaker 1: But we had to order the food for it, and

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Speaker 1: delivery lady. Little old lady shows up, older car, you

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Speaker 1: it that way, in a funk, does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: She ever get yourself in a funk? And my wife

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Speaker 1: could tell, and she started asking me, what's bothering you?

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Speaker 1: What's bothering you? What's bothering? And I started thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: It's eating me up. It's eaten me up. How badly

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Speaker 1: Americans are suffering all around me right now. And I'm

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Speaker 2: The farmer going on ebt, the little old lady who's

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Speaker 1: They never even talk about them. They never mentioned at all.

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Speaker 1: You ready for this one? Write this one down, mister producer.

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Speaker 1: This won't be the last one. You know that it

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Speaker 1: Once Ukraine signs its peace agreement. Once they lose, and

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Speaker 1: the Lost can That is the War of Ukraine. Volodimir

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Speaker 1: and reflect the strength of American leadership. Farmer's going on

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Speaker 1: This is how much your government cares.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be advocating increasing the defense budget no

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Speaker 3: which is China, Russia and Iran. This administration. Budget requests

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Speaker 3: it no matter who get elected president, to increase our

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Speaker 1: Now, whatever you think about defense budgets, if you're that

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Speaker 1: McConnell's bad enough. That's bad enough. The GPS bad enough

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Speaker 1: could have played you a thousand clips of the GOP.

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Speaker 1: The most important thing in the world is your crane.

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Speaker 1: Bah blah blah. Oh my gosh, protests on Columbia bah

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Speaker 1: Correspondence dinner. This weekend, President, all the people in the

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Speaker 4: Everything feels strange now by a lot of measures, President

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Speaker 1: It's making laughs, having a good time in the economy. Ah,

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Speaker 1: All these people having destroyed it. They're going on television

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Speaker 5: Since President Biden came into office. Food prices, for example,

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Speaker 6: When you look at incomes, incomes are growing faster than inflation,

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Speaker 6: and when you look at food costs, those have also stabilized.

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Speaker 6: And what we know to be true is that input

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Speaker 6: And I've seen that myself. In terms of grocery shopping.

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Speaker 6: I've stopped going the grocery shop by my house and

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Speaker 6: seen prices come down. And what he's saying is that

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Speaker 6: All the grocery stores should pass on the lower cost

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Speaker 1: You're out there delivering groceries on a Saturday, and the

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Speaker 1: administration's blaming the grocery stores or bragging that what did

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Speaker 1: let it go. I'm telling you not stop caring. That's

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Speaker 1: not what I'm saying. I gotta stop taking it home.

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Speaker 1: I gotta stop letting it eat at me because it's

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Speaker 1: killing me right now. All that may have made you uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: but I am right. We have so much to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Peter Schiff's gonna join us next. Talk about this economy,

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Speaker 1: the economy that's degrading, crumbling probably a good way to

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Speaker 1: put it. But when's it stop? Does it stop? Let's

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Speaker 1: ask Peter about that before we talk to Peter. Speaking

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Speaker 1: these big coffee companies where you buy all your coffee

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Speaker 1: beans from in the store. Go look into them, Go

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Speaker 1: look into what they think about you and your values.

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Speaker 7: I think we've got a good, strong economy. We've got

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Speaker 7: very strong domestic demand consumers. You're holding up some low

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Speaker 7: income consumers or perhaps exhausting their buffers of saving that

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Speaker 7: bit more distress at the household level there, but generally

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Speaker 7: households are in very good financial shape or financial system

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Speaker 1: That's great news. Now, I haven't actually heard that from

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Speaker 1: many of the people I talked to in my normal life,

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Speaker 1: but I guess households are doing good and everything's fine.

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Speaker 1: So I don't even know why we're e from bothering

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Speaker 1: talking to Peter here. Maybe he has a different view

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Speaker 1: of things, joining me now, Peter Shift, chief economist and

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Speaker 1: Global Strategists that Europacific asset may Management. Peter, maybe we

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Speaker 1: should just hang up now. I had no idea things

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Speaker 1: were going so well. I thought grocery prices were up

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Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong.

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Speaker 9: Well, remember, Janet Yellen's job is not to tell the

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Speaker 9: public the truth.

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Speaker 8: It's, you know, to lie.

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Speaker 9: It's to make the public believe that the economy is

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Speaker 9: in much better shape than it really is. Her job

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Speaker 9: is to help reelect her boss, so that's why she's there. So,

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Speaker 9: you know, don't expect an honest assessment to come out

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Speaker 9: of Jannet Yellen. That's the last thing she's going to do.

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Speaker 9: bad news. Right, she makes lemonade out of lemons, and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, tell me about interest rates, Peter. They

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Speaker 8: I can't afford the rates.

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Speaker 9: Everybody has so much debt now because the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: Peter, I love small businesses for a variety of reasons.

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Speaker 9: You know, first of all, all the big businesses used

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Speaker 9: But the big burden that they have is inflation, regulations,

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Speaker 8: That are dry them out of business.

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Speaker 1: Peter, how does an open border affect the economy because

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Speaker 9: Then you've got other uh, illegal immigrants who come across

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Speaker 1: We'll be back. I haven't let Afghanistan go. And I

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Speaker 1: children out of joining because of it. It's really, really

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Speaker 1: freaking bad. Things are bad inside the military. And Amber

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Speaker 1: Smith knows about it. In fact, she wrote a book

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Speaker 1: about it. Joining me now, Amber Smith, veteran and now

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Speaker 1: author of the book Unfit to Fight, which I would

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Speaker 1: highly recommend. Amber. I know you know them because I

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Speaker 1: know them. In fact, we know many of those same ones.

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Speaker 1: I can't count how many g Watt veteran friends of

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Speaker 1: mine are done. They're done, and their kids are done. Hey, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: my sons aren't joining and my daughters aren't joined, and

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Speaker 1: they watched it and they're sickened.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, And it's a demographic.

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Speaker 11: The veteran demographic is something that the Pentagon has counted

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Speaker 11: on for years to sort of be this family business,

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Speaker 11: like if you served in the military, your kids are

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Speaker 11: so much more likely to serve in the military. But yeah,

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Speaker 11: I realized that in the research for my book that

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Speaker 11: veterans are done contributing. They've given enough, and they're saying,

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Speaker 11: I'm not giving up my kids to go deal with

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Speaker 11: these horrific foreign policy disasters that are being made out

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Speaker 11: of Washington, DC. And I'm glad to hear that you

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Speaker 11: are not giving up on Afghanistan and talking about it,

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Speaker 11: because that's exactly what the Abiden administration is counting on

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Speaker 11: as the American people to forget about what happened. And

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Speaker 11: during the evacuation, you know, we were all watching it

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Speaker 11: unfold in real time and wondering what the administration is

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Speaker 11: doing with actually flat out denying the reality of what

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Speaker 11: was going on on the ground. You had John Kirby,

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Speaker 11: a White House National Security spokesperson, from the podium talking

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Speaker 11: about how proud the administration was of the evacuation and

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Speaker 11: that they didn't even see the chaos. And so we're thinking,

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Speaker 11: what is going on with how they are attempting to

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Speaker 11: push this narrative, But if you look at the new

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Speaker 11: report about the investigations, weren't actually telling the whole truth

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Speaker 11: and giving the big picture about what was happening in

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Speaker 11: terms of it being a bigger, complex attack than the

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Speaker 11: picture that they initially painted for everyone. And it's because

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Speaker 11: they're attempting to influence history. They want the evacuation from

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Speaker 11: Afghanistan to not be remembered for it in its reality,

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Speaker 11: but how the narrative that they painted from the White

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Speaker 11: House podium, and it's working as you see, like there's

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Speaker 11: very little media attention reporting this most recent report that

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Speaker 11: talks about how the attack was likely much larger and

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Speaker 11: more complex than they originally talked about, and that maybe

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Speaker 11: working with the Taliban and handing over perimeter security of

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Speaker 11: the airport to the Taliban wasn't the best idea and

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Speaker 11: ended up with thirteen Americans killed.

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Speaker 1: Amber You and I have talked about this both on

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Speaker 1: the air and privately about the lack of accountability from

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Speaker 1: a leadership, from a flag officers standpoint, meaning you know

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Speaker 1: World War Two, everyone anyone who knows anything about it.

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Speaker 1: You look at a conflict like that, there's a general

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Speaker 1: getting fired or resigning in disgrace. Every other week, there's

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Speaker 1: an aberle getting fed, Guys getting court martialed for not

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Speaker 1: even really doing much wrong, just screwing something up. And

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Speaker 1: after Afghanistan, twenty years of failure, the only guy that

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Speaker 1: lost his job was a lieutenant colonel who called for accountability.

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Speaker 1: Where's the honor in the Flag Officer Corps anymore? What

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Speaker 1: happened to these people?

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Speaker 11: Where's the honor and where's the integrity? That's something that

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Speaker 11: is preached. It is preached all day long to anyone

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Speaker 11: that serves in the military. Is about integrity, and sadly

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Speaker 11: like leadership starts at the top. Right, we're seeing these

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Speaker 11: flag officers testify on the hill and straight up they

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Speaker 11: don't even try to hide it anymore. They've got talking points,

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Speaker 11: they've got their narrative. They know what their goal is.

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Speaker 11: Their goal isn't to win a war, is to get

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Speaker 11: more funding to continue the war.

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Speaker 10: So they go up on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 11: They tell them anything they want to hear, which is

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Speaker 11: the exact opposite of reality. We saw this in Afghanistan

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Speaker 11: where they talked about how the Afghan Army could stand

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Speaker 11: on its own two feet. They were doing, they didn't

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Speaker 11: need the US military support, were conducting the missions, which

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Speaker 11: anybody that was there knows is that the US military was.

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Speaker 10: Leading every mission.

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Speaker 11: They would like grab some Afghan interpreter or different Afghan

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Speaker 11: Army soldier to come with them so they could call

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Speaker 11: it an.

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Speaker 10: Afghan let mission.

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Speaker 11: So it's crazy that the Pentagon has spiraled this out

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Speaker 11: of control in terms of leadership, trying to circle the wagon,

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Speaker 11: and it's only gotten worse. After Vietnam, you saw this

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Speaker 11: sort of shift of leadership accountability and they didn't want

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Speaker 11: to have that sort of stain on the Department of

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Speaker 11: Defense as a whole. So instead of holding specific leaders accountable,

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Speaker 11: they are like, let's circle the wagons.

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Speaker 10: Nobody's going to get in trouble.

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Speaker 11: Maybe you'll get moved into a different job position, but

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Speaker 11: we don't want to deal with what they.

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Speaker 10: View as a pr disaster.

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Speaker 11: So culture in the military has only gotten worse, and

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Speaker 11: you have these leaders who fail up and have all

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Speaker 11: become yes men, and it has turned into this disasters

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Speaker 11: culture as it's immersed itself into foreign policy and how

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Speaker 11: the military plays a part in that. And it's sadly

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Speaker 11: the soldier on the ground is the one who has

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Speaker 11: to suffer the consequences of no accountability.

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Speaker 1: Amber, I'm glad, I'm really, really glad you wrote the

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Speaker 1: book Unfit to Fight, because I'm glad there are people

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Speaker 1: out there sounding the alarm about how bad the ROD

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Speaker 1: is because people don't understand how bad the ROD is

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Speaker 1: because we're not in some major war right now. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: we're not in any real war war right now. But

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Speaker 1: the rot the normal person doesn't see now is going

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Speaker 1: to rise to the surface real fast when things get

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Speaker 1: kinetic here at some point, and they always do, it's

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Speaker 1: going to get really bad when we get tested under fire.

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Speaker 11: It is, and we're already seeing the effects of it.

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Speaker 11: We are seeing a recruitment crisis that we have none

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Speaker 11: seen since the All Volunteer Force after the Vietnam War.

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Speaker 11: Even worse is the retention crisis. You're seeing officers who

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Speaker 11: are turning down baton command at the lieutenant colonel level,

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Speaker 11: and people who are just you know, writing out their

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Speaker 11: time till they can finish up their contracts and get.

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Speaker 10: Out the military.

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Speaker 11: The morale inside the military right now, you know, we

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Speaker 11: talk to military people every day, and it is the

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Speaker 11: stories that you hear is just that it continues to

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Speaker 11: get worse. The COVID vaccine mandates that kicked out over

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Speaker 11: eight thousand service members who wanted to be there, who

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Speaker 11: wanted to serve in the military and serve their country.

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Speaker 11: And we're probably the leaders that the military needs right now,

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Speaker 11: and instead the military kicked them out. You see the

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Speaker 11: you know, diversity, equity, and inclusion being the priority as

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Speaker 11: it exists today, instead of being mission focused. You see

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Speaker 11: standards being lowered so they can meet these quotas or

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Speaker 11: targets or goals that they want to make a more

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Speaker 11: diverse military, and in doing so, it's pushing this focus

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Speaker 11: on uniqueness and individuality of the military instead of rheesian

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Speaker 11: and trust and building the team, which we all know

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Speaker 11: is absolutely necessary to have a successful military. And all

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Speaker 11: of that combined has created a week er military. And

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Speaker 11: like you said, World War three is knocking on our

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Speaker 11: doorset pretty much. It seems like something new every other week.

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Speaker 11: We need a strong military right now, and instead we

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Speaker 11: have them focusing on all of these distractions that is

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Speaker 11: taking away from accomplishing the mission and training that prepares

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Speaker 11: us to be able to be successful with that mission.

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Speaker 1: Amber, how do we fix it? Because I want to

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Speaker 1: fix it. I know you want to fix it. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you served, you fought. We want this fixed. How do

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Speaker 1: we fix it?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So many people view a critique of military leadership

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Speaker 11: as somehow viewing saying that the entire military is bad.

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Speaker 11: And I say, as a service member myself, two wars,

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Speaker 11: military family for generations, if you care about the military,

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Speaker 11: you will want.

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Speaker 10: To fix it. And that means coming face.

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Speaker 11: To face with a very hard truth of what I

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Speaker 11: talk about in my book in Unfit to Fight.

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Speaker 10: In order to fix it.

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Speaker 11: It is going to take a new administration and a

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Speaker 11: president that wants to fix it. It will be making

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Speaker 11: drastic changes in terms of turning the military back into

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Speaker 11: a meritocracy where people you know, rise up in the

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Speaker 11: ranks because they're the best for the job, and not

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Speaker 11: one that wants to push equity over opportunity. And so

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Speaker 11: that is sort of step number one. Step two kind

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Speaker 11: of something we already hit on was accountability. There is

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Speaker 11: a two tiered justice system in the military right now,

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Speaker 11: and there are double standards, and the lowest level people

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Speaker 11: serving see it. They see exactly what just happened. Was

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Speaker 11: Secretary Austin when he went a wall for a week

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Speaker 11: and he did not tell his deputy that he was

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Speaker 11: going under the knife, he was going under anesthesia. Who

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Speaker 11: was in control of our military right then? No one.

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Speaker 11: That's the answer is that no one was in charge

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Speaker 11: of our military while Secretary Austin was having surgery.

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Speaker 10: The fact that that failure of.

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Speaker 11: Leadership and his ability to make a decision is absolutely

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Speaker 11: crazy that he was allowed to stay in that position.

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Speaker 10: But it just goes to show you there is no accountability.

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Speaker 11: If a private would have gone, you know, off post

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Speaker 11: had cancer treatment and not told his commander, he would

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Speaker 11: likely be charged with some sort of crime under UCUMJ

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Speaker 11: and Secretary Austin all he did was go up on

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Speaker 11: the hill and smirk and talk about like, yeah, probably

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Speaker 11: shouldn't have done that.

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Speaker 10: But that's about as far as it goes.

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Speaker 1: Amber. All we could do is laugh. Where can people

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Speaker 1: pick up your book? Please?

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Speaker 11: Anywhere books are sold Amazon, you can head to my

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Speaker 11: website Official Ambersmith dot com and fit to.

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Speaker 10: Fight, how woke policies are storing our.

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Speaker 1: Military unfit to fight? Go pick it up, Amber, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. All Right, someone's running for office trying

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Speaker 1: to run all this filth out of the DC. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk to him next. See what this guy is all

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Speaker 1: about Before we talk to him, let's talk about this neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Wife and I went out with the neighbors this weekend,

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Speaker 1: just dinner, chicken wings, watching a game, and their daughter's

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Speaker 1: off at college. Daughter gets in her car, backs out

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Speaker 1: of her dorm parking lot and she's backing out. Man

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Speaker 1: comes running up to her driver's side window, knocking on

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Speaker 1: the window. Hey, roll it down, roll it down. By

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Speaker 1: the grace of God, she did not pulled away. Cops

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Speaker 1: tracked the guy down later. He'd snuck into the dorm

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Speaker 1: looking to do bad things. Do you have a burn

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Speaker 1: up pistol launcher? And maybe more importantly, does that daughter

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Speaker 1: you sent away? Does she have a burn up pistol launcher?

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Speaker 1: Does your son have a burn up pistol launch Look,

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Speaker 1: even if they don't like guns, this is non lethal, right,

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Speaker 1: I carry lethal and non lethal. I always have a

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Speaker 1: BURNA pistol launcher shoots these pepper balls or tear gas balls.

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Speaker 1: It is a necessity. Your mom needs one, your daughter

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Speaker 1: needs one. It is a dangerous world out there, all right.

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Speaker 1: By RNA dot com slash Jesse In case you're wondering, Yes,

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Speaker 1: she does have her burna pistol launcher now Berner dot

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Speaker 1: com slash Jesse, We'll be back.

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Speaker 12: There's nobody more at fault for the condition of this

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Speaker 12: country than red state GOP voters. The reddest states in

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Speaker 12: this country give us the most putrid Republicans at the

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Speaker 12: federal level. Susan Collins is understandable, Tucker, sorry to get

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Speaker 12: all fired up.

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Speaker 1: It's understandable. She's from Maine. It's from a blue state.

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Speaker 12: Of course, we're gonna get some wishy, washy, mealy mouth

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Speaker 12: dork from.

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Speaker 1: That kind of state. For the Dakotas.

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Speaker 12: The Dakotas are so redd it's crazy. They could have

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Speaker 12: somebody to the right of me if they wanted to,

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Speaker 12: but they don't. Why I saw him on Fox last night,

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Speaker 12: I'll just gag.

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Speaker 1: Me with a fork. Well, apparently Rick was watching when

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Speaker 1: I was doing that whole thing. He got all fired

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Speaker 1: up about it. Understandably. Rick Becker joins us now have

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect for this guy. Candidate for North

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Speaker 1: Dakota's at large congressional district. You when I change DC.

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Speaker 1: This is how and again it's fringing North Dakota. It's

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Speaker 1: a former North Dakota state Rep. It's not like he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a record. I love the Dakota's easco pheasant

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Speaker 1: hunting there all the time when I.

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Speaker 8: Was a kid.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now Rick Becker, Rick, I'll never get it.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean to toss bombs at North Dakota.

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Speaker 1: My own state, Texas, we have losers like John Cornyn.

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Speaker 1: It's Wyoming, Wyoming's Republican party sucks, Nebraska, Louisiana.

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Speaker 13: Why well, Jesse, thanks for having me on. So here's

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Speaker 13: the thing the I think it's not so much about

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Speaker 13: the voter, but it's about the party apparatus. So when

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Speaker 13: you have a conservative state and they're electing more and

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Speaker 13: more Republicans, they get to a point where if someone

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Speaker 13: has a desire to have an elected position, right, if

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Speaker 13: they're aspiring to have that, they know they must have

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Speaker 13: an R behind their name or they're not going to

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Speaker 13: get elected. So you have people then that don't have

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Speaker 13: the conservative principles, but they have the spots. And so

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Speaker 13: the way I see it is the more the greater

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Speaker 13: the margin that the Republicans have in the legislature, in

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Speaker 13: the elected officials, the more likely they are going to

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Speaker 13: send a moderate sqush to DC. And the reason for

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Speaker 13: that is because you've got this paradox that when you

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Speaker 13: have all of these moderates, when people are getting elected

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Speaker 13: without conservative principles, you've then deluded the party to not

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Speaker 13: have the principles it's supposed to have. They're more intra

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Speaker 13: interested in protecting the club they're in. This party principle

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Speaker 13: is far less important the party, then, is It's incumbent

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Speaker 13: upon the party to send the people that represent the

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Speaker 13: party the moderate squish. And so here we are as grassroots,

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Speaker 13: principled conservatives fighting against the unit party, against the big spending,

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Speaker 13: big government rhino Republicans.

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Speaker 1: Rick, I need you to explain it to me as

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Speaker 1: a former state repon now somebody running as the at

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Speaker 1: large candidate, because I went through this when I ran

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Speaker 1: for Congress too. Why is it that GOP leadership, whether

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Speaker 1: you're in a state party or the national party, leadership

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Speaker 1: moves to the middle. And I understand what you're saying

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Speaker 1: about how a red steak can get more moderate. I do,

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Speaker 1: But why is it just automatically built in that the

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Speaker 1: further you go up to the top, the more towards

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Speaker 1: the middle you go. How is there nobody up there

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Speaker 1: where you are? How well it's a fight. It's a

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Speaker 1: never ending fight. It's been going on for decades.

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Speaker 13: The way I see it is that these leaders, they

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Speaker 13: think that they're supposed to encompass everyone who's within the party.

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Speaker 13: They put the party above principle. They need to focus

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Speaker 13: not on just the number of seats with and are.

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Speaker 13: They need to focus on a forwarding policy, forwarding fiscal

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Speaker 13: policy that represents the platform, the principles of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: They're not doing that. They're trying to be big ten.

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Speaker 13: They're trying to play happy to everyone, and what they

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Speaker 13: should be focused on is principle. And so yes, we

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Speaker 13: as conservatives in the Republican Party are disappointed and let

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Speaker 13: down time and time and time again.

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Speaker 1: Rick, tell me about your race, Tell me about why

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Speaker 1: you're running, what are your hot button issues? Tell people

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Speaker 1: about yourself.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, you know, my race, this race for the

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Speaker 13: House in North Dakota is it's a perfect example of

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Speaker 13: what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Jesse.

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Speaker 8: So, I'm a.

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Speaker 13: Plastic surgeon, a businessman. I was in the state legislature

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Speaker 13: for ten years as a grassroots conservative. I started North

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Speaker 13: Dakota's version of the Freedom Caucus, called it the Bostiacht

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Speaker 13: Caucus was able to introduce and pass significant important legislation

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Speaker 13: like constitutional carry, the Second Amendment, Preservation Act, Confidence Informant Reform,

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Speaker 13: Civil acid forfeiture reform, requiring search warrants for drone surveillance,

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Speaker 13: requiring state agencies to include the ramifications of taking federal money.

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Speaker 1: Huge, huge things. It's this type of track record.

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Speaker 13: For how I was able to get the endorsements of

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Speaker 13: Senator Rand paul A, Representative Thomas Massey, Representative Bob good,

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Speaker 13: the Veke Ramis Swami, at least eight, ten, twelve members

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Speaker 13: of the House Freedom Caucus. Now you contrast that to

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Speaker 13: the primary opponent I have, who is I guess, a

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Speaker 13: career politician in the sense that she was a political

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Speaker 13: staffer and then a lobbyist, and then she was appointed

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Speaker 13: as a public utilities regulator, someone who actually in North

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Speaker 13: Dakota is a proponent of renewables despite the fact that

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Speaker 13: we are reliant on fossil fuel. And she was chosen,

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Speaker 13: she was selected by Mitt Romney to run his campaign

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Speaker 13: in North Dakota. You've got here's where the war is.

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Speaker 8: This is fight.

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Speaker 13: You've got a solid grassroots, principled conservative against the unit

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Speaker 13: Party Rhino machine. I asked, Jesse, what do you think?

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Speaker 13: This is exactly the race? Who do you think is

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Speaker 13: going to represent North Dakota?

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Speaker 1: The best backed by Rand Paul, Bob Good and Thomas Massey.

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Speaker 1: Should be about enough about that should be about enough

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Speaker 1: for everybody. Those about the only three politicians we even

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Speaker 1: allow on this show. Real quick, Rick, give out your

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Speaker 1: website so people can support you.

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Speaker 13: Please yes, Rick Becker twenty twenty four. Rickbecker twenty twenty

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Speaker 13: four dot com. Please take a look. I'd love to support.

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Speaker 13: We got to get more fighters to DC if we're

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Speaker 13: gonna save this country, Jesse.

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Speaker 1: Rickbecker twenty twenty four dot com. Just so everybody knows,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Rick, I appreciate it. Just so everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that race, that primary is significantly more important than the

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Speaker 1: general election in November. You know that, right, The primaries

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Speaker 1: we set out are way more important than the general

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Speaker 1: elections we all show up to. That's in fact, all right,

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Speaker 1: whatever light the mood next? All right, it is time

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Speaker 1: to lighten the mood. And at a time where all

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Speaker 1: the news is bad, isn't it. I shouldn't say all that,

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Speaker 1: but most of the news is bad. You look around,

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Speaker 1: and there's famine and disease, and there's wars and spending,

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Speaker 1: borders open, and we're, oh, my gosh, this guy is falling.

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Speaker 1: But you should remember something. You should remember that the heroes,

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Speaker 1: they didn't just live in the past. Right. We look

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Speaker 1: back at World War Two and we say things like,

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Speaker 1: my goodness, where are the men like that today? You know,

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Speaker 1: if you ever said something or heard somebody say something

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Speaker 1: like that. Kidding me, There are plenty of heroes out

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Speaker 1: there today, plenty of men who will go above and beyond,

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Speaker 1: plenty of men who will do things normal men, mortal men,

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Speaker 1: could never hope to do like this legend.

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Speaker 4: He will fault, he the fault, he the false.

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Speaker 10: There're gonna see a thread, can you man?

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Speaker 12: You no final.

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Speaker 1: Respect sir. I'll see them