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Speaker 1: Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you hanging out with us. I know that

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Speaker 1: many of you have already started your Memorial Day weekend.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you are listening by the pool, maybe you are

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Speaker 1: listening on the golf course or on the road as

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Speaker 1: you begin your travel. Positive right off the top four

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Speaker 1: year low on gas prices. For those of you as

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Speaker 1: we enter the summer holiday travel season, you have never

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Speaker 1: paid less, certainly as a percentage of the inflation that

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden ran up to a large extent, than what

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Speaker 1: you are going to be paying for gas this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And that is a sign that the Trump economy is

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Speaker 1: beginning to pick up speed. Because I've argued for some

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Speaker 1: time on this program that the number one way most

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Speaker 1: people in America decide how the economy is going is

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Speaker 1: by what you have to pay when you fill up

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Speaker 1: your gas tank. And we are at four year lows,

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Speaker 1: and if you factor in the crazy Biden inflation, the

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Speaker 1: lows are even better because unfortunately, our dollar has been

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Speaker 1: devalued by the twenty plus percent increase in prices that

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Speaker 1: we saw during Biden's tenure. But we got a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about today. Buck is out, He'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, but I am solo with you here today.

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Speaker 1: We got a bunch of guests in the back half

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Speaker 1: of the program. Carol Markowitz going to join us at

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Speaker 1: one point thirty. She is a part of the Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show podcasting network, and she has been

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Speaker 1: very outspoken on how anti Semitism as well as the

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Speaker 1: COVID chaos has impacted her own life. She has three

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Speaker 1: young kids. She dos podcasts normally about being a mom

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Speaker 1: with Mary Catherine Ham. We will talk with her at

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Speaker 1: one thirty Eastern about halfway through the program. Frank Siller

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Speaker 1: as we head into Memorial Day. Frank Siller from Tunnel

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Speaker 1: to Towers will join us in the third and then

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Speaker 1: West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey. That is the lineup of

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Speaker 1: guests that we are headed into discussion with in the

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Speaker 1: back half of the program. But I wanted to start

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Speaker 1: and sadly, I was thinking quite a lot about it

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Speaker 1: in the wake of the murder of two innocent Jewish

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Speaker 1: happen to have the gall to be Jewish, and that

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Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm a big history fan, and the

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Speaker 1: reason I love history is because nothing is ever new.

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Speaker 1: There is always a reflection in some way of a

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Speaker 1: past historical story that is in some way slightly different,

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Speaker 1: but in many ways evocative of what has happened before.

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Speaker 1: And I want to do a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: deep dive here off the top, because I'm seeing all

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Speaker 1: these different connecting tendrils that to me are telling us

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Speaker 1: that we are on a path that we have to

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Speaker 1: reject because I don't like where it's leading us. And yes,

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Speaker 1: Trump November fifth, twenty twenty four was incredibly important, and

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Speaker 1: there are lines of demarcations suggesting that we are rejecting

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Speaker 1: that path. But I actually saw a connection between what

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Speaker 1: in the identity politics culture arena in which we all

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Speaker 1: where these connections are and how I see them all

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Speaker 1: creating a situation that is not ideal for where we

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Speaker 1: are headed. October seventh, twenty twenty three, was the Deadly

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Speaker 1: day for Jews since the Holocaust. It's important because many

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Speaker 1: of the people out there who have been lecturing me

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Speaker 1: side of history have actually managed, i think, quite thoroughly,

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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is this identity politics, woke

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Speaker 1: not someone who's going to sit around and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: racism didn't exist in the past. But the idea that

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Speaker 1: you should be defined by the color of your skin,

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Speaker 1: and that in a larger context it defines whether or

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Speaker 1: not swung from if you're black in America you are

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Speaker 1: if you're white in America, in the minds of many

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Speaker 1: is a pernicious racial identity politics that has been created

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Speaker 1: now and brown skinned people are good. And I don't

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Speaker 1: undergirds the entirety of what's going on in the United

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Speaker 1: so there is this idea that if you are white,

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Speaker 1: but I've been thinking about it a lot. If we

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Speaker 1: would adopt basically two truths that I believe are self evident,

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Speaker 1: and I'll start with the first. It is white, Black, Asian,

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Speaker 1: and Hispanic people are all capable of being racist. There

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Speaker 1: has been embedded critical race theory, this idea that only

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Speaker 1: white people can be racist. If you decided that because

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Speaker 1: And we've got people hugely different backgrounds listening to us

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Speaker 1: on the content of their character, not the color of

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Speaker 1: is a defense of that incident based on the race

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Speaker 1: in the context stuff much less serious. But some of

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Speaker 1: It's actually just taking us back to the nineteen fifties

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Speaker 1: many positive things. But again from a historical perspective, a

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Speaker 1: the choices that they didn't make. Nobody chooses their gender,

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Speaker 1: Nobody chooses their gender. Nobody chooses their race. To allow

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Speaker 1: in the concept, which is old, older than any of us,

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Speaker 1: it pertains to how Caitlin Clark of all people, might

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, five years ago, if you bought gold

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Speaker 1: gold back then was just over two thousand dollars an ounce. Today,

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Speaker 1: It makes sense to own. If you're seeing the value

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Speaker 1: and it has been skyrocketing and value because throughout history

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Speaker 1: that is of incredible value. Here's what I want you

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Speaker 1: I want to get Carol's take on this. I have

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Speaker 1: challenged Angel Reese, who hates Caitlin Clark, to a basketball

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Speaker 1: I'm texting it to you. So the Daily Wire wrote

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Speaker 1: They have misidentified this is It is the racism of

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Speaker 1: my buddies just sent me this, like who is the

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Speaker 1: They got Angel Reyese right. Good for them because they've

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Speaker 1: gotten the wrong black girl. Yeah, if they gotten the

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much time you've spent in basketball analysis.

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Speaker 4: This is how you try to make me care about

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Speaker 1: You would watch would you watch? Yes? Of course, and

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Speaker 4: I like your quote. She plays basketball all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's accurate, That's one hundred percent accurate.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you could take her. I think anybody

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Speaker 1: Well, then certainly that would be a real battle of

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Speaker 1: Seventy five thousand dollars a year. Legitimately, you get drafted

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Speaker 1: You like that. You can search images to see. So

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Speaker 4: I'm at a history tournament, Clay, I'm at a history

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Speaker 1: How does the history tournament work? Is that like quiz bowl?

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Speaker 4: I know approximately, Like on his regional competitions, I would

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Speaker 1: So is it world history? Like they can be asked

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did they still have the bell? Like you have

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Speaker 1: I mean there are worse places you could be. I'm

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? No, I absolutely see that connection, and it's funny,

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Speaker 4: And obviously Christianity has the same issue, maybe on a

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Speaker 1: So no, I mean, it's a great example. I didn't

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Speaker 1: They made fun of the Last Supper in France, which

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Speaker 1: I mean, Charlie, hipgo. They all got killed for putting

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Speaker 1: that's a good analogy too. Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 4: Well, you're absolutely right. Well, first of all, I just

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Speaker 4: get through the security. Having said all that, I've absolutely

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Speaker 4: there three years. The Jewish community had long been anti guns.

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Speaker 4: And again this is before October seventh, this is January

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. So when the crowd started booing her,

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Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, something has really changed in the

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Speaker 4: Jewish world. And I hear from Jews all the time.

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Speaker 4: They're getting armed, they're getting trained, and it's really important

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Speaker 4: to do that. You know. Another thing I've written about

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Speaker 4: in terms of guns is you don't you know people

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Speaker 4: say I'm not a gun person. When you say that,

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Speaker 4: When you say I'm not a gun person, you're saying

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Speaker 4: I'm not a helping other people person. I want to

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Speaker 4: be the kind of person that can step in and help.

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Speaker 4: Therefore I am a gun person.

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Speaker 1: I think that is incredibly well said and all over Israel.

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Speaker 1: When I traveled in December, I saw moms carrying guns

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Speaker 1: on their hips now in a way that they never

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Speaker 1: would have before October verse seven. I like your question

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Speaker 1: of basically like who you are allowed to hate, because

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Speaker 1: I do think it goes to the embodiment here of

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Speaker 1: the Jewish faith is I mean Jewish people look around

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Speaker 1: and they say, we've been hated for thousands of years,

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Speaker 1: the idea that we would suddenly be and and by

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Speaker 1: the way, also have spoken up for so many other

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Speaker 1: groups that we believe have been oppressed or treated unfairly.

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Speaker 1: And then suddenly you look around and the people that

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Speaker 1: you have been fighting for don't have your back at all.

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Speaker 1: What has that realization been like?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because I don't have that as much

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Speaker 4: because I'm a conservative, and I've been a lifelong conservative.

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Speaker 4: You know, I can't. I was born in the Soviet Union,

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Speaker 4: I came to America as a small child. You don't

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Speaker 4: become a liberal after that. So I was a conservative

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Speaker 4: of my whole life, and my conservative world has been

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Speaker 4: generally amazing, amazing on protecting Jews in America, I mean

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Speaker 4: thing on Israel in general, conservative the conservative side has

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Speaker 4: been just above and beyond. I mean, just you know,

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Speaker 4: yesterday box sexon Now your co host posted some commentary

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Speaker 4: about the shooting and just how you know America won't

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Speaker 4: stand for it, and how Jews deserve to feel safe

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Speaker 4: here and that kind of thing, and I reposted it

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Speaker 4: on my Instagram because I wanted my liberal Jewish friends

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Speaker 4: to see it, and I posted, you know, if this

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Speaker 4: isn't your friends today, you don't want them. And my

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Speaker 4: friends have been unbelievable. You've been unbelievable. I just I

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Speaker 4: feel such a warm embrace from the conservative side. Having

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Speaker 4: said all that, obviously there's been an uptick on the right,

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Speaker 4: all people kind of moving in a dangerous direction. I

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Speaker 4: think the villainization of Israel on the right has been

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Speaker 4: kind of scary, But I also think it's still very limited.

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Speaker 4: You still have the people who kind of say bad

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Speaker 4: things about Jews or say bad things about as well,

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Speaker 4: even the Candaice Owens of the world. They still kind

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Speaker 4: of have to dance around it. You know, they'll always

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Speaker 4: be like, I have no problem with Jews, I have

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Speaker 4: no problem with Israel. I just have a problem with

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Speaker 4: and then they'll say something like not Yahoo or something.

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Speaker 4: The democratically elected leader of Israel. So it's still far

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Speaker 4: better to be on the right than it is to

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Speaker 4: be on the left. And I understand why so many

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Speaker 4: of my liberal Jewish friends are feeling, you know, like

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Speaker 4: they've lost their bearings. They've they've stood with these people

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Speaker 4: in a variety of marches and causes and whatever, and

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Speaker 4: these people don't have their backs. And what I would

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Speaker 4: say to them is this is the time to get

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Speaker 4: have your eyes be open, realize who does stand with you.

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Speaker 4: The Jewish vote for Donald Trump, for example, increased by

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Speaker 4: a lot this last time. He got thirty percent in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty. I think it's in the forties this time,

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Speaker 4: and that should keep moving up because the right is

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Speaker 4: a friend or friends to Jews, their friends to Israel,

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Speaker 4: and Jews in America should wake up and.

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Speaker 1: Notice that Carol, your podcast is up. Everybody should be

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Speaker 1: checking it out if they aren't. As a part of

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Speaker 1: the Clay and Buck podcast network. Four days of quiz

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Speaker 1: Bowl is a heck of a long time of quiz bowls.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you stepping away from that to hang out

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Speaker 1: with us, and good luck to your fifteen year old

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Speaker 1: on dominating the quiz Bowl comfience year old twelve year

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Speaker 1: old twelve year old sorry, fifteen year old girl is

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Speaker 1: the oldest, right, this is the middle one, yes, middle one?

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Speaker 1: All right, good deal. Well we'll talk again soon, but

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Speaker 1: keep up the good work.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Carol Markwitz. I really do highly impress upon you that

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Speaker 1: you check out Obviously she writes at the New York

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Speaker 1: Post and does fabulous work there. But I really do

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Speaker 1: impress upon you if you haven't checked out the Clay

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Speaker 1: and Buck podcast network. We have a lot of super

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Speaker 1: talented people from a variety of different perspectives that I

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Speaker 1: believe you will enjoy. Maybe now is the time you

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Speaker 1: can check it out because you're on the road for

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day looking for something to listen to. I know

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing that tomorrow as I go

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Speaker 1: up to the Indy five hundred book as we kind

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Speaker 1: of are talking about the awfulness of what happened to

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Speaker 1: those two Israelis or I guess it was one Israelian one.

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Speaker 1: I think the woman was born in Kansas, if I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken. It is unfortunate reflective of the rise in

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Speaker 1: anti Semitism that we are seeing not only in the

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Speaker 1: United States but around the world. I mean, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: very long ago that the governor of Pennsylvania's house was

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Speaker 1: burned down, the Governor's mansion by someone who was trying

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Speaker 1: to stand up. They thought, for Palestine, that is completely unacceptable,

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Speaker 1: and that's one of the things that the IFCJ is

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Speaker 1: trying to fight back against. They've rushed so much emergency

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Speaker 1: aid to Israel, purchasing everything from pre packaged emergency food, water, flashlights,

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Speaker 1: building bomb shelters, fortifying emergency vehicles. They even helped move

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Speaker 1: entire hospital wing structures underground, which we saw when we

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Speaker 1: were there, because of the concern about missiles that might

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Speaker 1: otherwise be arriving in northern Israel. The IFCJ has helped

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Speaker 1: install nearly two hundred mobile bomb shelters near bus stops.

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Speaker 1: You can join us in supporting the International Fellowship of

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Speaker 1: Christians and Jews by calling eight eight eight four eight

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Speaker 1: IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org.

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Speaker 2: Stories are freedom stories of America, inspirational stories that you

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Speaker 2: unite us all each day.

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Speaker 3: Spend time with Clay.

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Speaker 2: And find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever

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Speaker 2: you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in our number three Friday edition headed into

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Speaker 1: the Memorial Day weekend holiday. And certainly there's so many

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Speaker 1: of you out there with friends and family who have

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Speaker 1: made the ultimate sacrifice to protect this country and everything

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Speaker 1: that it stands for. And I've talked about this before.

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Speaker 1: We were gonna bring in Frank Siller here in a moment.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's had the opportunity to do this.

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Speaker 1: One of the greatest trips I have ever taken in

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Speaker 1: my life was I got to spend an entire day

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Speaker 1: touring the beaches of Normandy. I've talked about it on

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Speaker 1: the program before. We had a private tour guide took

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Speaker 1: the boys, all three of my boy's wife met our

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Speaker 1: tour guide in Normandy. He took us around to all

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Speaker 1: the beaches. So much of that area still looks the

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Speaker 1: exact same as it did eighty some odd years ago.

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Speaker 1: We toured the cemetery there where they have so many

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Speaker 1: American soldiers who are laid there in the rows of

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Speaker 1: white crosses. We bring in now Frank Siller, who lost

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Speaker 1: his brother on nine to eleven which is how Tunnel

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Speaker 1: to Towers came to be one of the truly great

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Speaker 1: charities that exists anywhere. Frank, I know you are a

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Speaker 1: student of American history in many ways as well. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever had that opportunity of touring the beaches of Normandy?

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Speaker 1: And if not, has there been a place outside of

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Speaker 1: certainly New York City where you have been raising money

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Speaker 1: and fighting back against what happened on that day on

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and that you have toured that has

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Speaker 1: particular resonance for you as you think about Memorial Day.

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Speaker 6: Yes, well, of course, there's so many places that we

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Speaker 6: could go to honor those who have given the made

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Speaker 6: the ultimate sacrifice, and certainly Narlington, which have been to

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Speaker 6: I mean, I take most.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you should be there.

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Speaker 6: But I was invited last year for the anniversary of

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Speaker 6: D Day to parachute into Normandy. Oh wow, And uh yeah,

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Speaker 6: I was invited by these great uh you know, the

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Speaker 6: the Special Forces Green Berets, and and I honestly, because

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Speaker 6: I didn't serve. I said to him, there's two reasons

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Speaker 6: I said, I didn't serve, So I feel, oh, they

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Speaker 6: should do it because they're going to have me on

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Speaker 6: their plane that they were going. And we do a

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Speaker 6: lot of things together, and they helped raise a lot

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Speaker 6: of money for the foundation, and they equal over the

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Speaker 6: country for us. And I said, the second reason is

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Speaker 6: I'm not jumping out any plane. And I said, the

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Speaker 6: second reason might be might be the first reason. I

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Speaker 6: don't know if i'd have the courage to jump outside

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Speaker 6: the plane. That's why these heroes that that that do

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Speaker 6: these things, they're extraordinary. They're extraordinary that they have the

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Speaker 6: courage and not only just jump out of a plane,

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Speaker 6: they're jumping out out of a plane that is being

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Speaker 6: fired upon, you know what I mean. So, uh, these

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Speaker 6: heroes have given us our country. We have to on

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Speaker 6: this on this sacred weekend. We must remember them and

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Speaker 6: their families what they've done for us and and this

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Speaker 6: great country that we live in. So and I know

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Speaker 6: you're always preaching that to everybody, and I and I

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Speaker 6: thank you and Buck for doing it always.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: We feel fortunate to be able to talk to an

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Speaker 1: audience that has so many people who have given their

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Speaker 1: we all have. You mentioned not wanting to jump out

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Speaker 1: But frank one of the baddest ass stories, and there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of those from the Greatest generation, the

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Speaker 1: them on d Day. The first time they ever went

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Speaker 1: up in an airplane, they jumped out of it. Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine, like, if you, for anybody out there that

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Speaker 1: is listening to us right now, if you can remember

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Speaker 1: the first time that you were on an airplane. Many

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Speaker 1: of these guys are just farm kids. They hadn't hardly

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Speaker 1: been anywhere. They end up in the rangers here jumping

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Speaker 1: out of airplanes. They had never even been in airplanes before.

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Speaker 1: Think about this. You take off, You're in the sky

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Speaker 1: for the first time ever in your life, and they're like, okay, kid,

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Speaker 1: you're jumping out now. I mean, it's just a different

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Speaker 1: level of bravery and and balls. Frankly, then you see

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Speaker 1: almost anywhere.

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Speaker 6: Can you imagine, No, I can't imagine that. And that's

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Speaker 6: and that's why you know, we owe so much to

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Speaker 6: the Greatest Generation. I mean, God, what they did. But

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Speaker 6: you know what, you know, after the after nine to

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Speaker 6: eleven and when our men and women went over in

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Speaker 6: Afghanistan and Iraq and for that war for so many years,

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Speaker 6: you know, found out we still have the greatest generation. Uh,

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Speaker 6: these kids that went and you know to protect here

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Speaker 6: us here so another nine to eleven what't happened are

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Speaker 6: incredible and that's why the total of the Talents Foundation

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Speaker 6: were indebted to every single one of them, and why

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Speaker 6: we've made the promises that we've made, Clay, and you've

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Speaker 6: been to so many of our events. You see you

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Speaker 6: see the great heros that we have there and these

655
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Speaker 6: families once again have made the ultimate pay, the ultimate sacrifice.

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Speaker 6: And you know, we made a promise that you know,

657
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Speaker 6: goph forbid, these great heroes don't come home and they

658
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Speaker 6: leave behind a young family, we're going to deliver them

659
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Speaker 6: a mortgage free home and or if they come back

660
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Speaker 6: catastrophically injured, we're going to build them a mortgage free

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Speaker 6: smart home, you know, to give them back some of

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Speaker 6: their independence. And we've been doing that for quite a

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Speaker 6: while now. And you know this weekend, We're giving the

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Speaker 6: Way twenty five mortgage free home to some of these

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Speaker 6: great heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice in their families.

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Speaker 1: That's a tremendous gesture. Especially we're sitting here now. I

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Speaker 1: think I've got the math right. We're coming up on

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Speaker 1: the twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven. Next year

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Speaker 1: will be twenty five, and I know there probably will

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Speaker 1: be even more attention being shined upon it. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe that it's been twenty four years since that day?

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Speaker 6: No, I can't. It's you know, I look at my my,

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Speaker 6: my brother's My brother had five kids when he died

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Speaker 6: in nine to eleven when he made that heroic run

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Speaker 6: through the tunnel to the towers with his gear on

676
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Speaker 6: his back. And you know he had a youngest child

677
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Speaker 6: was nine months old. Now, that nine month old. Two

678
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Speaker 6: days ago we did a house dedication up and up

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Speaker 6: by Albany, New York, for a spun home for specialist

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Speaker 6: Mike Maynard. And he, my nephew, spoke at this. Now

681
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Speaker 6: he's twenty five, and he spoke, and he spoke so

682
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Speaker 6: beautifully about his daddy's Steve Junior, Steve Stephen still a

683
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 6: junior and I'm looking at him. I'm saying I was.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't even speak after him. I was so emotional,

685
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Speaker 6: And I'm saying, it's twenty four years later, but it's

686
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Speaker 6: so so painful, and the loss is still there. And

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Speaker 6: that's what all these families go through, not just nine

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Speaker 6: eleven families, all these gold Star families. You know that,

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Speaker 6: you know, all these police officers and firefires that die

690
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Speaker 6: around our country every year, and you know, this year

691
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Speaker 6: we're paying off over two hundred mortgages for these great heroes,

692
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Speaker 6: you know, all over the country. And you know, so

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Speaker 6: there's a big price that's he's made.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 6: I cannot believe it's twenty four years later, but we

696
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Speaker 6: must make sure that people don't forget. And you know,

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Speaker 6: on weekends like this, people I hope remember, you know.

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Speaker 6: I know they all want to have a nice barbecue,

699
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Speaker 6: me included. But we have this barbecue. We're we're talking

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Speaker 6: to my grandkids, you know, we're telling them all about

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Speaker 6: you know what happened. I was at a dinner last

702
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Speaker 6: night where they raised a lot of money for the

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Speaker 6: foundation they run by a guy who's a paratrooper himself

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Speaker 6: or a Vietnam War and Purple Heart recipient. And he

705
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Speaker 6: has this beautiful golf course country club in New Jersey,

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Speaker 6: Eagle Oaks, and he puts on this beautiful event. He

707
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Speaker 6: raised a half a million dollars in the Tunnel to

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Speaker 6: Dallas Foundation to make sure that we continue the work

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Speaker 6: that we do. And General Flynn was there, He was

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Speaker 6: the keynote speaker. And it was a it was a

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Speaker 6: beautiful night. But I had my grandchildren there. I had

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Speaker 6: my grandchildren there to make sure some of them some

713
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 6: are too young, but you know some of them are not.

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Speaker 6: They and they were there and they hear all these

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Speaker 6: stories of heroism. And you got to start teaching your

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Speaker 6: kids and your grandkids early on about America and why

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Speaker 6: we are the greatest country that ever existed.

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Speaker 1: Next year, President Trump will be in charge of the

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our declaration of independence,

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Speaker 1: really our founding as a country. Will also be the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven. You know President

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Speaker 1: Trump pretty well, you and I feel like I know

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Speaker 1: him pretty well at this point too. But for people

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Speaker 1: out there who don't know him, Memorial Day, what do

725
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Speaker 1: you think it means to President Trump? And what has

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Speaker 1: President Trump meant for tunnel to Towers in your experience

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Speaker 1: knowing him.

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Speaker 5: Well, he is.

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Speaker 6: He is a great supporter of Tunnel to Dallas. There's

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Speaker 6: no question about it. He loves what we're doing. I've

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Speaker 6: spoken to him several times about the foundation. He knows

732
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Speaker 6: everything about Tunnel to Tallas. This guy knows everything about

733
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Speaker 6: everything just about It's incredible the knowledge he has. But

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Speaker 6: he and such at a level. Let me just tell

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Speaker 6: you one quick story about President Trump. I got a

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Speaker 6: call around September eleventh, this past twenty twenty four, just

737
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Speaker 6: you know what, this past year, and he was coming

738
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Speaker 6: in to pay respect at ground zero and they asked

739
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Speaker 6: me to what she where should he go the President's

740
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Speaker 6: team and I said, you really don't need me for that,

741
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Speaker 6: but I'll be more than happy to help you. And

742
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Speaker 6: I suggested this one firehouse, which anybody that knows anything

743
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Speaker 6: about the sacrifice that was made would suggests this fire

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Speaker 6: house four and fifteen, which is a fire house that's

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Speaker 6: pretty close to ground zero. And so he goes.

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Speaker 3: He goes there.

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Speaker 6: He's found at ground zero with the reading of the names,

748
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Speaker 6: and we go over there and a motorcade to go

749
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Speaker 6: to meet the families they lost fifteen families plus at

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Speaker 6: this firehouse on nine to eleven, and he stays there

751
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Speaker 6: for an hour and talking to whatever families are there

752
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Speaker 6: that were of the fifteen that were there, holding their

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Speaker 6: you know, conversations with them, looking at the internal memorial

754
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Speaker 6: that they had inside the firehouse. He was just he

755
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 6: was so in tune to these families. And I'm one

756
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 6: of those families not from that firehouse. You know, my

757
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 6: brother was at Squad one. But he was so gracious

758
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Speaker 6: with his time and with his emotions.

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Speaker 7: It was it was.

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Speaker 6: Beautiful to watch. Nobody saw that. The press didn't cover that,

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Speaker 6: you know what I mean, So nobody saw that, I mean,

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00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 6: and he was doing all that, and that's where he

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00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 6: especially one on one. He's incredible about how much he

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Speaker 6: cares and if you if you've made a big sacrifice,

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Speaker 6: if you protected our country or our community, he's even

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Speaker 6: more in tune to it and and wants to help out.

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Speaker 6: So I know that he has big plans for the

768
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Speaker 6: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this great country, and

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Speaker 6: I know that he wants to be part of that,

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Speaker 6: and I know he wants to help us with the

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00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 6: twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven. He wants to

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Speaker 6: help the Tunnel of Talis Foundation because we don't waste

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00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 6: people's money. You could see where it goes. It takes

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00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 6: care of mortgage free homes for these great heroes that

775
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 6: have done everything for us. So he is somebody I

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00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 6: can rely upon to help us on a mission to

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00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 6: do good and get the word out there to make

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Speaker 6: sure that we never forget no doubt.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Frank Seller, a Tunnel of the Towers.

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Speaker 1: I was with you in October of last year and

781
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Speaker 1: saw you raising millions of dollars at the Liberty Golf

782
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Speaker 1: Course in New Jersey. And then I was with you

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Speaker 1: just a couple of months ago down at Trump West

784
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Speaker 1: Palm Beach, and I saw you raise millions of dollars more.

785
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Speaker 1: You don't stop. But for people out there that are

786
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Speaker 1: listening to us and are interested in helping you to

787
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Speaker 1: help as many people as possible that are making sack

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Speaker 1: sometimes the ultimate sacrifice, often the ultimate sacrifice for our country,

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Speaker 1: how can they help?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's simple, go to t TOWO t dot org.

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Speaker 6: Obviously it stands for Tunnel to Towers, So t the

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Speaker 6: number two T dot org and donate eleven dollars a month.

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Speaker 6: It's not a lot. We're not asking you to do

794
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 6: but a lot, but you should do something. Everybody who's listening,

795
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 6: it's your responsibility to do something to these great families

796
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 6: that are left behind or if they're catastrophically injured, when

797
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 6: we give them a mortgage free smart home, it is

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00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 6: your responsibility. Tunnel to Towers are made a promise that

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Speaker 6: we're going to take care of every family who dies

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Speaker 6: in the line of duty and leaves a young family behind.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna pay off their mortgages, we're gonna give a

802
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 6: mortgage free home, and we're gonna do that for catastrophically injured.

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Speaker 6: And now you know we're doing for homeless veterans. Over

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Speaker 6: ten thousand homeless veterans off the street the last two years.

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Speaker 6: I just finished. We just bought nineteen new properties. We

806
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Speaker 6: broke around Atlanta, brading in Florida, Memphis, Bayville, New Jersey, Harrisburg, Denver, Buffalo,

807
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Speaker 6: New York, Detroit, in South Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, Orlando, Sacramento, Cleveland, Bronx,

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Speaker 6: West Palm Beach in Puerto Rico, We're building a homeless

809
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Speaker 6: veteran village in Puerto Rico, because you cannot believe how

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Speaker 6: many great heroes have served us from Puerto Rico, served

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Speaker 6: Dark Country Jackson, New Jersey, Portland, Charlotte, Kansas City, Seattle, Dallas, Austin,

812
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Speaker 6: Long Island, Las Vegas, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Again,

813
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 6: we are doing this all over our country because there's

814
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Speaker 6: too many homeless veterans out there in the street and

815
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Speaker 6: it's disgusting and we can't let that be. So, you know,

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Speaker 6: we have a lot of work ahead of us, but

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Speaker 6: not eleven dollars a month. Fire Department says, many hands

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Speaker 6: makes slight work. So go to tetwo t dot org

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Speaker 6: and be part of those many hands so we could

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Speaker 6: take care of these great heroes.

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Speaker 1: Brank, I appreciate everything you do. Look forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: you again soon. And i'd encourage everybody to echo just

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Speaker 1: what he said t twot dot org and join us

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Speaker 1: in giving a little bit to help a lot.

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Speaker 6: A bless you and God bless America.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us as we're rolling through

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Speaker 1: the Friday edition of the program headed into Memorial Day weekend.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys are going to be safe wherever

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Speaker 1: you are across the country. We are joined now by

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Speaker 1: West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey. Appreciate him joining on with

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Speaker 1: us right now. And there's a lot we're going to

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Speaker 1: dive into with you, Governor, but right off the top,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to tell us all about what you've got

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Speaker 1: going on when it comes to helping veterans become teachers.

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Speaker 1: It's a very great idea, particularly here on Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: weekend as we celebrate veterans who gave the utmost. Where

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Speaker 1: did the idea come from, what is it like and

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Speaker 1: how is it going so far?

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, thank you so much for having

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Speaker 7: me on. And this is not an idea that I

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Speaker 7: came up with, but you know I'm smart enough to

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Speaker 7: learn from people who are spending a lot of time

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Speaker 7: on these topics. And for those who don't know, there

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Speaker 7: used to be a federal program of troops to teachers

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Speaker 7: provision and program a number of years ago. But we

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Speaker 7: had a couple of legislators who were veterans who really

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Speaker 7: were thinking a lot about different ways that our former

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Speaker 7: troops could get into the classrooms because they know that

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Speaker 7: West Virginia is the state where we have a shortage

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Speaker 7: of qualified teachers, and so a number of these veterans,

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Speaker 7: over a multi year period, kept trying to push a

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Speaker 7: bill that would allow veterans to get into the classroom quicker.

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Speaker 7: And as you know, a lot of times in various states,

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Speaker 7: there's a slowdown of how long did it take to

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Speaker 7: get into the classroom, have to go through eighteen different

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Speaker 7: hoops and certifications to get through. We said, look, we

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Speaker 7: need to start to move that a lot faster. And

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Speaker 7: so now under this new Troops to Teachers law, we

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Speaker 7: have a chance to get these veterans into the schools quicker.

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Speaker 7: We're going to bypass some of the red tape that

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Speaker 7: exists right now. I'd like to get them even quicker.

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Speaker 7: But this is a way we begin to address our

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Speaker 7: school teacher shortage. It's also a way that we reflect

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Speaker 7: the great experience that these veterans have.

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Speaker 5: Pretty amazing.

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Speaker 7: You're looking for leadership, organizational skills, and knowledge.

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Speaker 5: The ability to relate to people.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you can't really do much better than vets.

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Speaker 7: So we thought it was a great bill. Kudos out

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Speaker 7: to Tom Willis and Bill right noouer to the people

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Speaker 7: that we're driving in the legislature, and you know, when

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Speaker 7: I heard about this bill, we got involved and we

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Speaker 7: knew that we had to tout it so that we

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Speaker 7: can get more vets into the schools.

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Speaker 1: No doubt, West Virginia is maybe the reddest state in

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Speaker 1: the country. Now, how would you assess what West Virginians

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Speaker 1: think of the job Trump has done so far?

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Speaker 7: Look, I think West Virginians are very happy with President Trump,

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Speaker 7: and they know that he's shaking things up in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 7: He's striving for America's energy independence, which helps West Virginia

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Speaker 7: tremendously because West Virginia is America's energy state. He's looking

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Speaker 7: for ways to take on the swamp and return power

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Speaker 7: back to the states and to the people. That he

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Speaker 7: has common sense, conservative ideas that we also appreciate in

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Speaker 7: West Virginia. So look, I think he's doing very very well.

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Speaker 7: You know, we had a lot of positive things in

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Speaker 7: his first term. I think it is even stronger here

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Speaker 7: in his second term of office. So I was just

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Speaker 7: at the White House a little bit earlier today and

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Speaker 7: I saw the President and a lot of cabinet members yesterday.

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Speaker 7: And let me tell you, these guys are working their

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Speaker 7: tails off for the American people. And I know that

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Speaker 7: West Virginia is going to benefit and it's been a

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Speaker 7: pleasure partnering with them. You know what a change going

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Speaker 7: from Biden to Trump for West Virginia. It makes all

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Speaker 7: the difference in the world.

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Speaker 1: No doubt. And I'm curious. You've lived in West Virginia

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Speaker 1: for I think twenty some odd years now. I know

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Speaker 1: you're originally from the East Coast, but what do you

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Speaker 1: think the evolution of West Virginia's voting history. I live

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Speaker 1: here in Tennessee, and certainly there's been an evolution here too,

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Speaker 1: but from a place where Demock were rock ribbed and

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Speaker 1: felt very confident that they were going to always get

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Speaker 1: those votes to a place now which, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I mean right up there with Wyoming and a few

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Speaker 1: other states voted Trump and for you voted Red as

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Speaker 1: aggressively almost as any state in the nation. What does

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Speaker 1: that evolution reflect, not only about West Virginia, but I

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Speaker 1: think to a certain degree, and certainly Joe Manchin would

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Speaker 1: reflect this too, the collapse of the Democrat Party when

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Speaker 1: it comes to just being a party that normal people

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Speaker 1: with common sense supported.

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Speaker 5: I think that's right.

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Speaker 7: Look, all discussions have to start with the fact that

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Speaker 7: you had a series of presidents on the Democrat side

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Speaker 7: that sold out West Virginia.

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Speaker 5: When you have people.

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Speaker 7: Openly talking about ending the use of coal and showing

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Speaker 7: great disrespect for our energy resources, that's never going to

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Speaker 7: push on a favorable light in West Virginia.

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Speaker 5: And we had that.

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Speaker 7: Even if you go back to Gore the two thousand race,

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Speaker 7: many people may remember that George Bush won in West Virginia,

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Speaker 7: and everyone talks about Florida being the difference maker in

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Speaker 7: two thousands, but in reality, West Virginia's electoral votes were

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Speaker 7: critically important and for a long time prior to that,

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Speaker 7: we're just considered locks in the Democrat column. So I

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Speaker 7: would say that coal and our energy resources and just

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Speaker 7: the common sense conservative values that people show that the

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Speaker 7: Democrat Party.

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Speaker 5: Has gone so far off the rails.

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Speaker 7: And I think people know that, you know, whether it's

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Speaker 7: men playing sports with women or some of these crazy

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Speaker 7: issues pretending to DEI. You know, we actually were doing

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Speaker 7: some cleanup of DEI. Even in West Virginia when I

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Speaker 7: came in, there's still some DEI we were working to

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Speaker 7: clean up. So I would say that West Virginians are

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Speaker 7: looking for common sense in their government. But we care

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Speaker 7: about our freedoms and we want to have the ability

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Speaker 7: to really grow, lift up our standard of living, driver

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Speaker 7: educational attainment. And I think President Trump wants that, and

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Speaker 7: people knows that while the state has moved, no one

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Speaker 7: is taking anything for granted. I certainly won't, you know.

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Speaker 7: I want to work hard and run through the finish

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Speaker 7: line every single day to help West Virginia grow. And

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Speaker 7: that's why we're talking about doing our backyard brawl against

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Speaker 7: all the states that we touch, lifting ourselves up economically,

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Speaker 7: really improving our educational system, and getting our workforce participation

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Speaker 7: numbers up. We're doing a lot of good things, but

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Speaker 7: we know that the state has evolved, but in part

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Speaker 7: because the Democrats absolutely lefts in West Virginia, and people

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Speaker 7: now know that got some folks that really care about

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Speaker 7: the state's future in charge.

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Speaker 1: Is Country Roads the best song about a state anywhere

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Speaker 1: in the country.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's a great song.

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Speaker 7: And I don't know you guys know this, but during

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Speaker 7: the Super Bowl there was a commercial and it was

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Speaker 7: by Rocket Mortgage, and you started hearing Country Roads, and

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Speaker 7: I thought it was pretty unbelievable because when they were

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Speaker 7: talking about it, I first thought it was a West

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Speaker 7: Virginia tourism commercial because in all its country roads.

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Speaker 5: And talking about West Virginia, But.

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Speaker 7: In reality it was a commercial bank and we were

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Speaker 7: really we loved it. I mean we thought it was incredible.

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Speaker 7: And wherever you go across the globe, people know that

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Speaker 7: there's an indomitable spirit coming out of West Virginia Country

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Speaker 7: Roads reflects that.

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Speaker 5: Guys. One thing I do want to put on your

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Speaker 5: radar screen.

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Speaker 7: September thirteenth, we have a backyard Brawl football game between.

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Speaker 5: WU and PAT.

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Speaker 7: But the reason I mentioned this to you guys less

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Speaker 7: about the sports, but all leading up to it, we're

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Speaker 7: gonna backyard brawl economic announcements that whole week in Morgantown

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Speaker 7: and in West Virginia talking about the steps West Virginia's

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Speaker 7: taking to really climb up.

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Speaker 5: In the rankings, our comebacks beginning.

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Speaker 7: So we've got a lot of incredible history and culture

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Speaker 7: in West Virginia and now we're taking on some tough challenges.

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Speaker 7: West Virginia's on the rise, and we're pretty psyched about it.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful state, fabulous place to be. I went

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Speaker 1: to a wedding there and everybody got drunk in the

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Speaker 1: final song of the night was Country Roads, which was

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Speaker 1: a pretty awesome experience. So well, you will have you

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Speaker 1: on that week because that is a great rive Oriama

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Speaker 1: College football guy, and everybody knows the West Virginia pit

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Speaker 1: is about as good as it gets. We'll have you

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Speaker 1: on that week to share some of the good moves

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Speaker 1: that you guys are making economically in the state. And

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Speaker 1: we appreciate the time and hope you and your family

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Speaker 1: have a good Memorial Day weekend. Governor.

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Speaker 7: Hey sip to you guys, appreciate you having me on today,

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Speaker 7: and Happy Memorial Day to everyone listening.

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