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Speaker 1: Welcome in Thursday edition, Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I

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Speaker 1: hope all of you are having fantastic starts to your

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Speaker 1: day so far. Buck is still in Taiwan. He interviewed

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Speaker 1: the President of Taiwan today. He'll play some of that

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Speaker 1: I've got you for today and tomorrow, Solo, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot to dive into. Shut Down has hit day two.

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Speaker 1: I think many of you out there are relatively unimpacted

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Speaker 1: the Schumer shutdown. We'll dive into some of those details.

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Speaker 1: Steven Miller from the White House was in Memphis, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: be there. Trust in media per Gallop has hit another

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Speaker 1: a minute, why did we hear anything about Joe Biden's issues?

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Speaker 1: And then the results come in, it's different. Only twenty

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Speaker 1: Here's what they're doing, and this is why you have

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Speaker 1: If you remember when everybody said, oh, we don't need

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Speaker 10: This is a show of hand's question and hold them

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Speaker 1: Every hand went up, Every single hand went up. All

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Speaker 6: Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and they do

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing as as I come back in out of

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Speaker 1: break because I shared the gallop pull about trust in

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Speaker 1: media that a lot of you are reacting to on

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Speaker 1: social media as well, and the comments there are really

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Speaker 1: pretty great, and you guys are giving me a lot

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Speaker 1: of talkbacks, a lot of calls about who you trust,

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Speaker 1: and as I was reading to make sure that I'm

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Speaker 1: updated on all the news, during the commercial break, I

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Speaker 1: come across our good friend Jesse Kelly, who many of

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Speaker 1: you are going to hear on six PM or later

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Speaker 1: versions of the Premiere Radio network. He is down in Houston.

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Speaker 1: He responded to my question of who do you trust

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you and not lie by saying,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly, did I trust me the most? You dead last? So,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly, I've got to respond. I haven't had time yet,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to say this is exactly the response

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Speaker 1: I would expect from someone who ordered seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: shots at tequila.

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Speaker 3: You know that's true.

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Speaker 1: We were in New York City for those of you

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Speaker 1: who may have forgotten and need to understand why you

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Speaker 1: can't trust anything, Jesse Kelly says, and we're having a

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Speaker 1: nice We're on the rooftop, great restaurant. Everybody's having drinks,

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Speaker 1: everybody's having a good time. Jesse decides you need a

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Speaker 1: round of tequila shots. A round of tequila shots.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There were like six of us. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: should that cost seven to eight dollars each. I understand

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Speaker 1: that I'm getting old, but at most and I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about a dingy, you know, college bar, because I will.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you this, if.

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Speaker 1: You, whatever your financial situation is, if you go into

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Speaker 1: like an sec college bar for a big game weekend,

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Speaker 1: you will never feel richer than when you order like

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Speaker 1: five beers. What they come back and say, I was,

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Speaker 1: I was out recently and I went to the bar,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's crowded, and the last thing I

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Speaker 1: want to do is stand in a crowded bar line.

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Speaker 3: And so you know, I'll try to buy it.

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Speaker 1: I'm an old man now and unk as my kids

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Speaker 1: will call me in so I'll try to get a

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Speaker 1: bucket or so I don't have to get back in

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Speaker 1: line very fast, and I'll say, hey, you know, give

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Speaker 1: me six Coors lights, six Miller lights. I'm still not

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Speaker 1: willing to order bud light whatever. It is an easy bar,

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Speaker 1: you know, tab order. And the last time I did that,

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Speaker 1: the girl came back and she was like, yeah, that'll

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Speaker 1: be twenty one dollars and I was like, oh, this

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Speaker 1: It's been so long since I went anywhere and somebody

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Speaker 1: charged me something and I thought, man, that's a lot

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Speaker 1: less than I expected.

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Speaker 3: You guys know what.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about, Like everything costs too

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Speaker 1: much relative to what I think it should cost. Now

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Speaker 1: because of the Biden inflation, everything just went up like

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Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty percent at least, and so everything

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Speaker 1: you order it feels like it's way more expensive than

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Speaker 1: it should be. And I think that's the angst and

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Speaker 1: the anger and the being upset. But this was the

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Speaker 1: second time in my life. The first time I was

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Speaker 1: in New York. Producer Ali, You'll probably know where this

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Speaker 1: place was. It was I think after my first maybe

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Speaker 1: my second year of law school and my current wife

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Speaker 1: then girlfriend, Laura, we were in New York. I think

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Speaker 1: it was like the so what's the really fancy hotel

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Speaker 1: in Soho?

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Speaker 3: So bad? Is it?

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Speaker 1: The Soho? Is that the name of the hotel? The

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Speaker 1: Soho House?

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Speaker 3: Would that be?

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Speaker 1: Like you walk in and there's kind of this cool

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Speaker 1: bar and the I don't know, it's probably like a

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Speaker 1: fifteen story place. I think that's where it is. iHeart

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Speaker 1: has a studio near there right like that. Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: used to use the Tribeca Grand, That's what it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Tribeca Grand really nice place. Okay, I am twenty three,

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Speaker 1: I have no money, and I remember I went to

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Speaker 1: the bar in the Tribeca Grand to get four beers,

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Speaker 1: and I think the bill was like sixty two dollars

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Speaker 1: something like that, and I just remember thinking, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be the first person to ever go bankrupt ordering a

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Speaker 1: round of beers in the history of mankind. I just

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe what it cost at the Tribeca Grant. This

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Speaker 1: same thing happened with Jesse Kelly. We're at I think

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Speaker 1: it was the Peninsula Hotel, where on the rooftop everybody's

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Speaker 1: having a good time. They bring six shots seventy five

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Speaker 1: dollars each, seventy five dollars each. Jesse Kelly ordered shots

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Speaker 1: on my tab at the table. I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: there was a seventy five dollars shot drink anywhere on

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Speaker 1: the planet. That should come with a gold bar, that

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Speaker 1: should come with stock in the hotel. So when Jesse

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Speaker 1: says he trusts me the least of everybody, I just

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Speaker 1: think it's important for all of you to know that

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Speaker 1: he's balding, and also that he's the kind of person

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Speaker 1: who orders seventy five dollars shots of tequila. So Trusted

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Speaker 1: Media tons of you reacting to that story, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to continue to take your reactions to that. But

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Speaker 1: I think one reason trusted media has collapsed is a

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Speaker 1: lot of people in media are Charlatans. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people in media are completely dishonest, and they don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of gratitude. I am every single day. I

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Speaker 1: encourage all of you to think, try to do this too.

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Speaker 1: Every single day.

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Speaker 3: When I wake up.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I think, before I even reach over

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Speaker 1: and get my phone, before I see whatever the frenzy

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Speaker 1: of the day is, I think, boy, here are two

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Speaker 1: or three things that that I am very grateful for,

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Speaker 1: the most time. It has to do with my boys,

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Speaker 1: my wife, my family, the jobs that I feel very

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Speaker 1: fortunate to have, before I do anything else, before I

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Speaker 1: get out of bed. For about thirty seconds, one minute,

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Speaker 1: I just lay in bed and I think, Hey, here

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Speaker 1: are the things that I am grateful for. Because I

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Speaker 1: think gratitude is probably the most underutilized and the most

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Speaker 1: important of all emotions in the world at large. How

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Speaker 1: many people in media do you think are grateful for

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Speaker 1: the jobs that they have. Feel incredibly fortunate to be

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Speaker 1: able to live in this country and make a living

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Speaker 1: saying exactly what we think every single day. When I

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Speaker 1: sit down, I put on my headset for about ten seconds,

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Speaker 1: I think, boy, this is an incredible privilege. I am

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Speaker 1: so grateful that I get to do what I am

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Speaker 1: doing today.

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Speaker 3: Every single day.

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Speaker 1: For about ten seconds, I think that when I put

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Speaker 1: the headset on, and I've.

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Speaker 3: Done that for twenty years.

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Speaker 1: When I did local sports talk radio in Nashville, I

626
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: remember sitting down thinking, Man, I'm getting paid to do this,

627
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Speaker 1: and I used to get paid nothing to do with this.

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Speaker 1: My first job in radio, I made zero dollars to

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Speaker 1: do a radio show, and then I got fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: to do a radio show. So I've legitimately done this

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Speaker 1: for no money because I felt so excited to be

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Speaker 1: able to do it. Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow. Do they

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Speaker 1: seem grateful that they get to have media jobs that

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Speaker 1: pay them millions of dollars to say whatever they think?

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Speaker 1: This clip is going viral, and I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: it with you because I do think that, in addition

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Speaker 1: to facts versus feelings, we were talking about with Ben Shapiro,

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Speaker 1: who I think has done a really good job of

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Speaker 1: making that his hallmark, his calling card. Republicans seem to me,

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Speaker 1: in general, to be profoundly thankful and filled with gratitude

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Speaker 1: that we all get to live in this country.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that there aren't things every day where

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Speaker 1: you wake up and you think, boy ah, this has

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Speaker 1: not been a day, this has not been a week,

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Speaker 1: this has been really hard. I'm not saying that it

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Speaker 1: means that there aren't challenges, or that you aren't sometimes

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Speaker 1: frustrated and upset about the trajectory of the country. I

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Speaker 1: just mean that, as a general rule, do you feel

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Speaker 1: immense gratitude every day that you wake up for the privilege,

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Speaker 1: for the good fortune that you live in the United States?

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Speaker 7: I do.

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Speaker 1: Warren Buffett has a great example of this. By the way,

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Speaker 1: what are there seven billion of us? It's really good illustrative.

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Speaker 1: I think you could use it with your kids and

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Speaker 1: your grandkids. He says, if you live in the United

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Speaker 1: States today, pretend that every seven billion people in the

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Speaker 1: entire world were in a jar, and you were represented

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Speaker 1: by a marble, and you.

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Speaker 3: Could reach into that jar of seven.

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Speaker 1: Billion people and you could pull out any other marble.

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Speaker 1: You could end up the Prince of England. You could

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Speaker 1: end up the President of Taiwan. Who Buck just spoke

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Speaker 1: to no idea what you might draw as your fate.

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Speaker 1: But he said, you know what, no one in America

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Speaker 1: should ever change their marble.

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Speaker 3: Think about that.

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Speaker 1: We are also fortunate and privileged to live in this country.

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Speaker 1: That no matter whether you are the richest or the

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Speaker 1: poorest person in America today, your marble one of three

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million ish marbles.

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Speaker 3: You should never ever risk.

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Speaker 1: Putting your marble in and drawing a new one, because

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Speaker 1: the chances that you would end up in a better

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Speaker 1: place and a better position than where you are right

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Speaker 1: now relative to the world at large are very very slim.

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Speaker 1: And so I was thinking about that when I watched

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Speaker 1: this clip this morning from Joy Reid, and Joy Reid

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Speaker 1: said this. This is from March of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: When my mom came here from Guyana. She's an immigrant.

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Speaker 1: She realized it was not a land of opportunity for

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Speaker 1: people like us Cut twenty eight.

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Speaker 9: My father was from the Congo and my mother was

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Speaker 9: from Guyana, and so like they were the immigrants who

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Speaker 9: came here on purpose, and they.

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Speaker 1: Got the root of wakening.

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Speaker 11: My mother got the root awakening, like, oh, it's racist here.

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Speaker 3: That's weird.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, she would to tell yeah, tell me

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Speaker 1: this is the land of opportunity, but not.

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Speaker 11: From me here.

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Speaker 1: So her dad was from Congo and her mom was

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Speaker 1: from Guyana, and they're laughing, ha ha, this is not

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Speaker 1: the land of opportunity, not for us. Boy, this is

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Speaker 1: super racist country. Why didn't you go back? I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the immediate reaction that I have. If you're not

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Speaker 1: born here and you came to the United States, you

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Speaker 1: could go back to Congo. You could go back to

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Speaker 1: Guyana if you think it's super racist place and there's

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Speaker 1: no opportunity for you here. By the way, Joy Reid

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Speaker 1: got to go to Harvard and makes millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: a year in politics just to share her opinion, Why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you go back? If I had been born in

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Speaker 1: Denmark or South Korea or Botswana and I came to

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Speaker 1: the United States and I got here, and I said, boy,

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Speaker 1: I expected it to be a lot better. This sucks.

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Speaker 1: I'd go back to the country I was born in,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you? How is the immediate reaction here. Not boy,

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Speaker 1: that's a tremendous lack of gratitude. How much money do

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Speaker 1: you make?

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Speaker 3: Joy Reid?

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Speaker 1: Millions of dollars a year. You make more money than

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Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of Americans. You got to

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Speaker 1: go to Harvard, a place that ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 1: percent of Americans will never be able to attend. You

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Speaker 1: got to do that as a first generation American. Would

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Speaker 1: you have become a multimillionaire in the Congo? Would you

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Speaker 1: have become a multimillionaire in Guyana? Would you have gotten

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Speaker 1: to go to Harvard if you had been born in

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Speaker 1: either of those countries? I think the answer is no.

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Speaker 1: For all of that, where is your gratitude? Where is

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Speaker 1: your thanks for the incredible good fortune that you had

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Speaker 1: to be born in the United States because your parents

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Speaker 1: came here. I don't think she even believes this. I

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Speaker 1: think she's telling a lie. And I think she's telling

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Speaker 1: a lie because Democrats are ungrateful for the country that

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Speaker 1: exist here, And if you are ungrateful for the country

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Speaker 1: that exists here, you have no problem tearing it down.

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Speaker 1: They at their essence, hate America and are not grateful

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Speaker 1: for the immense gratitude benefits that have been lauded upon us.

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Speaker 1: And I think that really goes to the essence of

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Speaker 1: the two political parties. One party is grateful, the other

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Speaker 1: is not. Now, the Republican Party is not perfect. It

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Speaker 1: still has people like Jesse Kelly who buy seventy five

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Speaker 1: dollars shots when you could buy a normal cost shot,

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Speaker 1: and then you're not even grateful when somebody like me

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Speaker 1: foots the bill. I mean, really, I'm not saying Republicans

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Speaker 1: are perfect, but there aren't many, very many joy reads

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Speaker 1: in this party. We come back, we'll take some more

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Speaker 1: of your talkbacks, feedbacks. Remember we're gonna be talking with

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Speaker 1: John James, Michigan gubernatorial candidate at the bottom of the hour,

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Speaker 1: and he just got called out by the Reverend Al Sharpton.

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Speaker 3: We'll have some fun with that.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, this weekend coming up, we are

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Speaker 1: soon going to be on the anniversary of the two

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Speaker 1: year terror attack that happened in Israel on October seventh,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and a lot of you, including me,

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Speaker 1: are going to show your support for Israel, the country

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Speaker 1: that was savagely attacked on October seven, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: by putting out flags. This is a nationwide effort to

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Speaker 1: show that everybody out there should have support for the

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Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the work that

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Speaker 1: they're doing to help honor and remember the day that

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred Israelis lost their life and two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty more were taking hostages. What they're doing is called

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Speaker 1: Flag of Fellowship. It's organized by the International Fellowship of

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Speaker 1: Christians and Jews. If you'd like to join millions of

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Speaker 1: Americans across the country standing in solidarity with the victims

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Speaker 11: Stories are freedom stories of America. Inspirational stories that you

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in play Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us. We are joined now

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Speaker 1: by Congressman John James. He's up in Michigan and he

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Speaker 1: represents the Detroit area, which was a bit of a surprise,

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Speaker 1: I guess. According to the Reverend Al Sharpton, good to

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Speaker 1: have you on, Congressman. For people who don't know that story,

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Speaker 1: I retweeted your video response this morning.

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Speaker 3: What happened there?

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Speaker 8: Sure? Reverend Al Sharpton, as you know, is as a

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Speaker 8: host on the network ms d n C. I'm sorry, MSNBC,

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Speaker 8: and he was talking to one of our progressive socialist

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Speaker 8: candidates for Senate here and he made mention that Michigan

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Speaker 8: hasn't had a black congressman for a while. And that's

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Speaker 8: kind of odd because I think I've been black for

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Speaker 8: the past forty four years. So imagine my surprise when

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Speaker 8: I see this clip that one of my friends forwarded

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Speaker 8: it to me saying that there was no black congressman

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Speaker 8: for the state of Michigan. Now, I was raised to

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Speaker 8: believe that regardless of the color of my skin, I

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Speaker 8: would be judged by the content of my character. But

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Speaker 8: badly with guys like Al Sharpton, there's only one way

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Speaker 8: to be black. When his party believes that children should

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Speaker 8: be addressed by fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Thousand ways.

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Speaker 8: In their gender, this is something that is indicative of

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Speaker 8: how extreme their party is. Gone that they are so

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Speaker 8: blinded to reality that they either refuse to acknowledge the

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Speaker 8: representation that is in the state of Michigan and the

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Speaker 8: fact that we are turning away from their lives because

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Speaker 8: everywhere there's Democrat control in cities accross the nation, overwhelmingly

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Speaker 8: African Americans and all people, frankly are suffering. So we

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Speaker 8: are going to combat that in the way that Charlie

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Speaker 8: taught us. We're going to combat that with ideas. We're

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Speaker 8: going to combat that with words. We're going to combat

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Speaker 8: that with better policies, and we are going to make

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Speaker 8: sure that our better policy He's reached every corner of America.

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Speaker 8: To make our streets safer, to make our schools better,

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Speaker 8: to make our jobs have better pay and more of them,

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Speaker 8: to make our housing more affordable and more accessible. These

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Speaker 8: are things that our policies went on, and you see

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Speaker 8: people voting with their feet, moving from states like New

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Speaker 8: York to states like Florida, moving from states like California

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Speaker 8: to states like Texas. These are the things that people see.

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Speaker 3: And they will not be.

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Speaker 8: Fooled by the race baters and the haters out there.

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Speaker 8: So I just decided to tell the truth when they

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Speaker 8: lied about us.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to John James, he's running for governor of Michigan.

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Speaker 1: I just was with you a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 1: up in Mackinaw Island. I've talked about this quite a lot,

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Speaker 1: but my wife's family is all from Michigan, and I

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Speaker 1: said in the speech that I gave that I think

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Speaker 1: Michigan is the most important state in the nation when

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Speaker 1: it comes to what's going to happen in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six and what's going to happen in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: If Republicans win the governor's race that you're in and

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Speaker 1: also win the state in the twenty twenty eight election,

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Speaker 1: we're going to have great leadership. How does that happen?

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Speaker 1: What do you see on the ground right now?

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Speaker 8: Well, that's exactly right. Michigan is going to be the

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Speaker 8: center of the electoral universe in twenty twenty six for

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Speaker 8: a lot of reasons. We have an open governor seat,

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Speaker 8: we have an open Senate seat, we have a number

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Speaker 8: of competitive House seats. We have a number of competitive

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Speaker 8: seats in our state legislature. We have an open seat

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Speaker 8: for the attorney general, open seat for a Secretary of State,

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Speaker 8: and there's going to be over five hundred million dollars

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Speaker 8: spent in the battleground state of Michigan in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 8: Having a strong top of ticket. If you're concerned with

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Speaker 8: making sure we hold a majority in Washington, d c.

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Speaker 8: Making sure that we have a strong top of ticket,

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Speaker 8: running for governor in the state of Michigan in the

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Speaker 8: swing state is the most important thing you can do.

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Speaker 8: And I can prove it when you look at swing

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Speaker 8: states like Pennsylvania in Arizona. If you have a top

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Speaker 8: of ticket that drags down the rest of the ballot,

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Speaker 8: then you lose seats that Republicans should win, like we

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Speaker 8: lost two Senate seats, one in Arizona, one in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 8: and up to five House seats in Arizona Pennsylvania. Contrastingly,

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Speaker 8: you have Lee Zelden in the last midterm who ran

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Speaker 8: a strong race and he still fell short in New York.

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Speaker 8: And I imagine there are a number of New Yorkers

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Speaker 8: with buyer's remorse for County Hokal at this particular point.

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Speaker 8: But Lee Zelden ran such a strong race that he

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Speaker 8: put six Republicans across the finish line and five in

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Speaker 8: districts that Biden won and all that did. Let's say,

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Speaker 8: the republic we had such a thin majority in the

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Speaker 8: one hundred and eighteenth Congress, the last Congress, because we

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Speaker 8: were able to compete and win in blue and purple

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Speaker 8: seats in blue and purple states all over the country,

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Speaker 8: and Michigan is one of those places that we need

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Speaker 8: to hold and have pickups. And the best way we

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Speaker 8: Right now, I am leading the primary by fifty points,

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Speaker 8: and I'm the only Republican who's beating the Democrats in

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Speaker 8: the general. We have the Democrat mayor of Detroit who's

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Speaker 8: running as an independent in the general election, and he's

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Speaker 8: bleeding more votes with Democrats. This is a golden opportunity,

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Speaker 8: not just for twenty twenty six, but guys, we have

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Speaker 8: a presidential election coming up in twenty twenty eight, and

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Speaker 8: we have a current Secretary of State who's in charge

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Speaker 8: of our elections, who the dj is investigating for mal

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Speaker 8: seasons and prior elections. Making sure that we can trust

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Speaker 8: our election results is so important, not just for Michigan,

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Speaker 8: but for people all over the country. And then after that,

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Speaker 8: we have a census, and then controlling making sure that

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Speaker 8: we have a good census to reapportion that Michigan is

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Speaker 8: going to be this center and this is how we build.

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Speaker 8: I'm old enough to remember when Florida was a swing

877
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Speaker 8: state and Ohio was a swing state. But because Republicans

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Speaker 8: stepped up, took ownership and began to change policies to

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Speaker 8: make it more favorable for their citizens, they are now

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Speaker 8: red states and they are thriving. And that is what's

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Speaker 8: possible in Michigan. Michigan can not only be the most beautiful,

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Speaker 8: most gritty, most amazing state, but we can also be

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Speaker 8: the most well run state if we choose to pick

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Speaker 8: up and we all get the support for a strong

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Speaker 8: topic ticket and start planning for the future.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to John James. He represents the tenth Congressional

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Speaker 1: District of Michigan. Right now, you went to West Point.

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Speaker 1: What was that experience like? You also served overseas in Iraq?

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Speaker 1: What was that experience like? For people who do not

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Speaker 1: know your background, give them your bio and let them

891
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Speaker 1: know how you came to be where you are today.

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Speaker 8: I came to be where I am today by the

893
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Speaker 8: grace of God. And a mama who would not quit

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Speaker 8: on a boy who was raised in Detroit when she

895
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Speaker 8: watched a bunch of other young black men go down

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Speaker 8: the wrong path. She refused to surrender me to the streets.

897
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Speaker 8: And my father and mother worked hard together to give

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Speaker 8: me the best and my brother and sister the best

899
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Speaker 8: life that they could. And I know that since they

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Speaker 8: come from the Jim Crow South, they came to Michigan

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Speaker 8: for opportunities. And I've been exceedingly blessed in my life,

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Speaker 8: and so they taught me that I had to use

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Speaker 8: my blessings to be a blessing to others. That is

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Speaker 8: why I knew that I needed to serve my nation,

905
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Speaker 8: this great country that has given us so much. No,

906
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Speaker 8: we're not perfect, but we're the greatest nation that's ever

907
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Speaker 8: been and we need to share the good news of

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Speaker 8: anyone who will listen, and most who won't. This is

909
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Speaker 8: what I was able to do. I graduated high school,

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Speaker 8: I went to West Point. I graduated West Point two

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Speaker 8: thousand and four. I became a ranger, qualified a patry pilot,

912
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Speaker 8: and I flew seven hundred and fifty hours combat in

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Speaker 8: Operation and Rocky Freedom.

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Speaker 3: I came back.

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Speaker 8: Home after that to join my family's business, and I

916
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Speaker 8: was able to help ten x the company top line

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Speaker 8: revenue and add hundreds of jobs in Michigan and around

918
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Speaker 8: the country. I started a family, beautiful life, three little boys,

919
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Speaker 8: got a couple of master's degrees, and now I'm in Congress.

920
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Speaker 8: I'm serving the people with the State of Michigan because

921
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Speaker 8: it's the honor of my life to give back and serve,

922
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Speaker 8: and that is that's what animates me. The interesting part

923
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Speaker 8: about my West Point story and real quick, my class

924
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Speaker 8: was the first class to take the oath of Affirmation,

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Speaker 8: which means we we will complete. We make a promise

926
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Speaker 8: to complete our obligation in our first hour of the

927
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Speaker 8: junior year, and we were the first class to make

928
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Speaker 8: our oath of affirmation knowing that we would go to war.

929
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Speaker 8: We were sophomores during September eleventh, and as a result,

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Speaker 8: our class, our West Point class, has taken the most

931
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Speaker 8: casualties of any Academy class since Vietnam. And that is

932
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Speaker 8: not just direct combat. That's also the unseen scars of war.

933
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Speaker 8: That's also the suicide, that's also the overdoses. And so

934
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Speaker 8: when you look at the mental health crisis in this

935
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Speaker 8: nation as a congressman now, as a governor later, and

936
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Speaker 8: as long as there's breadth in my lungs, I'm going

937
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Speaker 8: to commit my life to addressing the scourge of substance

938
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Speaker 8: use disorders, mental health under service, and making sure that

939
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Speaker 8: we all have the resources that we need. We are

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Speaker 8: not serving our veterans and we are not serving those

941
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Speaker 8: who struggle with mental health adequately. Our schools, our hospitals,

942
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Speaker 8: and our jails are not made up. They are not

943
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Speaker 8: configured to deal with the special needs of folks who

944
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Speaker 8: are struggling with mental health. So the lessons that I

945
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Speaker 8: learned at West Point on, the lessons that I learned

946
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Speaker 8: in combat, and the things that I've seen serve in

947
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Speaker 8: the state of Michigan are all pushing me to restore

948
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Speaker 8: hope in the state of Michigan, restore trust in the

949
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Speaker 8: state of Michigan, restore wellness in the state of Michigan.

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Speaker 8: Restore family and family values in the State of Michigan.

951
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Speaker 8: And also this is important too, restore beauty. When God

952
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Speaker 8: looked down on the earth and he saw things that

953
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Speaker 8: they were good, he saw things that were operating in

954
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Speaker 8: the purpose that they were created for. Every plan that

955
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Speaker 8: we make has to work with in his purpose. And

956
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Speaker 8: then when it's truly good, that's when things are beautiful.

957
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Speaker 8: When you look at things throughout the course of humanity,

958
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Speaker 8: we're not just here to eat, sleep, work and die.

959
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Speaker 8: We are here for a purpose. Men, We are more

960
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Speaker 8: than just our job. Women, you are more than just

961
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Speaker 8: a vessel for babies. You are here to bring glory

962
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Speaker 8: to God and love your neighbors as yourself and make

963
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Speaker 8: this world a better place. These are all the things

964
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Speaker 8: that we have the privileged to do in this great country.

965
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Speaker 8: Now we can all do it together in the future

966
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Speaker 8: with the right leadership.

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Speaker 1: I love all that. For people who are fired up,

968
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Speaker 1: they can find you where you.

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Speaker 8: Can go to John JAMESAMI dot com, where you can

970
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Speaker 8: find me on all the socials at John James and

971
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Speaker 8: I thank you all so much on God bless you all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the way, one last question, how are the Detroit

974
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: Lions going to the Super Bowl this year?

975
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Speaker 8: The Detroit Lions going to Super Bowl this year and

976
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 8: every other year for the rest of my life. Dan

977
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 8: Campbell is the best coach that has ever existed on

978
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Speaker 8: the planet. And you know the best move he let

979
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 8: the Green Bay Packers win that first game to take

980
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Speaker 8: the pressure off his guys. You know what, that's what

981
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 8: a great, great coach, you know, So Lions, Lions will

982
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Speaker 8: go sixteen and one Super Bowl champions and the score

983
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Speaker 8: will be seventy four to zero. Lions.

984
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Speaker 1: Outstanding stuff. We appreciate the time. It's great to hang

985
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: out with you up at mckinawe and look forward to

986
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Speaker 1: talking with you throughout the campaign.

987
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Speaker 8: Of course, thanks a lot, Douglass.

988
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Speaker 1: What I that is John James DeMar who is a

989
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Speaker 1: the Democrat's worst nightmare in many ways. I think if

990
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: you look at what would happen if Republicans could take

991
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Speaker 1: back control of the Governor's mansion in Michigan, just think

992
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: about that. Leave aside John James's campaign. I think he

993
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: made a really good compelling pitch there, and we're going

994
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Speaker 1: to talk to some of the other candidates out there

995
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Speaker 1: as well. But as he said, you've got a big

996
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Speaker 1: Senate race going on and that could be transformative if

997
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Speaker 1: that seat were to flip as it nearly did in

998
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and if you take over the Governor's mansion,

999
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: Democrats are in dire straits because there is a real

1000
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Speaker 1: march I think for the Republican Party in the state

1001
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Speaker 1: of Michigan. I feel that momentum again because my wife's

1002
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Speaker 1: family is all from there, and we are in Michigan

1003
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: on a not pretty regular basis. So I feel like

1004
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: I understand that state a little bit better than I

1005
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: do others, and that could be a huge difference. Because again,

1006
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Speaker 1: if you told me right now, hey, Republicans are going

1007
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: to win Michigan in twenty twenty eight, I would say, Okay,

1008
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Speaker 1: Republicans are going to win the White House. And if

1009
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Speaker 1: you told me Republicans are going to be able to

1010
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: flip a Senate seat in twenty twenty six and win

1011
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Speaker 1: the governor's mansion, I would feel even better about what's

1012
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: going to happen in twenty twenty eight. So again, Michigan

1013
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: is a state I think everybody should be paying attention

1014
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: to to see what happens in all of these competitions.

1015
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Speaker 1: All right, get your pens, get your pads, get your paper.

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Speaker 1: It's winning time.

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Speaker 3: Now.

1018
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Speaker 1: We have won three out of the last four weeks.

1019
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Speaker 1: You just heard John James say Detroit Lions they're on

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1027
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Speaker 1: We've won three times. We're trying to make it four

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1029
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1030
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Speaker 1: all three of those plus the Tennessee Titans are the

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1039
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Speaker 1: book actually being released. So they print a ton of

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Speaker 1: them and they put them in the front of stores.

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Speaker 1: I want this book to be in Hudson bookstores, if

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Speaker 1: you're walking through an airport. I want this thing to

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01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 1: be in Costco. I want this thing to be in Walmart.

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Speaker 1: The way that happens is we have to sell a

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01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: ton of them before it's even released. So I'm asking

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01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: you for a favor, and again, all the proceeds are

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01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: going to charity. I'm in a great spot. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to post the link on Amazon. Please go buy the book.

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Speaker 1: The book is balls.

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Speaker 3: It's easy.

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01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: You just type in my name, Klay Travis. It's a

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01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: fun read, but I think it's an important one. It's

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01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: about how young men, sports fans and President Trump won

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01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: the election, and how we keep the momentum of that

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01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: win going forward. Your sons, your grandsons, your granddaughters, your

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01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: grand your daughters. I think they would enjoy it. They

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01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: might not have been exposed to the arguments that I'm making.

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01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to buy them, give it to people.

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Speaker 1: Just type in my name Clay Travis. I'm gonna share it.

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01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: I want this book to be as widely distributed as

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01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: possible because I think the arguments are important, and I

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01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: think we are correct. I also know that there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts out there when it comes

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01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: to your cell phones, by the way, and that is

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01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 1: why you need pure Talk. They can say you have

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01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: two one thousand dollars over the course of a entire year.

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Speaker 1: How much difference could that make. We get close to Thanksgiving,

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01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 1: we get close to Christmas, we get close to the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. That can make a big difference.

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Speaker 1: I use pure Talk to stay in touch with my family.

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Speaker 1: My seventeen year old and my fifteen year old have

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01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: pure Talk phones. It's what I used to stay in

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Speaker 1: touch with them. I trust pure Talk for my family.

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Speaker 1: You can trust it for yours as well. You'll save

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Speaker 1: a bundle. They have the same values as you. Here's

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Speaker 1: how you switch. You keep the same phone number, same

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Speaker 1: phone pound two five zero. Say Clay and Buck. That's

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01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: pound two five zero from your phone. Now say Clay

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Speaker 1: and Buck. Save one thousand dollars over a year.