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Speaker 1: Good eating American and welcome to the Memorial Day edition

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Speaker 1: of Justin News, No Noise. I'm your host, John Solomon,

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Speaker 1: reporting to us always from Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: I want to begin tonight's show to saying to all Americans,

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Speaker 1: all families who lost loved ones in the service of

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Speaker 1: this extraordinary country, we honor your loved ones, and we

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Speaker 1: honor you. It's a big sacrifice for the whole family

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Speaker 1: when we lose someone in the line of service, and

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Speaker 1: we are grateful that our freedoms exist today because.

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Speaker 3: Of those sacrifices.

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Speaker 1: We begin this Memorial Day weekend with lots of reasons

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Speaker 1: for veterans and those who lost loved ones to be happy.

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Speaker 1: Why President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseiff promised last

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Speaker 1: week they will finally get us the truth about what

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Speaker 1: happened at Abbigate to the thirteen loss souls we lost

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Speaker 1: that day.

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Speaker 3: Truth has always been a.

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Speaker 1: Great fantasy for our great men and women in the

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Speaker 1: Arms Services, Amanda, It's one of my favorite holidays. I

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Speaker 1: just I grew up around two uncles who served in

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Speaker 1: World War Two. They were both heroes at the highest

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Speaker 1: level of decoration. They seldom talked about what they did,

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Speaker 1: but when they did, I would be an awe. And

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Speaker 1: to all the millions who did have served and done

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Speaker 1: the ultimate sacrifice for the country, we.

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Speaker 3: Are so grateful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the silent generation or the greatest generation

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Speaker 4: often is the silent generation because as you find so often,

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Speaker 4: they don't want to talk about it, they don't want

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Speaker 4: the glory.

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Speaker 5: They got into it for the reasons of this country.

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Speaker 4: And that also kind of brings into the conversation what

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Speaker 4: happens on Capitol Hill, because what.

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Speaker 5: People go to Capitol Hill to do for their.

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Speaker 4: People, you know, it goes hand in hand with what

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Speaker 4: people put their lives on the line to go out

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Speaker 4: and fight for this country. They are fighting for what

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Speaker 4: happens on Capitol Hill and what.

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Speaker 5: Trickles down to the American people.

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Speaker 4: It said, it's true holiday that wasn't made official I

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Speaker 4: think until eighteen sixty eight. Yeah, But on the lighter

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Speaker 4: side of things, things must be feeling better for the

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Speaker 4: American people economically because a record number I think forty

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Speaker 4: five point one million people plan to travel, plan to

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Speaker 4: travel over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: So amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the economy's definitely getting better, and the American

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Speaker 1: spirit is raising.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure. One little story.

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Speaker 1: I was coming back from Atlanta about a week ago,

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and six o'clock at night, everyone's rushing

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Speaker 1: to get to the thing. Everyone's busy, lots of important

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Speaker 1: people in Washington, DC. When I got off the planet,

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Speaker 1: I think to a person, the entire airport came to

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Speaker 1: a standstill. The crowd broke into a complete two sidelines,

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Speaker 1: and they allowed fifty five Vietnam veterans who were on

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Speaker 1: an honor flight from Alaska to come through, no matter

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Speaker 1: how busy they were, now how important they were, they

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Speaker 1: were members of Congress. There everybody and clap for seventeen

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Speaker 1: streat minutes, says these extraordinary heroes, soldiers, marines, nurses who

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Speaker 1: served in Vietnam. We often forget what they go through.

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Speaker 1: And it reminded me that even in an era of

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Speaker 1: many political divisions in the world and in our country,

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Speaker 1: are the sacrifices of the men and wo in uniform

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Speaker 1: unify us. All that we know what they gave for us.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the most extraordinary things I've seen

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Speaker 1: in my life. This Memorial Day. There is a lot

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Speaker 1: of reason to be excited for the future of veterans

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Speaker 1: in this country. Why because the new VIA Secretary and

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Speaker 1: the new President have done some extraordinary things to improve service,

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Speaker 1: to expand service, to make the VA great again. And

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Speaker 1: we're lucky to be joined at the top of the

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Speaker 1: show by the Secretary of Veteran Fairs himself, our good

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Speaker 3: Mister Secretary, welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 6: Happy Memorial Day, oh thank you, and to you as

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Speaker 6: well as a great day of remembrance.

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Speaker 1: It is it is indeed, sir, I want to turn

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Speaker 1: to the extraordinary work. We're only one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty seven days into this press and

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Speaker 1: see you already have ten new VA medical facilities in

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Speaker 1: the works and opening, and one that when I came

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Speaker 3: You're getting new Hampshire one.

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Speaker 1: This is pretty extraordinary opportunity for veterans, isn't it.

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Speaker 7: It is?

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Speaker 6: And we're continuing the work that have been done over

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Speaker 6: the last few years, some of this even going back

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Speaker 6: to the first Trump administration, making sure these facilities are

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Speaker 6: getting open, newer facilities. I think a lot of times

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Speaker 6: what people forget about the VA and we being a

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Speaker 6: healthcare system, but our average age of facilities is over

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Speaker 6: sixty years old, and you know that goes back to,

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Speaker 6: you know, right after World War two kind of issues,

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Speaker 6: and so we're we're struggling through those kind of issues

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Speaker 6: our female veterans who are coming in, help those that

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Speaker 6: are continuing to get their care, but also taking a

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Speaker 6: longer look, as the President promised in New Hampshire to

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Speaker 6: make sure that we could get a full service facility there,

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Speaker 6: we've already started that process in light of his EO

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Speaker 6: and everything remarkable.

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Speaker 4: So so many agencies in this in this city are

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Speaker 4: plagued with incompetence and you know, just lack of lack

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Speaker 4: of efficiency. The VA, I think holds an alarming spot

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Speaker 4: among those agencies because this is the agency that's supposed

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Speaker 4: to take care of our veterans.

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Speaker 5: But you have done something incredible. They're at the VA.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever heard this happen for any

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Speaker 4: other agency. Your intake numbers or your process numbers are

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Speaker 4: greater than your intake numbers.

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Speaker 5: How did you do that?

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Speaker 6: Well, we just I got great folks who are freed

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Speaker 6: up to do their job. I think that's the biggest issue.

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Speaker 6: Have become a priority for us, and I appreciate especially

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Speaker 6: our benefits folks doing this. We just got word of

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Speaker 6: this just in the last few days. In spite of

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Speaker 6: You're inning the COVID work restrictions, that's going to cause

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Speaker 6: In fact, since we brought people back in on May fifth,

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Speaker 6: we have consistently made new records on how many cases

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Speaker 6: are being processed, how many cases are being decided, and

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Speaker 6: our backlog since January twentieth has come down twenty five percent.

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Speaker 6: It was at two hundred and sixty thousand. It's now

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Speaker 6: of things that you know, Look, I've always believed this.

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Speaker 6: The American worker is absolutely the best worker in the world.

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Speaker 6: And when you free them up, take the hands and

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Speaker 6: let them say do your job, that's what they get.

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Speaker 6: And so I've done a lot of just cutting policies,

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Speaker 6: to support you, tell me what you need, do your job.

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Speaker 6: And they've responded. I'm very proud of them.

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Speaker 1: What a great cultural change and shifting that agency, and

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Speaker 1: what a great sense of leadership you've brought to it.

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Speaker 1: On this day, we try to avoid a lot of politics,

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Speaker 1: but Democrats are doing two things. They're keeping an American

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Speaker 1: hero from taking over the cemetery division of the VA,

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Speaker 1: and they're keeping disabled veterans from coming back to work

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Speaker 1: at talk a little bit about why that's going on

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Speaker 1: and what it does inside your great agency.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's just this unfortunate.

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Speaker 6: We've had one presidential appointment besides myself, which I don't

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Speaker 6: really count the cabinet that should be an easy spot

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Speaker 6: for the Senate to do. But I've had my deputy

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Speaker 6: secretaries the only one that's been approved in the Senate.

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Speaker 6: We have three waiting right now, and unfortunately because of

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Speaker 6: the differences of opinion on things that might happen or

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Speaker 6: what they perceived may happen, or something at the VA.

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Speaker 6: As far as our workforce and how we're doing things,

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Speaker 6: I have a couple of Senators who have decided in

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Speaker 6: particular to keep these folks off in Sam Brown for

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Speaker 6: our mortuary affairs position.

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Speaker 7: Sam as an American hero who has served. He gave

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Speaker 6: Own personal story and also being very grievously wounded in

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Speaker 6: battle but has come back to serve and he wants

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Speaker 6: to serve. We need to get him as possible. But

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Speaker 6: we also have a general counsel. We also, in the

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Speaker 6: midst of all this budget stuff, our CFO is being

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Speaker 6: held up as well as both veterans and so again

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Speaker 6: I would just like to say it in on a

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Speaker 6: for this country, that last full measure devotion is there

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Speaker 6: are things in life we can disagree on what we

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Speaker 5: As the Secretary, I.

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Speaker 4: Know when it comes to the vast Most often people

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Speaker 4: think of the healthcare and the medical side of things,

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Speaker 4: but there are so many other veteran issues like homelessness.

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Speaker 4: And a few years ago we started hearing rumors about

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Speaker 4: this patch of land in West LA that was going

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Speaker 7: Tell us about it it is.

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Speaker 6: I will have to say that has been one of

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Speaker 6: the you know, you come to an agency and you

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Speaker 6: find out things, and you know, sometimes it's better than

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Speaker 6: what you heard. Sometimes it's the same, but sometimes it's

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Speaker 6: actually worse. And frankly, West LA is worse there. It's

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Speaker 6: been a history of bad decisions. In my personal opinion,

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Speaker 6: but my professional opinion is Secretary, we got to fix

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Speaker 6: it because we have leases that are very problematic that

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Speaker 6: probably need to be looked at. The Court has already

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Speaker 6: said this, We're dealing with those as we go forward.

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Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, it also became

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Speaker 6: an issue of what can we use this wonderful land

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Speaker 6: that was given to us well over one hundreds something

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Speaker 6: years ago to help veterans and do so in a

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Speaker 6: what place it has some of the highest veteran homeless

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Speaker 7: So we're going to be moving forward on that.

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Speaker 6: We're going to work through the issues that we have

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Speaker 6: with the courts and our judge out there, who is

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Speaker 6: I think, actually shown us some issues that he has

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Speaker 6: had a lot of great partners out there as well.

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Speaker 6: I've actually spoken to Mayor Karen Bass about this, and

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Speaker 6: we may disagree on political stuff, but we also agree

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Speaker 6: that we need to look at this and I think

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Speaker 6: you know, she has an own homeless situation she has

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Speaker 6: full press on it. But the President sees this for

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Speaker 6: what it can be, and that is an opportunity. Everything

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Speaker 6: back to a self perpetuating lifestyle that helps them get

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Speaker 2: Such great news getting the job done.

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Speaker 6: But we're also not going to make you have to

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Speaker 4: Amen, Sarah, before we let you go, John and I

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Speaker 5: I know you talked to veterans.

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Speaker 4: Every day off the heels of Secretary hegsas announcement last

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Speaker 6: It's true for anything, and especially this is is just

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Speaker 7: Because again this is John and Man. We go back

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Speaker 6: When we start having what is perceived is misinformation or

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Speaker 1: Sarah on today, when we honor service and sacrifice, I

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Speaker 1: It's a great honor to have you in our country.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to our Memorial Day special. Happy Memorial Day

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Speaker 5: Decorated veteran of our Marine Corps.

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Speaker 4: He's also a doctor, and he is a Congressman. Rich

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Speaker 8: It's great to be with you guys today. Thanks so much, Sar.

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Speaker 4: I want to start with what has been a hot

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Speaker 9: Well, I think we spend a ton on defense. We

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Speaker 9: So we're just with Army's Futures Command and we were

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Speaker 9: they were five years ago by far. But they still

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Speaker 9: have a GDP the size of Texas. We have about

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Speaker 9: a twenty seven trillion dollars GDP. They have a two

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Speaker 9: trillion dollar GPP. So even though they put eleven percent

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Speaker 9: of their budget into their military, just putting two or

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Speaker 9: three percent of our budget in there vastly outperform them.

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Speaker 9: The problem is when you get into China now anytime

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Speaker 9: you have a government, the most effective kind of government

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Speaker 9: is a dictatorship or a theocracy or somebody. We're a

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Speaker 9: monarchy where one person calls all the shots. China has

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Speaker 9: that huge advantage. They don't have to waste time voting

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Speaker 9: on things. One person, meaning zz Ping get to decide

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Speaker 9: all the direction of their country, their military, their development,

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Speaker 9: their procurement, all that stuff, and they can put all

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Speaker 9: their money into and they don't have to worry about

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Speaker 9: a profit. We have a much more competitive market, which

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Speaker 9: kind of muddies the water. A lot of lobbyists, a

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Speaker 9: lot of special interests. We have a ton of waste

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Speaker 9: in our military. You could say thirty percent of the

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Speaker 9: Air Force assets really aren't needed anymore and could be

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Speaker 9: putting much better pots of money. But we have people,

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Speaker 9: especially in Congress, that are protecting theirs instead of developing

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Speaker 9: new technologies which can take their place in their districts.

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Speaker 8: And that's one of the things we need to address

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Speaker 8: right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so important, and I know you're pushing hard.

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Speaker 1: You serve so bravely in our country. You served also

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Speaker 1: as a in the emergency room. Today you serve in

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Speaker 1: Congress on this Memorial Day for Americans who are sitting

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Speaker 1: at home saying, what can I do to make a difference.

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Speaker 1: How can I help Congress or the President and get

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Speaker 1: the job done. What are things we can all do

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Speaker 1: to honor the sacrifices of the generations that fell before us,

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Speaker 1: to keep our freedom to so that future generations who

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Speaker 1: serve have what they need.

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Speaker 8: You know, that's a great question, And I reflect on

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Speaker 8: John F.

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Speaker 9: Kennedy, who nowadays would be a conservative Republican, not even

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Speaker 9: just a republic by conservatives, when he said, ask.

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Speaker 8: Not what you can do what your country can do

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Speaker 8: for you, but what you can do for your country.

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Speaker 9: When I say that, it means everybody has a sacrifice

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Speaker 9: to make. The problem with Congress is everybody's looking out

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Speaker 9: for their own. We have to look after this great

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Speaker 9: nation because as this nation goes social every district in America,

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Speaker 9: the fact that everybody wants something but nobody wants to

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Speaker 9: give up anything is troublesome. And the fact is that

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Speaker 9: this debt, this overwhelming debt that we have, is going

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Speaker 9: to affect all of us. And it sounds great when

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Speaker 9: you're getting something from the government, but when we run

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Speaker 9: out of money, you will have rationing on medicaid, on Medicare,

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Speaker 9: and eventually I'm soci security because they're all gonna go bankrupt.

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Speaker 9: We're not gonna have enough money to help people, not

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Speaker 9: around the world, not in the United States. We have

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Speaker 9: to do something that's good for all people, good for

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Speaker 9: all businesses. Competitive. That's always what America has been based on.

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Speaker 9: Just like Calvin Good's once said, the business of America

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Speaker 9: is business.

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Speaker 8: We focus on that.

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Speaker 9: We deregulate, We don't increase taxes to the point where

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Speaker 9: it inhibits our performance and our growth. That means that

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Speaker 9: we as Americans need to take a hard look at

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Speaker 9: where we're spending our money. And that means especially in government.

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Speaker 9: The federal government now is two thirds of all government spending.

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Speaker 9: It used to be one third. That's problematic because we

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Speaker 9: don't balance our books. When we're spending all of our

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Speaker 9: money on interest payments, on debt, we're all in trouble.

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Speaker 9: So we have to be very, very aware that it's

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Speaker 9: so funny to watch the Democrats pretend like their fiscal

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Speaker 9: conservatives now when they're worried about debt for the first

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Speaker 9: time ever.

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Speaker 8: It's a disingenuous argument. They know it is.

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Speaker 9: They want to defund things that are very important to

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Speaker 9: us for security, for the future of America business, and

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Speaker 9: they want to fund things at all basically pseudo charity,

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Speaker 9: but really just encourages people not to work. And they

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Speaker 9: need to be honest about their discussion. But that's what

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Speaker 9: the fight of this is all about. We turn back

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Speaker 9: to American government to solve the problems that American government caused,

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Speaker 9: or do we dibest from government regulation, taxation, and spending

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Speaker 9: and let the American people do what they do best,

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Speaker 9: which is great business, be innovative, great jobs, and we

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Speaker 9: all flourish.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, sir.

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Speaker 4: Last week, we learned that the former commander in chief,

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Speaker 4: former President Joe Biden, has cancer, and all of the

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Speaker 4: medical information we know about his current status points to

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Speaker 4: the direction that this was something that he's been dealing

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Speaker 4: with for a while. Knowingly, we don't know when it

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Speaker 4: comes to servicemen and women, when they look at the

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Speaker 4: power structure that people who were supposedly calling the shots

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Speaker 4: during that administration, does it cause skepticism and concern for

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Speaker 4: them knowing what was happening at the top of that pyramid.

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Speaker 9: Well, certainly not so much from the cancer perspective, although

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Speaker 9: it would have if he became the next president and

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Speaker 9: he was actually having came at breaking down and dying

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Speaker 9: while he's in office and then handing the keys over

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Speaker 9: to Kamala Harris, which I don't think anybody wants to

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Speaker 9: see her commander achieved. But quite frankly, as a guy

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Speaker 9: who the last four years with obvious cognitive decline, who

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Speaker 9: would have to make a decision both maybe on a

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Speaker 9: tactle or a strategic level, maybe a decision about nuclear war,

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Speaker 9: maybe about a pure adversary that's doing something very quickly

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Speaker 9: we need to react to somebody who cannot think and

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Speaker 9: cannot make a decision, certainly would be under the influence

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Speaker 9: of somebody who's not the president.

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Speaker 8: That is a very dangerous thing.

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Speaker 9: If there's one thing we know, the commander in chief

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Speaker 9: position of the president of the United States is the

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Speaker 9: most paramount position you have.

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Speaker 8: If you can't make a good decision, it could cost

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Speaker 8: millions of lives.

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Speaker 9: It could cost the future of America, not just economically,

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Speaker 9: but militarily. This is a very very important preparation for

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Speaker 9: the military execution of the military. Having the president of

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Speaker 9: the United States thinking clearly and objectively is really really important, very.

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Speaker 5: True life and Death. Yeah, do we have time for

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Speaker 5: another one?

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Speaker 3: I think we do. Yeah, let's do it all, right, sir.

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Speaker 1: When you look out over the next few months, a

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Speaker 1: lot of history is going to be made. President Trump

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Speaker 1: has made really significant advances in foreign policy, the sort

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Speaker 1: of discussions that didn't happen at all under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: What does the world look like or what does it

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Speaker 2: need to.

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Speaker 1: Look like in six months for all of us to

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Speaker 1: thrive and have a greater sense of peace in the world.

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Speaker 8: So let's get rid of the spin.

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Speaker 3: First.

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Speaker 8: The Democrats say, oh, we're not respected, they hate us.

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Speaker 8: Not true.

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Speaker 9: When you have countries investing trillions of dollars in the

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Speaker 9: United States, understand the future.

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Speaker 8: That's a good thing for all Americans.

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Speaker 9: When you have production coming back here that strategically prepares

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Speaker 9: us so that not all of our production is overseas,

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Speaker 9: especially in very important industries such as drug production, making

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Speaker 9: sure we have secure lines to earth minerals, those things

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Speaker 9: are really important. President Trump has surprised all of us,

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Speaker 9: especially myself, on foreign policy. He didn't have experience in that,

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Speaker 9: but he has the right instincts, the right intellect to

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Speaker 9: deal with folks.

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Speaker 8: He's had them come to the table.

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Speaker 9: He's been able to negotiate deals with nobody thought were

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Speaker 9: possible when he started addressing terrasts. Everybody's scared to death,

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Speaker 9: is going to ruin our economy. This might be one

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Speaker 9: of the most brilliant moves, in bold moves we've ever seen.

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Speaker 9: He played a game of chicken and he won. That's incredible.

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Speaker 9: My hat's off to him. He's done things I didn't

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Speaker 9: think he could do. The Abraham mc court is a

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Speaker 9: great example something he should have gotten the Nobel Peace

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Speaker 9: Prize for, unlike Obama, who didn't do anything, who had

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Speaker 9: some of the biggest war causers he's during in Afghanistan

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Speaker 9: and Iraq, and yet got an award he should have

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Speaker 9: never gotten it. Cheapens the idea President Trump is the

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Speaker 9: real deal when it comes to foreign policy.

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Speaker 4: He's been brilliant, Right sir, you have served our country militarily, medically,

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Speaker 4: now legislatively, and we appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your servicer and Happy Memorial.

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Speaker 2: Day to you.

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Speaker 4: Good.

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Speaker 9: I just want to point out I've served with those heroes.

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Speaker 9: For those heroes, they're the heroes. I'm just the guy

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Speaker 9: in the background that just loves them and supports them.

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Speaker 9: You know, God blessed them and lost my friends that

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Speaker 9: are no longer here that you know, it means a

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Speaker 5: My love for them is a parent on Capitol Hill

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Speaker 5: and that's what's important. Thank you so much, sir.

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Speaker 4: All Right, everybody, We've got a lot more coming up

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Speaker 4: after this commercial break, so we'll be back on the

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Speaker 10: Run now, all right, everybody, what you just heard was

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Speaker 10: a song from the Dugger Band titled True Colors, and

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Speaker 10: that song was reportedly censored by a TV station in

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Speaker 4: We highlighted this story for you all back in March,

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Speaker 4: but we thought that this would be a great time

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Speaker 4: to bring you an update. And joining us now are

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Speaker 4: the men behind that song, Jordan and Seth Dugger of

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Speaker 4: the Dugger Band.

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Speaker 5: Guys, thanks so much for being here, Happy Memorial Day.

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Speaker 11: He even more old day. Thanks for having thank you.

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Speaker 4: Sure, let's start with this song because most of our

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Speaker 4: audience they stick around a long time, so they probably

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Speaker 4: heard what happened back in March. But what was so

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Speaker 4: to or this radio station to censor it.

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Speaker 11: We're still unsure about that.

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Speaker 12: We've tried to figure it out, but we haven't been

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Speaker 12: given an answer about what was in their eyes to offensive.

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Speaker 12: It's just a patriotic song that we wanted to write.

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Speaker 12: We're proud to be from the United States, We're proud

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Speaker 12: to be Americans, and we just wanted to write a

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Speaker 12: song that every American could be proud of.

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Speaker 11: And that's what we did with our song, True Colors.

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Speaker 12: And it was not received by at least one station,

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Speaker 12: but it's been well received by a lot of other places.

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Speaker 3: It sure has that.

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Speaker 1: I love what happens to this song because within twenty

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Speaker 1: four or forty eight hours of learning what the station did,

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Speaker 1: you guys sored a number one.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it was a really fast rise. It

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Speaker 11: blew our mind.

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Speaker 12: You know, you begin the week and you have things

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Speaker 12: that you have planned out and sometimes God just says,

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Speaker 12: watch this, and his plans.

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Speaker 11: Are so much bigger than ours.

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Speaker 12: And we didn't expect this to happen, but the American

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Speaker 12: people kind of spoke up and made their voices heard.

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Speaker 12: And when one door closed us, a much bigger one

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Speaker 12: open for us that week.

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Speaker 5: I love that be awesome.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to hear from both of you on this seth.

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Speaker 4: I'll start with you when it comes to the song,

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Speaker 4: especially in the context of Memorial Day and honoring the

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Speaker 4: people who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

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Speaker 5: What are the lyrics of this song mean to you?

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Speaker 7: Man?

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Speaker 11: It means a lot, you know.

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Speaker 12: The second verse it talks about our pappy who subbed

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Speaker 12: in World War Two, and that was our great grandfather,

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Speaker 12: and we had the honor.

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Speaker 11: To be able to spend some time with him.

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Speaker 12: He was allowed till we were in college and got

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Speaker 12: to hear some of his stories, and just having that

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Speaker 12: first hand account of the things that happened to him

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Speaker 12: over there in Europe during that time.

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Speaker 11: It's just it really hit home.

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Speaker 12: And so just the sacrifice that all of the men

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Speaker 12: and women that serve and have served and currently are

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Speaker 12: serving in our military.

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Speaker 11: It's just we honor you, guys. So much because we

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Speaker 11: couldn't do what we do without you all.

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Speaker 12: To have the freedom to be able to stand up

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Speaker 12: and say I do love America, to be able to

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Speaker 12: have the freedom to do whatever you want to in

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Speaker 12: this country. It's because the men and women that serve

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Speaker 12: and it means so much to us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jordan, how about you? What rang true for you

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Speaker 3: with this though?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: I think, like Seth said, it's important to our family

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Speaker 12: because our great granddad, like he was talking about, We've

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Speaker 12: got to share so much time with him, and for me,

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Speaker 12: you know, he was around until I was in college,

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Speaker 12: so I saw, after all those decades later, how the

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Speaker 12: war still affected him. I mean, he couldn't even talk

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Speaker 12: about it without tearing up. He lost a lot of

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Speaker 12: friends in that. I was thinking, man, this is an

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Speaker 12: unbelievable sacrifice. He had two young kids at home and

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Speaker 12: he's off serving this country, risking his life and risking

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Speaker 12: his health. I mean, he got hurt several times during service,

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Speaker 12: and I'm just thinking, man, you know, there's so many

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Speaker 12: men and women who have sacrificed so much for us,

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Speaker 12: and us as musicians, we've had the opportunity to play

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Speaker 12: for the troops and we see that as just a

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Speaker 12: small part a way that we can somehow give back

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Speaker 12: and maybe bring some entertainment and enjoyment to those people,

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Speaker 12: because the sacrifices they've made is just unbelievable and we're

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Speaker 12: so grateful and thankful for that.

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Speaker 11: And we've traveled to a lot of countries.

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Speaker 12: I'm sure you all have as well, and there's no

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Speaker 12: place like the country that we live in, and we're

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Speaker 12: proud to be living here.

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Speaker 11: We're proud of our country, and.

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Speaker 12: We're just thankful to be able to write a song

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Speaker 12: about it.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask you about the geographic bias of this,

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Speaker 4: because it seems like in Nashville it is a hub

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Speaker 4: for country music.

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Speaker 5: It's also a red state.

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Speaker 4: I know Nashville has a Democratic mayor, but it's a

748
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Speaker 4: pretty very republican state. This isn't somewhere like Los Angeles

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Speaker 4: or New York or Philly, or even Motown in Detroit.

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Speaker 5: It's Nashville. So how does something like that happen there?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 12: It kind of blew our minds. I mean, we weren't

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Speaker 12: expecting it at all. We woke up a couple of

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Speaker 12: days before this. I think it was on a Monday

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Speaker 12: when we got the email we were supposed to perform

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Speaker 12: on Wednesday morning, and it just blew our minds. You know,

757
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Speaker 12: you think Nashville, you think southern, you think southern hospitality,

758
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Speaker 12: you think Republican, you think read you think.

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Speaker 11: All these things.

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Speaker 12: But most of all, it's just the fact that it's patriotism.

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Speaker 12: Like the song that we wrote speaks to patriotism.

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Speaker 11: It didn't have. We purposely created it to where.

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Speaker 12: It wouldn't be politically biased, and for somebody to say

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Speaker 12: that it was, it kind of blew our minds. We

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Speaker 12: didn't even expect it came out of the left field,

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Speaker 12: and yeah, it's crazy, especially to happen right in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I always love talking to country Jews because it's

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Speaker 1: such an amazing dynamic. You guys write your songs and

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Speaker 1: you sing them, you perform them. But how how do

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Speaker 1: you guys as brothers, how do you write together? Give

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Speaker 1: us this, because you write some pretty magical songs.

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Speaker 3: The what's the special sauce between the two? How do

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Speaker 3: you guys write a song?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 12: I think throughout our lives, like you never know when

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Speaker 12: you're going to get a song idea, I mean, and

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Speaker 12: I try to keep mine in my phone.

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Speaker 11: I just drop things down.

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Speaker 12: If I have an idea for a melody, I'll just

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Speaker 12: sing it into my phone and be able to save

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Speaker 12: it that way until we get a chance for in

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Speaker 12: a writing session, because sometimes those ideas come in the

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Speaker 12: middle of something else that you don't have time to

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Speaker 12: stop and write. For Seth and I, we normally have

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Speaker 12: a third or third and fourth rider with us. I

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Speaker 12: think as brothers we have a lot in common, but

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Speaker 12: it's nice sometimes to have a tiebreaker because if I

788
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Speaker 12: think in one direction, he's thinking another, we can kind

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Speaker 12: of have a third vote.

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Speaker 8: That helps us out with that.

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Speaker 12: But it's just good to have another guy in the

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Speaker 12: room or a girl in the room, you know, if

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Speaker 12: you get stalled out or something. It's it's good to

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Speaker 12: be able to have those conversations and keep a song

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Speaker 12: moving forward. On true colors we had for writers total,

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Speaker 12: and so those two GUIDs. We met the day of

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Speaker 12: the writing session. A lot of writers that we write with,

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Speaker 12: we've written several times with and are very comfortable with.

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Speaker 12: For that session, we were meeting face to face for

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Speaker 12: the first time and spent the first hour so just

801
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Speaker 12: getting to know each other and that's when we found

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Speaker 12: out that one of the writers was an Afghan vette

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Speaker 12: and the other writer was wanting to write a patriotic song.

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Speaker 12: Like this is a perfect combination because we've been wanting

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Speaker 12: to do a patriotic song and it seemed like the

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Speaker 12: perfect storm to do it.

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Speaker 5: I seth before we let you guys go. What's next

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Speaker 5: for you? Any touring?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, So we're currently working on a lot of things.

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Speaker 12: So we've got new music that's coming. We we just

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Speaker 12: got out of the studio with Writers in the Sky,

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Speaker 12: a group that if you follow the Opera, you know

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Speaker 12: who those guys are.

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Speaker 11: Members one.

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Speaker 12: So we're meeting a lot of people. We're putting together

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Speaker 12: a lot of new music. We're putting together a tour.

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Speaker 12: We've got a lot of dates that we're about to announce,

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Speaker 12: and we're excited about the things that's going to happen

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Speaker 12: that's coming down the road. This year is going to

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Speaker 12: be a huge year for us, and we're excited to

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Speaker 12: share with you guys, excited to share with all the

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Speaker 12: fans out there.

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Speaker 11: Just give us a follow and.

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Speaker 12: Hopefully we'll be around where you guys are from sometime soon.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Where can everybody follow you?

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Speaker 12: Duggerband dot Com is the best place, but we're on

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Speaker 12: pretty much every social media and we're actually in Alabama

828
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Speaker 12: right now. We're on radio tours. That's why we've got

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Speaker 12: the hotel background here, and we appreciate you all having

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Speaker 12: us on. But we've been going radio station radio station,

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Speaker 12: and for musicians, we're not really most of us aren't

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Speaker 12: morning people. And I think every day this week we've

833
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Speaker 12: been up at either four or five am because these

834
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Speaker 12: radio people, they're like an early start, and so we've

835
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Speaker 12: been putting in some miles visiting some great stations, and

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Speaker 12: there's gonna be a lot of that over the next

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Speaker 12: few months as well. But we're excited about the lost shows,

838
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Speaker 12: we're excited about the support from media, from radio, and

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Speaker 12: we just appreciate you guys having a song again.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate what you do too.

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Speaker 1: I was really impressed what you did with Helene, raising

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00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: the money with Helene and just giving back. That is

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Speaker 1: such an extraordinary connection to the country communities, unique to

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Speaker 1: the country community. So thanks for what you guys do

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm over two decades removed from Birmingham, Alabama,

847
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Speaker 4: but I would bet WZZK is on the list of

848
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Speaker 4: stations clamoring to get you in there. So Alabama, make

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Speaker 4: me proud my home state, show up for them. All right, everybody,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much for being here. Seth and Jordan.

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Speaker 4: It was delight talking to you and thanks for filling

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Speaker 4: us in on everything that's going on with you.

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Speaker 5: And we have more on this Memorial Day special.

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Speaker 8: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back everybody to just the News, No Noise.

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Speaker 4: We want to take the time tonight to highlight a

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Speaker 4: great program that honors America's fallen veterans.

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Speaker 5: The organization is called Reads Across America.

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Speaker 4: And joining us now to talk about what they do

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Speaker 4: and how you can help them is their executive director,

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Speaker 4: Karen Worster.

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Speaker 5: Karen, thanks so much for being here. Happy Memorial Day.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, Thank you for having me, Amanda and John.

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Speaker 13: I'm always happy to talk about res across America and

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Speaker 13: most importantly on veterans and how important it is to

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Speaker 13: keep talking about them year round to our kids. You know,

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Speaker 13: it's always happy to talk about them.

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Speaker 4: Sure, And you know I think that people picture Reads

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Speaker 4: on tombstones across this country and they relate that to

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Speaker 4: your organization. But you guys do so much. Tell our

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Speaker 4: audience about everything that you do well.

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Speaker 13: We have a year round mission to remember, honor and teach,

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Speaker 13: and it all comes to fruition, you know, around the

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Speaker 13: holidays and replace wreaths, but during the year we just

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Speaker 13: continue to teach. At res Across America dotg we have

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Speaker 13: a very robust teach program that is put together by

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Speaker 13: a ghost on mom who retired teacher who has taken

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Speaker 13: what we consider the attributes of the United States military

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Speaker 13: and put them into curriculum for kids from pre K

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Speaker 13: through grade twelve and it's being downloaded for free all

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Speaker 13: over the country. You can get it at Resacrossamerica dot

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Speaker 13: org or teach a paid teacher absolutely free. We're always

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Speaker 13: reaching out with that mission to remember on a teach.

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Speaker 13: We have a pretty robust radio station, always sharing stories.

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Speaker 13: You know, we work with over ninety other vsos on

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Speaker 13: that radio station. So people who have a need in

887
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 13: any area, whether it's as a caregiver, a veteran looking

888
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 13: for help with PTSD just across the board. We work

889
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 13: with all other organizations and make Resacross America radio available

890
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 13: and you can access that from our website or a

891
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 13: Facebook page. Just trying to get the word out and

892
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Speaker 13: the most important thing we do year round is try

893
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 13: to teach our kids to love our country and understand

894
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 13: great sacrifice. And there's no better time than doing it

895
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Speaker 13: over the Memorial Day weekend.

896
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just love it if and I think that

897
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Speaker 1: that's been one of the most amazing things about watching

898
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Speaker 1: what you do. Obviously, the Reefs honor the extraordinary fallen

899
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Speaker 1: heroes of this country, but there's a generation of children

900
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Speaker 1: who may not have gotten the great appreciation or not

901
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: getting the great appreciation for our military in our country

902
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Speaker 1: in the school system. And you are beginning to build

903
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Speaker 1: an incredible education program for parents or grandparents who are

904
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: watching today who want to get their children up. Remind

905
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: them how you introduce them to the actual heroes of

906
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: this country. They actually are going to learn about their

907
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: life story, aren't.

908
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Speaker 13: They Well so in so many ways, And we invite

909
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Speaker 13: people also to share the stories that they loved ones

910
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 13: who've served in the military. We have a mobile education

911
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 13: exhibit that travels all over the country and stop at schools,

912
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Speaker 13: and I had a real real treat to go down.

913
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Speaker 13: My kids live in Haymark and my grandkids, one set

914
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Speaker 13: of them anyway, in Aymak of Virginia, and I actually

915
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Speaker 13: went down when theme with they and my husband and

916
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 13: I and saw the presentation that that group on our

917
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Speaker 13: MA did to those kids and they got so involved.

918
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Speaker 13: And we actually have a gold stop parent and brother

919
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Speaker 13: that are on that mobile education exhibit, and those kids

920
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 13: were so involved and so happy to learn and learn

921
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Speaker 13: about history, and we really express to them and try

922
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Speaker 13: to get across that with freedom comes responsibility, So teaching

923
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 13: kids that they can take ownership and what the future

924
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 13: looks like, learn about the past, learn about how they

925
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 13: can contribute as they grow up and become part of

926
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Speaker 13: their community and part of their country. So getting an

927
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 13: opportunity to go into schools, continueing to do programs. We

928
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Speaker 13: just did a program a week ago here in Maine

929
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Speaker 13: and we had almost two hundred school kids come out

930
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Speaker 13: and wave a flag with us. We do that every Tuesday,

931
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Speaker 13: and we do it every with people all over the country.

932
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Speaker 13: We asked them to join us on Facebook, and then

933
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Speaker 13: we studied Chiles Lindbergh and we talked about him as

934
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Speaker 13: a Medal of Honor recipient and just tie in kids

935
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Speaker 13: in with history all the time, and then tying it

936
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Speaker 13: in with their local heroes as well. And that's Another

937
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 13: great thing about Memorial Day. People go out and put

938
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Speaker 13: out flags, and lots of times kids participate, and they

939
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 13: might see names they recognize and ask questions about their

940
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Speaker 13: own past and their own history.

941
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Speaker 3: Amazing.

942
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Speaker 5: I love that aspect of this.

943
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Speaker 4: I want to ask you about something else too, because

944
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Speaker 4: you know, in light of what Memorial Day means, and

945
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Speaker 4: you deal with veterans every day, and you talk to

946
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,919
Speaker 4: their families, people who have lost family.

947
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Speaker 5: Members serving our country.

948
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Speaker 4: When you have someone like President Trump in office, who

949
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 4: it is demonstrably apparent how much he loves the military

950
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 4: and how much he appreciates, appreciates and feels the gravity

951
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Speaker 4: of being the commander in chief. When you're talking to veterans,

952
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 4: does that weigh on them as well, that they have

953
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Speaker 4: a commander in chief right now in office who is

954
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Speaker 4: watching their sixth.

955
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Speaker 13: Well, famously, we are known for being non political, yet

956
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,919
Speaker 13: so I will say, whoever sits at the helm, it's

957
00:42:54,960 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 13: important that they just understand what sacrifice people make and

958
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 13: it's one percent that protect the ninety nine percent, And

959
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 13: so I like to see we take the responsibility for me.

960
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Speaker 13: I think any anything that you teach a children is

961
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Speaker 13: going to stat at home. I think a patriotism commitment

962
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Speaker 13: to country begins at home, and it goes to community,

963
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Speaker 13: and then it goes to the country. And I think

964
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Speaker 13: that one of the lessons we can do is to

965
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 13: teach kids more civics so that they can understand whatever

966
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 13: thought process they have or where they come from, that

967
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 13: they can get actively involved and their voice can have

968
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Speaker 13: a difference. So where we are in the country now

969
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 13: is the voice of the people. And I think that

970
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 13: teaching kids to respect the flag, to respect those that serve,

971
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Speaker 13: and to respect the way that our country runs is

972
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Speaker 13: the best thing that we can do for our kids.

973
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Speaker 3: Right.

974
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Speaker 1: That is brilliant real quickly, because I have a large

975
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Speaker 1: property lossome trees. I know you do the balsam tree planting.

976
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Speaker 1: Tell us about that and what comes with that. I

977
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: might get some from all my nephews and nieces.

978
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Speaker 13: Well, we actually don't plant balls and trees, believe it

979
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 13: or not. The balls and trees that were our where

980
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 13: the reason are made at this point are all natural

981
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Speaker 13: stands the trees and then just cultivated and spray to

982
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Speaker 13: keep them healthy and all that. Where the hardwood has

983
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Speaker 13: either been cut off by other companies and used as

984
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 13: hardwood and then we go in and use those bossom

985
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 13: trees that are there. We very seldom plant trees. They

986
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 13: just regenerate when the ground everything is healthy. What we

987
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 13: do have that is across America is we have a

988
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 13: program that's called a Remember's Tree program. And this is

989
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 13: something people could really get into for it's still memorial

990
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 13: Memorial Day and all you long.

991
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Speaker 8: It's absolutely free.

992
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 13: If you go to reads across from America dot dog

993
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 13: Remembers Tree program and you fill out information a dog

994
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 13: tag of somebody who's served in the military, and we

995
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 13: will take that dog tag and we'll take it into

996
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 13: the forest and we'll place it on a tree. It'll

997
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 13: become you all loved One's tree. Every third year, the

998
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 13: branches a clipped from the tree and made into a

999
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 13: reef that will go on a grave veterance grave somewhere

1000
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 13: in the country. And it started out just as a

1001
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 13: gift to a couple of Goldstoff families who just told

1002
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 13: everybody they came to And now we have over twenty

1003
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Speaker 13: thousand dog tags in the branches of the trees here.

1004
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 13: And I will tell you, on a beautiful night in

1005
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 13: the summertime with a nice breeze, it's just magic because

1006
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 13: you can hear the dog tags and know that those

1007
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 13: people are remembered in the main ones, and you too

1008
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 13: should come up and visit us and see that as

1009
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 13: something behold. We actually even have one grove that is

1010
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 13: our Metal of Honor grove and it's eight acres and

1011
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 13: every tree and eight acres has a dog tag that

1012
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 13: represents the Medal of Hoanna recipient since the program began.

1013
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 4: And you can find that as where are these groves

1014
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 4: by the way, right are?

1015
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 13: They're in Maine. They're all in Columbia Falls, Maine, about

1016
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 13: seventeen thousand ac a lot right now, that's where the

1017
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 13: bossom comes from.

1018
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 8: And we'd love to have visitors.

1019
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 13: We have a christ American Museum here in Maine that

1020
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 13: houses stories. You know, we teach children to love our

1021
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 13: country through the stories of those observed and that makes

1022
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 13: it personal. That's why we ask people is a place

1023
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 13: of wreath to say a name, These a statistics and

1024
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 13: you know, encouraging people to teach a child what a

1025
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 13: gholstand mother is. There are so many kids that don't

1026
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 13: know what that is. These are people of gholstaff, families

1027
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 13: with skinning the game that love this country with so

1028
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 13: much passion that you know, I just I love being

1029
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 13: around them and my age. There are a lot of

1030
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 13: I probably have forty close friends who are gohost one mothers,

1031
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 13: and it doesn't escape me every day that I think

1032
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 13: that they love their child and how they keep their

1033
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 13: child alive is through telling their stories and programs like

1034
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 13: Breads Across America.

1035
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 5: So it's important.

1036
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 13: Memorial Day is precious. Say a name somebody who's passed.

1037
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 5: Karen Wereser, executive director of Breaths Across America, thank you

1038
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 5: so much for joining us tonight.

1039
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 3: Awesome.

1040
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 4: All right, everybody, we're going to say break and we'll

1041
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 4: be back on the other time. Welcome back, everybody. Just

1042
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 4: a few minutes to wrap up the show, John, I

1043
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 4: know that a lot of people utilize this weekend for

1044
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 4: barbecuing and traveling, and I think that's great. I think

1045
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 4: that of all of the freedoms that this country affords us,

1046
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 4: we should celebrate that.

1047
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 5: But this weekend is about something a little bit different.

1048
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 4: So you know, for our viewers, I would encourage all

1049
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 4: of you to spend this weekend not only having fun

1050
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,919
Speaker 4: and fellowship, but also thinking of those families who there's

1051
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 4: an empty chair at their picnic table this time.

1052
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And if you don't have

1053
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: someone in your own family, does it go read about

1054
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: some great veteran. There are all these wonderful sites where

1055
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: you can learn the stories of American heroes. Share it

1056
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: with a child, a nephew and niece, a grandchild, a child,

1057
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: your own children. It is a gift that keeps on giving.

1058
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: And we started this conversation on end it the same way,

1059
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 1: being alongside my uncles and realizing today as an adult

1060
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: what giants they were, and how unassuming they were nothing

1061
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: about their service.

1062
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 3: They just thought they went and did their job.

1063
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: In fact, they got mad if you tried to suggest

1064
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: they were somebody special, but they were. And all across

1065
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: this great country there are somebody specials near all of us,

1066
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: and on this day, thank them. Let them know we

1067
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: care for on them. And if you know of a family,

1068
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 1: let them know that we're there for them in their service.

1069
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 4: And I would also encourage people to seek out I

1070
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 4: know that there are regional organizations and some national organizations

1071
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 4: as well that address veterans suicide because it is a

1072
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 4: devastating cancer on our veteran community. Now I will say

1073
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 4: since we opened the show with VA Secretary Doug Collins.

1074
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 5: He is doing a lot to make sure the day

1075
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 5: community is getting the needs that getting their needs met.

1076
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 4: So I'm hoping that that will that will turn that

1077
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 4: statistic into something that is not quite as dire.

1078
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: I feel like this Memorial Day is a really a

1079
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: Memorial Day of enthusiasm or something maybe something we haven't

1080
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: had for a while. We're going to get the truth

1081
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: on Afghanistan. We're getting a better VA by the day.

1082
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: A couple guys try to put out a patriotic song

1083
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: and they get canceled by the d station. What happens,

1084
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Boom America responds and puts them the number one.

1085
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like this country is taking a big.

1086
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: Turn and we're back, baby Yeah. And I think this

1087
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: Memorial Day we're back because of the men and women

1088
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: that are keeping us safe today at this moment, and

1089
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: for all those who preceded them, those who had fallen.

1090
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: They've given us this great opportunity to give another good

1091
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: generation of America history going. And it's a fun thing

1092
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: to be an American on a.

1093
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: Day like this. It really is.

1094
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 5: Well, I just signed up for my media credentials.

1095
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 4: I know Flag Day is June fourteenth, but before that,

1096
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 4: on June eleventh is when our nation celebrates, and they're

1097
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 4: going to have a big parade for the armies to fift.

1098
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing?

1099
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 5: So excited to see that.

1100
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's going to be incredible, and I

1101
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 4: know that we're going to have coverage of that right

1102
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 4: here on this show and on this network. But in

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Speaker 4: the meantime, everyone enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day

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Speaker 4: and make sure you are checking all of those headlines

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Speaker 4: over on justinnews dot com.

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Speaker 5: We are blessed by you being here tonight.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you, and we move back here tomorrow night'very

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Speaker 4: Memorial Day.

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Speaker 5: Happy Memorial Day to you.