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Speaker 1: this last hour of the show today. It's a game

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Speaker 1: It is your own form of meditation or your own

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Speaker 1: form of prayer. People go back to the Word of God,

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Speaker 1: for those who simply meditate, people get back to a

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Speaker 1: position of comfort and confidence because it's good for you.

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Speaker 1: It restores who you are, and it makes you a

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Speaker 1: I do start to wonder. So it's I truly believe,

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Speaker 1: And I'll ask you what you truly believe in. You say,

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Speaker 1: I truly believe that, I'll give you another example of

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Speaker 1: same thing. Things that you truly believe that nobody could

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Speaker 1: heard somebody else say something that you're certain you truly believe.

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Speaker 1: I truly believe that over seventy five percent of Republicans

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Speaker 1: Once you realize that Lindsey Graham is an absolute fraud,

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Speaker 1: And once you understand that most of these Republican elected

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Speaker 1: believing that, oh he's a good god. No, no, assume

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Speaker 1: next day is going to do it again. These people

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Speaker 1: All right, it's I truly believe. Thank you producer Mark

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Speaker 1: Sheila in Alabama. Sheila, what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I truly believe in the statement by Robert Hinland

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Speaker 3: it's called CHANCELTI. There's absolutely no such thing as a

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Speaker 4: Anything worth having is worth earning.

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Speaker 1: Did you say Hindline high line. Yes, are you a

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Speaker 3: My husband is a big Hindland fan, and he introduced

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Speaker 1: Bill in New Jersey. Bill, what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 5: Good afternoon? I truly believe the.

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Speaker 4: Breakdown of the family is the root of all evil

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Speaker 6: And Almond Brothers are easily the greatest Southern rock band.

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Speaker 1: Of all times. You don't believe that, I truly believe

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Speaker 6: Back a dead rocker, right, and I would always say Dwayne, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Laura in Florida, who has been patiently waiting through the break.

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Speaker 1: What do you truly believe, sweetheart?

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Speaker 8: I truly believe that when God laid out the plan

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Speaker 8: if I think I messed up the plan, he assures

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Speaker 1: Has it never told you have a great voice for radio?

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Speaker 1: You could be a voice of I listen to a

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Speaker 1: Bay Okay, you have being in an audio medium, I

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Speaker 1: of my fair lady, you know, trying to teach Henry

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Speaker 1: Oh what are y'all performing for Christmas?

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Speaker 8: We just finished a performance with the Florida Orchestra of

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Speaker 8: Handles Messiah. We have three performances in very venues around

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Speaker 1: And y'all are where in Florida?

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Speaker 8: Oh, Collie, I think probably the best we ever did,

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Wow, y'all are the classics.

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Speaker 8: It's the most fun piece you're ever going to hear.

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Speaker 1: I think my regular show is going to be picking

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Speaker 1: My wife and I really enjoy that, So we're uncultured

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Speaker 1: David in the Bluegrass State one of my favorite states.

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Speaker 1: You know, David, I have a theory I'm going to

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Speaker 1: I stepped over your line, David in Kentucky, What do

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Speaker 5: I truly believe you're one hundred percent right about that.

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Speaker 5: But I believe, Michael, that people would just a lick

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Speaker 5: So in line with your last callers, you.

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Speaker 1: And it's just David, I cannot, for the life of

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Speaker 1: I'm terrible. If I was halfway any good, then people

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Speaker 1: only am I a bad singer, but I know I'm

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Speaker 1: that makes it almost parody. But from the time I

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Speaker 1: You can't be in a bad mood when you're singing

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Speaker 1: That's right, David. Where are you in Kentucky? Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's been a fun week. We'll finish with two

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Speaker 1: It is called I Truly Believe, And we'll start with

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Speaker 1: Victor in Maryland. Victor, what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 11: I truly believe that guide let me live with my blindness.

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Speaker 11: I was married to a sided woman, but she divorced

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Speaker 1: about what you hear that other people don't notice.

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Speaker 11: Well, people think it's amazing that I can hear things

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Speaker 11: that they can't, and I keep telling them that I'm

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Speaker 11: able to use my sense of hearing smell a lot easier.

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Speaker 11: Of course, I just learned to use it better than

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Speaker 11: side of people who take that for granted.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if I were to ask you to send

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Speaker 1: me an email, which I'm going to through my website

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Speaker 1: Michael Berryshow dot com, what is your process for doing that?

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Speaker 1: Walk me through? Like I'm six years old.

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Speaker 11: First of all, I do not have a computer, just

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Speaker 11: never wanted one. My means of communication is through the telephone,

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Speaker 11: and I send tapes back and forth to various people

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Speaker 11: and I call them my trucker friends that I met

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Speaker 11: on a trucking show over the years.

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Speaker 1: Victor, I could talk to you for hours. What a

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Speaker 1: fascinating story, but what an inspiring story. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: taking the time to call us today. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Norman in Massachusetts. My dad's name is Norman. What do

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Speaker 1: you truly believe?

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Speaker 4: Norman?

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Speaker 2: I truly believe that Jesus Christ is the only way,

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Speaker 2: the only truth, and the only life to trust in today,

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Speaker 2: especially the way this world is heady?

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Speaker 1: And why do you say that? What makes you say that?

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Speaker 2: Well, for well forty something. Blood saved my life, and

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Speaker 2: he saved my marriage to a beautiful woman. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to be married fifty years next Ye, I'm seventy two

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Speaker 2: years old. I don't know where else to turn but

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Speaker 2: the proof of the resurrection. That's all I have in life.

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Speaker 2: Where else do I go?

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Speaker 1: As Peter, that's a lot, Norman, that's a lot. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for the call you have. You have added to

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Speaker 1: the rich tapestry of the week for me, my man,

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Speaker 1: and I will remember you. Dennis in South Carolina, what

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Speaker 1: do you truly believe? Dennis?

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Speaker 2: I truly believe that if you're a conservative that lives

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Speaker 2: in a blue state.

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Speaker 5: You need to move to a red state, and you

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Speaker 5: will not regret it.

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Speaker 1: Dennis, I read a post. I read a post by

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Speaker 1: a guy that I follow on Twitter called d C Draino,

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Speaker 1: and he made a point that my friend Jesse Kelly,

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Speaker 1: who also does a show on this network, has made

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Speaker 1: and and and I think it's a very good one.

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Speaker 1: I see Dreno's point, which is also Jesse Kelly's point,

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Speaker 1: and several other people have made this. But he made

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Speaker 1: the point that there are I think five million I

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Speaker 1: hope I got this number right Republican voters in California,

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Speaker 1: and yet they have zero chants of ever electing a

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Speaker 1: statewide official. And yet one hundred and forty thousand votes

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Speaker 1: spread strategically across the swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: We could actually run the table. The Democrats could never

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Speaker 1: win again. Now, the problem with this is Democrats organize

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Speaker 1: better than we do because Republicans are necessarily freethinkers. So

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Speaker 1: if you say, hey, I need you to give up

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Speaker 1: your life where it is and I need you to

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Speaker 1: move to a swing state, a purple state and make

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Speaker 1: it read, we've got more than enough numbers to do it,

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Speaker 1: but each individual person would have to vote with their feet.

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Speaker 1: And it's a big, big change, it really is. And

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Speaker 1: we've seen Californians move to Texas and that's great, that's

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Speaker 1: Texas read. But if we could have, as you said,

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Speaker 1: people independently take one for the team, the way you

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Speaker 1: used to go in the Peace Corps to Africa, the

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Speaker 1: way that you people do teach for America. If people

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Speaker 1: could say I'm leaving California the way Joe Rogan did,

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Speaker 1: the way Elon Musk did, I'm leaving California and the nonsense.

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Speaker 1: From a purely selfish perspective, I refuse to allow them

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Speaker 1: to steal what I make. But I'm also going to

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Speaker 1: go somewhere where I'm going to be happier and make

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Speaker 1: a red state redder or a purple state Redder, and

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Speaker 1: the numbers are there, and then we'd win the presidential

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Speaker 1: elections and we'd never have to worry about it again.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it all all would go well and we'd

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Speaker 1: be very happy. Do we have time for one more

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Speaker 1: call crash? How about Matt in Minnesota? Matt in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: what do you truly believe, sir?

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Speaker 6: I truly believe that the United States there's the greatest

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Speaker 6: country on earth, and it will be for generations and

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Speaker 6: generations to come. I also believe that God has commissioned

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Speaker 6: a man like Donald Trump to come in and show

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Speaker 6: us just how bad, how rotten, and how deceitful things

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Speaker 6: are in our country. And once we wake up America,

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Speaker 6: which is waking up, we'll be able to deal with

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Speaker 6: it and to get rid of it.

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Speaker 2: And to fix it.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you were the last call of the segment

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Speaker 1: because that's a great message for people to take. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking the time to share that. Let me

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Speaker 1: close this segment. We'll have one more by saying this,

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Speaker 1: and maybe this is the most important thing you're going

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Speaker 1: to hear me say today, and that is it is

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Speaker 1: great to be conservative. It's great to be patriotic. It

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Speaker 1: is great to care deeply about your country and to

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Speaker 1: constantly search out ways where Republicans have disappointed you and

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Speaker 1: Democrats have infuriated you and everything's gone to hell in

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Speaker 1: a handbasket. That is all fine, but I think too

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Speaker 1: many people have decided that by doing so, it makes

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Speaker 1: you a great American citizen because you're the only one

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Speaker 1: not duped into thinking things are good. It is good

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Speaker 1: to be a conservative. I don't think it's good to

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Speaker 1: become so cynical that you refuse to participate in fixing

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Speaker 1: the problem. I hear too many people, and this is

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Speaker 1: a huge problem in America. I hear too many people

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Speaker 1: tell me, Michael, you're too idealistic. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: you're even trying. The country's lost, it's gone to hell.

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Speaker 1: If you think it's bad, now imagine if the few

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Speaker 1: people that are fighting for it stop fighting. And that's

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Speaker 1: what you're calling for. There's nothing noble to giving up.

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Speaker 1: I watched it Larry Bird documentary last night, and Larry

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Speaker 1: Bird considered one of the greatest plays ever. They're playing

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Speaker 1: I think the pistons could have been the pacers, and

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Speaker 1: he makes a steal with two seconds left and throws

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Speaker 1: to as he's going out of bounds and Dennis Johnson

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Speaker 1: DJ's crashing the board. He passes to him. They win

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Speaker 1: the game. They win it all because he refused to lose.

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Speaker 1: Joe Montana refused to lose. John Elway refused to lose

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Speaker 1: for that matter. That the thing that makes them most

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Speaker 1: crazy about Donald Trump is he refuses to lose. So

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Speaker 1: if you're a Trump supporter, how can you give up

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Speaker 1: if he hasn't, because trust me, they've put him through

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more hell than they have you, a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more help. All right, We're going to have

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Speaker 1: one more segment. I would love to hear from you

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Speaker 1: by email, through our website or on the line. One

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Speaker 1: eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two one

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Speaker 1: Berry in for Clay and Buck and more. I truly

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Speaker 1: Well, it's been an honor, folks. It's great to get

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Speaker 1: to work with the team here. Crash. Oh we do.

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Speaker 1: We have another hour and that's even better. Time flies,

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Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't. Let's see the fire alarm's gone off today.

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Speaker 1: I messed up the clock. I've pulled the triffec to

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Speaker 1: these folks are kind to let me come back. Then

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Speaker 1: I'll give my thanks at the end of the show.

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Speaker 1: Can I truly believe? Episode? And that means that you

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Speaker 1: call him with what you truly believe, And it can

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Speaker 1: be something that you believe. It could be something silly

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Speaker 1: or something serious, but something that you truly believe and

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Speaker 1: nobody can change you from and you are unashamed to

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Speaker 1: say it even if it upsets someone. We'll start with

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Speaker 1: Tom in Massachusetts. Tom, what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 12: I truly believe that the education system in the United

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Speaker 12: States of America, from kindergarten through as many years of

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Speaker 12: college as you want to speak of, will be the

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Speaker 12: destruction of the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: Ultimately, why.

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Speaker 12: Look at the college campuses, particularly the elite points did

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Speaker 12: her graduating functional illiterates in Chicago. Is not a person

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Speaker 12: in the school system that's competent mathematics, not one. All

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Speaker 12: of the people that are protesting against Israel for Hamas

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Speaker 12: are in these schools. So I just don't see how

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Speaker 12: if the school systems keep going the way they're going,

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Speaker 12: there's any hope for the future of the country.

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Speaker 1: I agree, Tom, thank you for the call. But let

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Speaker 1: me say this. I don't blame the school teachers, and

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Speaker 1: I don't blame the school system. Oh, they're the cancer.

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Speaker 1: But we don't blame cancer for being cancer. We blame

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Speaker 1: the individual for not doing anything about the lump growing

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Speaker 1: in a woman's breast or on a man's arm, or

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Speaker 1: you know, causing your ear lobed to look like a

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Speaker 1: basketball At some point people have got to stop criticize.

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Speaker 1: Parents have got to stop criticizing the school alone and

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Speaker 1: do something about it. To simply decide, well, that's what

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Speaker 1: the teachers do or that's what the school's policy is

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I'm not gonna have a chance to get

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Speaker 1: to it. I hoped I would this week. But if

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Speaker 1: you're on Twitter, there is a person who posts under

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Speaker 1: the name rebel Educator and has a long thread this

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Speaker 1: week and I reposted it. It is wonderful, but it

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Speaker 1: is a call to action to get your kids. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't use the term public schools. He uses the term

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Speaker 1: government schools. I think that's very, very smart, very strategic.

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Speaker 1: Words matter. He says, get your kids out of public

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Speaker 1: schools and homeschool and he points out how many school

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Speaker 1: teachers and educators themselves are doing that. You know, I

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Speaker 1: used to think that people that were homeschooled were creepy.

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Speaker 1: I've come to learn that people that are homeschooled are

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Speaker 1: typically are better performers in life and far more socially adjusted.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to spend more time around other kids.

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Speaker 1: You need to spend more time learning how to interact

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Speaker 1: with adults because that's going to be a big key

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Speaker 1: to lifelong success. All right, back to the cast, Claire

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Speaker 1: in Florida. What do you truly believe, Claire?

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Speaker 4: I believe that the operative phrase for all of us

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Speaker 4: right now is situation awareness three hundred and sixty degrees.

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Speaker 1: And why do you say that?

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Speaker 4: Physically and mentally?

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Speaker 1: How old are you?

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Speaker 4: Claire eighty?

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Speaker 1: I love you for it, My goodness, I'd give you

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Speaker 1: a big California.

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Speaker 4: I was born in hollyweed.

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Speaker 6: Claire.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something that you may or

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Speaker 1: may not appreciate, and it may even offend you. But

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Speaker 1: because I had two grandmothers I loved and adored, and

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Speaker 1: I had friend's grandmother's who spoiled me rotten when I

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Speaker 1: was a kid with food. Food is a Southern way

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Speaker 1: of showing love. I like to imagine that you make

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Speaker 1: a particular dish that if I ever had it, I

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Speaker 1: would call and check on you every day because it

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Speaker 1: would remind me of how good it tasted. Please tell

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Speaker 1: me that's true and what that dish is. Ah.

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Speaker 4: Actually I don't do much cooking lately, although I make

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Speaker 4: a mean cheesecake.

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Speaker 1: Oh that'll do my point proven, all right, Thank you, sweetheart,

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Speaker 1: Steve in Maryland, what do you truly believe?

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Speaker 7: I truly believe that Warren Zevon and Tom Petty were

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Speaker 7: the greatest singer songwriters of our generation. I truly believe

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Speaker 7: that Sam Kennison was the Jimmy Hendrix of comedy. And

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Speaker 7: I believe that the world in general and the US

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Speaker 7: in particular are now so screwed up that only divine

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Speaker 7: intervention can save us.

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Speaker 1: You know, Steve, what's funny about that? I was sitting

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Speaker 1: with two of my friends yesterday. I'm up in Colorado,

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Speaker 1: and one of them lives in Dubai now, uh, and

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Speaker 1: one of them lives in Houston. And we gathered to

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Speaker 1: chat in the middle of the afternoon, and we started

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Speaker 1: talking about comedy, and we started talking Andrew Dice Clay

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Speaker 1: and why Clay was so funny when he was and

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Speaker 1: I brought up I brought up Kennison and how Kennison

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Speaker 1: wasn't actually that funny, he was just radical. I think

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Speaker 1: the those guys would be more popular today than they

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Speaker 1: ever were before, and they would push through and cut

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Speaker 1: through and and and I'd enjoy them more than ever.

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Speaker 1: But who knows, uh, You know, Richard Pryor as well.

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Speaker 1: Michael Barry in for Clay and Buck, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do some more. I truly believe we get a whole

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Speaker 1: extra hour. I goofed up on the clock. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait

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Speaker 10: Slay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.