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Speaker 1: I welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. All right, team,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Freedom Hunt. Wednesday, January fourth edition. We've

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Speaker 1: got the House speaker battle still very much underway. Multiple

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Speaker 1: the House we'll discuss. Plus, got back from the Desantists

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Speaker 1: inauguration party yesterday last night and got some stories from

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Speaker 1: that to tell all of you. Plus they're making a

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Speaker 1: sequel to the fantastic movie Gladiator, which I want to

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Speaker 1: me just I actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna switch things up,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't go to the actual inauguration ceremony. Carry went

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Speaker 1: show obviously, so I missed it. Anyway, it was it

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Speaker 1: was fun. You know, Tallahassee as an interesting town. I

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Speaker 1: don't really have a good feel for what the vibe

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Speaker 1: of those those capitals, a state capital. This is true

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Speaker 1: of some national governments as well, where the place exists

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Speaker 1: why people don't always know the capital. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: Let me let me just let Ronda Santists the governor

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of a lot of political decisions,

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Speaker 1: clip three. He talks about the Sea of liberty play

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Speaker 1: three and captaining the ship of state. We choose to

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Speaker 1: never I will never forget it now. On the other

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