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Speaker 1: What does it mean to be a fighter and a warrior?

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Speaker 1: Most of us think of soldiers in combat or prize

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Speaker 1: fighting is more mental than physical. Behind every great fighter, warrior,

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Speaker 1: It's what gives them to draw the drive to do

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Speaker 1: When they get knocked down, they get back up. Being

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Speaker 1: It's a state of mind That tenacity has helped me

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Speaker 1: in my own journey. When I was first commissioned as

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Speaker 1: and time after time I was denied. I sent a

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Speaker 1: And allowed me to join the infantry. He said something like, congratulations, Sean,

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Speaker 1: ready because you're going to ranger school in a couple

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Speaker 1: of months. So I got to Ranger school and I failed.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't give up. I recycled, and eventually I

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Speaker 1: tab from my uniform. But for me, being a warrior

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Speaker 1: being a fighter starts within, starts in your heart and

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Speaker 1: then in your mind. But not every warrior goes into combat.

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Speaker 1: We need warriors and fighters here at home as well,

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Speaker 1: fighting for truth in our culture, shaping our country from

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Speaker 1: those who fight forward overseas. We need warriors who take

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Speaker 1: arrows from corrupt institutions in the fight for truth, and

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Speaker 1: who brush off the attacks and keep on fighting their

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Speaker 1: voices rally the rest of the country to join that

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Speaker 1: fight as well. My guest today is one of the

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Speaker 1: most tenacious fighters I have ever met here at home.

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Speaker 1: She's been canceled over and over again, but she has

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Speaker 1: always stood back up and got back in the fight,

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Speaker 1: each time with more ferocity than before. Her name is

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Speaker 1: Wendy Bell. She's a former news anchor with twenty one

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Speaker 1: Emmys under her belt. She's been canceled more than a

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Speaker 1: medium machine. She is a powerhouse in the fight for

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Speaker 1: blessed to call her a friend. Ladies and gentlemen, I

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Speaker 1: the great and relentless Wendy Bell. Hey, Wendy, welcome to Battleground.

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Speaker 1: It's so great to have you. You know, you and I

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Speaker 1: have been friends for a really, really long time, and

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Speaker 1: even before that, I was watching you on the news,

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Speaker 1: used to work for WTAE and all sorts of all

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Speaker 1: and I'm just so excited you're here. Thank you for coming, well.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the invitation. This is really fun to be

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Speaker 2: a part of this with you because this is where

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Speaker 2: this is where conservatives get to actually speak their mind.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're not censoring each other. We're interested in

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Speaker 2: And isn't that refreshing because you don't get that anywhere anymore?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? And hey, the tables have turned because typically you

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty damn cool. So I am. I have

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Speaker 1: so many things that I want to ask you about, uh, Wendy,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you were an anchor for so

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Speaker 1: many pivotal moments in Western Pennsylvania and in Pittsburgh. But

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Speaker 1: what has had blown me away about you since then?

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Speaker 1: It's like, WTA let you go for some BS reason,

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Speaker 1: Like get back in the fight. That's never been an

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Speaker 2: It is I will say this, when you know who

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Speaker 2: matter what people say about you. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm kind of like a cockroach, right I

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Speaker 2: keep coming back, right. I love that. I love that

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Speaker 2: you're starting off with me being fired multiple times and

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Speaker 1: Well, hey, you know what, like, I know what that's like,

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Speaker 1: so so I I it's not it's to me, it's

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Speaker 1: about our culture today? How have we gotten to a point,

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Speaker 1: Wendy where we're not allowed to talk about certain issues,

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Speaker 2: Right? Well, you know, I like to think in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 2: you're not allowed. You weren't then and I wouldn't haven't

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Speaker 2: I am so grateful. And so I have this super

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing, Wendy. I mean, so much of

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Speaker 1: that we should never quit when we face any sort

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Speaker 1: not the case. Things have changed and you know the media,

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Speaker 1: Was there a moment for you when you realize that.

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Speaker 1: How did you process that, because I mean, obviously, yeah,

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Speaker 1: What I also find remarkable about you is your commitment

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Speaker 1: there's a balance, right, because you have to make a living,

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Speaker 1: you have to provide for your family, but you also

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Speaker 1: How did you manage that for so long?

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Speaker 2: I was lucky. I had a doctor for a husband,

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Speaker 2: So for you it was nine to eleven. Nine to

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Speaker 2: So for me, it was the Q Creek mind disaster.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember that?

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Speaker 1: Of course I remember that. Yeah, you were front and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was there for twenty four hours and it

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Speaker 2: was NonStop. That changed my life. I got to see

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Speaker 2: my gosh. It fundamentally changed me. And who gets to

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Speaker 2: And that's why I told so many stories and won

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Speaker 1: millions of illegal immigrants coming across our southern border and

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Speaker 1: it's a tidal wave of human suffering, And maybe we

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Speaker 1: should focus on the lawlessness in our cities and the

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Speaker 1: war on police, or maybe we should focus on our

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Speaker 1: the debt and deficit that's soaring, or the fact that

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Speaker 1: like it seems as if every day Joe Biden or

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Speaker 1: the Uniparty as you call it, like there's just coming

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Speaker 1: after our freedoms and just whittling away at them little

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Speaker 1: by little, Like why are we worried about a war

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine by the way, which Biden has a weird

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Speaker 1: relationship with, you know, the oligarchs there, And like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with the money. There's clear I

442
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Speaker 1: clearly don't know the mission other than stop putin which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, he's a thug. If he died tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't care. But like, there's something, there's something going

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Speaker 1: on here. And I think that Trump when you talk

446
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Speaker 1: about him being a threat to the uniparty, uniparty, this

447
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Speaker 1: is like what I mean, that man went to Washington

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Speaker 1: for four years, Wendy, and I've he equal equal parts

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Speaker 1: pissed off Democrats and Republicans like on a day to

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Speaker 1: day basis. And I think to myself, like, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: why I voted for him twice because of that, because

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Speaker 1: of that perspective, because he brings something different, and you

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Speaker 1: can just see and feel, you know, how just how

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Speaker 1: much the establishment, both the Democrats and Republicans and the

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Speaker 1: corporate media don't want him to run again. You know,

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Speaker 1: isn't it crazy?

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Speaker 2: Amen? You know? And the thing that when we're bailing

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Speaker 2: out all of these other people, and I think we

459
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Speaker 2: all know what it is and everything is just a

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Speaker 2: giant money laundering operation, I think.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, the if I were a leader

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Speaker 3: of a community, if I was the mayor of Pittsburgh

463
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Speaker 3: or a governor, and this is going to sound so

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Speaker 3: trivial and very trite, in the world of problems that

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Speaker 3: we have in this country, I.

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Speaker 2: Would pick up the freaking trash. You know, if you

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Speaker 2: don't have people who respect what they have because they

468
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Speaker 2: weren't brought up the right way, and we have filth

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Speaker 2: in this state. I mean, Sean, you drive the parkways

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Speaker 2: that I drive. It's disgusting. There's just no there's no pride,

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Speaker 2: there's no there's no sense of It's all about entitlement

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Speaker 2: and handout rather than what can I do to make

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Speaker 2: this situation better. If you live in filth, you'll have

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Speaker 2: a filthy life. And that is kind of where we are.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what.

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Speaker 1: Happened with the Democrats though, though, Wendy, like, if you

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Speaker 1: think about like JFK asked, not what your country can

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Speaker 1: do for you, but what you can do for your country,

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Speaker 1: that perspective in the modern day Democrat Party is completely gone.

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Speaker 1: And you talk to Democrats, especially in Western Pennsylvania, you know,

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Speaker 1: there is a massive disconnect between them. You know, my

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Speaker 1: grandfather was a lifelong Union Democrat, Like it's just who

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Speaker 1: he was. You know, if you were born and raised

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Speaker 1: in Western Pennsylvania and you were a working class person,

485
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Speaker 1: like you were a Democrat, but would he would be

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Speaker 1: rolling over in his grave today at what the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Party has become. And it seems like it doesn't even

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Speaker 1: seem like it's true that they don't. I mean, is

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Speaker 1: it bad for me to say that I don't think

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden or Pete buddhaj Edge went to East Palestine,

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Speaker 1: Ohio until like almost twenty days later, because that's a

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Speaker 1: place that voted for Republicans by almost over seventy plus

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Speaker 1: percent for Republicans, and Ohio is a place that is

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Speaker 1: a Republican state. Like I'm a cynical person, but I

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Speaker 1: personally believe that the Democrats or the radical left, say

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Speaker 1: the radical left, because I don't want to indict all

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Speaker 1: Democrats with this, but they don't see their politics like

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Speaker 1: we see our politics. They look at their politics like

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Speaker 1: a religion, and the ends justify the means. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that they just blew off East Palestine, Ohio

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Speaker 1: because they're a Republican area and they frankly don't care.

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Speaker 2: Well. Even more insidious, perhaps is that it's almost all white.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean it's literally think I think the population of these

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Speaker 2: Palestine is something like zero point three percent black. I

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Speaker 2: mean literally, it's that white. It's white working class, which

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Speaker 2: shouldn't matter and doesn't matter to the lion's share of us.

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Speaker 2: I don't care who's hurting in terms of their demographic.

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Speaker 2: You know, what can we do to help? And there's

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Speaker 2: just that's why the whole trash issue galls me, because

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Speaker 2: it's indicative of just the unraveling of the respect for

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Speaker 2: what we have. You know, people are dying to get

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Speaker 2: here through our borders and through the Darien Gap and

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Speaker 2: all these other places where it's so treacherous because of

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Speaker 2: what is here. And we have people who've never actually

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Speaker 2: they have no skin in the game because they've been

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Speaker 2: given it. They don't they haven't gone to Afghanistan, they

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Speaker 2: haven't knocked on doors and wondered, is somebody going to

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Speaker 2: try to shoot me on the other side, by and large,

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Speaker 2: unless they live in Philadelphia, And then sorry, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, But like you don't. All you do

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Speaker 2: is bitch, and you bitch about stuff that is inconsequential

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Speaker 2: by and large, because the problems they are beating a

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Speaker 2: drum for are manufactured, by and large, And I would

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Speaker 2: understand why it would be a very difficult thing to

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Speaker 2: be a Democrat in this country right now because their

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Speaker 2: party has left them. It's become radically extreme at the

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Speaker 2: whims of global elites and everything that they put their

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Speaker 2: money in sucks. It's terrible, from children to education. Our

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Speaker 2: schools suck, our roads suck, our infrastructure sucks. The money

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Speaker 2: is where's it coming from. Gavin Newsom just yesterday announced that, oh, sorry,

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Speaker 2: we have a budget deficit that's between seven and ten billion.

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Speaker 1: Dollars and oh, by the way, we're going to get

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Speaker 1: rid of all gas powered cars by twenty thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Wh's is and lawnlowers and bleef blowers. And it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know what, dude, how about we fix some stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know that's serious, because you're not going to move

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Speaker 2: the needle changing what we do in the United States

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Speaker 2: When you have India and you've got China and you've

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Speaker 2: got populations of billions of people who aren't changing what

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Speaker 2: they're doing in terms of greenhouse crap. It's all a sham.

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Speaker 2: It's all a scam, and anybody who's paying attention who

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Speaker 2: loves America knows it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at what's happening with this

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Speaker 1: whole green movement, it's really not about the environment. It's

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Speaker 1: not about the climate. It's simply about a method of

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Speaker 1: control and money. And it's all a way too for

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Speaker 1: the government to strip freedom away from the people. For example,

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Speaker 1: like if climate activists actually cared about the climate and

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Speaker 1: the planet, then they would abhor the mass production of

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Speaker 1: electric cars because in order for them to manufacture their

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Speaker 1: batteries or critical components of that vehicle, they to earth. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they have to mine for rare earth minerals. And if

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Speaker 1: you go to countries where they do that and you

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Speaker 1: tour the mines, they are literally drilling, you know, thousands

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Speaker 1: of feet down into the earth, running little trucks up

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Speaker 1: the ramps on the side, and they're pulling these minerals out,

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Speaker 1: and they're pouring acid on them, and they're distilling them,

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Speaker 1: and then they're putting them in furnaces and distilling them

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Speaker 1: some more. They're destroying the earth to pull those rare

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Speaker 1: earth minerals out just for a few electric cars. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, it's completely not sustainable. They call these

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Speaker 1: things rare earth minerals for a reason. They're pretty rare.

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Speaker 1: And so the Democrats are advocating for a plan that

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Speaker 1: they know is not sustainable. But they know if people

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Speaker 1: are using electric stoves and driving electric cars, then they

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Speaker 1: can flip a switch when they don't comply and stop

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Speaker 1: them from traveling. And that's what the whole climate change

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Speaker 1: bullshit is all about, is stripping people's freedom away.

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Speaker 2: And if these people cared about the climate and the

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Speaker 2: environment and the air, why aren't they in East Palestino, Ohio?

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Speaker 1: What a great point. I mean, if there's not something

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Speaker 1: that they can grift off it, like they can't the

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Speaker 1: lobbyists can't sell solar panels in Washington, d C. Then

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Speaker 1: they don't care in China exactly exactly. And if you

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Speaker 1: cared about the climate, if something, if climate change was

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Speaker 1: something that was you were really passionate about, then why

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Speaker 1: aren't we investing more in oil and natural gas here

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Speaker 1: that we have in Pennsylvania that you know, with President

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Speaker 1: Trump as he embraced the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: we've been able to drive our carbon emissions down every

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Speaker 1: year for the last twenty years just by embracing fracking.

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Speaker 1: But they don't care about that, you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: care about that. They would rather they would rather grift

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Speaker 1: off electric vehicles and virtue signal and destroy the earth

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Speaker 1: at the same time. Also they can go that they

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Speaker 1: can gain control over the American peace. That's bottom line,

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Speaker 1: that's what the agenda is.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the good news is that when you start

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Speaker 2: sniffing around and saying that, then they'll come up with

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Speaker 2: something else, like a spy balloon or transgender surgeries. There

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Speaker 2: are all this other bs that is just completely preposterous.

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Speaker 2: I mean, every single thing they do, think about it,

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Speaker 2: every single thing they do sucks. It steals something from you,

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Speaker 2: brings the world to more mediocre average expectation, makes everything

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Speaker 2: unattainable and unaffordable. And that's the point. That's the point,

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Speaker 2: because then you need a high need the governments. Why

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Speaker 2: do you think housing projects don't work? Housing projects don't

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Speaker 2: work because the people who live there have no skin

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Speaker 2: in the game. They own nothing. You take care of

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Speaker 2: what you own. When you're sixteen and your mom and

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Speaker 2: dad don't buy you a car and you have to

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Speaker 2: work a summer job mowing lawns to buy that car,

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Speaker 2: Guess who takes care of that car? You do when

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Speaker 2: it's given to you from the government. Here, stay here, here,

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Speaker 2: do this. Nobody cares. It's chaos. It's madness, it's fent all,

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Speaker 2: it's criminality, it's soft on crime, defund the police, it's

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Speaker 2: on purpose, all on.

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Speaker 1: Well, Wendy, how so how do you raise five boys

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Speaker 1: in this like?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: You, first of all, you've got to be worried about

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Speaker 1: their future because think I've never seen things fall apart

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Speaker 1: in this country so fast. You know, things under President Trump,

615
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Speaker 1: the economy was booming, we were energy independent, we had

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Speaker 1: we were on the brink of peace in the Middle East,

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Speaker 1: something that I thought would never be possible. Law enforcement yours, yeah,

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Speaker 1: didn't didn't involve Yeah, everyone talking about, oh, Trump's going

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Speaker 1: to cause World War three, but we weren't. Didn't get

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Speaker 1: involved in any wars. And that's something that's deeply, deeply

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Speaker 1: personal to me as well, because I know and understand

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Speaker 1: what it means to be in a war and to

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Speaker 1: lose people that you love and you care about. So

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Speaker 1: and to me, you know what comes part and parcel.

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Speaker 1: The ultimate responsibility of a leader is to is to

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Speaker 1: pursue peace. The highest aspiration of America should be peace

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Speaker 1: through strength, but peace nonetheless. But how do you raise

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Speaker 1: your boys in a world that seems like it's completely

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Speaker 1: coming apart of the seams.

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Speaker 2: You have five kids, now, don't you.

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Speaker 1: I see what you did there? You turned it around

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Speaker 1: on me. Yes, yes, I do. And I'm worried about

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Speaker 1: it every day, Wendy, every single day. I worry about

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Speaker 1: their future and their opportunities and the kind of country

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Speaker 1: that they'll inherit.

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Speaker 2: That's why you're doing this. That's why I do it too.

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Speaker 1: What do you tell them about this stuff?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What do you tell them? Do you have to tell

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Speaker 1: them anything about like, for example, drag Queen's Story hours

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Speaker 1: in schools, or teaching our children about sexually explicit stuff

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Speaker 1: in first, second, third grade, or you know, the idea

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Speaker 1: that America is not an inherently good country. America is

644
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Speaker 1: inherently evil. That must be fun da mentally transform from

645
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: the ground of them. You've got to You've got two

646
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: kids in college. You know that they're being taught that

647
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: stuff there? You know it?

648
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: They tell them how They tell me about it too.

649
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how do you what you're a mom and

650
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 1: and you're a fighter, Well, how do you make sure

651
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: your kids have those same traits in them as well?

652
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 2: They watch us, they know they know they're going to

653
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: make the same stupid mistakes that we made. I just

654
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 2: you know, the thing that scares me is is the drugs.

655
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 2: That scares me more than anything else. Two kids in college,

656
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 2: three in high school, and they're all Catholic and Catholic stuff.

657
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: So there is some respite there, but there's the Catholic

658
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: stuff is still corrupted by totally social justice bullshit.

659
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: Totally. I mean it might by the way, I'm Catholic too.

660
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: My kids are in Catholic school as well, and I

661
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: see some of the stuff that this that this pope

662
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: is saying, and I'm like, what, you.

663
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: Know, You engage them, you ask them what they think.

664
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 2: You know what scares me the most? Sean So they are.

665
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: They are bright, they are funny, they're independent thinkers. The

666
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: girls out there are crazy. There are a lot of

667
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 2: very malleable, insecure young people, boys and girls, and the phone,

668
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 2: the videos, the constant barrage of imagery that somebody else

669
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 2: is doing things better than you, or they look better,

670
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 2: or they're having more fun. This fear of missing out.

671
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: It's very psychological. And I think the best thing that

672
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: you can do is create a stable home environment with

673
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: your wife and with my husband. Marriage is far from

674
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: easy and it's far from perfect, but when you have

675
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: that united like team front, it's not about raunchy and

676
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: it's not about perfect. It's about love and support and

677
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 2: them and they watch you do that, So I think

678
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 2: good begets good.

679
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: Do you think that? Are you going to encourage your kids,

680
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: your boys, to be involved like you are, to run

681
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: for office, to stay in the fight.

682
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: No, I don't encourage them to do anything. I encourage

683
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: them to tell the truth and to be honest and

684
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: to admit when they blow it, because we don't have

685
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: a lot of that in this country. I mean, honestly,

686
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: if peed Boodh judge, and this is a dumak example,

687
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: but it's really not. If ped Boodh judge today when

688
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 2: you finally showed up in East Palestino, Ohio, if the

689
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 2: woman chirping at him saying, what's your message to these people?

690
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 2: Why does it take you so long? If he had

691
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 2: turned to the camera and said, or turned to her

692
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 2: and said, I blew it, that's on me. I should

693
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: have been here, I should have been with you people,

694
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 2: and I'm embarrassed and there's not words that I could say,

695
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 2: which is why I'm walking away right now, Because I'm

696
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: hanging my head and I'm sorry and I won't do

697
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 2: this again ever. But see that involves somebody with charisma,

698
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: with character and who cares, and those three c's are

699
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: not part of his vocabulary. I try to teach my

700
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 2: kids that you're gonna make mistakes, don't lie, don't hide it,

701
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 2: come forward and be like, that was me, my mistake,

702
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: I apologize. What can I do to fix it? All

703
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you take the fury out of somebody's

704
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 2: sales and they're like, you know, if one of your

705
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 2: kids does something in your house and they break something

706
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 2: or they do something and they say to you that

707
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 2: was I don't dad, I'm so as my son, I'm sorry,

708
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 2: that's okay, and they say, you know I did this.

709
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: What are you going to do yell at them? No,

710
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: you're going to say, you know, I wish you would

711
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: have been more careful or you knew better, but already

712
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: you're diffused. Like seventy five percent people who don't care

713
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: don't get that.

714
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: I totally agree what you're so in that there is

715
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: such a lack of humility and so many of our

716
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: of our leaders, and you're right, had Pete Boudage Edge

717
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: just said I messed up. I'm sorry. I'm here now,

718
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do everything that I can to make

719
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: things better. Or you know, maybe I didn't take this

720
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: as seriously. There's a thousand different things that he could

721
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: have said other than just like yeah, other than just

722
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: like put his palm in the face and talk to

723
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: my press secretary, or like you're so right.

724
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: What involves that involves authenticity? And people are afraid of

725
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 2: being themselves. And I don't know why, because you know

726
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 2: what people like you know, So on my on my

727
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 2: radio show, we livestream the whole thing. We have up

728
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 2: to seven thousand or more people watching live at any time,

729
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 2: which is a great thrill.

730
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: You built a movement, Wendy. You've built a movement, for sure.

731
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: But they don't care what I look like. They see

732
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: me foostering with my hair and putting on lipstick and

733
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: making fun of it and joking that I am chemically

734
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 2: dependent because I'm fifty two and I've got gray hair,

735
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 2: and but they're like yeah, because they're going through the

736
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: same thing. And I tell personal stories about my boys

737
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: and things that frighten me, and they say yeah, because

738
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 2: they're going through it too, Like we're all in it together,

739
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: and yet we have these people who want to pretend.

740
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: And that lack of authenticity, I think kills everyone. You know,

741
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: it kills you be who you are. Nobody expects you

742
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: to be perfect. Right. It's disarming when somebody trips, just

743
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 2: not up air force one steps, but you know when

744
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 2: somebody is not perfect and we don't live in that

745
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 2: world right now?

746
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: Well, I mean here's the thing. Like you, I think,

747
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: at least on the conservative side of the aisle, when

748
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: you talk about Wendy, you know, hey, be yourself right,

749
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: you had to go through some pretty terrible shit like

750
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: being fired from I mean seriously, like I say fired,

751
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: and I don't mean it like in a way that

752
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: you did not.

753
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: I was an international racist. I was an international racist.

754
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: We had family members in freaking where were they? They

755
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 2: were like a million miles away, and they're like, what happened?

756
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, for the love of all things really?

757
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: And I think the thing that made it even worse

758
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 2: is that the station that fired me. And for those

759
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 2: who aren't familiar with this, I wrote about black on

760
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 2: black crime in my neighborhood. After a family of six,

761
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 2: six black people, literally two miles from where I raised.

762
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 2: My sons were shot and killed by you know, by

763
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 2: AK forty sevens and by thugs, by gangs and thugs,

764
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 2: and I spoke up about it and I'm like, I

765
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 2: can't care more about my neighbors than my neighbors care

766
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: about my neighbors. What are we doing? And I got

767
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: asked for that, and then the station put up an

768
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 2: apology like I had written it. I'm like, I won't

769
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 2: apologize for what I said. I won twenty Emmys at

770
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: that place, twenty of my twenty one Emmys. I wanted

771
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 2: that TV station for telling stories. I think thirteen of

772
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: them are about black people, about my African American neighbors. No,

773
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 2: my black neighbors who have risen above ridiculous circumstance and

774
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: get no publicity at all for the magnanimous things that

775
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: they do in their neighborhoods every single day. And I'd

776
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 2: said to them, why don't we ever cover these stories?

777
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: So I started to and amazingly, people were hungry for

778
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 2: these kinds of stories, because not everything sucks. And then

779
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 2: I became a racist. We're saying, can we stop killing

780
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: each other? Is it possible? And it was interesting because

781
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 2: a dude for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper in town,

782
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 2: was the one who stood up. And he's like, so

783
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 2: we've got a white woman saying what the black community

784
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 2: doesn't have the balls to say, and she's the one

785
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 2: who gets the acts, all right, I mean, I know

786
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: who I am. You know who you are?

787
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: Well. I mean, look, I know what it's like to

788
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: be utterly destroyed by the media. I know what it's

789
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: like to be branded something that you're not. Anybody that

790
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: paid any attention to my senate race knows I had

791
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: every media outlet in the country at my custody trial.

792
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: I had every media outlet in the country, even some

793
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: conservative ones, just branding me as something that I was not.

794
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 1: And so I few people understand what you went through

795
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: more than I than than I do, Wendy. And like

796
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: I would say, what I was building to before was

797
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: that you know exactly who you are, and that is

798
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: manifestly apparent in the movement that you've built. And I

799
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: think that's part of the reason why people who watch

800
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: your show adore you, because you are authentic. You do

801
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: say exactly what you mean, and there's such a there's

802
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: such a desire for that, you know, not not like

803
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: I'm perfect in every way, right, Like it's sort of

804
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: warts and all approach to life because we all have

805
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: our own stuff, right, But there, like there were like

806
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: you didn't get there overnight, Like you went through some

807
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: tough stuff, like this whole thing you just laid out

808
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: with the new station that you worked at, and then

809
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: it was like and then the next thing, the next

810
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: thing I turned around, is you got you're like gaining

811
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: all this steam and traction and you're doing these awesome

812
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: live stream shows on Facebook. I know because I joined

813
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: you on a bunch of them, and all of a

814
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 1: sudden Facebook Facebook kind of cuts you off, it says,

815
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 1: but then you find another.

816
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 2: Or twice in radio, Yeah, twice in radio.

817
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. It's it's it's ridiculous, and like at that point.

818
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 2: It's just game on.

819
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: It's not I struggle with it, Wendy. It's not I

820
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: don't you know.

821
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 2: It's not much for you. It's still fresh for you.

822
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: It's not easy.

823
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: You know, there's time. I mean, like you know, the

824
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: cycle of grieving. You know, not only did I lose

825
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 2: a job that I thought I really loved.

826
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: You had twenty plus emmys. You had twenty plus emmys.

827
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 2: It matter doesn't matter how many metals do you have.

828
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,240
Speaker 2: Do you walk around with them on your chest? No,

829
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 2: it doesn't make who you are. It's a chapter of

830
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 2: your life. But what happened was they took away a

831
00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 2: career that I loved. But what I realized was all

832
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 2: of that, the career that I thought I loved had changed,

833
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 2: and I wasn't down with the change. So I was

834
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 2: either going to get fired or I was going to

835
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 2: have to end up walking away. And the Good Lord

836
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 2: forced my hand and pushed me in a direction I

837
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: never could have imagined. Like if that hadn't happened, you

838
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: and I are going to have this conversation in two years,

839
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: and you're going to go back on this and you're

840
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: going to see that the wounds are still raw for you,

841
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: but they heal and you'll be in a different direction,

842
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 2: doing something completely different that you had never imagined in

843
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 2: a million years. And you're going to look back and

844
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 2: you're going to stay like, Amen, thank you for that.

845
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 2: And if you think that there's not a Lord.

846
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: How do you how did you keep the right attitude

847
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: when you were going through all that stuff? Like what

848
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you've got five boys, and you love

849
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: this country. You're a true believer, and like what it's

850
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 1: was it at times?

851
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: I remember the next day after I got fired, I

852
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 2: had to take my son, who my oldest son, who

853
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 2: was then a sophomore in high school, hadn't yet gotten

854
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 2: his driver's license and it was a terrible rainy day

855
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: and he missed the school bus. So I did drive

856
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 2: him to school, and he flipped on the radio and

857
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: two guys who host a morning show were tearing me

858
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 2: to shreds, calling me this, calling me that racist, this,

859
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 2: racist that, And I looked at him and I said, honey,

860
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: I am so sorry because this is going to get

861
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 2: hard for you, and he goes, mom, oh, I'm sorry

862
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 2: for you. And then I had to go to the

863
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 2: grocery store that day, and being a very public figure,

864
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 2: everybody knew who I was, and the looks that was

865
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 2: that was uncomfortable. But you make a decision, You're like,

866
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 2: what am I not gonna I'm not gonna go out

867
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 2: with my life. I'm not going to stand up straight.

868
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 2: If anything, I stood up straight or and I was

869
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: like I know who I am. You people can suck

870
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 2: it like whatever, and you know what you learn? And

871
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 2: here's the thing. You know what you learn your world.

872
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 2: So you're born, you have a very small circle mom

873
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: and dad. Then it gets bigger. You have siblings. Then

874
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 2: you go to school and it gets bigger, and you

875
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: get a job and it gets bigger, and you get married,

876
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 2: and then you do this and then you have children

877
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 2: and it gets getting smaller and it gets a little

878
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 2: bit smaller, right, and then it's just you and your partner,

879
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 2: just you, all right, that's the cycle. I was able

880
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 2: to eliminate a lot of dead weight real fast. You

881
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 2: know where your friends are? You do?

882
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: It's like that is something that I learned?

883
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: Is that with the charade?

884
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it is amazing to me. Yeah.

885
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: The people that matter stay, the people that know you.

886
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 2: Why do you think Andrew is still with you?

887
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true. I mean, I mean.

888
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 2: It's brought to me. It's my husband to me. You're

889
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 2: very small. You don't need a whole lot. There's very

890
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 2: little that you need, Sean Parnell to make you happy.

891
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 2: You know, money makes things a little bit more comfortable,

892
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 2: but that's not the drive. The drive is being able

893
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: to be who you are, how you are, where you are,

894
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 2: with the people you want to be with, without any

895
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 2: pretenses in fakeness.

896
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: Done you so you clearly don't give a shit about

897
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, what the trolls say or any like you.

898
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard for me because I'm like, I'm

899
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:27,760
Speaker 1: kind of like this is all like a learning experience

900
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: for me. Like I've been in the public eye for

901
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: ten years prior to politics, but like I am a

902
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: people pleaser, Wendy like, and it was like, by the way,

903
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: everywhere I went, I would do thirty five to forty

904
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: public events a year for my books, Democrats, Republicans. I

905
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: was copasetic with everybody in the moment I ran for

906
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: office and had that R after my name, it was

907
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 1: like fifty percent of this country absolutely hated me, and

908
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: it was hard for me because I'm a people pleaser.

909
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: I like getting along with people. But if you know,

910
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: you look for silver linings and things, and clearly, like

911
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: what you said is like this the experience taught you

912
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: a lot. It sounds like you're actually grateful for it

913
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: now because it's opened up you know, had an opportunity

914
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:08,479
Speaker 1: to be Yeah, like you.

915
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: Many times, I'm like, thank you.

916
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's amazing. It's amazing the perspective on all

917
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: of it, and we'll get there. And the idea just

918
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: being grateful, you know, like being grateful for the things

919
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 1: that you have. I think it's just so important in life,

920
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 1: you know, even when you're going through hardship, just taking

921
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: the opportunity and saying, you know what, like, yeah, maybe

922
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: shit's hitting the fan a little bit right now. I'm great.

923
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 2: Donald Trump put you in a spotlight and accelerated the

924
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 2: political career for you, the likes of which I don't

925
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 2: think anybody could possibly know.

926
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 4: You found you, you found yourself in a fight that

927
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 4: you didn't ask for, but you got called out to serve,

928
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,959
Speaker 4: and you served before and you walked into the war

929
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 4: and you served again.

930
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 2: However, you're not a political creature. You've learned to become

931
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 2: a little bit of that, but it's not fundamental to

932
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 2: who you are. Are you serve. This is why I

933
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 2: say that we need more veterans in office, because they're

934
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 2: mission focused, not me focused. There's a difference. For the

935
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: love of all that is, Holly, shut up, I thought

936
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 2: I turned that off.

937
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: Jesus, you're in heart, you're in high demand.

938
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. It's so annoying. You are mission focused,

939
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 2: and that is why this whole transition for you is weird,

940
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 2: because you have to become me focused. Now, you have

941
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 2: to focus on what you are mission but your message

942
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 2: is and it's got to be you, you, you, you,

943
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 2: And that is weird and it's going to be uncomfortable.

944
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 2: And the raw emotions of being dragged through the mud,

945
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 2: even though you know who you are, don't forget that, right,

946
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 2: They cannot take that away from you ever. Right. If anything,

947
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 2: it's it makes it stronger. And if there aren't trolls

948
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 2: around you, if there aren't people chirping around you, you

949
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 2: better look at yourself and be like, what am I

950
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 2: doing wrong? Yeah, that's a sign of victory.

951
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: That is true. Your dead. When you have the Democrats

952
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: or the radical left attacking you, you know you're over

953
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: the target ship.

954
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: When you have Republicans attacking you.

955
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's true. So what what is next

956
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: for you? I mean, gosh, maybe you're hosting a show

957
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: on news Max. Now you've got your your live stream

958
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: radio show on Rumble, which, by the way, I don't

959
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: know anything about Rumble, but you gave me a shout

960
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: out today on Rumble and I just like started my

961
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: channel a little bit ago, but like channel blew up

962
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: because of you, so obviously thank you for that. But

963
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: what is next for you?

964
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 2: What is next for me? I have a kid graduating

965
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 2: from college. I have one kid who's going to be

966
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: going to college. I have two sons who are going

967
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: to need to learn how to drive, and I'm going

968
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm going to cyber dream about

969
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 2: a home that is probably six bedrooms on the Gulf

970
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 2: coast of Florida. Probably it's got canal access and a

971
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 2: dock so we can fish. And I'm going to have grandchildren.

972
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 2: You see how you see what I said nothing had

973
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 2: to do with my job, Yeah.

974
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: I did, I get so Wait what I heard was

975
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: that you're moving out of Pennsylvania.

976
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: Oh, I will absolutely once my kids are done with

977
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 2: high school. Yeah, we're going to let them go through

978
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 2: high school, so probably three more years and then let

979
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 2: them come back. Is I think coming back from your

980
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: first semester in college and seeing all your friends at

981
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving and Christmas is a triumph. And then we're out.

982
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 2: I'm done. I don't want to live this place. Unfortunately

983
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 2: has changed so irreparably, and I don't have the ability

984
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: to change it. So I'll do what I want to

985
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 2: do somewhere where the sun shines, where the beer is cold,

986
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,919
Speaker 2: and where the fish are biting, and I will begin

987
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 2: my next chapter. And the good thing about what we do,

988
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 2: what I do, at least, and what you're about to do,

989
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 2: is that you don't have to do it from a

990
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: location that's set. You can go from anywhere. So I'm

991
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 2: going to be free.

992
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: And when Pennsylvania them to lose you, though you know

993
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: that sucks.

994
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 2: Please please, what's true? No? No, no, I just I

995
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 2: don't think that there are enough fighters here to move

996
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 2: the needle. There are some very passionate people who are wonderful,

997
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 2: but I just don't see the politics you're changing. And

998
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 2: that's disheartening, Yeah, very disheartening.

999
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: The left in this state has sort of the word

1000
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: rigged is so loaded, but they've definitely rigged the game here.

1001
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: You know, even even things like you know, the no

1002
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: Excuse mail and ballot law that Act seventy seven in

1003
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is is clearly clearly unconstitutional. You could have a

1004
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: fifth grade reading level and read the Pennsylvania State Constitution

1005
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: and no, it's unconstitutional, yet the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld

1006
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: it as constitutional. For some it's like, how does that?

1007
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: You know? How it happens? Five two Democrats, super majority,

1008
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: That's how it happens. And so I see your point.

1009
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: The only the only way that Yeah, I see your point.

1010
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania's is on the ropes right now, that's for sure.

1011
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 2: Well, And I think at some point too, it's like,

1012
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,720
Speaker 2: aren't you ready for a new adventure? At some point,

1013
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 2: like when your kids are grown up and moving along,

1014
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: I mean, it's time for a new chapter, one that

1015
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 2: you decide that you define. You know, it's been a

1016
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 2: good ride here, but it's it's like, it doesn't make

1017
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 2: me who I am. I'm gonna I'm looking forward to

1018
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 2: that and whatever happens with our show, you know, I

1019
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 2: hope that we will be syndicated, and I think that'll

1020
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 2: happen soon. I think it's baby steps. I think there's

1021
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 2: a very very white male domination of conservative radio. And

1022
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: I love white men. I live with six of them.

1023
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 2: But I think it's time for a new voice and

1024
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 2: a time for a woman, a time for a mom,

1025
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 2: a time for common sense, and and I think that

1026
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 2: I could be that person. I really do.

1027
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: I think that you are that person. I think you are.

1028
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 2: I mean you have Limball was fired seven times. By

1029
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 2: the way, I'm not even halfway there.

1030
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: See this seat. This is why I started off the

1031
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: interview with you being fired. See I knew, I knew

1032
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: that that we were building to something here. You know,

1033
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna You're gonna be the next generations Rush Limbaugh,

1034
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: you know. But hopefully hopefully you don't get fired seven

1035
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: times in order to get there. But that is a

1036
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: pretty damn cool. It's a pretty damn cool goal, that's

1037
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: for sure.

1038
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 2: I love it. It's great.

1039
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: Well, you're amazing. Thank you for the time, Wendy. I

1040
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: mean honestly, like I love catching up with you. I

1041
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: liked being the one asking the questions and getting a

1042
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: chance to listen to you talk. But thank you very

1043
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: much for coming on battle ground. I greatly, greatly appreciate it.

1044
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to watch what happens for you. You're gonna,

1045
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 2: honest to God, just you know you're going to have

1046
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 2: those times you're like, what the hell am I doing?

1047
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: And you're gonna and you have to try, and you

1048
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 2: have to be willing for it to fail and your

1049
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 2: internet to be shitty, and for equipment not to work out,

1050
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 2: and you're going to make some things, the purchases that

1051
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: you didn't need to make, and you're going to be like,

1052
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what am I doing? And then all

1053
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 2: of a sudden it's going to click and you're going

1054
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 2: to be like, wait a minute, that worked, Let's try

1055
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 2: this now, and it's going to be fantastic. And I'm

1056
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 2: going to be right there behind you pushing you along

1057
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 2: the way.

1058
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: Well, you've been so much if you just helped so much,

1059
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, and I mean it when I say how

1060
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm so so grateful and thank you. Just thank you.

1061
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: That's all that's all there is to say.

1062
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 2: Really, it goes both ways.

1063
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll see you soon, Wendy.

1064
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 2: Take care of love, good luck, okay, okay.

1065
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: Thanks by all right, everybody. That is a wrap. Thank

1066
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: you so much for tune in to the Battleground Podcast.

1067
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: It has been an amazing journey over these last two months.

1068
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: We've grown like gangbusters, and really, I'm so grateful for

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