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Speaker 1: Welcome in hope all of you are having fantastic Tuesdays

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Speaker 1: We have got a ton of different stories to dive

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Speaker 1: into with you. Buck is in Taiwan, as I said yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we'll be back on Monday. A couple of guests coming

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Speaker 1: As the looming government shutdown nears closer, inches closer, and closer.

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Speaker 1: continue to monitor the looming as I said, government shutdown,

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Speaker 4: The New War department. Golden rule is this, do onto

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Speaker 1: We got to bring back the meritocracy in America, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes that might mean that the positions at the absolute

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Speaker 1: I lived in poverty while writing the book that made

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Speaker 1: Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience,

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Speaker 1: what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has

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Speaker 1: Adults can't expect to cozy up to an activist movement

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Speaker 1: right to the former friend's love as though the friend

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Speaker 1: me and public. But I have the same right, and

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Speaker 1: I finally decided to exercise it wholely. Crap. That thing

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Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to share it was twofold one.

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Speaker 1: We need more JK Rowlings, more people who are fearlessly

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Speaker 1: willing to stand for what is right, particularly those of

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Speaker 1: you out there. And this is directly addressed to you

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Speaker 1: people might say to you when you know that they

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Speaker 1: are wrong. Two. I think there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: you that are parents and grandparents that can particularly connect

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Speaker 1: with what jk Rowling said There. You have gone through

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Speaker 1: And I just I love I've never met JK Rowling,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I ever will, but when I

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Speaker 1: shared it with all of you. We'll link it on

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Speaker 1: They've got no idea what actually has to happen and

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Speaker 1: she wrote the book that made Emma Watson famous. So well,

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Speaker 1: said jk Rowling again, I wanted to make sure that

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Speaker 1: I read that for all of you, because I see

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Speaker 1: it as a personal opportunity to challenge all of you

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Speaker 1: Welcome in appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

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Speaker 1: We are rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program.

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Speaker 1: Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast if you

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Speaker 1: will be back on Monday. In the meantime, we are joined.

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Speaker 1: We're headed up to d C for this third hour,

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Speaker 1: and we are joined now by Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen,

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Speaker 1: and let's dive right into it. Is there going to

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Speaker 1: be a shutdown? And if so, Senator, how is it

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Speaker 1: going to impact the average listener of hours out there

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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 5: So Klaith, thanks for having me on, And yes, I

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Speaker 5: don't see there's any way in the world we have

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Speaker 5: avoid to shut down the Chuck Schumer is so scared

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Speaker 5: of AOC in his own state running against him that

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Speaker 5: he's willing to hold the American people hostage. Because what

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Speaker 5: we're doing here is we're putting a clean CR. Clean

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Speaker 5: CR means that's the same funding same language that Chuck

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Speaker 5: Schumer voted for six months ago, and the same language

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Speaker 5: he voted for a year ago. So this nothing has

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Speaker 5: changed that he's voted already twice on this same funding package,

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Speaker 5: except now he's been threatened that if he votes for

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Speaker 5: it from the left that they're going to primary him,

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Speaker 5: and AOC is either going to run against him or

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Speaker 5: going to find somebody run against him. So he's running

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Speaker 5: scared and he's holding the American people hostage over it.

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Speaker 5: If that happens and we do go to a shutdown,

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Speaker 5: which Clay, I don't see there's any way we avoid it.

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Speaker 5: At this point, I think we're going to Chuck Schumer shutdown.

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Speaker 5: It's not really going to affect anybody for the first

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Speaker 5: two weeks, and it depends on what is deemed essential

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Speaker 5: and non essential. That's the president's discretion at the time.

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Speaker 5: But for those in the military, they get paid October first,

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Speaker 5: all their paychecks will still go out, They'll be paid

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Speaker 5: in full. On the second is when federal employees get paid,

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Speaker 5: their paychecks already process, they will go out and they

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Speaker 5: will be paid in full. When every all Social Security benefits, Medicare,

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Speaker 5: Medicaid benefits will still be intact, still be moving forward

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Speaker 5: because that's discretionary or that's mandatory spending, not discretionary. We're

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Speaker 5: fighting over to discretionary spending at this point and so

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Speaker 5: the But in two weeks on the October fifteenth and sixteenth,

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Speaker 5: if we are still shut down, then federal employees and

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Speaker 5: military won't be paid because why because you have a

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Speaker 5: career politician and Chuck Schumer who has who has decided

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Speaker 5: that his job is more important than keeping the American

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Speaker 5: people in the government funded.

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Speaker 1: What is the dispute over right now?

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Speaker 5: In a way so as quick as as you can

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Speaker 5: put it there is the dispute is really over their

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Speaker 5: hatred towards President Trump. So the question is is what

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Speaker 5: is their demand their demand on funding levels. By the way,

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Speaker 5: that they've already voted for already twice, and they voted

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Speaker 5: for a CR thirteen times underneath Biden. The difference now

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Speaker 5: is Trump's in office and they want to slow walk

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Speaker 5: any policies that he has, regardless of the American people

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Speaker 5: elected President Trump and kicked out their agenda because it

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Speaker 5: was horrible for America put President Trump in place in November.

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Speaker 5: What they're a demand is now is they want to

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Speaker 5: extend a policy that they had put in place during

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Speaker 5: COVID that they could have made permanent, but they knew

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Speaker 5: that it was temporary to basically subsidize ACA affordable health care,

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Speaker 5: which affordable healthcare is supposed to be affordable, right, But

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Speaker 5: during COVID, they put a subsidy in that waighed all requirements,

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Speaker 5: meaning there was no proof of citizenship, there was no

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Speaker 5: proof of income that you needed help for anything. Everybody

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Speaker 5: was eligible for this subsidy, and they funded insurance companies

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Speaker 5: to allow them to sign up people unchecked. And this

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Speaker 5: dollars to the taxpayers. Now, COVID is over, and they

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Speaker 5: intended for this to shut down to begin with because

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Speaker 5: they sunset. They were in control of the government at

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Speaker 5: the time, complete control. They could have made it permanent

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Speaker 5: they wanted to, they decided not to. And so now

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Speaker 5: they're saying that they want this extended. And we're saying, wait,

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Speaker 5: COVID is over, why do we need to be paying

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Speaker 5: a subsidy to insurance companies now that are making record profits.

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Speaker 5: Which I'm all about people making profits, but why are

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Speaker 5: illegal aliens to get these benefits for free? Because those

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Speaker 5: that carame here over illegally, they should be getting shipped back.

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Speaker 5: That's what the American people voted for in November. But

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Speaker 5: this extends that covers them. Why Because there's no checks

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Speaker 5: and balances to say that they're eligible or not. They

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Speaker 5: just automatically get enrolled into Obamacare. And that's what Chuck

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Speaker 5: Schumer is so basically to still have taxpayers pay for

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Speaker 5: these illegals to have health care insurance.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Inevitably,

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Speaker 1: these issues eventually get decided. And, by the way, along

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Speaker 1: with virtually everybody listening right now, what Democrats are seeking

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Speaker 1: is absurd. Do you think we'll have a resolution before

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Speaker 1: October fifteenth, before individuals paychecks could be impacted?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I always tell people I'm good for

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Speaker 5: a big fight and a good fight as long as

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Speaker 5: I know what victory looks like and it's possible to win.

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Speaker 5: But if you go into a fight, which is what

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Speaker 5: the Democrats are doing here, what does victory look like

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Speaker 5: for them? Because it's hard for them to explain that

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Speaker 5: it's that a clean cr that they've already supported twice.

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Speaker 5: Why they wouldn't could what's different today than it was

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Speaker 5: assume they would come to their senses before that. But

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Speaker 5: you can't reason with crazy, and that's what Chuck Schumer

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Speaker 5: is right now. He's crazy. He's running scared. You've got

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Speaker 5: to keep in mind in nineteen ninety six, when I

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Speaker 5: years ago, Chuck Schumer then was a congressman. He went

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Speaker 5: on the House for railed against benefits going to illegal

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Speaker 5: aliens that came to this country legally. That was in

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Speaker 5: nineteen ninety six. Oh yeah, Now he's willing to shut

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Speaker 5: down the government as a senator and as a Democrat

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Speaker 5: leader over giving benefits to illegals. So you can't rationalize

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Speaker 5: with that kind of thinking. So I would assume that people,

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Speaker 5: you know, cooler heads would come to the table and

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Speaker 5: they would accept the clean cr But you can't at

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Speaker 5: this point. You can't rationalize what they're even thinking here.

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Speaker 5: You can't is my mama said, you can't argue with crazy.

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Speaker 1: I think that's well said by your mama. By the way. Also,

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Speaker 1: we're around the same age, and a lot of Democrat

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Speaker 1: talking points in the nine are actually Republican talking points

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Speaker 1: now for people like Chuck Schumer who were involved long enough,

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Speaker 1: I mean Bill Clinton, heck, nineteen ninety two would be

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Speaker 1: a Republican now, I mean, in all seriousness, if you

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Speaker 1: go back and look at.

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Speaker 5: It, Democrat party for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look at the what happened in the

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Speaker 1: November election about eleven months ago, Trump won a landslide,

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Speaker 1: won all seven swing states, won the popular vote, kicked

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Speaker 1: Kamala's ass coast to coast. Democrats had two choices. One,

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Speaker 1: they could look in the mirror and they could say,

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Speaker 1: as I think a lot of people try to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I know you were involved in sports

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Speaker 1: back in the day. Sometimes you get beat and you say, boy,

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Speaker 1: we really beat ourselves. We didn't execute the game plan

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Speaker 1: we had. You know, we turned the ball over too much.

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Speaker 1: If we had played like we expect to play, we

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Speaker 1: would have won. Your game plan. Then you just have

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Speaker 1: to go execute it better. Other times you get your

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Speaker 1: ass kicked and you're like, boy, that seems a lot

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Speaker 1: better than us, and either we're going to have to

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Speaker 1: change our game plan, change the trajectory, or we're just

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Speaker 1: going to keep getting our ass kick going forward. Seems

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Speaker 1: to me that Democrats had a choice, Senator. They can

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Speaker 1: look at the mirror and say they heard our message,

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Speaker 1: they didn't like it, and we got beat accordingly. Or

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Speaker 1: or they could say we just got to double and

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Speaker 1: triple and quadruple down on crazy. It seems like they

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Speaker 1: chose the second option, which just means they're going to

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Speaker 1: keep getting their ass kicked, probably even worse.

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Speaker 5: Well, to use your sports analogy, it's like the kid

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Speaker 5: that gets beat in wrestling because the wrestling is our family.

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Speaker 5: And you get beat and you blame it on the

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Speaker 5: ref every time, and you don't realize as part of

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Speaker 5: your practice habits and your training partners, and it's what

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Speaker 5: you put in that you're not getting back out, and

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Speaker 5: so it's easier to blame somebody else, and so you

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Speaker 5: double down on the blame game. Well, that's exactly what's

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Speaker 5: happening here. You're absolutely correct. Instead of them taking a

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Speaker 5: licking and looking back as we call Oklahoma right, you're

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Speaker 5: taking a licking. That's when you get beat. When you

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Speaker 5: get beat and taking and looking back and going why

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Speaker 5: some of the best lessons learned is when you lose,

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Speaker 5: because if you reevaluate it and you can learn what

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Speaker 5: you did wrong correct it, you'll only be stronger and better.

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Speaker 5: Or you double down and blame somebody else. They're blaming

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Speaker 5: the American people, the Democrats. They're blaming the American people, saying,

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Speaker 5: you got it wrong, you got it wrong, you didn't

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Speaker 5: understand what you voted for, you got it wrong. Well,

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Speaker 5: actually they didn't. They knew exactly what they're voting against

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Speaker 5: because they had four years of it. They had four

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Speaker 5: years of embarrassment from an administration that wanted to go

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Speaker 5: away what all the American values have always traditionally stood for.

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Speaker 5: They wanted to go away from what America has stood

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Speaker 5: for and move us towards socialism. And it didn't work.

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Speaker 5: It was an experiment that felled. And so now the

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Speaker 5: left is running this running the Democrat Party. You could

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Speaker 5: go to JFK and you say the same thing that

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Speaker 5: you did about Clinton. JFKA wouldn't belong to this party anymore.

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Speaker 5: And and when he says that they're the party of JFK,

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Speaker 5: that's not accurate because this party is the is the

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Speaker 5: party of Madamie or however you say his name, you know,

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Speaker 5: a communist socialist. This is a party of AOC and

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Speaker 5: Bernie Sanders and and Jasmine Crockett that go out there

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Speaker 5: and openly claim to be uh uh a socialists.

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Speaker 1: This is a.

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Speaker 5: Party of to leave and omar who is you know who?

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Speaker 7: You know?

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Speaker 5: They go out there and hate America And I mean

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Speaker 5: that sincerely. And so you go, what is the where

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Speaker 5: is the Democrat Party today? They got beat because of

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Speaker 5: what they stand for, and the polling shows the Democrat

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Speaker 5: parties least popular now than they've ever been in history.

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Speaker 5: And you have leaders like Chuck Schumer and a Keem

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Speaker 5: Jefferies just lead them down this this this tumbling path

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Speaker 5: of identity crisis.

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Speaker 1: What did you think of I saw your push up

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Speaker 1: pull up challenge, which you absolutely crushed that it was

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Speaker 1: like three minutes and forty seconds or something, if I

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Speaker 1: remembering off the top thy seconds. Yeah, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous for somebody, anybody, but especially for somebody who's

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. What did you think of Pete Hegseth's

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Speaker 1: address to the War Fighters of America this morning?

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Speaker 5: Hey, man, lead from front right. I used to when

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Speaker 5: I was running my companies and building my companies. Every

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Speaker 5: single day I tell my management team, Hey, if you

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Speaker 5: want your employees to show up on time, you need

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Speaker 5: to be there thirty minutes earlier. If you want them

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Speaker 5: there at seven thirty, you'd be there at seven. If

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Speaker 5: you want to work late, you work thirty minutes past

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Speaker 5: they do. If you want them to answer the phone

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Speaker 5: when you call, you better always answer your phone. And

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Speaker 5: by the way, if you want them to show up

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Speaker 5: with a clean shirt and clean pants on every day,

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Speaker 5: then your shirts needs to be starched. If we're having

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Speaker 5: and this is what's always bugged me about coaches too.

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Speaker 5: Coaches are coaching athletes. They have access to every piece

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Speaker 5: of equipment and every trainer that their athletes do. There's

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Speaker 5: no excuse why a coach in football wrestle in bath

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Speaker 5: bunk or what it is that's out of shape when

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Speaker 5: you're trying to get your players and and and your

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Speaker 5: athletes in shape. And the military, you're fighting for the

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Speaker 5: heart of our country. You're fighting for the existence of

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Speaker 5: our country. You're you're protecting the freedoms of those home

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Speaker 5: and abroad. And we should we we should expect excellence.

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Speaker 5: And if you're going to expect excellence, then the generals

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Speaker 5: who's leading from the front need to need to express

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Speaker 5: that and show that every single day in themselves because

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Speaker 5: they set the standard. And and no one's going to

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Speaker 5: lead or meet that standard unless that leader is meeting

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Speaker 5: that standard too. And so whatever your expectations are, you

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Speaker 5: need to put it. You need to set yours higher

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Speaker 5: than what everybody else is below. So I commend Heckseth

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Speaker 5: in saying this, We're going to get our butts in

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Speaker 5: shape of fat generals and fat admirals walking through the

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Speaker 5: Pentagon is no more. And and I commend him for that.

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Speaker 5: I I I actually see him a text mess and

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Speaker 5: I said, Braddie, my my is pumping with pride for

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Speaker 5: what you just said.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Center, we appreciate the time. Let us know when

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Speaker 1: you need to come back on, and we appreciate you

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Speaker 5: Thanks Clayton, see you bye.

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

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Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us. We're joined now by

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Speaker 1: Congressman Steve Scalise. He has been through a lot and

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Speaker 1: we're going to run through all of the all the

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Speaker 1: things coming up with a big turning point event that

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Speaker 1: he is going to be a part of shortly. But Congressman,

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Speaker 1: I want to start with we haven't had you on

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Speaker 1: since the Charlie Kirk shooting, but you've been a victim

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Speaker 1: of political violence. You almost lost your life while you

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Speaker 1: were preparing for I believe it was the baseball game,

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Speaker 1: but just practicing with other members of your team. What

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Speaker 1: did you think when you saw the Charlie Kirk video

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Speaker 1: and how much of it created flashbacks for you of

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Speaker 1: what happened to you about eight years ago.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Clay and Buck, thank you for having me. You know,

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Speaker 7: it was such a tough day. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 7: my gosh, just to just to see somebody. You know,

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Speaker 7: at the time, we didn't know Charlie was dead, but

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Speaker 7: you could just see it was something bad happened to

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Speaker 7: Charlie and that alone was just unearthing. I'm only alarming,

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Speaker 7: and you know it makes you angry to see that,

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Speaker 7: you know, somebody is talented, as Charlie was out there

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Speaker 7: just talking to people, I mean, you know, encouraging people

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Speaker 7: to debate in a civil way, which is what we

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Speaker 7: all should be celebrating, and to the idea that somebody

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Speaker 7: thinks they can just take away a life because they

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Speaker 7: disagree with you politically is insane and so I had

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Speaker 7: a lot of anger. I had, you know, just a

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Speaker 7: lot of feelings you feel for Charlie personally, for his family.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, he's got a young family, and

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Speaker 7: I'm thinking all those things. And then obviously along the way,

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Speaker 7: some of the you know, thoughts go back to twenty

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Speaker 7: seventeen and the shooting, you know, with me and my

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Speaker 7: other colleagues, and you know, we had a crazy that

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Speaker 7: went he wanted to kill every Republican on that ball field.

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Speaker 7: And this idea that you've got these people that think

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Speaker 7: you can solve your political differences with violence is it's

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Speaker 7: against everything America stands for. And it was just a

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Speaker 7: horrible day in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Steve Scalisi is the House Majority leader,

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Speaker 1: and he's in Louisiana's first congressional district. I'll get into

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Speaker 1: what in the world's happened to LSU's offense with you

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Speaker 1: in a moment, Congressman. Yes, but you've got a big

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Speaker 1: turning point event that you are a part of. What's

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Speaker 1: going on there. What should people know about it, and

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Speaker 1: what is the importance of this event? In the wake

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Speaker 1: of as we were just talking about what happened to Charlie, Well, I.

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Speaker 7: Think something just a remarkable has come out of a

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Speaker 7: horrible situation, and that is that it really is a

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Speaker 7: woken people to say, wait a minute, we are not

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Speaker 7: going to live in fear. We're not going to allow

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Speaker 7: voice like Charlie's to you know, had this movement that

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Speaker 7: Charlie created just end, and in fact, I think the

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Speaker 7: movement is going to grow even stronger. You've seen Eric Erica,

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Speaker 7: his widow, just powerfully, powerfully talk about how she's going

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Speaker 7: to grow into something even bigger, and it's really happening.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, we've seen you know, fifty plus

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Speaker 7: thousand young people have said, I want to start a

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Speaker 7: turning Point chapter on my college campus or high school

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Speaker 7: campus where it doesn't yet exist. And we've seen a

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Speaker 7: lot of turning point chapters. You know, LSU, where I

864
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Speaker 7: went to school, We've got a turning point chapter. And

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Speaker 7: Charlie was going to be speaking in just a few

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Speaker 7: days to that campus chapter, and the event will now

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Speaker 7: go on. Our Governor Jeff Landry's going to be highlighting it,

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Speaker 7: and you know, it's saying the show must go on,

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Speaker 7: and I think you're going to see a lot more people,

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Speaker 7: including people maybe that never even knew what turning point

871
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Speaker 7: was about, who now have seen it. They've gone back

872
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Speaker 7: and looked at Charlie speak teaches, and he's inspired a

873
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Speaker 7: whole new generation of people. So this idea they were

874
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Speaker 7: going to silence it is truly backfired. I mean, I

875
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Speaker 7: think you've seen, you've seen the movement already grow stronger

876
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Speaker 7: and young people will not be silenced. Young people look,

877
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Speaker 7: they're sick and tired of these leftists telling him what

878
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Speaker 7: to do and how to think. And you've got to

879
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Speaker 7: hate institutions and religion. And it's also brought a new

880
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Speaker 7: awakening in religion, people going to church for the first

881
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Speaker 7: time and understanding and Charlie had such a deep faith

882
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Speaker 7: in God, as do I. People now I think are

883
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Speaker 7: maybe getting back in touch with God too, and that's

884
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Speaker 7: a good thing.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the impact that Charlie's having. I interviewed Paul Feinbaum.

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Speaker 1: I know you're a college football fan, as was Charlie,

887
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Speaker 1: and Paul told me he's thinking about running for the

888
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Speaker 1: Senate in Alabama as partly a result of what he

889
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Speaker 1: saw happened to Charlie Kirk. He just left him shaken

890
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Speaker 1: and he wanted to think about what he could do

891
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Speaker 1: to be the most impactful in his life. I think

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Speaker 1: that you are hearing, as you mentioned, a lot of

893
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Speaker 1: people from all walks of life, regardless of what their

894
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Speaker 1: background is, sitting around and thinking, how can I embody

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Speaker 1: the courage that Charlie showed, that you showed after you

896
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Speaker 1: were shot to help take the country to a better place.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's so true, and you know, I saw Paul's statements,

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Speaker 7: and I think you're going to see a lot more

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Speaker 7: things like that more people maybe we're on the sidelines,

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Speaker 7: or you know, maybe if you're in media, you know,

901
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Speaker 7: they might have been scared to speak out because you know,

902
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Speaker 7: the culture and media is so far Yeah, well, and

903
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Speaker 7: they're worried about cancel culture. I don't think people are

904
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Speaker 7: going to be worried about that cancel culture anymore. I

905
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Speaker 7: think it's reversing the other way, where it's you know

906
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Speaker 7: that the pendulums do swing in life and in politics,

907
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Speaker 7: and I think people are disgusted by this idea that

908
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Speaker 7: you know, radical leftists can just shut you up if

909
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Speaker 7: they don't agree with your point of view. They were

910
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Speaker 7: trying to do it in social media. Those days are over,

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Speaker 7: and I think the days of trying to shut people

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Speaker 7: up a presenting one point of view in mainstream media

913
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Speaker 7: over too. A few people are watching some of those

914
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Speaker 7: shows anyway that do that, but I think the rest

915
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Speaker 7: of the public wants free speech, embraces free speech, and

916
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Speaker 7: realizes how much it's threatened by the left. The left,

917
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Speaker 7: ironically are the ones who seem to want to shut

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Speaker 7: down free speech, and we're not going to let it happen.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to see Steve Scali's congressman from Louisiana. What

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Speaker 1: should we know? Succinctly? We talked with Senator Mark Wayne

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Speaker 1: Mullen earlier this hour, But from your perspective, what should

922
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Speaker 1: our listeners know about the potential shutdown that would start tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: Well, we passed a bill through the House two weeks

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Speaker 7: ago to keep government funding at funding the current levels,

925
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Speaker 7: and you're seeing Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, the far left

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Speaker 7: fringes that one a government shut down, not for any

927
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Speaker 7: particular reason, but just they don't like the results of

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Speaker 7: the election last November, and the far left base, the

929
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Speaker 7: radical in the Democrat Party just want to fight with

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump, and a temper tantrum is not an excuse

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Speaker 7: to shut down the government and disrupt the lives of

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Speaker 7: millions of people. Think about it. Men and women in

933
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Speaker 7: uniform will not get paid. TSA agents won't get paid.

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Speaker 7: You know, federal parks are shut down. A lot of

935
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Speaker 7: bad things happen in people's lives that get disrupted just

936
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Speaker 7: because Chuck Schumer wants to have a some kind of

937
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Speaker 7: bar fight with Donald Trump because he doesn't like the

938
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Speaker 7: results of the election in November. Think about this. Democrats

939
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Speaker 7: and Republicans voted for these very same funding levels in March.

940
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Speaker 7: Nothing's changed since March except the far left elements that

941
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Speaker 7: are about to elect a Marxist in New York City

942
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Speaker 7: are also clamoring for a government shutdown. And ultimately it's

943
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Speaker 7: going to be up to Democrats in Congress. Are they

944
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Speaker 7: going to feed the craziest voices on the left? Are

945
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Speaker 7: they going to do the right thing? And the right

946
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Speaker 7: thing is keep the government funded. This isn't a permanent solution,

947
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Speaker 7: but at least for seven weeks short term, while we

948
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Speaker 7: negotiate our differences. Clearly we have differences, but you don't

949
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Speaker 7: have a tantrument and disrupt the lives of millions of

950
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Speaker 7: people during that difference to negotiation. Let's keep government funded

951
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Speaker 7: at its current levels, the bills in the Senate. So

952
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Speaker 7: it's all on Schumer right now. If there's a government shutdown,

953
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Speaker 7: it's only because Schumer decided to cave to the far

954
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Speaker 7: left elements of his radical base and disrupt the lives

955
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Speaker 7: of millions of people. I hope he doesn't do it,

956
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Speaker 7: and there's a chance that cooler heads will prevail, But

957
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Speaker 7: right now Schumer's looking for a shutdown and we'll see

958
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Speaker 7: where it goes come tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: All right, Right now, the biggest story in the state

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Speaker 1: of Louisiana is not government shutdowns. It is the Tiger offense.

961
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Speaker 1: So we got a lot of people listening all over

962
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Speaker 1: the country. But for people who don't know, LSU couldn't

963
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Speaker 1: stop anybody on defense last year. This year, the offense

964
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Speaker 1: has vanished. Our buddy Lane Kiffin, I think he's been

965
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Speaker 1: on the program up at Ole, miss celebrating a lot

966
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Speaker 1: of rebels, fans, big rivalry there. Really enjoyed the win. Congressman,

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Speaker 1: you got to solve everything in the world right now,

968
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: solve what's going on with your LSU Tigers. What do

969
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: they need? What's wrong?

970
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know, give me about another ten million

971
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 7: dollars in nil money. We can solve it. But now

972
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Speaker 7: I was in Oxford, Mississippi, and it was tough. It

973
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Speaker 7: was tough being I'm an LSU alum. You know, I

974
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Speaker 7: love my Tigers and we're going to bounce back. But

975
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Speaker 7: you know, we've been having some offensive problems the last

976
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Speaker 7: few weeks. And Garrett Nelsmyer is a great quarterback. You

977
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 7: could see his numbers from last year. He did have

978
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Speaker 7: an injury at the beginning of this year. Not sure

979
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Speaker 7: he's completely through that yet. Once you see him one

980
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Speaker 7: hundred percent, I think you'll see this team bounce back.

981
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Speaker 7: We got some tough teams ahead. We still go to Alabama,

982
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 7: we have A and M coming in. We go to Vanderbilt,

983
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 7: who's undefeated. You know, we've still got some tough games

984
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 7: to prove ourselves and I believe in coach Kelly. I

985
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 7: think they're going to bounce back. Our defense is much better,

986
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Speaker 7: you know, it's the SEC. I mean, we just lost

987
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 7: to the number four team in the nation. So let's

988
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 7: not pull the panic button, but let's get better. We

989
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 7: can and we have the capability with a great quarterback

990
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 7: to do it.

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Speaker 1: The Grove is a spectacular place to go tailgate watch

992
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Speaker 1: a college football game. I'm fortunate to have been to

993
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: a bunch of games there. LSU on a Saturday night

994
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: is about as good as it gets. For people who

995
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Speaker 1: have never been and may never go to an LSU

996
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: Saturday night football game, what should they know about what

997
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Speaker 1: the experience is like.

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, don't deprive yourself of that treat

999
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 7: of being in Tiger Stadium at some point on a

1000
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 7: Saturday night in your life. I mean, it's a box.

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 7: Everybody needs to check the tailgating alone. You got to

1002
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Speaker 7: go up there early. I mean, just for the food experience.

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Speaker 7: You know, everybody knows what New Orleans food is like,

1004
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 7: some of the best food in the world. You have

1005
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Speaker 7: better Cajun chefs at some of the tailgates before the

1006
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 7: game at an LSU game, then you'll get at some

1007
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Speaker 7: of the finest restaurants in New Orleans, world class. They

1008
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Speaker 7: take it seriously. And then the game itself, you know,

1009
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Speaker 7: one hundred and three thousand incredibly screaming loud fans. You know,

1010
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Speaker 7: you get Garth Brooks playing Colin Baton Rouge on the

1011
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 7: on the speakers and man, the crowd goes nuts. It's

1012
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Speaker 7: it's a scene like no other on a Saturday night

1013
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Speaker 7: in Tiger Stadium. You got to come. I'll be there,

1014
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Speaker 7: and I think we'll We'll have to get everybody to

1015
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Speaker 7: check that box on their on their dance card to

1016
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Speaker 7: come to do that one time in their life at least.

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Speaker 1: Now I've been. It's an amazing time. Congressman will appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time. Always happy to have you on. Good luck

1019
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Speaker 1: with that turning point event and good luck with LSU

1020
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Speaker 7: Hey go Tigers and the gud bless Let's uh, let's

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Speaker 1: Amen. That is Congressman Steve Scalise, as you heard, running

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