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Speaker 1: Over the course of the next hour, you're getting here

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Speaker 1: run to Santis. He led Florida through COVID by rejecting

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Speaker 1: we had we had a complete decline and patriotism and

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Speaker 1: a lack of respect for our military. I mean across

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Speaker 1: the board. In nineteen seventy nine, seventy nine, going into

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Speaker 1: nine eight, America was in a huge mass We had

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Speaker 1: terrible crime, cities were a mess, and we had someone

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Speaker 1: to say no, no, no no, it's going to be morning

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Speaker 1: in America. There's that we don't have to live this way.

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Speaker 1: So I believe this comes from the people to finally

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Speaker 1: people get fed up and they propelled someone like Reagan.

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Speaker 1: But remember Reagan lost in nineteen seventy six. He lost

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Speaker 1: the nomination in seventy six out by a lot, but

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Speaker 1: he began to put together his framework all the way

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Speaker 1: back in sixty four when they're really all hope was

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Speaker 1: lost for the conservative movement. Talk about depressing in the

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Speaker 1: sixty four and so we have to understand that things

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Speaker 1: didn't get screwed up overnight, and they're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: fixed overnight. This is going to take an enormous amount

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Speaker 1: of work, but I think it's possible. I mean, I

447
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Speaker 1: just think there's so many amazing young leaders out there,

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Speaker 1: from whether it's Josh Holly or Tom Cotton or De

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Speaker 1: Santis obviously, people like Christine Nome and um, you know

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Speaker 1: all the great political leadership we've seen in Texas, Greg Abbott.

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Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of hope and I

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Speaker 1: think I think we're seeing this kind of begin to

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Speaker 1: bubble up in the younger people winning these primaries. Some

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Speaker 1: of them won't win, some of them will win. But

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Speaker 1: these are people who are you know, these are Hispanics,

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Speaker 1: these are African Americans, these are these are moms, young

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Speaker 1: business people who have just decided, you know something, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna sit on the sidelines. I'm gonna get involved.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's surprising the Democrats right now. I

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Speaker 1: think that's shocking them of how Republicans have really thrown

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Speaker 1: off the cloak of the old establishment that failed us

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Speaker 1: for decades and it begun to really embrace this more

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Speaker 1: populist conservatism that that Trump smartly grabbed onto and rode

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Speaker 1: all the way to the presidency in sixteen. So I

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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of hope, but it's going to

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Speaker 1: take a lot of work. Well you, of course, we're

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Speaker 1: a speech rader during the Reagan administration. But to your point,

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Speaker 1: I believe that's why they're they're cracking down, because you

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Speaker 1: are sort of seeing this upraising really not just in

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Speaker 1: the United States but around the world, the people standing

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Speaker 1: up to their government saying this is enough. COVID really

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Speaker 1: accelerated the rise of authoritarianism in the West, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's open some eyes. I was interested to see, Laura.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you you of Andrew Cuomo, the guy who

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Speaker 1: killed elderly people, then covered it up saying that whoa, whoa,

476
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Speaker 1: this is a bridge too far. It must be more

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Speaker 1: than a search for inconsequential archives or will be viewed

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Speaker 1: as a political tactic. So even seeing someone like him

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Speaker 1: as corrupt as he is saying that this is corrupt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that Democrats who have kind of been around

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Speaker 1: politics for a long time should be very careful about

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Speaker 1: what they're saying about this search warrant. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: thought Schumer didn't say anything. He didn't want to get

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Speaker 1: dragged into it. Bernie Sanders didn't say anything that Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's just a political tactic. I don't know, but I

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Speaker 1: had to say, I mean to drop a warrant on

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Speaker 1: a former president of the United States, that guy is

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be the party's nominee. Man, you better you

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Speaker 1: better have like espionage or something like that. That's just

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Speaker 1: something we That's just something speaking of norms that they

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Speaker 1: supposedly are so worried about protecting. That is something we

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Speaker 1: do not do. We do not do that as a country,

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Speaker 1: and they decided to go there. I think at least,

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Speaker 1: so you're right they're very worried about Trump winning again.

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Speaker 1: Because I kind of joke and I say, I say

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Speaker 1: Trump comes back, it's going to be no more Mr

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Speaker 1: nice guy. I kind of joke about that. But because

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Speaker 1: he now has he's learned. I would think that he's

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Speaker 1: learned that you have to have great staff, which I

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Speaker 1: think he actually did have at the end. He might not,

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Speaker 1: he might not agree with that, but actually think he

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Speaker 1: really did have good stuff, especially at the end. You

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Speaker 1: have to have great staff and you have to hit

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Speaker 1: the round ground running because the the the swamp will

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Speaker 1: eat you up. And the and this lionizing of the

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Speaker 1: of the military leadership, which he did, and I talked

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Speaker 1: about this a lot this week, the lionizing of the generals.

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Speaker 1: Just because someone's called a general doesn't doesn't it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that this is someone who you have to think

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Speaker 1: is right on every single issue. In fact, these generals

511
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Speaker 1: have been brought up through the ranks of political correctness

512
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Speaker 1: and diversity, equity inclusion, and most of them are just

513
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Speaker 1: worried about the defense contractor board that they're gonna land

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Speaker 1: on in five years. So Trump, I think has had

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Speaker 1: his eyes opened about the truth of the bureaucracy, the

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Speaker 1: truth about the Pentagon, the failures there for decades and decades,

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Speaker 1: we haven't won a war out right, Why is that?

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Speaker 1: Why don't we ever ask for accountability on that? And

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Speaker 1: so I think that Trump wins this time, Lisa. And

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Speaker 1: he's not going to talk about draining the swamp. He's

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Speaker 1: going to drain the swamp you talk about you talk

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Speaker 1: about terrifying for them, Yeah, that's gonna be terrifying. So

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Speaker 1: I think I think they pulled out all the stops

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Speaker 1: because Aviator sunglasses. Man ain't gonna beat him next time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he rolled the curtain back on how corrupt

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Speaker 1: and broken or government truly is. I think it opened

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Speaker 1: a lot of eyes. He opened my eyes for sure,

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Speaker 1: really changed my thinking on a lot of things politically.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, isn't this about the criminalization of free speech

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Speaker 1: and wrong think? Oh yeah, I think this is one

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Speaker 1: big intimidation play. And I think the way they handles

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Speaker 1: January six, I said, I think the first week after

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Speaker 1: the you know, after the riot at the Capitol, that

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Speaker 1: this was going to be used as a way to

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Speaker 1: surveil justification for more surveillance monitoring, intimidation. Uh, you saw

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Speaker 1: what Justice Department did with this domestic Terror unit and

537
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Speaker 1: expanding what actually qualifies as domestic terror. So I think

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Speaker 1: they want Americans to think twice before they show up

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Speaker 1: at a rally, or before they post online, before they

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Speaker 1: open up a Christian school, before they go to a

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Speaker 1: gun safety class. I mean, I I honestly think they're

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Speaker 1: Their goal here is to make the average American compliant,

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Speaker 1: compliant and and and and worried and with good and

544
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Speaker 1: with good reason. I mean, when you know when you're

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Speaker 1: trying to criminalize parents at school board meetings and call

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Speaker 1: that and tackle a father who's daughter, who's whose daughter

547
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Speaker 1: was raped in a bathroom. I mean, as you saw

548
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Speaker 1: in that Loudon County video that I think changed the

549
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Speaker 1: whole course of the gubernatorial race in Virginia. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is gestapo stuff. This is this is stuff that

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Speaker 1: you know when I lived in the Soviet Union, when

552
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Speaker 1: I was a student back at Dharmouth, and I saw

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Speaker 1: that stuff in the Soviet Union, we were we were

554
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Speaker 1: scared about who we talked to, and we were there

555
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Speaker 1: because we knew we were being watched. Without getting too conspiratorial,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how how much farther down the road do

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Speaker 1: we have to get before we approach that territory? And

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty fully convinced that we're probably a monitored to

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Speaker 1: some degree, to be perfectly honest, but you know, I

560
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: mean it's just if if you're you know, if we're

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Speaker 1: being honest about it, Uh, they're they're probably tracking us,

562
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: but you know, we're Republicans. Like Mitch mcco donald, I

563
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:06,479
Speaker 1: think he truly is stunned that the party has already

564
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Speaker 1: left him. I honestly think he really can't believe that

565
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: the party is not his party anymore. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if he's called Senate Majority leader. The people aren't with him.

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Speaker 1: And I think it took him a while to grudgingly

568
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Speaker 1: admit it. Obviously, in the aftermath of this raid on Trump,

569
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Speaker 1: I think he was thinking Trump was finished. Trump was

570
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Speaker 1: murmuring about coming back. But come on, that's not gonna happen.

571
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, I mean, the old Guard knows what's best

572
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Speaker 1: for the people on trade and immigration and government spending.

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Speaker 1: And I think he was truly shocked when, after he

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Speaker 1: was outmaneuvered on that climate change bill, that the reaction

575
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Speaker 1: to the Trump raid was unify the party around the

576
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Speaker 1: guy who has the America First agenda, not around the

577
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Speaker 1: guy who's allowed government to grow and who has never

578
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Speaker 1: met a defense authorization that he doesn't like, which is

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. So I think I think he truly was

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Speaker 1: shocked about that, and he was shamed into coming out

581
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Speaker 1: and making the most flaccid of statements about this raid

582
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Speaker 1: about oh we expected jose was Robert has to be

583
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Speaker 1: very transparent about this. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, They

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Speaker 1: have to be transparent about it. But it took him.

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Speaker 1: You know full twenty four hours to make any statement

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Speaker 1: that he was only he was shamed into making that

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00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: statement about the raid. But again it was a weak statement.

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00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: So I think he's I think he's shocked. I think

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Speaker 1: if they if you know, it's unlikely that they're going

590
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Speaker 1: to win the Senate, at least if the races were

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Speaker 1: held today, the Republicans shockingly might not win the Senate back.

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Speaker 1: But if they did with the set it back, Mitch McConnell's,

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Speaker 1: you know, position as a majority leader isn't a sure thing,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Speaking of that, what what impact do

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Speaker 1: you think this has on the electorate heading into the

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Speaker 1: mid terms. Well, the rate I think unifies the party.

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Speaker 1: I think it has the danger of it has the

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Speaker 1: danger of also stoking Democrat turn out because Trump's out

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00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: there again and maybe he'll announce he's running for president again.

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Speaker 1: And the concern is that they hate him so much

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Speaker 1: that now they're people were going to turn out on

602
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: Moss as well. But I'm not sure. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: really torn on and I don't know if I'll have

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Speaker 1: a great answer to this, Lisa, because it's a tricky situation,

605
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Speaker 1: given how precarious people's personal budgets are right now. I

606
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: mean most people are digging into their savings at the

607
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: middle income levels because their salaries aren't keeping up with inflation.

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Speaker 1: I mean, somehow today they crode about how, oh inflation

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Speaker 1: is only eight point were they're celebrating that? What were

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Speaker 1: they celebrating pennies off of gas prices and everyone's paying

611
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: double But it's like, oh, you saved twenty cents or whatever. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a great point. So I think that the media

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Speaker 1: will continue to try to resurrect I should say resuscitate

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Speaker 1: um Biden Biden's performance. Look, he's got these winds at

615
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: all because the change we got the we got the

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Speaker 1: chip bill. But celebrating winds on their own because they

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Speaker 1: were bills were past, that doesn't translate into a better

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Speaker 1: life for the average American. So we'll see how this

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Speaker 1: all plays out. I tend to believe that it's going

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Speaker 1: to make energy more expensive and imports of various component

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Speaker 1: parts of solar panels, everything more more prevalent um. I

622
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to do much to certainly raise

623
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: the standard of living of the average Americans. So I

624
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: think their celebration or their attempt to burnish the Biden

625
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: record or turn around his momentum. I think that's prem sure,

626
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: but that's kind of all they have is spin. I

627
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: don't think it necessarily means that people in November are

628
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh god, I want more of this. This

629
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: has been fun, that has been great. Let's go out

630
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: and vote for that guy when they you know, we

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Speaker 1: have didn't talked about the border, but I think the

632
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: immigration is under underpolled as a concern for people. Um,

633
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Speaker 1: but I think when the school year starts, we're going

634
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: to have a we're gonna have We're gonna have a

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00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: lot more concerned parents out there. Well, it is hilarious

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00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: that you've got people like Eric Adams, You've got Democrats

637
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Speaker 1: who are saying, oh, you know, diversity is or strength

638
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Speaker 1: for you to let them come in. We we need

639
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: to take all of them. And then the second buses

640
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: start showing up to New York City, they're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna overwhelm our schools, overwhelm our health care.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, as Republicans were like, we've been saying this,

643
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Speaker 1: like that's the whole point. Welcome to the club. I

644
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: think you're right, and I think again, I think people

645
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: people conflate Trump with with people's overall sense of happiness

646
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: in the country. I mean, you know, Donald Trump to

647
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Speaker 1: spend a friend of mine for twenty five years, and

648
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: I I'm always very open about this on my on

649
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Speaker 1: my show. But you know, we'll see whether that's what

650
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Speaker 1: the country wants. I mean with the country country, I

651
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: think is so exhausted, they're exhausted by the battle, the

652
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: constant battle that they they may believe that, well, maybe

653
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: it's time to turn the page if we can get

654
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Speaker 1: someone who has all Trump's policies who's not Trump, right.

655
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Speaker 1: So the other concern though, and I don't have a

656
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Speaker 1: position on this one way or another, but the other

657
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: problem is is that it's really not about Trump, right.

658
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: This is about the views that Trump now brought to

659
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: the fore for the Republican Party. They don't they don't

660
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: like his views. They don't like the fact that he

661
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: called out the military for failures, that he wanted us

662
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, that he wanted

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Speaker 1: to treat China and our trade relationship with China in

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Speaker 1: a in a much I mean, it was smarter but

665
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: much different way than the global is preferred and they

666
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: certainly didn't like the fact that he sent all those

667
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants back to Mexico, that Romain in Mexico. I

668
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: mean they don't. They think borders are immoral. They think,

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00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: uh they owning, you know, owning big SUVs is immoral.

670
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: They think eating too much beef is immoral, having air

671
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: conditioning as immoral. These people think that the American way

672
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: of life is immoral, and and it doesn't. It doesn't

673
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Speaker 1: really matter in the end, whether it's Trump making the

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Speaker 1: populous conservative points or whether it's the Santists or someone

675
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: like him. They're going to come full bar against any Republican,

676
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: even an establishment when they saw what they did to Romney.

677
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: Romney was a caricature of Thurston Howell the Third by

678
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Speaker 1: the time they got done with him back in twenty twelve.

679
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, Trump is a is a is a placeholder

680
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: right now for the ire and fury of the last.

681
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: But anyone who steps into that breach is going to

682
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Speaker 1: find the same find the same pain being thrust at

683
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Speaker 1: him or her. Quick commercial break more with Matt Wall

684
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: She's incredibly smart, really funny guy as well. I'm really

685
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: looking forward to this conversation. I'm big fan of him,

686
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: big fan of the documentary, and I hope you're a

687
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: big fan of this interview. So that I watched the documentary,

688
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought it was so good. I mean,

689
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Speaker 1: obviously you're a very intelligent person, but I also appreciated

690
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: the sense of humor with it too, And I mean

691
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: you got to laugh in the cloud world that we

692
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: live in today, So I appreciated that. Yeah, well, you know,

693
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Speaker 1: that's that's what we wanted to kind of bring out,

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Speaker 1: is that there's on the complayer this issue. I guess

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Speaker 1: you could say there's a lot of absurdity, and absurdity

696
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: is funny, so it's it's appropriate to laugh at it.

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00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: But then when you want to go below the surface,

698
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: you find that h some really sinister of things going on.

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Speaker 1: So if we could, our goal was to kind of

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Speaker 1: get both of those things into the movie and then also,

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Speaker 1: you know, make it like an actual piece of entertainment

702
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: as well, even though it's dealing with a serious issues.

703
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 1: So we're happy it's that part of it is resonating people.

704
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: I mean I learned a laugh from it as well.

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Speaker 1: So to your point, you know, it also gave across

706
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: a lot of information that was important. What is a woman? Well,

707
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: that's I feel like that's a spoiler. But if I

708
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: if I had to get spoilers away, then you know,

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Speaker 1: as we discovered, a woman is an adult human female.

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00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: It really is as as simple as that. I mean,

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00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: you could get in more specifics about each individual woman

712
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: and talk about, you know, the personality traits of women individually,

713
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: but it comes to the definition of the term. That's

714
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. But it was so complicated for

715
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Speaker 1: so many people to answer. And you've also got a

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Speaker 1: book coming out its title What is a Woman? One

717
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: Man's Journey to answer the question of a generation? But

718
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: how did we get to this place in time where

719
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Speaker 1: that that question such a simple question is the question

720
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Speaker 1: of a generation? Yeah, I think it feels like this

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Speaker 1: all was sort of sprung on us, maybe you know, seven,

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Speaker 1: eight years ago, maybe ten years ago. That's the way

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Speaker 1: it seems to most people. That just came out of

724
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Speaker 1: nowhere and this became an issue, and this became a

725
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: question at that point. But really, as we get into

726
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: in the film, that goes back even further than that,

727
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Speaker 1: and you could trace it back almost as far as

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Speaker 1: you want, but we, uh, we take it back to

729
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Speaker 1: what I think is a is a kind of landmark

730
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Speaker 1: moment in the mid twentieth century when the general idealogy

731
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Speaker 1: and its current form began to take take take shape. UM.

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Speaker 1: And it's sort of started there and then made its

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Speaker 1: way into our institutions, academia in particular, and that's where

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Speaker 1: it lived, i think for the most part, for decades

735
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Speaker 1: before it funneled down into the to the mainstream. UM.

736
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Speaker 1: And at this point, it's just it's taken over all

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Speaker 1: of our institutions, and through the institutions, taken over people's

738
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Speaker 1: brains in a lot of ways. And even the people

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Speaker 1: who still have their brains about them and their words

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Speaker 1: about them, they are they're afraid. They're scared to tell

741
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Speaker 1: the truth about this topic because of the powerful institutions

742
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: that they know can punish them for speaking the truth. Well,

743
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Speaker 1: and to that point, let's play this clip real quick,

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Speaker 1: and then I want to get you on the other

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Speaker 1: side of it. So you're saying, if you're not a

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Speaker 1: woman and you shouldn't have an opinion, where does a

747
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Speaker 1: guy get it right to say what a woman is?

748
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Speaker 1: Women only know what women are? Are you a cat? No?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me what a cat is this is

750
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: actually genuine mistake. I'm sorry if you look there so

751
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: obviously walked right into that one. But to the point

752
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: this person could obviously answer the question, they're they're choosing

753
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Speaker 1: not to. So, you know, to what extent are we

754
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Speaker 1: conditioning society this way? You know, talk about sort of

755
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: that social conditioning that's going on right now. Yeah, And

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00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: that person in the clip there, that was just one

757
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: of the many ways that people have the proponents of

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Speaker 1: this ideology they have they have no way of answering

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00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: the questions, but they do have different ways of getting

760
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: around them, trying to get around them any way and

761
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: evade them. And one of the classic evasion tactics now

762
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Speaker 1: is this thing that you heard from that person, which is, well,

763
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Speaker 1: is the job only a woman is qualified even speak

764
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Speaker 1: on this subject, And of course that doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: And but even there are plenty of women who will

766
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Speaker 1: say that a woman's on land dol human being palid

767
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: according to gender audiologue, that's still not an acceptable answer

768
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Speaker 1: you can come from a woman to the whole thing

769
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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense, um, And it has been it

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00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: has been a process of conditioning, and I think you

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00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: know there there's kind of two part. There's two different

772
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Speaker 1: types of conditioning. There's the intimidation, the fear tactics conditioning

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00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: people that way. And these are especially adults, many adults

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Speaker 1: who grew up in a basically same society, at least

775
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: a society that the difference be men and women, but

776
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: now are pretending they don't because they've been conditioned through

777
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Speaker 1: fear to remain silent or to just take the party line.

778
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: And then there's the other more insidious form of it,

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Speaker 1: conditioning that happens to children who never had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to grow up in the same society. They grew up

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00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: in the society we have now, and for them, it's

782
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: like the Left gets to them very very early, before

783
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Speaker 1: they understand the differences between reality and fiction and all

784
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: of that, and they live in a fantastical world already

785
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: in their heads because their imagine it their children, and

786
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: the Left gets to them very young and takes advantage

787
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: of that and just warps their minds from a young age.

788
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Speaker 1: And that's what we're seeing play out right now in society. Well,

789
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Speaker 1: and I think that's the saddest part of it. I mean, like,

790
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: but it's parents too mean. J Lo took the stage

791
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 1: announced they was joining her. It was only her daughter,

792
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: so one person, which is slightly confusing, Um, you know,

793
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: and it's a fad right then New York posted an

794
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: article recently with the transitioners and one person, a girl

795
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: was named Chloe Cool, seventeen year olds to from California,

796
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: and she talks about how like this really started her

797
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: when she joined Instagram at eleven, and she says, I

798
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: started being exposed to a lot of LGBT content activism,

799
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Speaker 1: and what she liked about it was all the attention

800
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Speaker 1: that these people were getting, the praise that they were getting.

801
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: She didn't really have a lot of friends at the time,

802
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, so talk about social media's role in sort

803
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: of driving the spikes and transitions we're saying in her youth. Yeah,

804
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: that's a huge part of it. And I think it's

805
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: it's there's a couple of different things going on. They

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Speaker 1: as you point out that Jeffer Lopez with the non

807
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: binary daughter or whatever it is, Um, that's you know,

808
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: it's it's not a coincident that all of the celebrities

809
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Speaker 1: now have a non binary and trans kids and for

810
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Speaker 1: them it's just a fashion statement, I think, and they

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Speaker 1: use their kids like um like that, like fashion accessories,

812
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of that going on with parents,

813
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: which is really really terrible that parents treat their kids

814
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: that way, but but they do, especially in Hollywood. Um.

815
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Speaker 1: But then there's also you know, we we talk a

816
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: little bit about rapid rapid onset gender dysphor you and

817
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: that's the the child oftentimes not always, but but often

818
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: most of the time, it's a girl, adolescent girl who

819
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: was raised in a normal house and not certainly doing

820
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: their parents are not on board with this at all,

821
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Speaker 1: and everything is fine, and then and then they come

822
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Speaker 1: up from school one day and they just announced, oh,

823
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Speaker 1: I'm a boy. And that has happens happening all all

824
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Speaker 1: over the country and many parents are going through this.

825
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: And where do the kids pick it up from? Well,

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Speaker 1: they pick it up from you know, they're friends at school.

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Speaker 1: That's a big part of it, because they're they're in

828
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Speaker 1: this environment physically every single day for like six or

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Speaker 1: seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months

830
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Speaker 1: a year, for twelve years where these ideas are being

831
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Speaker 1: voice on them and there's always peer pressure and now

832
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Speaker 1: it's trendy and cool to be you know, trands are

833
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: not binary. It's like the worst thing you could be

834
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: is just a normal quote unquote sist person as they

835
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Speaker 1: call it now. Um. And then there they have that

836
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Speaker 1: at school, but then they leave school, but they don't

837
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Speaker 1: really leave school. They don't really leave the peer culture,

838
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: peer environment because they have their phones and they have

839
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Speaker 1: social media, and so they end up in this kind

840
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: of fog that's follows them around and surrounds them all

841
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: day long. And that's where social media becomes a big

842
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: part of it. And I really think that it would

843
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: be impossible to overstate just how much of a role

844
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Speaker 1: social media plays in this, uh in getting these ideas

845
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: directly into our kids minds. Well, I mean, I think

846
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: with things like TikTok, it's intentional because obviously it's you know, China, right,

847
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: trying to sort of infiltrate our country and destroyers from within. Uh.

848
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Speaker 1: But you know, but the challenges that the tragedy of

849
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: it is that, I mean, can you really de transition? Right?

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Speaker 1: Like the New York Post that same interview interviewed another individual.

851
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: She at twelve years old, she decided that she was transgender.

852
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: She came out to her parents when I'm puberty blockers

853
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: was prescribed to stosterone. At fifteen, she underwent a double massectomy,

854
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: and then less than a year later, at sixteen, she

855
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: realized she made a mistake. So, I mean, how do

856
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: you go back at that point when you know you've

857
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: already given your of a double missect To me, I mean,

858
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: I think that that's the concern here, is it? Like

859
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: can you detraining? How do you even do that? Yeah?

860
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: I think that, well, you can be transition mentally, which

861
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: is important, but to kind of bring your mind back

862
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: to reality and learn to accept yourself or you who

863
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: you actually are. But that's the great tragedy is that

864
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: the physical part of it can't cannot be undone. And

865
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: that that applies to the surgeries. Obviously, you get a

866
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: double missect. To me, there's no way of going back

867
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: from that. You that body parts removed, obviously, But that

868
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: also applies to the drugs to puberty blockers. There are

869
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: there are permanent effects to puberty blockers, and the other

870
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: side they just they just straight up lie about this

871
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: and they lie to kids and they lie everybody, a

872
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: lot of parents, and they say that this is it's temporary, reversible.

873
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: It's not. I mean, there are permanent changes happening to

874
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 1: the body. Um, starting with things like your your voice.

875
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,399
Speaker 1: I mean, you start taking the stuff that changes your voice,

876
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: and those that change is permanent, and that's not a

877
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,240
Speaker 1: small change like that's a that's that's a defining feature

878
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: of you. Is your voice, and that's gone forever. And

879
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:10,240
Speaker 1: change um changes to your you know, your bone structure,

880
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: bone density, all kinds of physiological changes of having and sterilization.

881
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: These drugs are also sterilizing kids permanently. And the question

882
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: is whether a child under the age of consent can

883
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: actually consent to having to undergoing these changes, whether they

884
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,280
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what they say, it doesn't matter if they

885
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: verbally agree to take the drugs, can they actually consent?

886
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: Can they um assent to this change happening to the

887
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: body And and the answer is no, because that's the

888
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: whole point of the age of consent, is that no

889
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: matter what a kid says, they can't really understand the

890
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: quote unquote choice they're making, and so there can't be

891
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 1: any consent. Well, and to that point, I mean, this

892
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: person was fifteen when she underwent a double mussectomy. I mean,

893
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: if a parent went out and got their fifty year

894
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: old breast implants, they would probably have their kids take

895
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: it away, right, And that's or you could And there's

896
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: so many other examples you can give, pressing plants, tattoo,

897
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: you know. Um, the age where you can get a

898
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: tattoo varies, but I think almost everyone would agree that

899
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: fifteen is too young to go get a tattoo, especially

900
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: if you know what, if you had a fifteen year

901
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: old kid who wanted to get a big tattoo right

902
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: across her forehead, like who who? Who would agree that

903
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: that a fifteen year old should be able to make

904
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: that choice? And if the fifteen year old went into

905
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: the tattoo parlor and asked the tattoo guy for a

906
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: tattoo across the forehead, and the tattoo artists actually did it,

907
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: then we would blame that. We say he needs to

908
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: put out of business for that. He needs to be fine,

909
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: but I'll maybe arrested for doing that to a girl

910
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: obviously to know what she was doing. Um, And you

911
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: know who on the left thinks that fifteen year old

912
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: should be able to buy guns or like do anything else. Right,

913
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: So it just it just doesn't make any sense. It's

914
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: not consistent. But that's that's the story with the left

915
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: and gender ideology in general. It just contradicts itself at

916
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: every turn. I mean, they want to change the age

917
00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: to buy a gun, to to do you one. And

918
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: it's sick too because you've got these groups like the

919
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which you know, whatever,

920
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: but they frequently recommended that hormones can start at fourteen,

921
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: two years earlier than the previous advice, which you know,

922
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,839
Speaker 1: the right their advice is obviously BS. But and then

923
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: some surgeries can be done at fifteen or seventeen. It's like,

924
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: I mean, what does it say about a society that

925
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: doesn't look at that and say, no, you know, we

926
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: have to protect the kids. Well, we're totally lost and broken,

927
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: uh society to begin with. And I mean as as

928
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: I think lots of people know, you can judge a

929
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: civilization by how it treats its children. So what does

930
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: that say about ours? And what you mentioned there? The

931
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: world whatever it's called w PATH, the Transgender Health Organization. Um,

932
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: that's a very significant. The fact that they made that

933
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: change and they lowered the age of the stuff is

934
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: extremely significant. And the reason it's significant is that this

935
00:49:55,040 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: organization w PATH is considered wrongly, but is consider there

936
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 1: to be you know, a prominent authority figure on when

937
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: it comes to quote unquote transgender health, and whatever they decree,

938
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: whatever they declare, is immediately accepted by every other medical organization,

939
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: the American Academy Pediatrics, you know, the American Psychological Association,

940
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: all these different all the all these other medical associations,

941
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: organizations that we that we think are valid and legitimate.

942
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: UM consider w PATH to be itself valid and legitimate

943
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: and to be the voice. Whatever they say is the

944
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: gospel truth when it comes to gender and transgenderism. So yeah,

945
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: if they say that fifteen is old, is old enough

946
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: for surgery, then that's what it becomes. That's what the

947
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: that's what the medical feeling general will adopt and accept,

948
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: and that's what makes it so terrifying. Quick commercial break

949
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: and back with country music star John Redge. So we've

950
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: got country music star in the house, John Ridge. On

951
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 1: this episode. I'm sure you've seen. He's got a new

952
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: song called Progress where calls out all this wote crap

953
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: that's ruining the country, ruining America, ruining everything that this

954
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 1: country stands for, our values, freedom, liberty and just utter

955
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: destruction is what the left is trying to do. So

956
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: he's got a new song about that. And what's really

957
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: cool is he released the song on Truth, Social and

958
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: Rumble rather than going you know, the traditional route and

959
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: guess what, it's sword to number one on the Apple

960
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: iTunes chart within our So I love the fact he

961
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: did that. He bypassed the machine and he beat the machine. Also,

962
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's really cool. So he he gives a

963
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: percentage of all his proceeds from his Redneck Rivereria brand.

964
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: He's got a bunch of things like, you know, barbecue, sauce, whiskey,

965
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: all these different things. He gives a percentage of that too.

966
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: Folds of honor. How cool is that? I love that

967
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: he does that. So he's a good dude. He's had,

968
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: you know, tremendous success in his career in country music

969
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: and a variety of other things. He's got a bar

970
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,320
Speaker 1: in Nashville as well, so he's done a ton of stuff.

971
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: Cool guy. We're going to talk to him about his

972
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: new song and so much more. Stay with us for

973
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: John Reach Country music star John Rich. It's such an

974
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: honor to have you on the show. I wanted to

975
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: tell you I really respect your bravery because we really

976
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: do live in this society where you know, telling you

977
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: the truth comes at a cost. Uh, So I appreciate

978
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: the fact that you do that. Well, it's uh at

979
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: this point, I don't know what what it serves anybody

980
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: to keep your mouth shut and censor yourself. You know,

981
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: we speak the truth, and if they want to sense

982
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: you what, that's on them. But self censorship, to me,

983
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: is a real problem in our country that people are

984
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: so afraid to even even try it because somebody's going

985
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: to call him a bad name or kick him off

986
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: of a platform or whatever. So that should not be

987
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: enough of a reason for you to sacrifice your own

988
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: freedom of speech. And that's kind of the attitude I have,

989
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 1: and that that's why coming like I do, well, I

990
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: love it. And then that's why I wanted to have

991
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: you on. You know. Dave Chappelle sa that recently and

992
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 1: I love obviously he gets hit on the trans jokes

993
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: he tells, and he said, the more you say I

994
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: can't say something, the more urgent it is for me

995
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: to say. And I feel like that's where we are

996
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: right now, right and you get it obviously with the

997
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: new song that we're going to get into of the

998
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: fact that now is the time to speak out and

999
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: now is the time to be bold. Well, can you

1000
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: imagine if the founding fathers had not spoken out? Can

1001
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: you imagine if you go back and look at the

1002
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence and those people that signed that document,

1003
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 1: they all knew that if the British Empire ever found them,

1004
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: they were gonna hang them, shoot them, burn their houses down,

1005
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: enslave their families, erased them from the history of the

1006
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: yearth That's what they were up against. And they signed

1007
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: it anyway. Old John Hancock, I wish I could have

1008
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: known that guy. He's like, give me that pen. I'm

1009
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: gonna sign a triple bid. Man, I'm gonna make sure

1010
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: they don't miss my name at all. That's the attitude

1011
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: that they had to found the country. Liberty or death

1012
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: was not a hashtag or a bumper sticker or a

1013
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: T shirt or a ball cap or a website. Liberty

1014
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: or death was the attitude that took to build the country,

1015
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: and they were willing to risk at all for future generations.

1016
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: Well who's the future generation? Uh, the ones of us

1017
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: talking right now on this podcast, all the people listening

1018
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: to this podcast. It's us that they were doing that for.

1019
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: So who are we to sit here as the benefactors

1020
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: of all the risk that they took to only go

1021
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not gonna say it because I

1022
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: might get kicked off at Twitter. I'm not gonna say

1023
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: it because somebody give me a dirty look at work.

1024
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it because it might hurt my

1025
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: business a little bit. Really, that's what we're worried about.

1026
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: I think as Americans, we've got to remember whose shoulders

1027
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: were standing on that we need to act like it.

1028
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that, because I mean, look,

1029
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: I've always loved this country. I've always been proud to

1030
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: be American. But it really kind of took COVID it

1031
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: and some of the things that we've been dealing with

1032
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: as a society just to sort of revisit American history

1033
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: and realize what makes this country great, Realize how precious

1034
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: freedom is, liberty is, and how fleeting it is, because I,

1035
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: you know, really, before a lot of this stuff, I

1036
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 1: don't know, I I for whatever reason, thought somehow we

1037
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: were immune to some of this stuff because we are Americans.

1038
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 1: But but we're not. And we've really seen that, and

1039
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: it's as sad to see. Yeah, and Americans, a lot

1040
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:31,399
Speaker 1: of Americans anyway, lack perspective. You know, it's been a

1041
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: long long time since our freedom was actually threatened, which

1042
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: in my opinion was World War Two. After last time

1043
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: it was actually threatened. If we hadn't beat Hitler and

1044
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: Mussolini and Imperial Japan, if we would have lost that war,

1045
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: you'd have a very different America today, very different. But

1046
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: they did what they had to do and and and

1047
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: won a war on both sides of the earth simultaneously

1048
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: to get us to the point we are today. But

1049
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: everybody that's alive today, nobody has any touchstone back to

1050
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: the World War two era. Nobody remembers that. I mean,

1051
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: all of our World War two bets now are in

1052
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: the late nineties hundred. Nobody's around that remembers that. And

1053
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: I think that the complacency has set in over these

1054
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,399
Speaker 1: over these many decades, with Americans thinking, yeah, we're free,

1055
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: and we'll always be free and go America. But what

1056
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: we fail to realize is is there's all kinds of

1057
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: factions of people. There's international factions, but there's internal factions

1058
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: inside of our country that would really like to see

1059
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: this country come under control. You know, they'd really like

1060
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: to see America have to be on its knee so

1061
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: it has to reach up for help so they can

1062
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: take full control of the most powerful country in the world.

1063
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: That's really the point here, and we've been blind and

1064
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: deaf to it, just rolling on about our business thinking, now,

1065
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,439
Speaker 1: that's not going on. Nobody would ever do that. Why

1066
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: would you want to mess up America? Nobody want to

1067
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: mess up America. We're the greatest, well we are the

1068
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: great it is, but there's a lot of people that

1069
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: to get what they want to see happen, come to fruition.

1070
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: America has got to be down on its knees for

1071
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: that to happen. And I believe that's where we found

1072
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: ourselves today. And instead of the great reset, I do

1073
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: believe it is a great awakening. As scary as it

1074
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: is and as nasty as it is to go through,

1075
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: I think that Americans from both sides of the political aisle,

1076
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: from all different walks of life, are all experiencing the

1077
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: same pain at the same time. And I said this

1078
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: to the day on Twitter. I said, America is finding

1079
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: unity in the pain right now. As bad as that

1080
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: is to say, if there's a silver lining to what's

1081
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: going on, Americans are finally waking up and going, hang

1082
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: on a minute, are these people trying to railroad our

1083
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: country because it's sure as hell looks like it and

1084
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: we're going to Yeah, I think that's what they're trying

1085
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: to do, and none of us want to see that happen.

1086
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: So it's an interesting time, and even it's the most

1087
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: important time I think right now to be out spoken,

1088
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: to not let them scare you into submission, do not

1089
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: take the knee. Uh, they've built their machine. There are

1090
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: ways around their machine. We can still exist and succeed

1091
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: and thrive without using their machines. And as an artist

1092
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: and an entrepreneur, gut, that's kind of what I'm out

1093
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: to prove to everybody that it can be done well.

1094
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: And I love that you did that, because you did

1095
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: that with this song Progress and we're gonna play a

1096
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: clip here just in a minute. But what I love

1097
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: about how you released it is you released it on Truth,

1098
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: Social and Rumble and within hours it's soared to the

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00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: number one Apple Tunes chart, So you're able to beat

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00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: the machine and do it your own way. And I

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00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: love that I love that you did that way. Yeah,

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00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: it was. It was a risky thing to do. I

1103
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: can promise you that had I run that idea by

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00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: the people I work with, my managers and people, really

1105
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: smart guys, they would have said, yeah, that's not a

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00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: good way to probably have the most success, John, because

1107
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: think of all the people you're cutting out by not

1108
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: going to Twitter, face Book or YouTube. But the song

1109
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: says one of the lines says, they shut down our voices,

1110
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: they shut down our main street, they shut down our voices. Well,

1111
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: the voices who shut them down who I'm referring to

1112
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: are the liberal platforms YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the like.

1113
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, it would be awful hypocritical

1114
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: of me to put a song out like this railing

1115
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: against those platforms no systems, but then use those same

1116
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: systems to go promote a song. I mean, to me,

1117
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: that just seemed like double talk, which I can't stand

1118
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: people that double talk. I thought, well, I may not

1119
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: have as good a chance of this thing going to

1120
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: number one, but I'll do it the right way, and hey,

1121
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: you never know, maybe I'll be surprised. And within six

1122
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: hours of launching this song only on true social and rumble.

1123
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: Within six hours, it had displaced Lizzo and Billie Eilish

1124
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: out of the number one in two spots and progress.

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00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: And this is with no record label, no marketing funds, nothing,

1126
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: no in diustry support whatsoever. In six hours, it's said

1127
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: at number one. And I just looked at that and went,

1128
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: holy cow, look at that. It's possible. And it kind

1129
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: of speaks to where people are, right because obviously this

1130
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,919
Speaker 1: struck a chord with people. People listen to the song

1131
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: and they said, I feel this, this is how I

1132
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: feel right now, which is why it was able to

1133
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: rise to number one. So I mean, I think a

1134
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: lot of Americans listen to it. I know I did

1135
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, I agree, this is where we are.

1136
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,439
Speaker 1: Like does the phrase ding ding ding come into play

1137
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: when you hear that? It does. Also, it was funny

1138
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: when you're talking about how you know, if you ran

1139
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: the idea by your team, they you don't really strike

1140
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: me as the kind of guy, you know, even if

1141
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, John, this isn't in your interest, you

1142
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: don't really strike me as the kind of guy to

1143
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, say all right, we're not going to do it.

1144
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: Strike as the kind of guy who's going to do it. Anyways,

1145
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: if you think it's the right thing, you would be

1146
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: correct in that assumption, especially now. I think listen, theer's

1147
01:00:55,160 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of songwriters, singers, movie users,

1148
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: all kinds are really talented people that have content that

1149
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: they know if they put it on the big platforms,

1150
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna get it's gonna get cut down. They just

1151
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: know it, and then they're right about that. So this

1152
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I'm gonna be a Daniel Boone here

1153
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: for a minute. I'm gonna pioneer out here for a second.

1154
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: And instead of taking advantage of all these platforms, let's

1155
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: just don't do it and see if we can see

1156
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: if we can compete at a really high level without

1157
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: using them. Is it even possible? And that that's a

1158
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: hell of a question. And we just proved yes, it's

1159
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: not only possible, you can you can thrive with that.

1160
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: And what I found is that the the outpouring of

1161
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: support is maybe even more at this point because they realized, man,

1162
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: he didn't go, he didn't go with those big machines.

1163
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: He didn't yell at the machine and then use the machine.

1164
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: He yelled at the machine and then walked away from

1165
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: the machine and still one. And I think people appreciate that.

1166
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: I hope other content creators look at this and go, Okay,

1167
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: it's possible, because I can promise you true social rumble.

1168
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: Those platforms they are they are wanting to hit the

1169
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: gas pedal behind content creators that are putting out really,

1170
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: really excellent pieces. They want to get behind them and

1171
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: blow them up. If we're in a culture war, which

1172
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,479
Speaker 1: we are, how do you keep track if you're making

1173
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: any progress or not to play upon on that word,

1174
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: the real progress, Well, if you can take pieces away

1175
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: from them, take away their prize property. And in the

1176
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: world of music, the most prize property out there is

1177
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: the number one sales position. That's the big one, because

1178
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: there's no bigger vote of confidence than for somebody to

1179
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: hit that download button and they spend a buck twenty nine.

1180
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a free stream or something like that.

1181
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: They have to play a little bit of buck twenty nine,

1182
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 1: but they do it and they download it. That's the

1183
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: ultimate confirmation that you're having impact. That's the price property

1184
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:53,920
Speaker 1: that the music industry has. So for us to be

1185
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: sitting there right now is a huge statement. I so

1186
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: respect you doing that. And I want to play a

1187
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: clip right now for the for the audience at home.

1188
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: Let's play clip. There's a whole in this country where

1189
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: it's harder to be. No wole is divided on the

1190
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: barrens tree they see feeling back make America. If that's

1191
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: what we've loved, the future own gods say, stick your

1192
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: where the song keep. I love that line there's a

1193
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: hole in this country where the heart used to be.

1194
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of us Americans, you know,

1195
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: that's basically this conversation we've been having is how do

1196
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: people not love this country? You know, we live in

1197
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: the greatest country in the world, and we're just sitting

1198
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: there watching all these people on the left have no

1199
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: respect for it and no respect for the people who

1200
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: have laid down their lives to preserve the freedoms that

1201
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: we have now. And it's just like to your point,

1202
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, there's a hole in this country where it's

1203
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 1: hard used to be as hell love it When they

1204
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: get arrested in Russia, don't they You find yourself in

1205
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 1: handcuffs in a in a socialist, communist country and you're

1206
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: begging your country to take you back. When you just

1207
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: got through trash in our flag on a national platform

1208
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: and talking smack about the red, white, and blue up

1209
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: in front of God and everybody. But you get yourself

1210
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: in a bind in a communist country, and who are

1211
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: you calling daddy? You're calling your mama, Hey, come get

1212
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: me out. I can't be stuck here. Really, I think

1213
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: you're where you wanted to be. You know, you trash.

1214
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: You trash the country you live in. You don't respect that,

1215
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: you don't appreciate it. Now you're finding out what other

1216
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: countries are all about. Oh yeah, you don't have freedom

1217
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: over there, do you know you don't. You got to

1218
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: due process? No, no, you don't. Uh that to me,

1219
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: that is such a poignant thing to see that athlete

1220
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: arrested in uh, in communist Russia, UH and watch her

1221
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: beg for America to come bail her out after she

1222
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: just got through trash in US. I said earlier Lisa

1223
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: that a lot of Americans lacked perspective. What I mean

1224
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: by that, they haven't been around the world. I've had

1225
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: the I've had the ability to travel all over the

1226
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: planet and sing music everywhere. I've sang it in I've

1227
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: sing it in Central America, the Middle East of singing

1228
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: it in places in Europe, South America, Asia. I've been

1229
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: all over the place and you see people living in

1230
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: situations and you go, now, I can't wait to get

1231
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: back home. I mean, wow, I can't believe people dealing

1232
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: with this every single day of their life and you

1233
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: get back home. Go. Man. We're not perfect, but we

1234
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: are head and shoulders above everybody else. And that's why

1235
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: everybody wants to live in America. That's why we got

1236
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 1: lines coming in and no lines going out, and we

1237
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 1: never will have lines going out ever in this country.

1238
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: And so they lacked perspective until they ultimately get it,

1239
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 1: which is what that athletes having right now, a big

1240
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 1: dose of perspective. Please conveil me out, America. I don't

1241
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: hate you anymore. I ain't. Okay, it's a little late

1242
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: for that, sister, but uh okay, yeah, it's a little

1243
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: if that. And it also just shows these people have

1244
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: no idea what they're talking about, right, Like they want

1245
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: to hate on America at your point, they don't have

1246
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 1: that perspective, you know, they have no idea, They have

1247
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: no idea what the alternative looks like. And we certainly

1248
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: don't want to find out, John Rich, You're awesome. Anything

1249
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: you want to leave us with before we go, I

1250
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 1: just hope people keep their chin up. I hope people, uh,

1251
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: they catch a big case of courage. I hope that

1252
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: they on their level wherever they are with their neighbors

1253
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: and people they talk to and hang around with. You

1254
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: need to be bold, you need to speak your mind,

1255
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: and you need to realize that there's a lot of

1256
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: people out there, um that will follow suit if they

1257
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: see you doing it first. Somebody's got to be the

1258
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: point of the spirit, even down to the down to

1259
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 1: the very neighborhood and street that you live on. Remember

1260
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: that you're American, Remember whose shoulders you're standing on, and

1261
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: act like it. And if we do that, we'll get

1262
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 1: our country straightened out. That's awesome, and go check out

1263
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: his new song Progress, John Redg. I really respect you,

1264
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: respect what you're doing, and I respect your voice. So

1265
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: thank you for taking a stand and taking time to

1266
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 1: come on the show. I really appreciate it. Yes, ma'am,

1267
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: I love your voice as well. You're you're a very

1268
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: important voice in our country, and I'm honored to be

1269
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 1: on your podcast all any time. How awesome, John, I

1270
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: think that's so cool. Everything he does for veterans. He's

1271
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: an awesome guy. And I appreciate him joining the show.

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